This is a question for the government archives out there using Koha but also for anyone else who might have some ideas. We have thousands of state Supreme Court Case records that are called for by case number. They were not in our old catalog and therefore aren't in Koha simply because of the sheer volume of them. They are heavily used, as you can imagine, and so need to be in the catalog so we can track their use along with our our other holdings. Patrons can only have one box at a time, which is the rule for all of our archival materials.
I'm thinking of creating fast add records using the case name as the title and the case number as the call number. There is of course, a box and/or folder number depending on the complexity of the case, and we have all that information in a database that I can pull from to create the biblios and items. I know that other archives use Koha, but I'm unclear as to whether other archives are using circulation (which is why we use an ILS) and how they handle really huge collections such as our state supreme court. Please feel free to contact me off list, as this may not be of interest to many. Thanks in advance. -- Linda Culberson [email protected] Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Fax: 601/576-6824 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
