Greetings, I would say yes!
My 7 year old son was able to understand how to catalog some of his books using Z39.50 (https://tml.tulongaklatan.ph/). Though, he has some books through Scholastic which issue their own ISBN numbers for existing books, so you have to get a little creative in finding it by the Title, and then adding the extra ISBN number, but that really is about the most complex we've had to do. Generally, the ISBN search has worked well, though sometimes we had to search both the ISBN-13 and ISBN-10 numbers before finding something. The Z39.50 functionality of Koha makes entry easy, by importing the entries from an external source which already has the entered data. I would recommend trying that. You will need to go item by item, but given that you have to manually catalog the whole library, I don't think that is going to be a big problem. GPML, Mark Tompsett -----Original Message----- From: Rebecca Shtasel Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 9:29 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] is koha right for our project run by volunteers? Hello We are a small group of volunteers (one of whom is a retired school librarian) who run our synagogue's library in the UK. We would like to produce an online catalogue and are interesting in using Koha for this purpose as we haven't much money. The library has about 4000 books covering a variety of classifications (fiction, history etc) all related to Judaism. The original accessions book was lost when the library had to be moved a year ago and we have a notebook with handwritten entries for the accessions we have received since the library moved to its new home. Looking at the information to do with koha it appears very technical and we are wondering if we will be able to use it for our catalogue. We would literally be taking books off the shelves to input their information, not importing the data from elsewhere and none of us has anything more than basic computing knowledge. Given this, do you think koha is too complicated for us to use or amongst all the information related to using koha is there a very basic guide that would suit beginners like us? If you think we would struggle using koha, could you advise us on software that you think would be more user-friendly and is not too expensive? Thanking you all very much in advance for any advice you can give. Rebecca (on behalf of the group) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
