Hi Buddy, On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Buddy Hale <libraryofmusiclandria@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Today is my first day using Koha.

Great! Welcome aboard :)

I want to build a catalog for my library which consist of musical instruments. I noticed that the catalog doesn't have an option for musical instruments and was wondering if anyone had any input on how to build a musical instrument catalog from scratch in Koha.

Koha uses MARC21 standard to catalog items. And no, these do not have to be books, in fact people often catalog items like walking sticks, wheelchairs, historical weapons collections and what nots using MARC. As bare essentials, what you need to do is to setup a MARC framework paying close attention to the 00X control fields. This link should help you start off - http://manual.koha-community.org/3.20/en/catadmin.html Mind you the above is a non-trivial exercise which requires an understanding of MARC21 fields, sub-tags and terminology involved as well as their Koha specific dependencies. Unless you are a trained librarian, you may want the help of one to setup MARC side of things for you. Later on using jquery you can setup your intranetuserjs, intranetusercss, opacuserjs and opacusercss system preferences to customize a whole lot of your Koha instance's UI.

More specifically, I want to add items like "Drum Set", "Keyboard" and "Guitar".

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