Greetings to all LIS Links family members.Is Quotation calling and comparative statement must for books to be purchased by a semi government academic library from Maharashtra? Please, guide from audit point of view. Few auditors insist on quotation calling of books, while few believe that it is not applicable to books. Thanks in advanceRegardsMataprasad See More

Greetings of the day.Please let me know the Excel sheet bibliographic record entries for multiple items of a record. i.e. Multiple copies of a book. e.g., Accession number 480 to 484 (5 copies) of the book, "Food flavours technology handbook".I am using MarcEdit to convert .xls to .mrk and .mrc. Then Koha - Tools - Sage MARC records & Manage Staged MARC records.At present, there are 5 rows with all fields same, except Accession Number field.But MarcEdit creates one record for each row, with…See More

I want to import Bibliographic data in MS Excel (.xsl) to Koha on Ubuntu platform. What should be the Date format for date fields (e.g., 952$d), so that MarcEdit will read it properly? (MarcEdit is reading only MM field properly and putting in .mrk file). Tried many date formats in Excel all of which did not work. Thanks in advance.RegardsSee More

Greetings of the DayPlease, guide me regarding -eNewspapers subscription (options, subscription rates, service charges, payment mode etc.)Ours is an Institute Library with approximate 60 users. At beginning, will go for Employment News, ToI, Pudhari (Marathi news paper), etc.The accounting section needs approximate cost estimation for Administrative sanction. The party should give Tax Invoice and it will be processed for Actual Cost sanction etc.If any Library has some experience in this…See More