[Koha] Simple MARC or Simple Acquisitions?

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

Hi ya,

Hopefully starting on a new thread. Just in the last few weeks we've had 
a couple of clients who would really benefit from an easier way to do 
their own cataloging.

They don't (Sadly) find their specialist materials being well serviced 
via the various z39.50 servers etc, often because they are doing 
cataloging of materials they are producing themselves, or from other 
government departmens/private publishers essentially.

As alluded to we (Katipo) did have an interface to do this in the very 
early versions of Koha, and I still have essentially the spec for it in 
the form of a working version, and screen shots/manual type stuff - we 
called it simple acquisitions, and in the current version of Koha you 
can see that there is a preference for either simple or normal 
acquisitions - of which only normal is really there.

I've been toying with the idea of seeing what's involved in essentially 
adding a simple acquisitions module back in again - but saw that Galen I 
think is planning something similar sounding as a simple MARC module.

So I'm wondering if the two ideas are close enough to be the same thing? 
I'd anticipate still doing some "money stuff" as part of a simpler 
acquisitions process - it's just you wouldn't order & recieve, it'd be 
all one action - for libraries that basically pop down to their local 
book shop twice a year to get some new materials in, but who still want 
to keep a record of what they cost. So I'm not sure if that takes it out 
of the realm of a simple MARC catalogue system.

Anyways, if anyone has strong views one way or the other let me know. 
I'm a bit biased against the current MARC interface - we get people 
being intimidated by it (me included :-) but I'm prepared to work 
through it.


Cheers
Rachel
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