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Well thought I should give everyone a quick update. The conference is coming along nicely! We have over 80 people attending many of which are “interested in Koha as a future ILS”…
We have 2 days full of great information about Koha and I wish I could attend more than one session per hour!
Couple of things I have discovered about Koha and MARC – the 003 is a “required” field in the MARC coding so therefore in the frameworks it has become “required” so when I have edited records it keeps stopping me asking me to put that in. If you have a NUC code from LC – I would go ahead during a conversion and put it in so you don’t have to deal with it in the future!
The 040 – also requires an a subfield so records we have had for years we are having to enter data there when we go to save it. Again there is probably a way to turn that off, but I’m too busy to poke around and it is a low priority.
I am very pleased to say that our ISBN 13/10 Development project was installed and working beautifully! We have even addressed the issue of records coming in and taking out the (pbk) etc… type stuff which in the past stopped the system from matching on existing records. I think this was one of our greatest moments!
We are going to have our development of the Overdue report loaded hopefully Thursday so that after spring break people can start running overdues… Man will the librarians be happy about this. We have been holding them off running overdues until we had a way that we felt was more suitable to our needs. Hasn’t made everyone happy, but this is going to be great!
3.2 developments
Developments that I’m excited about – there is some work being done on reports so that you can build one report and it will prompt you for information – so you don’t have to build the same SQL 67 times! and they are going to allow you to “tag” them so you could name them all for X location and that location just has to put in that “tag” and it will pull up all the reports for that location or tag. Great thing for the future!
Holds for building local is coming – that will make several of our schools very happy.
I am really excited about the conference and hope that the Sponsorship sessions will be able to give us all insight in what is coming, what is done and where we can all possibly “Share” in future development of this great software.
Have a great day!
