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Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 82, Issue 20
by Joel Buleka 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Hi We have Koha 2.2.9 running on Fedora 5, recently the MySQL database is not starting up and the server is giving us no disk space error. -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces(a)lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:16 AM To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Koha Digest, Vol 82, Issue 20 Send Koha mailing list submissions to koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz You can reach the person managing the list at koha-owner(a)lists.katipo.co.nz When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Koha digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Suggestion on Amazon wish-list look-ups (Liz Rea) 2. Re: Question on Z39.50 cross-format queries (Manos Petridis) 3. Why are our borrowers being restricted? (Tim Hannah) 4. help for debian partition for koha (ramverma) 5. Re: Why are our borrowers being restricted? (Jared Camins-Esakov) 6. Re: Why are our borrowers being restricted? (Chris Cormack) 7. Re: Why are our borrowers being restricted? (Tim Hannah) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:22:13 -0500 From: Liz Rea <lrea(a)nekls.org> To: Manos Petridis <egpetridis(a)yahoo.com> Cc: "koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Suggestion on Amazon wish-list look-ups Message-ID: <CAKx1OdV3ZoE5=BH-UjKM4-1h=J+Z5YZ8U32=MK0WNzWFtiB=Mw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I added this as an enhancement request to bugs.koha-community.org - bug 8631. Thanks for your idea! Liz Rea NEKLS On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Manos Petridis <egpetridis(a)yahoo.com>wrote: > Ideas and suggestions for future development: > > Add the facility to look-up Amazon wish-lists and add their contents > (conditionally if possible) as purchase suggestions. > I don't know if I may be considered the norm, but have set-up several > wish-lists myself in the various Amazon shops (US, UK, FR, IT, DE, JP), > roughly 8-12 lists per shop. > It would therefore be useful to be able to paste the URLs of the various > lists to a window and have koha recurse/run through them, provide the > aggregated result list for verification, and then add the selected items as > purchase suggestions to the library. > I understand that this could be expanded to cover many other on-line > shops, it's just that I'm a long-time Amazon customer and keep my > wish-lists there. > > Thank you for your time and cnsideration > Manos Petridis > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Northeast Kansas Library System lrea(a)nekls.org 785-838-4090 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:36:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Manos Petridis <egpetridis(a)yahoo.com> To: "koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Question on Z39.50 cross-format queries Message-ID: <1344886582.13600.YahooMailNeo(a)web110606.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sorry, seem to have replied by mistake to the poster and not to the list. >________________________________ > From: Manos Petridis <egpetridis(a)yahoo.com> >To: BWS Johnson <abesottedphoenix(a)yahoo.com> >Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 3:24 PM >Subject: Re: [Koha] Question on Z39.50 cross-format queries > > >Thank you for your welcome Brooke, and for your prompt reply. >? >I do understand that my own installation can be either USMARC/MARC21 or UNIMARC. What I was enquiring about is Z39.50 look-ups. Why I am puzzled: >? >a) It it were simply a case of either/or, then why can?I select the MARC flavour of the various Z39.50 origins set up at my installation? What is the reason to let koha know of the MARC flavour/dialect, if it not able to use the data that each server sends? There must be some functionality behind the dropbox selections, even if it only defines the query statement dialect. >? >b) From What I can see in the data presented (in the MARC form window) it sometimes is just a matter of mapping. For example, it seems that? > >in SUTRS, information is stored in the following keys: >Title:?????????????????????200 >Author:????????????????????700_a, 700_b, 701_a, 701_b...Editon details????????????210 >Physical descrition:???????215 >DDC*:??????????????????????676_a >DDC description:???????????676_9 >Subjects:??????????????????606 > >in USMARC, information is stored in the following keys: >Title:???????????????????? 245 >Author:????????????????????700 >Editon details???????????? 260 >Physical descrition:?????? 300 >DDC*:??????????????????????082 (revision and Category) >Subjects:??????????????????650, 505 (fixed and free-form) >LCCN:??????????????????????010 >? >in UNIMARC, information is stored in the following keys: >Title:???????????????????? 200 >Author:??????????????????? 