[Koha] Is there a language field in mysql tables?

[BWS Johnson]

Whoo hoo! I can answer a couple of these.

> 
> 4. There is something known as Z39... server....it
> probably connects to the 
> various servers to get info about the books...How do
> we use this thing.


Yep, the Z39.50 server can in fact connect to another Z39.50 server to
retreive information about materials. You need to know which Z39.50
server you want to connect to, and then you need to ensure that it's
address is in the Parameters> Z39.50 section. There also used to be a
Linux command that you needed to run in order to get the daemon to
start.

> 
> 5. someone ask me to use the system called CC (colan
> classification) with koha?Is it possible?
> 


For Raganathan's Colon System (which I am by no means an expert on) I
would put the facet letter in 

852 c because it can handle letters.

I would put the numerics and colons into 

852h because it can handle numbers.

What I'm not sure of is if it can handle a colon or 2 or more colons in
this field. I know that Paul had said previously that there might be a
generic "Call Number" slot where you could put whatever you wished in.
I'm not sure how that turned out.


> 6. Are there any servers running other than the
> library of congress server which we can use to get data about the
books.
> 

There are loads of people that run servers. What I would do is search
for a library that is similar to your own because your collection is
like to overlap. Then, I would ask the library or hunt around their
website for information about their server. You can also import and
export individual records, which is how I do it, because my collection
is much smaller, and I can get the sort of quality I want.


> 7.As most of the books from indian publishers are
> without any ISBN numbers, can we get details about these books (like
gist)
> from some source on the internet?
> 

This is going to make things tough for you. A lot of the ways retrieval
works revolve around an ISBN. You would probably be able to mock
something up using a title search, but you wouldn't have a guarantee of
getting very accurate information without someone looking at a record.


> 8. We have around 1,80,000 books in the library.Are
> there any shortcuts we can use with the data entry thing.
> 


Do you have preexisting data from another ILS? If so, there are ways to
migrate to Koha, but you need to check and see that everything is
importing properly.


> 9. we are already in the data entry stage,
> are we using any data shops for the data entry & how ?


I'm not sure what you're asking here. Sorry.

I hope some of this helped a little.

Cheers,
Brooke @ Hinsdale 
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