[Koha] Hello from Vermont

[BWS Johnson]

Salvete!



> So to see what it would take for us to build our own Koha installation
> from scratch, I installed 16.05 (using git) in an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual
> machine and have started to play around with it.  I've exported our
> catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump.  Now I'm
> figuring out what I need to do to import these records and correctly
> set things like the item call number and item type.  I may ask some
> questions later if I get stuck.


     Please ask away! 


     You'll want to sit down with your Librarian at this stage and see how they want stuff set up. It's much better to try it, refine it, then do it again if needs be then set stuff up only to find out that they want it totally different. VM is a nice way to go for that, since you can exploderate your less than desireable outcomes at a tiny penalty.


     Reading the cataloguing bit of the manual may help, or it may induce nausea.

http://translate.koha-community.org/manual/master/en/html-desktop/#cataloging

Cheers,
Brooke