System Preferences

Global system preferences
Manage global system preferences like MARC flavor, date format, administrator e-mail, and templates.

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Configure these parameters in the order they appear.

Basic parameters

Libraries, branches and agency categories
Define libraries, branches and agency categories.
Accounts and budgets
Accounts and budgets administration for acquisitions.
Currencies and exchange rates
Define currencies and exchange rates used for acquisitions.
Item types and circulation codes
Define item types and circulation codes used for circulation rules.

Patrons and circulation

Patron categories
Define patron categories.
Cities and towns
Define cities and towns that your patrons live in.
Road types
Define road types (street, avenue, way, etc.). Road types display as authorized values when adding/editing patrons and can be used in geographic statistics.
Circulation rules
Define circulation rules in a matrix for libraries / patrons / itemtypes / circ codes (number of checkouts, duration, fee, etc.).
Fines rules
Define fines in a matrix for libraries / patrons / itemtypes (cost, grace period, etc.).

Catalogue

Authorised values
Define categories and authorised values for them.
MARC Bibliographic framework
Create and manage Bibliographic frameworks that define the characteristics of your MARC Records (field and subfield definitions) as well as templates for the MARC editor.
Koha to MARC mapping
Define the mapping between the Koha transactional database (SQL) and the MARC Bibliographic records. Note that the mapping can be defined through MARC Bibliographic Framework. This tool is just a shortcut to speed up linkage.
MARC Bibliographic framework test
Checks the MARC structure. If you change your MARC Bibliographic framework it's recommended that you run this tool to test for errors in your definition.
MARC Authorities framework
Create and manage Authorities frameworks that define the characteristics of your MARC Records (field and subfield definitions).
Classification sources
Define classification sources (i.e., call number schemes) used by your collection. Also define filing rules used for sorting call numbers.

Additional parameters

Stopwords
Words ignored during search
Printers
Printers (UNIX paths).
Z39.50 servers
Define which servers to query for MARC data in the integrated Z39.50 client.