RE: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-17 Thread Booher, Craig
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RE: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-17 Thread Morbus Iff
>I'm not sure what you are looking for is a library catalog. If you want >access to individual articles, it can be done in MARC but there may be >better options. There is bibliographic citation software, Endnote and >Procite are some of the best known. Whilst I am indeed still looking for the panac

RE: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-17 Thread Bigwood, David
Morbus, I'm not sure what you are looking for is a library catalog. If you want access to individual articles, it can be done in MARC but there may be better options. There is bibliographic citation software, Endnote and Procite are some of the best known. oss4lib lists Citation Manager as an OS

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Morbus Iff
>I hear you. Right now the closest thing we have to the iMDB is Z39.50. Is the LC server the "definitive" Z39.50 database? If I suck down a record from there, send it to my database, add more information, etc., etc., how does it get back to the LC? Does it? Would the way I'd contribute be to simpl

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Ed Summers
Morbus: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:57:03AM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > * which MARC output format does MARC::Record create? In various >of the demo oss4lib softwares I've seen, there's almost always >a "show as MARC" option, but I always get a cutesy rendered >HTML table, and not the a

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Morbus Iff
>You didn't investigate enough. >* in systemprefs, acquisition=normal means what you say. >acquisition=simple means => no acquisition, direct cataloguing. Thanks for the info - I'll take another look. -- Morbus Iff ( i put the demon back in codemonkey ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread paul POULAIN
Morbus Iff wrote: >For Koha, you can always reach "add book" (Koha >> login >> Catalogue >> >Add biblio >> add empty biblio) once.Then create a bookmark on the address. >Then, with the bookmark, you can reach MARC editor in 1 clic. Maybe I didn't investigate too clearly - my understanding was th

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Morbus Iff
>For Koha, you can always reach "add book" (Koha >> login >> Catalogue >> >Add biblio >> add empty biblio) once.Then create a bookmark on the address. >Then, with the bookmark, you can reach MARC editor in 1 clic. Maybe I didn't investigate too clearly - my understanding was that before I could ad

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Morbus Iff
>to discuss the construction of a MARC processing library for Perl. But it >has always been the hope that it would evolve to support all sorts of >projects, discussions, and free wheeling musings. It has done this to some Fair enough. My biggest questions so far seem to be: * one of the things I'

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Brad Baxter
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, paul POULAIN wrote: > Brad Baxter wrote: > > >On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, paul POULAIN wrote: > >>You will say : "hay, but i still need to login. And i don't need login". > >> > >>I'll answer => ok, go to : Koha >> Parameters >> System preferences >> > >>insecure >> set to "1" (or "y

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread paul POULAIN
Brad Baxter wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, paul POULAIN wrote: You will say : "hay, but i still need to login. And i don't need login". I'll answer => ok, go to : Koha >> Parameters >> System preferences >> insecure >> set to "1" (or "yes", not sure), and it's done => no more auth check :-) And

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Brad Baxter
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, paul POULAIN wrote: > You will say : "hay, but i still need to login. And i don't need login". > > I'll answer => ok, go to : Koha >> Parameters >> System preferences >> > insecure >> set to "1" (or "yes", not sure), > and it's done => no more auth check :-) > > And you have a

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Aaron Brenner
Morbus Iff wrote: Am I missing the magical product? The closest I've seen is phpMyLibrary, but that still doesn't satisfy all my "needs" [2]. Another place to check out, if you haven't already, is the Open Source Systems for Libraries site [1]. I'm not sure the magical product is listed t

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread paul POULAIN
Ed Summers wrote: Welcome Morbus: * they cater to library-installations only (as they should, but Koha, for instance, forces me through about five to twelve screens before I can add one item. I don't care about ordering, acquisitions, or budgeting - I just want a

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Ed Summers
Welcome Morbus: > * I am not a trained librarian. Is there a friendly place for > self-taught, enthused users to ask questions concerning the various > technologies? I understand that this list is _perl_ for > _librarians_, and innocent questions about MARC and "how best > to cat

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread E. Naeher
> * I am not a trained librarian. Is there a friendly place for > self-taught, enthused users to ask questions concerning the various > technologies? I understand that this list is _perl_ for > _librarians_, and innocent questions about MARC and "how best > to catalog $this" proba

Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-12 Thread Morbus Iff
Good day, all. I'm a newb related to "proper" cataloging of media, but a impassioned Perl programmer. I've been reading rather heavily into MARC and related cataloging/indexing stuff, and I've a few questions, most innocently starting off with: * I am not a trained librarian. Is there a friend