Has anyone trained their staff to use Koha after they've gone live? Here's our situation. We will be launching Koha with a discrete collection of non-circulating material. There are political / funding reasons for getting this up as soon as possible. At the moment, the rest of the staff has no MARC experience, though they're very good cataloguers in our old system. Switching to MARC will be a big change for them, and will take some time, and training. We'll need to have some sort of system in place where I can review their work, preferably before it goes public. The plan is that by the time we import the data for the circulating collection and the patron information the staff will be fully trained. But there will be a time period when they're still getting up to speed with MARC (we're all part time). In effect we will be running two systems at once. The old system in house, and the new system (with only one collection to start) on the web. Questions: 1) Is there a way to hold back (from the OPAC) newly created MARC records until they are checked, or a way to flag newly created records to enable checking if they can't be held pending review? 2) Or, should I consider: a) a second instance of Koha for training purposes, from which I could download records and then upload them into our live catalogue, or b) a branch that is not viewable in the OPAC (is that possible?) from which I could transfer items to the live catalogue? I am very much aware how much change and upheaval switching to Koha means for our staff and I would like to make the transition as seamless as possible. Any advice would be greatly appreciated -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel    +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)