[Koha] community catalog project

[paul POULAIN]

jacobs wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm a volunteer librarian (and LIS grad student) at the Urbana-Champaign 
>Independent Media Center Library (http://ucimc.org/library) and am looking for 
>an open source package that will help me with a project. I'd like to create a 
>community online catalog. Currently, I have 2 organizations interested and the 
>support of a faculty member at U. of Illinois Urbana Champaign who wants to 
>give her cataloging students an opportunity to do actual MARC cataloging. I've 
>got OpenBook software downloaded but because it's still in beta (and may never 
>move out of beta), I hesitate to use it for fear of losing data.
>
trfoundation.org is out since 2 months  so...

>
>
>This has led me to Koha. Koha seems to have a good OPAC module, but I'd like 
>to know more about the database backend. Is it fully MARC supported? Does it 
>have a GUI input tool? Can MARC records be imported?
>
MARC is nnot supported in the current version (1.1). Many things have 
been done on the CVS (by Steve) to provide MARC 21 import, and MARC-DB 
compliance.
We have (imho) a lot of work to build MARC-insert, MARC-search and 
MARC-export capabilities.
It will be done in the 1.2 version, but it's not for the next week.

anyway, I will use koha in 4 libraries only when I will have MARC 
compliance.
If you want to give us a hand...
--
Paul