FW: [Koha] Re: marc and stuff!

[jmulford at legionaries.org]

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 at tetra.mail.virginia.edu] 
Sent:	venerdì 25 maggio 2001 18.39
To:	koha at 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

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