Robert, You need to make friends with the MARC framework editor -- it took me a while to figure it out but I won in the end and created an extremely simple framework consisting of just Title, Author, genre and barcode.
Best Regards, Chris Brown On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:42 PM allauthors < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi to the list, > > My name is Robert Flach, and I'm the new librarian for a small church > library that was on a card-catalogue system and then managed by several > people who didn't keep up with said catalog. I've gotten koha installed > (ubuntu package version), and mostly configured. I've purchased a barcode > scanner and receipt printer and have them working as well. I would seem to > be on my way. So my first project is to do a complete inventory, and that > starts with transferring all records into the electronic system from the > card catalog and getting them barcoded. > > The big challenge I have is with cataloging non-traditional books. > Basically, I can handle adding records when I can find a MARC Record that I > can download through Z39.50/SRU, but the church library has a very large > contingent of materials that don't have isbn's and don't exist in any > Z39.50 > db. Lot's of pamphlets and small self-published books and the like. I was > looking for a solution that would give me a super simplified entry form for > these types of materials that would match the info that I have available in > the card catalogue (title, author, subject, dewey #, section, barcode), and > which would be halfway readable and usable by my children helpers who are > helping me inventory and catalog everything. I could live with a few extra > fields, but even the most simplified MARC-looking record interface is > daunting for them (and for me for that matter, though I can get by and have > been reading about marc). > > I saw a post on the mailing list from some time ago where someone had > provided an SQL dump of their super simplified BRF Framework that seemed to > be just what I would want, but it was for koha v3.2 or so, and I have > v18.05. I did a test import after backing up, and it definitely wouldn't > import. > > So, with all that as background, my question is: Is there a place where > these types of things--bits and pieces that work for particular purposes > that can be imported easily--are shared regularly? If not, does anyone > have > something similar to that dump but for v18.05 that you are already using > with your non-marc librarians? Something that leaves off all the marc > information (even if they fields are still being stored behind the scenes > to > a marc21 format record of course, and just let's them enter the information > that they understand with labels that they understand? > > Thanks so Much, > Robert Flach > > > > -- > Sent from: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-general-f3047918.html > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
