[Koha] School Library Management (loans, returns ,accounthandles...)

[Osgaldo Suanzes]

Hi Nigel.

    Thanks so much for your intro to Koha. I will start to play around with
Koha and instalation this night.
    A few questions comes to my mind.
    My wife has read your mail also, and she says that she saw somtime a
system which was capable of
    reading the back cover ISBN or EAN Code trough a Barcode reader and
feeding that way the Library Database.
    Is there a way to Download or access ISBN Database while entering the
books in the System with Koha with a Barcode Reader?
    In case that it is not possible and we have to do it the old and hard
way typing one by one each book  into the system, (2000 books more or less)
    You said that multiple Web Browsers can access the "Acquisition" menu
and so enter new books using more people for
    the purpose. what happened if accidentally someone entered an
information twice? (sure there could be 2 copies of the same book or more in
the library)
    Could she use the program you mentioned "Glabels" for creating a Library
Identity card for every kid?

            Thanks again

                    Regards Osgaldo




----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Titley" <nigel at titley.com>
To: "Osgaldo Suanzes" <osgaldo at tiscali.es>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha] School Library Management (loans, returns
,accounthandles...)


> Osgaldo,
>
> Koha is ideal for this purpose, in fact I hope to be doing exactly that
> for my wife's school. Debian is the ideal platform to build it on. You
> will need to install mysql as well, and a handful of perl CPAN modules,
> but the installation process is completely painless.
>
> The majority of the work is going to be in entering the books into the
> system. You need to print out a bunch of sticky labels, each with a
> barcode. I use glabels to do this. Each book is then entered into the
> system using the "acquisitions" menu. With practice, one can manage a
> book every 30 seconds or so, depending on how much information you want
> to enter. This may obviously take some time, but if your wife can enlist
> the help of the older children at school, then it can be done more
> quickly. bear in mind that any web browser can be used to access the
> Koha screens, so many people can be entering data at once.
>
> Once this has been done, every child has to be given an entry in the
> system. Again this will be tedious the first time it is done, but in
> subsequent years you will only be entering the new year's intake, which
> will be much easier.
>
> Once each book and child is entered, your wife can easily issue and
> return books to children. She can pull up reports of which books are
> overdue, and a reading record of each child. It is perfect for the job.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Nigel
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 21:12, Osgaldo Suanzes wrote:
> > Hi
> > My wife is working in a School here in Spain And she is responsible for
the
> > School Library.
> > There are sometimes too many children asking at the same time for
loaning
> > books, without a computer!
> > So she asked me if I could managed to setup a Library Book Managment
System,
> > Something that
> > with a Barcode Reader she could Inventory the books and handle the Loans
> > and returns of the Kids. Everyone is telling me that Koha is the way to
go,
> > but I must admit I have
> > no clue about EAN and ISBN and if Koha supports Loans and returns and
> > such....
> > I highly appreciate any hint
> > I would prefer to build this upon Debian
> >
> > here a few questions also:
> >     What exacty is in the Koha-CD.iso file? should I better download the
> > Aplication tar.gz?(smaller download)
> >     Who can help or tell me on how Koha must be modified to match our
needs
> > (School Library Loans, returns, User administration, inventory trough a
> > barcode reader?(if its possible)
> >
> > Im pretty sure this must be asked a lot of times, Im sorry for this. but
I
> > need some guide
> >
> >             Thanks in advance.
> >
> >                                 Osgaldo.
> > PD: Sorry for the bad english!
> >
> >
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