[Koha] Acquisitions and catalogue modules

[Jade Furness]

Hello

I am reposting this as only received one reply (thankyou) but really do need some help as I can go no further. I have asked the IT person who installed it for us to inform me what version was used, but haven'tyet received a reply, it certainly wasn't the latest.

I have been employed to set up a library at the South Pacific College of Natural Therapeutics. Someone suggested we use Koha as a library system and an IT person has installed this.
I am a librarian used to using different systems but not Koha.

I have been reading about bugs but I'm not an IT person so it goes over my head.
I am using Acqui Simple. When I try to add a biblio without an ISBN, the next page I go to doesn't  have as many fields as the testsystem on Koha. i.e. It doesn't have a class field (It does have Dewey field); it doesn't have an ISBN field so the entry ends up on the third page without one. If I enter a record via the ISBN on the first page, it then takes me to the third page which is basically the ISBN page and misses out the second page completely.

Once in the catalogue there is no Item type (though I have previously entered it and I have added it originally through the system parameters). no NLM classification either. I can modify the record on that page but when I go the the Group modify page
and add classification, item type and ISBN, it doesn't save any of the information. When I click on Group delete, it sends me to a page unable to be found. Are these bugs? Can this be fixed?
or am I missing something completely.

The System Parameters do not contain as many parameters as the test database on Koha. Missing - MARC tag structure, Links Koha - MArc Db, MARC check, Thesaurus, Authorised Values, Membership Category. And the system preferences do not contain all the preferences that the test database has, although I have added Autobarcode myself.

When I enter a new member the  Area field has a dropdown box with a choice of areas from Horowhenua. Since this library is in Auckland is it possible to change and where would this be done.

I'm sorry to ask all these questions but I am at the library only one day a week and I spent a very frustrating Friday getting this far.

I an pass on any IT type responses to the IT person who set it up for us.

Many thanks 

Jade
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