Hello. I am a volunteer IT staffer for a seriously underfunded parochial school, and we have recently installed Koha for the school library. It is my job, now that it is installed, to figure out how it works and to then teach the librarians - also volunteers - how to use it and start entering the books. Is there a good source for any information on things like the system preferences and procedures for entering and deleting biblio information? Keeping in mind that no one is actually a trained librarian, so no one really understands all the terms and such that comes with all of this. I have successfully done a z39.50 search on a book through the LoC and imported the biblio information, but none of it is in the right spot, except the ISBN number and the LC control number. There is one error in my MARC configuration, for the ITEMTYPES table. But I have no idea what should go in that space. Also, changing the acquisitions type to "simple" didn't give me a basic ISBN search on the acquisitions page. Its still the "normal" budget-based acquisitions. Or am I looking in the wrong spot? This is Koha 2.0.0 running on FC1 with MySQL 3.23, Apache 2.0.48, and Perl 5.008003 Any information is greatly appreciated. If there happens to be someone in the metro Detroit area or anywhere in North America, for that matter, that is using Koha that would be willing to lend a hand via direct email or IM or what have you, that would be greatly appreciated. Christopher Dick Wyandotte Catholic Consolidated Schools Wyandotte, MI
On 2004-04-29 18:01:54 +0100 jcdick@cadmed.net wrote:
Also, changing the acquisitions type to "simple" didn't give me a basic ISBN search on the acquisitions page. Its still the "normal" budget-based acquisitions. Or am I looking in the wrong spot?
Try "Simple". I think this is a bug? I hope someone answers your other questions. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing
Christopher, there's a lot of pretty basic information at http://www.skemotah.com/Migrating_to_Koha.html Stephen jcdick@cadmed.net said: <snip>
Is there a good source for any information on things like the system preferences and procedures for entering and deleting biblio information? Keeping in mind that no one is actually a trained librarian, so no one really understands all the terms and such that comes with all of this.
-- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com
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