[Koha] Simplifying Koha records

[Joann Ransom]

Hi Cris,

Don't dispair. Koha will be fine for a small library.

We too are preparing to move our collection over to Koha 3.x. We have 
never bothered with marc before and our records have only bare minimum 
cataloguing too. We have hired Mason from KohaAloha (who lurks on the 
list) to undertake a process which takes the record from our current 
system, grabs a marc record from National Library, and pops it into the 
new Koha 3.0 database. So it can be done very simply through an import 
process.

Or, I suspect you could grab the records using z39.50 process once you 
have the bare bones records imported into the database from your 
exisitng collection.

Given that you have only 1500 items it is feasible that you could 
actually add them in manually rather than import if thats not an option 
for you.

I'd add an order for each item using the acquisitions module, then 
receive them all, thus adding the bar codes, replacement costs etc, and 
then catalogue them using the z39.50 feature.

I am sure someone else will be able to suggest a path to take as well.

Regards,

Joann Ransom.


Cris Luengo wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I was hoping someone could point me to information on how to set up
> Koha for a very small library. We have about 1500 books, and all users
> are employees, so we want all users to be able to take out books by
> themselves. My main problem so far is in the large amount of data I
> need to enter for each book. Currently the collection is indexed by a
> program that only stores author, title, publisher and year (and is not
> complete for all books). I have zero knowledge about MARC records and
> about 90% of the fields available for filling in. And I don't want to
> put too much time into learning about them either, since they don't
> seem necessary nor useful for such a small collection.
>
> At first I was under the impression Koha was suitable for small
> collections, but now that I've got it running I'm thinking I might
> have been wrong about that. Any help at all will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Cris.
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