[Koha] is koha right for our project run by volunteers?

[vikram zadgaonkar]

Hello Rebecca,
koha is very simple to use and maintain. Being a community software you get
support from all community members.

I strongly suggest koha.

On 7 Mar 2017 8:00 p.m., "Rebecca Shtasel" <rebeccashtasel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> We are a small group of volunteers (one of whom is a retired school
> librarian) who run our synagogue's library in the UK.  We would like to
> produce an online catalogue and are interesting in using Koha for this
> purpose as we haven't much money.  The library has about 4000 books
> covering a variety of classifications (fiction, history etc) all related to
> Judaism.  The original accessions book was lost when the library had to be
> moved a year ago and we have a notebook with handwritten entries for the
> accessions we have received since the library moved to its new home.
> Looking at the information to do with koha it appears very technical and we
> are wondering if we will be able to use it for our catalogue.  We would
> literally be taking books off the shelves to input their information, not
> importing the data from elsewhere and  none of us has anything more than
> basic computing knowledge.
>
> Given this, do you think koha is too complicated for us to use or amongst
> all the information related to using koha is there a very basic guide that
> would suit beginners like us?
> If you think we would struggle using koha, could you advise us on software
> that you think would be more user-friendly and is not too expensive?
>
> Thanking you all very much in advance for any advice you can give.
>
> Rebecca (on behalf of the group)
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