Hi everyone, I've been lurking on this list for a while but would like to put in my two cents. I work for a non-profit organization called the Technology Resource Center, based in Seattle, Washington. We try to find ways to help alleviate the digital divide, and are very involved in libraries in the USA and in Latin America. A small group of us have been working on making KOHA compatible with MARC records and in general with libraries in North and South America. We are at the point where we successfully import MARC records in full, and allow editing on over 200 most-utilized fields and subfields. One can also create a new MARC record, but cannot export records yet. We also altered the database structure significantly to import successfully all fields, subfields, and indicators, and also changed the OPAC interface. It was rewritten in PHP for more flexibility, as well. Because we have changed so much of the system, we renamed ours to "OpenBook" - but it's still an open-source system with code available to everyone. Our ultimate goal is to help small libraries who wish to automate or move to less expensive automation options. Now, that said, it's not quite ready yet for public input and troubleshooting. We will be ready for beta testing as of the US ALA convention, on June 15 2001. I can send the link to the OPAC to anyone who wants to try that out though. It does have problems still, we know, and we're working on them. If you have questions or etc, please let me know. We give full credit to the folks in New Zealand - without their structure this never would have come to completion! We just hoped to change it for the N. American MARC standards in cataloging, and change the OPAC to be more like US-based OPACs. Right now, we only have OPAC and cataloging modules done. Circulation will be forthcoming around September, possibly a bit later. I hope that the members of this list will be interested in trying out the OPAC and doing testing on cataloging for us... Sincerely, Lora Morgaine TRC