[Koha] Fwd: Koha Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

Zahir Husain Mohamed Ismail shammyac at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 19:30:37 NZDT 2008


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From: Zahir Husain Mohamed Ismail <shammyac at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: Koha Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37
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 Dear rafael

I am Hussain, From Sri Lanka, working at a university  library, and i am
also using Winisis at our library, but we r trial in koha in windows version
at the same time we are facing some problem about importing winisis database
in to koha reservoir we alreday convert our database in to "mrc" format
using marc edit

please help me how to import mrc format in to koha

  On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:49 AM, <koha-request at lists.katipo.co.nz> wrote:

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>   1. Re: Migration from Libwin (rafael.antonio at sapo.pt)
>   2. Re: ISBN discrepancy for Amazon content (Nicole Engard)
>   3. Re: Errors when installing CPAN modules on Ubuntu (Rakesh Mistry)
>   4. Re: Migration from Libwin (Rakesh Mistry)
>   5. Re: Lists/Virtual Shelves not working in OPAC (Chris Nighswonger)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:56:44 +0100
> From: rafael.antonio at sapo.pt
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Migration from Libwin
> To: rmistry at ori.org.za, philip.duffy at hammonds.com
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Message-ID: <20081015115644.10526qeyo9kypv8c at w11.mail.sapo.pt>
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> Dear I can sendfriends,
>
> Any migration only need some steps and tools.
>
> You can export records fron any DB if you send it for a CSV format where
> each line correspond to each bibliographic record.
>
> Then you cam use a MarcEditor to convert for MARC format. I still using a
> great tool caled WINISIS from UNESCO which give me a lot of flexibility. May
> be you need some time to learn but there is a manual and I can send you some
> hint.
> Whem you have ISO 2709 file you just run import to get records. The only
> proble is related with item and to link them but sooner I will try to find
> the way for that.
>
> Regards,
> Rafael
>
> Citando Rakesh Mistry <rmistry at ori.org.za>:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to the list and trying to learn a few things about Koha and
> library systems in general ;)
> >
> > Has anyone had any experience migrating catalogue information from a
> system called LibWin to Koha?
> > If so, do you have any tips / comments to share on the process?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rax
>
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> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:27:10 -0500
> From: "Nicole Engard" <nicole.engard at liblime.com>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] ISBN discrepancy for Amazon content
> To: "Betsy Dintaman" <bdintaman at lcc.lt>
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
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> It is my understanding that this is an Amazon API issue. It's not that they
> only look at the 10 digit it's that they look at the first 020 field only
> and so if the ISBN in that field isn't the one that matches the one they
> have on Amazon then it doesn't pull the data.
>
> I may be wrong, but I've talked to several people who have researched this
> issues and I think this was what was discovered.
>
>
> ---
>
> Nicole C. Engard
> Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
> (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
> nce at liblime.com
> AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
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> http://liblime.com
> http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
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>
> 2008/10/15 Betsy Dintaman <bdintaman at lcc.lt>
>
> >  I understand in order to get the Amazon content, we must use only
> > 10-digit ISBNs in a bib record. Was it ever determined whether this is an
> > Amazon or a Koha problem? More and more books have only 13-digit numbers,
> > what are the implications of having only the 10-digit numbers in for
> future
> > use of perhaps another source of enhanced content?
> >
> > When the 10-digit ISBN won't work, or when there is only a 13-digit
> number,
> > I check the item on the Amazon website and often find an ISBN number
> listed
> > that is nowhere on the book, though the cover, book, edition. etc. is
> > clearly the correct one. I'm uncomfortable with using an ISBN in the
> record
> > that doesn't correspond with anything in the book, but I want the
> picture!
> > Advice?
> >
> >
> > Betsy Dintaman
> > Bal?iunai Library
> > LCC International University
> > Kretingos g. 36
> > LT-92307 Klaipeda, Lithuania
> > Tel. +370 46 310 745
> >
> >
> >
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> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:44:41 +0200
> From: Rakesh Mistry <rmistry at ori.org.za>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Errors when installing CPAN modules on Ubuntu
> To: koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
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> Hi Sandeep,
>
> Thanks for the tips - I didn't spot the krb5 or heimdal-dev problem.
>
> I've managed to now install the LDAP module.
>
> However, the Class::Factory::Util module is still failing.
> Also (might be relevant) .. I had to force the install of the ZOOM
