[Koha] Newbie with lots o' questions

[George Adams]

Hello, all!  I'm trying to get our church's small (i.e. 50-200 items) 
library online, and I'm spending this week trying to figure out how I'm 
going to do it.  I've pretty much decided it's either going to be:
1) Koha, or
2) some application I write myself in Perl or PHP.

I have Koha 2.2.9 set up on my Gentoo Linux (2.6.20) server (w/MySQL 5), and 
I'm trying to figure out... well, how Koha works, really.  The guides on 
kohadocs.org have been useful, but they're incomplete on some things I need 
to figure out.

If anyone can answer any of these questions, I'd be very grateful!

- When an item is placed on reserve, how does the librarian receive a 
notification of that?  (i.e. what tells him/her to go get the book off the 
shelf and put it on the reserve shelf?)

- Also, when an item is placed on reserve, it still shows up in search 
listings with a status of "Available".  Is that normal?  Is there a way to 
have it show up as "Reserved", so nobody gets frustrated trying to find it 
on the shelf?

- Can Koha prompt us to remove certain items from the reserve desk? (i.e. 
"The following reserved items have been held for 7 days without being picked 
up by the patron, and can therefore be placed back into circulation...")

- Finally, although I downloaded the latest version of Koha I could find 
(2.2.9), I hear phrases dropped like "dev_week" or "Koha 3" that make me 
wonder if there's a newer, better version of Koha I can get...?  For 
instance, the Nelsonville Public Library website 
(http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/) looks much nicer than my Koha test 
site, even with my using the "npl" templates.  Is that sort of look/feel 
only available with a commercial Koha product, or can I download something 
that will give me a similarly pretty site?

I'm sure I'll have more questions as I get deeper into Koha, but this is a 
start.  Thanks!

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