Alaska Bush Library Service

Today was a great day in the training arena.  Maggie, the library assistant in my office, was asked to check out some books.  I had already checked the books out in Koha and wanted her to check them out in LibraryPro.  The first step she took was to check them out in Koha.  She quickly [...]

We have started the training process. This week I am asking my library assistants to log into Koha and find a book in their libraries. I also let people know that the next step will be to check out books that are currently checked out in their LibraryPro system. Studies say that by tonight 4 [...]

Learn to write macros.  If I had done a macro, I could have condensed my data so that I only had one record for each different book and then a seperate 9XX line for each copy.  Instead I have lots of records that are repeats. Set each record as checked in.  I downloaded my information [...]

Now that Koha is up and going, it is time for me to reflect on what could have made the process easier. If I were to start the process over for a new library, I would attempt the steps in the following order;  Use Marc Edit to organize and update my MARC records.  I would [...]

Wow, Dan finished uploading the records to the BSSD OPAC yesterday morning. I can see I need to edit some records, but it looks great. I am really happy that this part is done. Thanks go out to everyone who was helpful. Josh at LibLime, who answered questions when I was at the end of [...]

It always amazes me how quickly I can get bogged down and feeling like I can’t get anywhere.  Today is one of those days. My goals for the week are: To have five sites patrons ready to load into Koha. Reset the date for the District Battle of the Books. Order and set up a [...]