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is emilda the right product?

 Hello,

 Emilda looks promising, but I am still wondering if it is the right 
product for us.

 We have a small library (5000 books?) in our department and I had, 
until shortly, a web application I made myself on top of a cms 
(tikiwiki). It broke after a system upgrade, and I think it is time to 
go to something more 'universal'...

 I installed and checked Emilda, but I still have a couple of questions. 
I am not a librarian myself, I am just the person who has to find a 
solution for the library.

 Some things I have to be able to do:

 - import all books to the new system (solved by hacking MARC.pl in 
Emilda, but I still need some correspondance from my db to MARC).
 - having a couple of custom fields showing up in the page where we can 
add new books manually or edit existing books. How can I do this? We 
have things like local classification code, ...
 - users should be able to check out books themselves. They don't have 
to pay, but they have to be able to tell they took a book. Same for 
bringing them back.

 Any help greatly appreciated, I am trying to close this problem but I 
can't seem to move forward 

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Yannick Majoros | 11 Apr 14:37

Re: is emilda the right product?

 Hello again,

 Sun is shining, I found some more information on the mailing list 
archives. Why isn't it searcheable? :-/ Anyway, here is it, should 
anyone want to know...

Yannick Majoros wrote:
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> - import all books to the new system (solved by hacking MARC.pl in 
> Emilda, but I still need some correspondance from my db to MARC).

 Almost done, I can give you the code if someone is interested.

> - having a couple of custom fields showing up in the page where we can 
> add new books manually or edit existing books. How can I do this? We 
> have things like local classification code, ...

 Ok, found in the list archives... -> MARC configuration (it seems 
Emilda is difficult for non-professionnal librarians, the lack of docs 
is not helping)

> - users should be able to check out books themselves. They don't have 
> to pay, but they have to be able to tell they took a book. Same for 
> bringing them back.
 Should I give the permission to everyone to manage loans  ? Hope 
there is another way...

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