Hi all,<br><br>I'm new to the list, and have only just begun investigating Koha, so apologies if I ask any silly questions! I'm at the stage of investigating Koha to see if it is suitable for my needs, and I'd really appreciate it if I could draw on your collective expertise. I have a specific question about Koha, but I'll also give a bit of detail on my circumstances, in case anyone has any more general ideas which can help me.<br>
<br><b>A bit of background:</b> I work for a new archive which has a relatively substantial book collection (c. 20,000 items). Up until last year, these were completely uncatalogued and unlisted, so we've been working on a project to list our holdings. The plan is that once we have a handlist we can assess the collection, weed substantially and then put in place a formal cataloguing strategy. This last will include identifying a suitable LMS - we use DServe's CALM for the archive material, and may also put the books on there, but as it's primarily a museums / archive platform we have some reservations about that. To get a handlist quickly, we've catalogued using <a href="http://www.readerware.com/">Readerware</a> , which lets you scan barcodes and searches the web for the data associated with those ISBNs. Now we're at a point where we would really like to make it easy for people outside our library site to access this list, even though it's not a proper catalogue. So, we basically need a web OPAC - Readerware is not at all equipped to supply this. In the long term it would be really good to be using a standards-compliant library catalogue. so if I can migrate my data over to Koha that would be great for forward-planning.<br>
<br><b>My Koha question: </b>Is it possible to import data to Koha in CSV or tab-delimited format? Unfortunately, none of my existing data has MARC records - I can export into those tewo formats, so I need a database which can accept those.<br>
<br>I strongly suspect the answer is no, but I wanted to be absolutely sure before I abandoned Koha completely. In addition, I'm hoping that if this <i>isn't</i> possible, this list of tech-savvy librarians might have good advice on alternatives. At this stage, I don't actually need a full-scale LMS - I just want a web app I can import my data to and which will allow users to seacrch by title, author, etc. (I've already explored LibraryThing, but for various reasons it's not really suitable.) It needs to be free software or very cheap, because we're so low on funds and this is an interim project.If I <i>could</i> get my data into Koha,a it would be perfect, because the full-scale LMS features are there if we need them, and the organisation would be able to buy in support if they found themseves without enough tech-savvy in house.<br>
<br>Any advice? I'll be most appreciative of any and all help!<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Lucy<br><br>