[Koha] Koha Cataloging Archives

[Nicole Engard]

WOW! Thanks for all the great info!  I'm going to share this.

I can also tell you that you are right about the holds problem - it's
one that's being worked on, I think there is an open bug report for
this.

Nicole

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Linda Culberson
<lculber at mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
>  There are three standards central to archival description: DACS
> (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), MARC, and Encoded Archival
> Description (EAD). Koha can handle 2 out of three, plus allow us to
> track in-house use of our materials and link to digitized copies of the
> originals where they exist.   So, I like Koha.
>
>  The real problem we have with Koha is the lack of analytic record
> support  ( http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Analytic_Record_support )
> because many of our collections have item-level descriptions which are
> handled as analytics.  We also have a number of journals which have
> analytic records for specific articles in certain issues and we need to
> be able to tie the analytic record to the particular issue of the
> serial's record.
>
> Another problem is that Koha seems to only allow for the borrower to
> make only one hold request per title - a real problem with serials (and
> collections with linked item level analytical records)  - because a
> person may really want to see the Spring and Fall issues of 1994 and the
> Summer issue of 1995 of a serial.  Hopefully, I'm wrong about this being
> a problem and somebody can tell me how to do this?
>
> On a personal note, I  would be very interested in sharing ideas with
> other archives or libraries with archival materials about how to best
> use Koha for archival collections.
>
> Thanks for asking, Nicole!
> Linda
>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone on list using Koha to catalog archive collections? Someone
>>>> asked me for examples of libraries using Koha for this purpose and I
>>>> was just wondering if any of you happened to be doing this and if so
>>>> how have you found it to work?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a bunch,
>>>> Nicole C. Engard
>>>>
>>>
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> Linda Culberson                 lculber at mdah.state.ms.us
> Archives and Records Services Division
> Ms. Dept. of Archives&  History
> P. O. Box 571
> Jackson, MS 39205-0571
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