> module as per previous comments on the mailing lists.
>
> Running a make test still fails if I try to build Koha.
>
> Thanks again for the replies.
>
> Regards
> Rakesh
>
> PS If you can point out where you saw the errors for my missing
> dependencies then it would help me spot errors earlier.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 15:49 +0530, SANDEEP BHAVSAR wrote:
> > Dear Rakesh
> >
> > I have gone through your second file and on line no. 326
> > 'Searching krb5-config command... NOT FOUND!' error is there.
> > Just install it
> > root at sandeep-desktop:~#  apt-get install krb5-config
> > root at sandeep-desktop:~#  perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::LDAP'
> > Type no for optional modules.
> >
> > Try it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Rakesh Mistry <rmistry at ori.org.za>
> > wrote:
> >
> >         Hi all,
> >
> >         I'm trying to install Koha 3.0 on an Ubuntu Gutsy computer
> >         using the instruction found at
> >         http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=ubuntu_gutsy
> >
> >         Unfortunately I'm getting some errors when installing some of
> >         the CPAN modueles (not the ZMARC one). I've attached two text
> >         files with the errors.
> >         These are the two commands I execute separately:
> >
> >         sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Class::Factory::Util'
> >         sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::LDAP'
> >
> >         Can someone please tell me what I need to do to continue?
> >
> >         Thanks
> >         Rax
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks and Regards
> >
> > Sandeep Bhavsar
> > Librarian
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> > Thane(W) 400601
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> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:48:43 +0200
> From: Rakesh Mistry <rmistry at ori.org.za>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Migration from Libwin
> To: rafael.antonio at sapo.pt, koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
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> Hi Rafael..
>
> Thanks for the tip on WINISIS. I have looked at this tool (or maybe
> CDS/ISIS) briefly before.
> Are you suggesting importing the records into ISIS then exporting to
> MARC format?
>
> If you have any scripts that were useful and don't mind sharing them,
> that would be great :)
>
> Thanks
>
> Rakesh
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:56 +0100, rafael.antonio at sapo.pt wrote:
>
> > Dear I can sendfriends,
> >
> > Any migration only need some steps and tools.
> >
> > You can export records fron any DB if you send it for a CSV format
> > where each line correspond to each bibliographic record.
> >
> > Then you cam use a MarcEditor to convert for MARC format. I still
> > using a great tool caled WINISIS from UNESCO which give me a lot of
> > flexibility. May be you need some time to learn but there is a manual
> > and I can send you some hint.
> > Whem you have ISO 2709 file you just run import to get records. The
> > only proble is related with item and to link them but sooner I will
> > try to find the way for that.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rafael
> >
> > Citando Rakesh Mistry <rmistry at ori.org.za>:
> >
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm new to the list and trying to learn a few things about Koha and
> > > library systems in general ;)
> > >
> > > Has anyone had any experience migrating catalogue information from a
> > > system called LibWin to Koha?
> > > If so, do you have any tips / comments to share on the process?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Rax
> > >
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> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:49:29 -0400
> From: "Chris Nighswonger" <cnighswonger at foundations.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Lists/Virtual Shelves not working in OPAC
> To: "Henri-Damien LAURENT" <laurenthdl at alinto.com>
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz, Betsy Dintaman <bdintaman at lcc.lt>
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> 2008/10/15 Henri-Damien LAURENT <laurenthdl at alinto.com>:
> > Betsy Dintaman a ?crit :
> >>  We have a similar problem with our lists (3.0). If I am working from a
> screen with a list of titles on it, all my lists public and private are in
> the dropdown box at the head of the list. However, if I get an individual
> record up and choose Save to your lists from the right side, only my private
> lists appear in the dropdown box that comes up in the popup screen and not
> the public lists that I created.
> >>
> >> It's only from the individual record screen that it doesn't work, but it
> would really help to have this function.
> >>
> >> Betsy Dintaman
> >> Bal?iunai Library
> >> LCC International University
> >> Kretingos g. 36
> >> LT-92307 Klaipeda, Lithuania
> >> Tel. +370 46 310 745
> >>
> > I am working on this.
> > But can't see a bug filed or referenced for that on bugs.koha.org.
> > Is there any ? Can someone file and reference it here ?
>
> Opened bug 2675 for it.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
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(¨`·.·´¨)¸.·´ Smiling!
`·.¸.·´

M.I.Zahir Hussain
Library Assiatant
Science Library
Faculty of Applied Sciences
South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
University Park
Sammanthurai # 32200
T.P. Office : +94 67 2260717
Home        : +94 67 2261283
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