March 2004 - Koha - lists.katipo.co.nz

List of what each field in the various tables do
by Freddie Cash 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

We're just starting out with Koha 2.0 to see if it could be used as a replacement for Follett. However, we are running into a few snags that should be fairly simple to fix. Our major snag is lack of documentation for the internals of Koha. For instance, is there a description of the various database tables, and what each field is used for? This would make mapping fields to MARC fields much simpler. We're running into problems with our mappings, especially with the distinction between items and biblioitems, for instance. Is this kind of low-level documentation available anywhere?? -- Freddie Cash District HelpDesk / Network Admin fcash(a)sd73.bc.ca helpdesk(a)sd73.bc.ca (250) 377-HELP [(250) 377-4357]

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Any Indian users?
by Baiju M 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

Hi, We just started experimenting with Koha, here is some details : http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=CDS%2FISIS+based+system… Anyone from India already using Koha? Let us create a mailing list for Indian users of Koha? Regards, Baiju M ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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customizing Koha 2.0.0
by Stefanie Mohsennia 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Hello all, we have installed Koha 2.0.0 at the International Library in Düsseldorf/Germany. It's up and running and we are now starting to customize the system. I don't know if this is the right place to ask questions that are not really technical, but rather geared towards the application. If there is a different list for "librarian questions", could you please point me in the right direction? Here are our questions that arose after our first customizing attempts: 1. I configured a membership category and assigned 10 as the fee to pay, but when I look at the membership record that has been created for the first member in this category, it says "Fee: $30/year". Where does this figure come from and how can I change it to the right amount which would be 10 EUR? 2. The date when the member joined the library was automatically set to 27/3/2004, the date when I entered the member's data. Also, the expiry date was set automatically to 27/03/2005. How can we change both dates to match our present expiry dates of memberships? 3. We would like to allow members to take books out for 28 days and allow 2 extend their loan period twice. Is it possible to customize the system according to our specification? 4. We have two different loan periods for DVDs and videos. The member can either opt for a three day loan or a seven day loan (the latter costs more). Is there a way to have this choice for the same item in Koha? I appreciate your support very much and am looking forward to receiving answers to our questions (I'm afraid these won't be our last questions, though). Best wishes from Germany, Stefanie Mohsennia

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Koha 2.0 has been released!
by Pat Eyler 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

After a two year cycle of intense development efforts Koha 2.0 is now being released! Early release copies of Koha 2.0 have been deployed in libraries in France and the United States for over 6 months. With this new release, we expect Koha to be deployed in many more libraries around the world. Koha 2.0 is a major upgrade to the Koha 1.2 system, including features like: a fully templated web interface, translation tools and translations into french, chinese, and polish, and best of all ... full integration with MARC (both UniMARC and MARC21). Koha 2.0 can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16466 With this release, we're making a change in the release managment for Koha. Paul Poulain, who managed the development of Koha 2.0, will be turning over the ongoing management of the 2.0 version to MJ Ray. Paul won't be sitting idle though, he will become the manager of Koha 2.2 development. Congratulations, and good luck, to both MJ and Paul. Too many people have contributed to Koha over the last two years to thank everyone individually, but we would be remiss if we didn't mention a few people who've made major contributions: Paul Poulain and Steve Tonnesen did the majority of the design for our new MARC database layout, Stephen Hedges and the Nelsonville Public Library funded a great deal of the MARC development, l'Abbaye Notre Dame des Dombes also aided the MARC work by providing a test environment during early development, MJ Ray coordinated much of the bug hunting and squashing effort, and last (but not least) Katipo Communications has continued to provide all manner of support to the Koha community. Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org

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Who is the borrower?
by talia.alton＠iird.vic.gov.au 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

We are happily using KOHA 1.2.3. How do I find out, who is the borrower of a certain book? Thanks, Talia Alton Business Information and Research Unit Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development talia.alton(a)iird.vic.gov.au _____________________________________________________________ Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development Government of Victoria, Victoria, Australia. This e-mail and any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not distribute or reproduce this e-mail or the attachments. If you have received this message in error please notify us by return e-mail. ______________________________________________________________

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by lcurrie＠calacademy.org 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

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by pate＠eylerfamily.org 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

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Howard Dahdah/Australia/IDG is on Holidays
by Howard_Dahdah＠idg.com.au 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

I will be out of the office starting 26/03/2004 and will not return until 06/04/2004. Any questions for IDG Online can be directed to Nadia Cameron nadia_cameron(a)idg.com.au or Steven Deare steven_deare(a)idg.com.au Thanks, Howard

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Solved: Z3950 Searches Stopped Working
by Ken & Brenda Voelker 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Just for the record, I was able to fix the problem, thanks to a message posted by Mike Taylor (the author of Net::Z3950) to the Net-Z3950 mailing list (see October 23, 2003). Don't understand why others haven't run into this problem, nor do I understand why it appeared so suddenly on my installation. In any event, in order to get it captured into this archive, here's a synopsis: Problem: MARC searches suddenly quit working altogether - the ISBN's remained in the search list, and Koha would continue to query the L.O.C. servers until the list was manually cleared. The z3950-daemon log in /var/log/koha showed an error message of the form: ERROR: Can't call method "option" on an undefined value at /var/www/library/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 163, <KC> line 22. Here's Mike's reply to someone who ran into the same problem: >Net::Z3950 is not guilty! The culprit here is the Library >of Congress's, <ahem> somewhat eccentric Z39.50 server. > >Remember that, as documented, the default record-syntax requested by >Net::Z3950 programs is GRS-1. The LoC server doesn't support GRS-1 >records. > >To fix your problem, you need to tell Net::Z3950 that you want to >fetch USMARC records from this connection. CURE: in the module /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue, look for the line that creates the new Z3950 connection: eval { $conn= new Net::Z3950::Connection($servername, $port, databaseName => $database); }; and modify it to explicitly spell out the record syntax you want, i.e. USMARC: eval { $conn= new Net::Z3950::Connection($servername, $port, databaseName => $database, preferredRecordSyntax => 'USMARC'); }; (Actually, you'll make this correction twice, because the command appears in the module twice, once with and once without password authentication). Don't forget to halt and re-start the Z3950 daemon, in order for the changes to take effect. (Or just reboot).

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Adding Serials to Koha
by Bernadette Cassidy 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Hi, I'm using the simple acquisitions module in Koha and I have a question re serials. Once I've created the biblio record and added the first issue, how can I then add subsequent issues without having to create another biblio?!! I know this can be done, I just don't know how to do it. Many thanks, Bernadette ___________________________________________ Bernadette Cassidy Library & Learning Coordinator Allan Bean Centre for Research and Learning in Rehabilitation Private Bag 4708 Burwood Hospital Christchurch New Zealand Tel: (03) 383 9492 Fax: (03) 383 7500

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