[Koha] Questions about Koha

[Cab Vinton]

AR probably refers to Accelerated Reader levels (similar to Lexiles).
See http://renlearn.com/.

The MARC format can accommodate AR levels, etc., but I believe custom
work would be required to get Koha to do numeric range searches.

This is something that would be extremely useful to many, many
libraries, so I would urge the developers to add this feature.

Cab Vinton, Director
Sanbornton Public Library
Sanbornton, NH




On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Matt Burkhardt <mlb at imparisystems.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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