[Koha] community catalog project

[jacobs]

Hi all,

I'm a volunteer librarian (and LIS grad student) at the Urbana-Champaign 
Independent Media Center Library (http://ucimc.org/library) and am looking for 
an open source package that will help me with a project. I'd like to create a 
community online catalog. Currently, I have 2 organizations interested and the 
support of a faculty member at U. of Illinois Urbana Champaign who wants to 
give her cataloging students an opportunity to do actual MARC cataloging. I've 
got OpenBook software downloaded but because it's still in beta (and may never 
move out of beta), I hesitate to use it for fear of losing data.

This has led me to Koha. Koha seems to have a good OPAC module, but I'd like 
to know more about the database backend. Is it fully MARC supported? Does it 
have a GUI input tool? Can MARC records be imported?

Any information you can give me would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

James Jacobs

James R. Jacobs 
Graduate Reference Assistant 
Education/Social Science Library
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign                        
Home: 303B1 Paddock Drive  
Savoy, IL 61874           
(217)359-9283
jacobs at uiuc.edu
http://radicallibrarian.org
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