700, 701Editon details?????????????210 >Physical descrition:???????215 >DDC*:??????????????????????676 (revision and Category)Subjects:??????????????????606, 712 (fixed and free-form) >? >This is what I meant when I wrote "I understand that both standards encode the same more-or-less information, differently" in my original message. There are bound to be differences, sure, but I'm looking for the gest in the MARC records, not the?details that frankly I don't even know what they represent.? > >I understand that even the information retrieved via Z39.50 from same-flavour installations, passes some kind of mapping, from the MARC record form to the form of the various tables and fields/columns used by the specific?software/implementation, koha in our case. I expect therefore that it would be a matter of utilising the appropriate mapping tables, as dictated by the MARC setting of each Z39.50 origin, so that koha could make use of "foreign" MARC records. >kind regards, >Manos Petridis--- >? >? >?From: BWS Johnson <abesottedphoenix(a)yahoo.com> >To: "koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> >Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 1:21 PM >Subject: Re: [Koha] Question on Z39.50 cross-format queries > > >>Salvete! >> >>??? Welcome to the Community. :) >> >> >>> Question: >>> I have selected USMARC/MARC21 as my installation's native format. This >>> serves nicely when I perform Z39.50 queries against many USMARC/MARC21 sources. >>> On the other hand, when I perform Z39.50 queries against UNIMARC sources, I >>> don't get properly formatted results even though I have set-up those sources >>> (origins)?as UNIMARC in koha. >>> >>> I understand that both standards encode the same more-or-less information, >>> differently. >>> Therefore - if I understand correctly - koha would have to request from an >>> UNIMARC-only-capable source that they return UNIMARC-formatted results, and koha >>> would need to map them - if and as possible - to the native format of my >>> installation, i.e. USMARC/MARC21. >>> >>> Apparently this doesn't happen. Is it normal? >> >> >>??? That is very normal. MARC21/UNIMARC is an either or standard selection. You may have MARC21 or you may have UNIMARC. To my knowledge, you may not have both. >> >>??? That said, when this last came up, I can see the point of wanting to be able to run both in parallel if you absolutely MUST have both. Suggestions for how to do that are here: >> >>http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Software-error-td5114149.html >> >>Cheers, >>Brooke >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Koha mailing list? http://koha-community.org >>Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >>http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> >> >> > > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:50:38 +0000 From: Tim Hannah <Tim.Hannah(a)minedu.govt.nz> To: "'Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz'" <Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] Why are our borrowers being restricted? Message-ID: <3BAA5789CE50AF49B9F46F32D69187590B9B7376(a)akexc10.moe.govt.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On koha 3.6.4 borrowers with overdues are being restricted. We don't want them to be restricted. Restrictions are put in place about 5 minutes before emailed overdue notices are received, so guessing it's the same process. Overdue notice/status triggers Restrict column is unchecked. Preference OversBlockCirc is set to Don't block All fines are set to 0.00, MaxFine is set to 0.00. Maxoutstanding and Noissuescharge is set to 100.00. Anyone see any obvious preferences we may have missed that could be causing this? Cheers Tim Hannah ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- DISCLAIMER: This e-mail (including attachments) may contain information which is confidential or legally privileged and may not reflect the Ministry of Education's view. The Ministry is not responsible for changes made to this email after we've sent it. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please reply to the Ministry immediately and delete both messages. Thank you. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:13:30 -0700 (PDT) From: ramverma <ram.verma003(a)gmail.com> To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] help for debian partition for koha Message-ID: <1344834809976-5723168.post(a)n5.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear All, I am new to Debian and Koha, Can you guide me for space allocation in Debian Partition? I will be using only one operating System: Debian 6.0.5 (Squeeze); and the system is dedicated for Koha 3.8.3; Hard disk space is: 320 GB, RAM: 2GB Could you please guide me for meaningful partitioning of Debian. /(root) = ? /boot =? /usr =? /var =? /opt =? /tmp =? /backup for koha-data (manually created) =? Thank You. Ram. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/help-for-debian-partition-for-koha-tp5 723168.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:24:41 -0400 From: Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com> To: Tim Hannah <Tim.Hannah(a)minedu.govt.nz> Cc: "Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Why are our borrowers being restricted? Message-ID: <CALVDfQwWTAN56gq3028LXk5MzdgPAwAmD_uCAoV3bUr=7OZNsg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Tim, Restrictions are put in place about 5 minutes before emailed overdue > notices are received, so guessing it's the same process. > > Overdue notice/status triggers Restrict column is unchecked. > Preference OversBlockCirc is set to Don't block > All fines are set to 0.00, MaxFine is set to 0.00. Maxoutstanding and > Noissuescharge is set to 100.00. > > Anyone see any obvious preferences we may have missed that could be > causing this? > It's not exactly "obvious," but could you check the Overdue notice/status triggers again, and make sure that you either don't have overdue triggers for any libraries other than the default library, or that *none* of them have the Restrict box checked? Also, when you say "restricted," what is the exact message you are getting when you go to check out books to this patron? (or, if you are noticing the restriction in another context, where exactly do you notice the restrictions) Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:40:40 +1200 From: Chris Cormack <chrisc(a)catalyst.net.nz> To: Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com> Cc: "Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Why are our borrowers being restricted? Message-ID: <20120813214040.GS7186(a)rorohiko.