October 2001 - Koha - lists.katipo.co.nz

barcode scanners?
by Zeki Celikbas 13 Nov '01

13 Nov '01

hi all, I want to buy a couple of "barcode scanners" for the library. I saw koha is accepting 9 column alphanumeric barcodes both for books and patrons. I wonder what kind of barcode scanners are using in the libraries using KOHA. Could you please list me industry standards or properties of this barcode scanners. I will order barcode scanners according to these information. thanks and best regards Zeki Celikbas Librarian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Istanbul Technical University e:mailto:celikbas@itu.edu.tr Faculty of Aero. & Astro. w:http://www2.itu.edu.tr/~celikbas 80626 Maslak Istanbul Turkey t:(212)2853108 f: (212)2853139 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: [Koha] Re: [Koha-devel] FAQ
by Tonnesen Steve 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 COURYHOUSE(a)aol.com wrote: > the url does not seem to work..... > > http://192.168.5.2/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbookslccn.pl Darn. Used my internal IP there by mistake. Use: http://142.28.224.14/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbookslccn.pl instead.

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Re: [Koha-devel] FAQ
by Tonnesen Steve 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Nicholas Stephen Rosasco wrote: > On this note, esp. if we still have z39.50 importing still "under > construction", would it be possible to build some sort of form for > entering info on existing books (rather than going through the > purchase/acquire process). The small-libraries people are rather > concerned at the concept of having to face teaching people how to > by-hand-enter into the DB via mysql the cataloging data.... a web form for > this would be exceedingly useful for them (and shouldn't be too hard to > add, I would hope). I may have missed such a form if Koha has one since > the link to acquisition wasn't behaving itself last time I visited. > > If the z39.50 thing is working, that would be ideal, but it needs to be > configurable (as to which z39.50 server you use) :) I played with z39.50 before the summer. The perl library I was using worked fine for connecting to the library of Canada via z39.50, but I couldn't get it to return straight MARC data. It would only return a textual version of the data, which is all but impossible to parse. I might play with it again sometime. If anybody has any experience working with any z39.50 perl library, I'd be glad of a hand... On the simple acquisitions process, I do have an answer. Check out: http://142.28.224.14/ and click on the acquisitions link. This is not a production library server, so feel free to enter data to test it out. You can also try out my first attempt at a MARC record importer by following the "Marc Importing Tool" link from the Acquisitions page. I'm not overly happy with this. It's difficult to squeeze the data available from a MARC record to fit in the default Koha databases. The alternative solution that I'm working on (albeit slowly) is to add full MARC record support to Koha. Having said that. I do have librarians using both of these tools currently and they seem happy with them. This acquisitions module is currently available in the Debian package I'm working on, and is in CVS, but might not have been in the latest official release of Koha. Steve.

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How to unsubscribe?
by Richard Snow 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

I don't have the time I thought I would have to do amything with this software. How to unsubscribe?

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Re: [Koha] Re: [Koha-devel] FAQ
by Tonnesen Steve 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 COURYHOUSE(a)aol.com wrote: > Can it be set up to use the lc catalog #? I assume you mean can it use the LCCN instead of ISBN as the first number entered? Certainly. Try: http://192.168.5.2/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbookslccn.pl Note that I've modified the database to add a field for LCCN, but the default Koha scripts like the catalogue scripts still don't display the LCCN. This would take about 10 minutes to rectify, though. Steve.

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by eric＠stream.net.ph 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

i got an error when accessing the reports and creating new member. erro generating reports: error logs displays " premature end of stats.pl error in creating new members: error logs displays, premature end of newmember.pl how do we solve this. thanks _______________________________________________________________________________ This E-Mail was sent with MailMax/WEB. http://www.smartmax.com

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Re: [Koha] barcode scanners?
by FWFR 16 Oct '01

16 Oct '01

Hello, I've been testing Koha in a clean room with Metrologic scanners. MS9540 and its earlier MS900 brother. These scanners do not require drivers, they scan and convert by themselves. The scanner is physically connected between the keyboard and pc. The Metrologic scanners are expensive, because they perform the scan conversion within themselves and require no drivers on the PC side. This simplifies setup. Also, you can program them with their instruction book using barcodes. <http://www.metrologic.com/corporate/products/pos/MS9500.htm> <http://www.metrologic.com/corporate/products/pos/MS900.htm> Did try the CUECAT which was available free from Radio Shack in the USA, but that device was unreliable. Frederick Friedman-Romell Twinsburg Public Library, Twinsburg, OH. USA till 2001-10-28 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. USA after 2001-10-29 ak398(a)safr.org > hi all, > > I want to buy a couple of "barcode scanners" for the library. I saw koha > is accepting 9 column alphanumeric barcodes both for books and > patrons. I wonder what kind of barcode scanners are using in the > libraries using KOHA. Could you please list me industry standards or > properties of this barcode scanners. I will order barcode scanners > according to these information. > > thanks and best regards > Zeki Celikbas > Librarian > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Istanbul Technical University e:mailto:celikbas@itu.edu.tr > Faculty of Aero. & Astro. w:http://www2.itu.edu.tr/~celikbas > 80626 Maslak Istanbul Turkey t:(212)2853108 f: (212)2853139 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > Yah! Its trite and stupid, but isn't that what a sig for?

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