[Koha] Questions about Koha

[Matt Burkhardt]

Accounts Receivables - Yes - it does have the capability for fines.
Also can manage budget and allocations for books

On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 10:08 -0500, Owen Leonard wrote:

> > Are records in standard MARC format?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > How will the schools be organized, separately or together? We need to have
> > them separate.
> 
> If you're running one instance of Koha, your schools will be sharing a
> database. But Koha has options for separating the operation of
> "independent branches," allowing, for instance, librarians from one of
> your schools to circulate their own patrons and materials but not
> another schools'.
> 
> > What are the reporting options? If there is a user friendly query module
> > that allows us to pull whatever report we need that would be ideal.
> 
> There are some reports available, some of which can be customized.
> There is rudimentary tool for building custom reports, but it's still
> in the early stages of development. The tool does give you the option
> of inputting custom SQL to query the database directly.
> 
> > Can we import records from other sources?
> 
> Yes. You can import MARC files in batches and you can use z39.50 to
> import individual records from public sources like the Library of
> Congress.
> 
> > Will we need to rebarcode all seven collections? No way we have the
> > resources to rebarcode 100,000+ items.
> 
> You would only need to rebarcode if you had items which have duplicate
> barcodes (my library went through that when we first brought all our
> branches together into one system). Other than that Koha doesn't care
> what kind of barcode format you use.
> 
> > Does the system support AR information? How?
> 
> Perhaps someone can answer that who knows what AR information is? :)
> 
> -- Owen
> 

Matt Burkhardt, MSTM
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Impari Systems, Inc.
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