[Koha] Getting books into the database

[Alex King]

thaetviking wrote:
> I have been given the joy of redoing everything in our library because of
> some ineptness.  I need quick answers if possible.  We are running Follett
> and the novell server died and I was given the task of dealing with this
> after the person who ran it was fired.  I would like to move to open source
> but was wondering can you convert the tables for follet?  Also can you scan
>   
I don't know follet at all so I can't help there.

> the barcode on a book and have it up the information on the web kind of like
>   
What you are looking for is called z39.50 in library circles.  There is 
not one z39.50 source but many, provided by larger libraries I guess.  
You need to identify a library or libraries with a similar holding as 
yours who provide a z39.50 service.

> CDDB?  Since we already have barcodes made for each book can we use the
> pre-generated ones as their identifier?  I really appreciate any help.  I am
>   
Yes, as you enter your books you can assign an arbitrary barcode, ie the 
code the book is already labelled with.  It would be easier if you could 
get data out of your old system of course, even if it is only the data 
matching your barcode with the ISBN.  If you can't do this, you will 
need to scan the ISBN and your barcode manually for each book.

HTH,

Alex
> not sure were exactley the DB is so the last two questions may be more to
> the meat of what I need?
>