[Koha] [lambert@amigos.org: Webhosting & Koha]

[Chris Cormack]

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I am working on a short-term project for a University Law Library to
rebuild a book collection that was destroyed in a flood.  In all, there are
about 28,000 titles.

We are using Innovative Interfaces (III) as our main acquisitions module,
but did not buy the OPAC because it was > $100K to purchase.

One of the things we would like to do for the faculty is to have an OPAC
they can view of the materials we are replacing.  And it looks like Koha
would do the trick.

We are using HostRocket as our webhosting server (www.hostrocket.com).
They use Linux servers with Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl.  I have @1 GB of
space.

My questions are as follows:

1.  Has anyone installed Koha on a webhosted server?
2.  Can the MARC records from the current system (III) be exported to Koha?
(I saw something about one-at-a-time uploads, but is there a way to batch
these, or do multiple uploads?)
3.  If MARC records can be exported to Koha, can the upload program be
modified to "overlay" duplicate MARC records?  (This is a unique project
where we are ordering "replacements" and thus the MARC records are in the
system, we would just need to import certain fields to update the current
MARC record.)
4.  Can Koha be modified?  The key example is that the Faculty want to be
able to comment on certain books (e.g., "This book is extremely important
to our collection," or "This book is worthless, do not order it!")

TIA!!

-Greg


Greg Lambert, JD, MLIS
Project Manager
Amigos Library Services, Inc.
5000 Gulf FWY
Building 9 - Univ. Business Park
Houston, Texas 77023-4600
713/923-2373 x225 office
877/707-1577 toll-free
713/923-2192 fax
281/433-9145 cell
lambert at amigos.org
http://www.amigos.org




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