[Koha] Simple manual cataloguing

[reapsmoor at gmail.com]

Nicole - thank you very much for your response.  I have read the manual
pretty thoroughly I thought which is how I came to the conclusion that the
only way to do what I want is to produce a radically pruned framework,
deleting all but the basic fields that I need.  However I then came across
the guidance that it is not advisable to delete fields so I don't quite see
how to come up with the final list of fields that I need.  I don't think I
can expect my volunteers to wade through 9 tabs worth of fields.  I suppose
I was hoping I could produce a form for them showing just those fields but
can't find anything about that.

Many thanks anyway - I think what I really really need is a complete idiots
guide to Koha!!

Jan

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Nicole Engard
<nicole.engard at liblime.com>wrote:

> Jan,
>
> As for a guide you can review the manual:
> http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/ there is a lot
> about this.
>
> You are partially correct about the Z39.50 imports.  If you delete
> fields from the framework then those fields will not come into your
> system.  So if you have a field for title and author but no field for
> ISBN then you'll get the title and the author, but not the ISBN.  Hope
> that helps a bit.
>
>
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> Nicole C. Engard
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>
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:47 AM,  <reapsmoor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear colleagues, I am attempting to set up a simple catalogue for a small
> > organisation.  Koha has been installed and set up for me to go ahead with
> > and I can't wait to enter our items.  We really only need a handful of
> > fields, such as acquisition no, author, title, pub details etc - probably
> > max 10-12 in total and I want to use some non-librarian volunteers to do
> > this work.  The majority of our items are unique and not available
> through
> > z3950 - although some are.  I have read back through the archives and see
> > that others have asked about this but I fear I don't properly understand
> the
> > answers!!  If I make a modified structure so that only one tab is used
> for
> > cataloguing, instead of 9,  wouldn't that also mean that when I want to
> > import a record via z3950 the details would have no-where to go or....?
>  Is
> > there an online guide to doing this so that I can easily enter records in
> a
> > simple way - I suspect otherwise I will be back with lots more basic
> > questions!
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Jan
> >
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