Friends, Greetings from Rome, Italy! This is my first post to the list. I'm a member of a consortium of 16 Universities in Rome with all our libraries containing a little over 2,000,000 volumes. Most have been using Aleph300 for the past 10 years and are seriously considering switching to AMICUS (used by British Library, Australian & Canadian National Systems, etc.) but I recently came across the Koha Proyect and have been impressed. Have you had any other requests from Italy? How about Spain or Mexico where we have other campuses? If I can get support from our programmers here, maybe we could help to port the program into Italian. Nevertheless, we would definitely need MARC and z39.50 support to win over the full consortium of libraries. With a little support, we might even be able to help you develop those modules, but I need to know what it might entail or if work has already been done on it. I spent a few hours reading ALL the past mailing list postings and see some interesting things developing. I did see several references to MARC.pm and z39.50 but they seemed merely as comments and no commitment from anyone on the list or beyond. O.K. Make my day (or maybe night in N.Z.) and tell me that MARC and z39.50 standards are on the (near) future wish list. I would just LOVE for our university (www.upra.org) to spearhead this project here in Italy but need some help from our friends down under. P.S.: I'm not a programmer just a hacker and admirer of things Linux, but I do sign the checks of our programmers, so I guess that helps. James Mulford Director of Finance & Development Regina Apostolorum University Rome, Italy -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas Stephen Rosasco [mailto:nsr4n@tetra.mail.virginia.edu] Sent: venerdì 25 maggio 2001 18.39 To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Re: marc and stuff! While we're (on list, at least) considering possible major-code-change wishlists, is there anything else :) anyone wants? Also, would anyone consider addition of a text based front end for users a valid item? I know there is a text based front end for the library staff... but a text front end would permit use of serial terminals. I think it may be possible to create a linux boot+install-config floppy, and a cheat sheet for answering questions for install, thereby getting us closer to a turnkey system. Or is having a linux person on hand still a better idea at the moment? Thoughts? Nick _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha