Hi there - I'm not sure if you could use Koha in this way - I've sent your question to the koha mailing list, which you might like to join - http://koha.org/mailing/ someone there may have had a go at doing something similar. Another option is to use a product like greenstone - www.nzdl.org which I'm pretty sure does go onto cd's quite easily good luck cheers Rachel

Dear Rachel,

I am a librarian at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. We are an inter-governmental organization serving 27 member countries(of which NZ is one) and Pacific Island Territories. We provide research, technical support, training and programmes in the areas of Fisheries, Agriculture, Forestry, Gender, Culture,Youth and Public Health. We have a medium sized research library. Our website is www.spc.int and the library is at www.spc.int/library. (Just for the record, we use DB/Textworks and I find it frustratingly limited).

I am creating a cd of full-text information on environmental health issues and solutions to Pacific island problems. We decided on a CD rather than a web site given the expense of and often unreliable quality of internet access, especially on the smaller islands. To be useful, the cd must be searchable. To be viable, as we are a not-for -profit organization and because the library faces the familiar problem of budget cutbacks, I am looking for a search software that can be put onto a CD. Free would be fantastic. Can Koha run on a CD? I've been to your website and I am impressed with the product--but to be frank, I am not at all techie and I cannot tell from the website if it could be transferred to a CD. I imagine that I would want to create various indices--similar to a library catalog: AU, TI, DATE, KW, even SH.

My apologies--and my thanks-- in advance for asking for the most basic advice here. Cordial regards, Rachele Oriente Librarian Secretariat of the Pacific Community BP D5 98848 Nouméa Cedex New Caledonia tel: +687 26 01 37 fax: +687 26 38 18

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