Hi everyone. We almost certainly will be moving to Koha in 2009 and we're currently evaluating 3.00. Could someone who is heavily using the Acquisitions module answer these questions: Does the current 3.00 Acquisitions module (or the upcoming 3.2) have this level of flexibility: Place a single order on a single purchase order with a single vendor for 8 copies of a single book to be distributed among 4 libraries, but pay for each copy of the book from independent budgets (yes, this is actually something we must do!) Handle irregular serials and standing book orders with ease (i.e. serials and books that are released on irregular or unknown intervals) Thank you! Paul
Paul, The first item is not in 3.0, but should be in 3.2. The second is doable in 3.0 and should be even better in 3.2. You can find a lot of helpful documents on what's being done for 3.2 here: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2 And the manual for 3.0 will tell you what can be done now: http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/ --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Paul Landers <paul.landers@ttuhsc.edu>wrote:
Hi everyone.
We almost certainly will be moving to Koha in 2009 and we're currently evaluating 3.00. Could someone who is heavily using the Acquisitions module answer these questions:
Does the current 3.00 Acquisitions module (or the upcoming 3.2) have this level of flexibility:
Place a single order on a single purchase order with a single vendor for 8 copies of a single book to be distributed among 4 libraries, but pay for each copy of the book from independent budgets (yes, this is actually something we must do!)
Handle irregular serials and standing book orders with ease (i.e. serials and books that are released on irregular or unknown intervals)
Thank you!
Paul
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Hi everyone.
Hi Paul, here is Paul ;-)
We almost certainly will be moving to Koha in 2009 and we're currently evaluating 3.00. Could someone who is heavily using the Acquisitions module answer these questions:
I work on the future 3.2 acq module, so I can answer...
Does the current 3.00 Acquisitions module (or the upcoming 3.2) have this level of flexibility:
Place a single order on a single purchase order with a single vendor for 8 copies of a single book yes to be distributed among 4 libraries, yes but pay for each copy of the book from independent budgets (yes, this is actually something we must do!)
yikes ! No, we don't plan to do that in 3.2 (or in any future version, unless general request, but i would be surprised to see this request...). The solution would be to add 8 lines to your order (& this time, your bookseller will be upset...) -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc NOUVEAU TELEPHONE : 04 91 81 35 08
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 09:16:08AM -0500, Paul Landers wrote:
Does the current 3.00 Acquisitions module (or the upcoming 3.2) have this level of flexibility:
Place a single order on a single purchase order with a single vendor for 8 copies of a single book to be distributed among 4 libraries, but pay for each copy of the book from independent budgets (yes, this is actually something we must do!)
We have the similar need. In our library we have more than 20 collections. Main fund is internally distributed among collections, so every collection has some amount of money to spend during the year. The same book title can be acquired in different collections. I was thinking to do the following: - on item level use field Koha collection (952$8 - items.ccode), so we know to which collection item belongs - periodically do the customized report from database by collection, with calculations about how much is spent We will not be able to avoid situation of going over the limit for particular collection, but we do not have to be so strict and we can manage that by agreement and by having frequent reports on how we spend. I am still not sure is this is the good way. I just started to think about acquisition, my first goal was to migrate bibliographic data and start cataloguing in Koha, but soon I will also need some advice about that module. For now, I would just like to hear some advice on how to manage gifts in Koha acquisition? Regards, Marijana --- Marijana Glavica Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Libraries I. Lucica 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia http://www.knjiznice.ffzg.hr
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