Sorry for the non-specific subject line, but I'm just the sysadmin, and to me it's just hardware, Linux, and a database. I can barely read, so my best familiarity with books are those with lots of pictures, preferably color. Magazines are even better. OK, the two people we have here working with Koha (3.0 b2) besides me have just scored what they consider a major success, so I thought I'd share it in case it helps others. It involves importing item records in the 999 from Sirsi to the 952 field in Koha. This problem/solution may be well known, so this post may be pointless. The problem was that when importing Marc records from Sirsi which are in the 999 field, Koha saw it as a record, but not an item. Koha only accepts 952, so the TS manager had to create a 952 field in Sirsi, fill in all the bib record info, then when exported that loaded correctly into Koha as an item. Most of the subfields loaded. Those that did not probably needed to match exactly the parameters we've set up in Koha. An example is the branch--she put the branch in as all caps, when in fact we've set the branch as mixed upper and lower case characters. The shelving location also did not load, and she's not sure why since it does match. It did not add it to the holdings because the MARC record that we exported from Sirsi did not include Branch and Location information. We are going to try another with this information. Despite the caveats at the end of the above paragraph, this was a minor breakthrough for us. Maybe we are getting better, and maybe someday we'll be PD good. Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506