[Koha] Looking for an even more simplified entry

[Chris Brown]

Robert,

You need to make friends with the MARC framework editor -- it took me a
while to figure it out but I won in the end and created an extremely simple
framework consisting of just Title, Author, genre and barcode.

Best Regards,

Chris Brown


On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:42 PM allauthors <
robert.flach at webtooldeveloper.com> wrote:

> Hi to the list,
>
> My name is Robert Flach, and I'm the new librarian for a small church
> library that was on a card-catalogue system and then managed by several
> people who didn't keep up with said catalog.  I've gotten koha installed
> (ubuntu package version), and mostly configured.  I've purchased a barcode
> scanner and receipt printer and have them working as well.  I would seem to
> be on my way.  So my first project is to do a complete inventory, and that
> starts with transferring all records into the electronic system from the
> card catalog and getting them barcoded.
>
> The big challenge I have is with cataloging non-traditional books.
> Basically, I can handle adding records when I can find a MARC Record that I
> can download through Z39.50/SRU, but the church library has a very large
> contingent of materials that don't have isbn's and don't exist in any
> Z39.50
> db.  Lot's of pamphlets and small self-published books and the like.  I was
> looking for a solution that would give me a super simplified entry form for
> these types of materials that would match the info that I have available in
> the card catalogue (title, author, subject, dewey #, section, barcode), and
> which would be halfway readable and usable by my children helpers who are
> helping me inventory and catalog everything.  I could live with a few extra
> fields, but even the most simplified MARC-looking record interface is
> daunting for them (and for me for that matter, though I can get by and have
> been reading about marc).
>
> I saw a post on the mailing list from some time ago where someone had
> provided an SQL dump of their super simplified BRF Framework that seemed to
> be just what I would want, but it was for koha v3.2 or so, and I have
> v18.05.  I did a test import after backing up, and it definitely wouldn't
> import.
>
> So, with all that as background, my question is: Is there a place where
> these types of things--bits and pieces that work for particular purposes
> that can be imported easily--are shared regularly?  If not, does anyone
> have
> something similar to that dump but for v18.05 that you are already using
> with your non-marc librarians?  Something that leaves off all the marc
> information (even if they fields are still being stored behind the scenes
> to
> a marc21 format record of course, and just let's them enter the information
> that they understand with labels that they understand?
>
> Thanks so Much,
> Robert Flach
>
>
>
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