[Koha] Simplifying Koha records

[Cris Luengo]

Thanks all for the answers, both on and off the list. Especially
thanks to John Rose for his generous offer to help. However, the more
answers I get the more I realize all of this is going way above my
head, and it will be easier for me to write a simple web application
that does what I want, than try to tame Koha in doing what I want. I'm
a scientist, not a librarian, and this is just a side-project for me
that is not supposed to take more than one or two days to set up.

Thanks again,
Cris.



On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 14:35, 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.
>