[Koha] KOHA info for June newsletter

[Janet Mente]

The URBS consortium, a network for the humanities comprised of 7 
Rome-based libraries with a patrimony of c. 350,000 bibliographic 
records, 8,000 periodicals and 45,000 authority records, has migrated 
its Marc21 holdings from Millennium to KOHA with the aid of the Italian 
company "Cineca". Besides the standard keyword search features, this 
installation also uses a browse search function. As the contents of the 
consortium are multilingual and there was difficulty for KOHA to 
recognize the articles from the various languages, the second indicator 
of the 245 field was used to correctly alphabetize the title results. A 
Z39.50 protocol was also use  in this KOHA installation to interrogate 
other libraries. Furthermore the URBS KOHA installation has a seamless 
interface with ESSE3, a portal used by Italian universities for data 
concerning their staff and students and their academic careers ; thus 
the KOHA libraries can manage lending, fines, etc., by dialoguing with 
the university's ESSE3. The URBS KOHA installation, now in the final 
testing phase, will go live in July.

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Janet L. Mente, Librarian
Reale Istituto Neerlandese a Roma -*Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut te Rome
Via Omero 10-12
00197 Rome Italy
tel. 06 32.69.621
fax: 06/ 32 04 971
e-mail:j.mente at knir.it

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   ... I am a librarian ... !"
  Stephen Sommers
  (The Mummy, 1999. Line spoken by Rachel Weisz as Evie Carnahan)

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