[Koha] Export MARC from Koha

[Anne Zarinnia]

Dave,
This is very important to any school district considering Koha. Most, 
particularly larger districts and especially with financial pressures 
encouraging sharing of resources, need some kind of union catalogue 
with some kind of record for borrowing.
Anne
On Friday, April 23, 2004, at 01:02 PM, Bigwood, David wrote:

> I don't know of any standards for patron information storage in the 
> LIS community. There is the MARC format for Community Information that 
> can be used for personal contact info, but that would be overkill. 
> GILS is another metadata standard that can hold contact info, but once 
> again too much.
>
> In the wider community X500 and LDAP are both common and useful. vCard 
> is another well supported standard.
>
> Using LDAP it might make it possible for systems in a consortium to 
> share info for a reciprocal borrowing program, or to issue students 
> cards based on records in the registrar's office. There are privacy 
> issues but there are interesting possibilities if we adopt a standard 
> other systems may be using.
>
> Sincerely,
> David Bigwood
> bigwood at lpi.usra.edu
> Lunar & Planetary Institute
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-admin at lists.katipo.co.nz
> [mailto:koha-admin at lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of MJ Ray
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:39 AM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Export MARC from Koha
>
>
> On 2004-04-22 21:19:19 +0100 Steven F. Baljkas
> <baljkas at mb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> Just so no one feels confused, there really aren't any MARC21
>> standards for
>> patron information as such.
>
> I was wondering more whether any of the "learner description" or
> people information file formats would be useful/interesting to koha
> users/owners.
>
>> I don't know what is meant exactly by 'financial records' but I am
>> assuming
>> that that is a euphemism for fines. Same as paragraph above.
>
> I doubt that these can be exported in a useful way, but I could be
> wrong. Adding the ability to trigger code on fines to notify another
> accounting system may be interesting to someone.
>
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