[Koha] Koha for beginners

[Mehvish Farah]

Thank you very much everyone, This community is awesome. I appreciate all
who gave me a sense of what MARC is
, although I still need to read the links that you guys have posted.

Fred, I hope your mom feels better soon. Just in the morning, I felt dizzy
after reading about MARC. My head was spinning until i took a short nap.Its
a relief that MARC was at least not her reason for being in the hospital.
 I would try to browse about z39.50 and OCLC once i finish reading the link
by all of you.
Thank you Indranil for your book suggestion. and everyone else with your
suggesting me for bilinguals code. that's really helpful.



On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 3:19 PM, King, Fred <Fred.King at medstar.net> wrote:

> Hi Mehvish, and welcome to Koha. I tried to explain MARC tags to my mother
> last night and she fell asleep. I think that being in a hospital emergency
> room late at night right after a hefty dose of Dilaudid may have had
> something to do with it... (She'll be okay, BTW.)
>
> MARC is complicated, but makes sense after a while. Think of all the
> various ways you can describe a book, musical recording, film, etc. Author,
> publisher, year published, length, ISBN, ISSN, call number... well, you get
> the idea. Now give each element a number. For example, the title goes in
> the 245 field. The main part of the title goes into 245$a. If the book is
> "Arnold. The tale of a chipmunk" the second part goes into 245$
> somethingelseicantrememberbutmigjtbeb. Do that for every element you want
> to describe and you got yourself a MARC record. You don't have to do
> original cataloging on everything; see OCLC and Z39.50. I'm typing this on
> my iPhone so I'll let someone else explain those--my thumb is getting weary.
>
> One thing I love about Koha is that it's infinitely customizable (yes,
> literally). If you want to add or change something, you can. All the real
> catalogers just turned green upon reading that, but you can.
>
> I'm away from work right now and I'm astonished that I can get email at
> all, but I can follow up next week if you want.
>
> Have fun with Koha,
>
> Fred King
> Fred.king at medstar.net
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From: *Mehvish Farah [mehvishfarah at gmail.com]
> *Sent: *Monday, August 15, 2016 01:25 PM Eastern Standard Time
> *To: *koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> *Subject: *[Koha] Koha for beginners
>
> Hi,
> I am new to Koha and have no library science experience.
> I am trying to understand MARC but stuck at the terms where there are some
> numbers with a dollar sign and then an alphabet. What is this basically?
> I would be grateful if someone can help me with a book or link that helps
> understand these terms or library/koha terms in general or in easy
> comprehension.
>
> other thing that i want to know is if a book is bilingual (Spanish and
> English or Arabic and English) , what should i write in Lnaguage code
> clumn?
>
> Thanks
> *Mehvish*
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*Mehvish*