[Koha] Basic Koha operations

jcdick at cadmed.net jcdick at cadmed.net
Fri Apr 30 05:01:54 NZST 2004


Hello.

I am a volunteer IT staffer for a seriously underfunded parochial school,
and we have recently installed Koha for the school library.  It is my job,
now that it is installed, to figure out how it works and to then teach the
librarians - also volunteers - how to use it and start entering the books.

Is there a good source for any information on things like the system
preferences and procedures for entering and deleting biblio information? 
Keeping in mind that no one is actually a trained librarian, so no one
really understands all the terms and such that comes with all of this.  I
have successfully done a z39.50 search on a book through the LoC and
imported the biblio information, but none of it is in the right spot,
except the ISBN number and the LC control number.

There is one error in my MARC configuration, for the ITEMTYPES table.  But
I have no idea what should go in that space.

Also, changing the acquisitions type to "simple" didn't give me a basic
ISBN search on the acquisitions page.  Its still the "normal" budget-based
acquisitions.  Or am I looking in the wrong spot?

This is Koha 2.0.0 running on FC1 with MySQL 3.23, Apache 2.0.48, and Perl
5.008003

Any information is greatly appreciated.  If there happens to be someone in
the metro Detroit area or anywhere in North America, for that matter, that
is using Koha that would be willing to lend a hand via direct email or IM
or what have you, that would be greatly appreciated.

Christopher Dick
Wyandotte Catholic Consolidated Schools
Wyandotte, MI



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