Time  Nick              Message
06:53 tuxayo            Southpaw1496: https://koha-community.org/manual/23.05/en/html/administration.html#adding-a-patron-category
06:55 tuxayo            IIUC, either you decide the duration of validity of a patron registration. Might be more used by a public library having new patrons all over the year
06:56 tuxayo            Or set a date at which all the patron of that category expire. A school/university library might make all the student cards expire a bit after the next end of school year. No matter when they enrolled
06:58 tuxayo            And there is no expiration in you library just put a very high number of months in the period.
06:59 tuxayo            I think all that is for when you don't fill the expiry date when creating a patron account.
07:00 tuxayo            I not sure what are the best practices of the cases I mentioned. That's just how I understand the documentation and interface.
07:02 tuxayo            A good first contribution if you can could be to elaborate a bit more the installer's text :) Since when installing, you don't have the rest of Koha's interface of course to see how stuff looks. And can't as easily jump to the documentation.
07:02 tuxayo            Feel free to as for guidance if you are interested ^^
08:19 Southpaw1496[m]   Here is a screenshot of the screen I'm seeing. [The documentation I found](https://koha-community.org/manual/20.11/en/html/administration.html#adding-a-patron-category) says that "Enrollment period (in months) should be filled in **if** you have a limited enrollment period for your patrons (eg. Student cards expire after 9 months), otherwise, you can choose a date when the cards will expire (until date)".
08:19 Southpaw1496[m]   That implies that it is optional, which would make sense to me, but for some reason it is a mandatory field.
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09:43 Southpaw1496[m]   I have another question: I see there are lots of ways to import existing catalogues into Koha, but what about creating a new one of
09:48 Southpaw1496[m]   * new one with a lot of, * of books? Adding them one by one seems tedious if you have hundreds of books to do. Is there perhaps a way to input a list of ISBNs into the "New from Z39.50/SRU" flow?
12:14 ashimema          People tend to use specialised tools outside of Koha to start that.
12:15 ashimema          Like marcedit.. from memory that'll take a list of isbns and z3959 targets and build a Marc file for you which you can then import in bulk