Looking for an even more simplified entry
Hi to the list, My name is Robert Flach, and I'm the new librarian for a small church library that was on a card-catalogue system and then managed by several people who didn't keep up with said catalog. I've gotten koha installed (ubuntu package version), and mostly configured. I've purchased a barcode scanner and receipt printer and have them working as well. I would seem to be on my way. So my first project is to do a complete inventory, and that starts with transferring all records into the electronic system from the card catalog and getting them barcoded. The big challenge I have is with cataloging non-traditional books. Basically, I can handle adding records when I can find a MARC Record that I can download through Z39.50/SRU, but the church library has a very large contingent of materials that don't have isbn's and don't exist in any Z39.50 db. Lot's of pamphlets and small self-published books and the like. I was looking for a solution that would give me a super simplified entry form for these types of materials that would match the info that I have available in the card catalogue (title, author, subject, dewey #, section, barcode), and which would be halfway readable and usable by my children helpers who are helping me inventory and catalog everything. I could live with a few extra fields, but even the most simplified MARC-looking record interface is daunting for them (and for me for that matter, though I can get by and have been reading about marc). I saw a post on the mailing list from some time ago where someone had provided an SQL dump of their super simplified BRF Framework that seemed to be just what I would want, but it was for koha v3.2 or so, and I have v18.05. I did a test import after backing up, and it definitely wouldn't import. So, with all that as background, my question is: Is there a place where these types of things--bits and pieces that work for particular purposes that can be imported easily--are shared regularly? If not, does anyone have something similar to that dump but for v18.05 that you are already using with your non-marc librarians? Something that leaves off all the marc information (even if they fields are still being stored behind the scenes to a marc21 format record of course, and just let's them enter the information that they understand with labels that they understand? Thanks so Much, Robert Flach -- Sent from: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-general-f3047918.html
Hi Robert The easiest way is to create your own framework. You can go to frameworks and create one from scratch or take any of the ones that comes with koha and customize it. You can add personal field/sub-fields or remove/hide the ones you don't need/use. You can even create multiple frameworks; one for each type of registry/material you want to create. Regards Alvaro |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Envíe y Reciba Datos y mensajes de Texto (SMS) hacia y desde cualquier celular y Nextel en el Perú, México y en mas de 180 paises. Use aplicaciones 2 vias via SMS y GPRS online Visitenos en www.perusms.com 2018-09-14 8:42 GMT-05:00 allauthors <robert.flach@webtooldeveloper.com>:
Hi to the list,
My name is Robert Flach, and I'm the new librarian for a small church library that was on a card-catalogue system and then managed by several people who didn't keep up with said catalog. I've gotten koha installed (ubuntu package version), and mostly configured. I've purchased a barcode scanner and receipt printer and have them working as well. I would seem to be on my way. So my first project is to do a complete inventory, and that starts with transferring all records into the electronic system from the card catalog and getting them barcoded.
The big challenge I have is with cataloging non-traditional books. Basically, I can handle adding records when I can find a MARC Record that I can download through Z39.50/SRU, but the church library has a very large contingent of materials that don't have isbn's and don't exist in any Z39.50 db. Lot's of pamphlets and small self-published books and the like. I was looking for a solution that would give me a super simplified entry form for these types of materials that would match the info that I have available in the card catalogue (title, author, subject, dewey #, section, barcode), and which would be halfway readable and usable by my children helpers who are helping me inventory and catalog everything. I could live with a few extra fields, but even the most simplified MARC-looking record interface is daunting for them (and for me for that matter, though I can get by and have been reading about marc).
I saw a post on the mailing list from some time ago where someone had provided an SQL dump of their super simplified BRF Framework that seemed to be just what I would want, but it was for koha v3.2 or so, and I have v18.05. I did a test import after backing up, and it definitely wouldn't import.
So, with all that as background, my question is: Is there a place where these types of things--bits and pieces that work for particular purposes that can be imported easily--are shared regularly? If not, does anyone have something similar to that dump but for v18.05 that you are already using with your non-marc librarians? Something that leaves off all the marc information (even if they fields are still being stored behind the scenes to a marc21 format record of course, and just let's them enter the information that they understand with labels that they understand?
Thanks so Much, Robert Flach
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Robert, You need to make friends with the MARC framework editor -- it took me a while to figure it out but I won in the end and created an extremely simple framework consisting of just Title, Author, genre and barcode. Best Regards, Chris Brown On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:42 PM allauthors < robert.flach@webtooldeveloper.com> wrote:
Hi to the list,
My name is Robert Flach, and I'm the new librarian for a small church library that was on a card-catalogue system and then managed by several people who didn't keep up with said catalog. I've gotten koha installed (ubuntu package version), and mostly configured. I've purchased a barcode scanner and receipt printer and have them working as well. I would seem to be on my way. So my first project is to do a complete inventory, and that starts with transferring all records into the electronic system from the card catalog and getting them barcoded.
The big challenge I have is with cataloging non-traditional books. Basically, I can handle adding records when I can find a MARC Record that I can download through Z39.50/SRU, but the church library has a very large contingent of materials that don't have isbn's and don't exist in any Z39.50 db. Lot's of pamphlets and small self-published books and the like. I was looking for a solution that would give me a super simplified entry form for these types of materials that would match the info that I have available in the card catalogue (title, author, subject, dewey #, section, barcode), and which would be halfway readable and usable by my children helpers who are helping me inventory and catalog everything. I could live with a few extra fields, but even the most simplified MARC-looking record interface is daunting for them (and for me for that matter, though I can get by and have been reading about marc).
I saw a post on the mailing list from some time ago where someone had provided an SQL dump of their super simplified BRF Framework that seemed to be just what I would want, but it was for koha v3.2 or so, and I have v18.05. I did a test import after backing up, and it definitely wouldn't import.
So, with all that as background, my question is: Is there a place where these types of things--bits and pieces that work for particular purposes that can be imported easily--are shared regularly? If not, does anyone have something similar to that dump but for v18.05 that you are already using with your non-marc librarians? Something that leaves off all the marc information (even if they fields are still being stored behind the scenes to a marc21 format record of course, and just let's them enter the information that they understand with labels that they understand?
Thanks so Much, Robert Flach
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