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii * Jared Camins-Esakov (jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com) wrote: > Tim, > > Restrictions are put in place about 5 minutes before emailed overdue > > notices are received, so guessing it's the same process. > > > > Overdue notice/status triggers Restrict column is unchecked. > > Preference OversBlockCirc is set to Don't block > > All fines are set to 0.00, MaxFine is set to 0.00. Maxoutstanding and > > Noissuescharge is set to 100.00. > > > > Anyone see any obvious preferences we may have missed that could be > > causing this? > > > > It's not exactly "obvious," but could you check the Overdue notice/status > triggers again, and make sure that you either don't have overdue triggers > for any libraries other than the default library, or that *none* of them > have the Restrict box checked? > > Also, when you say "restricted," what is the exact message you are getting > when you go to check out books to this patron? (or, if you are noticing the > restriction in another context, where exactly do you notice the > restrictions) > Ah ha! Thank you Jared! Tim, if you go to Overdue notice/status triggers and switch the library drop down from All, to Ministry of Education. I bet you have restrict switched on there. Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:07:46 +0000 From: Tim Hannah <Tim.Hannah(a)minedu.govt.nz> To: 'Chris Cormack' <chrisc(a)catalyst.net.nz>, Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com> Cc: "Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Why are our borrowers being restricted? Message-ID: <3BAA5789CE50AF49B9F46F32D69187590B9B741A(a)akexc10.moe.govt.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Ah, I feel slightly silly, but better for having asked. Thanks Jared, (and Katrin & Chris). It's obvious, when you look at it right. Cheers -----Original Message----- From: Chris Cormack [mailto:chrisc@catalyst.net.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2012 9:41 a.m. To: Jared Camins-Esakov Cc: Tim Hannah; Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Why are our borrowers being restricted? * Jared Camins-Esakov (jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com) wrote: > Tim, > > Restrictions are put in place about 5 minutes before emailed overdue > > notices are received, so guessing it's the same process. > > > > Overdue notice/status triggers Restrict column is unchecked. > > Preference OversBlockCirc is set to Don't block > > All fines are set to 0.00, MaxFine is set to 0.00. Maxoutstanding and > > Noissuescharge is set to 100.00. > > > > Anyone see any obvious preferences we may have missed that could be > > causing this? > > > > It's not exactly "obvious," but could you check the Overdue notice/status > triggers again, and make sure that you either don't have overdue triggers > for any libraries other than the default library, or that *none* of them > have the Restrict box checked? > > Also, when you say "restricted," what is the exact message you are getting > when you go to check out books to this patron? (or, if you are noticing the > restriction in another context, where exactly do you notice the > restrictions) > Ah ha! Thank you Jared! Tim, if you go to Overdue notice/status triggers and switch the library drop down from All, to Ministry of Education. I bet you have restrict switched on there. Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- DISCLAIMER: This e-mail (including attachments) may contain information which is confidential or legally privileged and may not reflect the Ministry of Education's view. The Ministry is not responsible for changes made to this email after we've sent it. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please reply to the Ministry immediately and delete both messages. Thank you. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha End of Koha Digest, Vol 82, Issue 20 ************************************

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Suggestion on Amazon wish-list look-ups
by Manos Petridis 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

Ideas and suggestions for future development: Add the facility to look-up Amazon wish-lists and add their contents (conditionally if possible) as purchase suggestions. I don't know if I may be considered the norm, but have set-up several wish-lists myself in the various Amazon shops (US, UK, FR, IT, DE, JP), roughly 8-12 lists per shop. It would therefore be useful to be able to paste the URLs of the various lists to a window and have koha recurse/run through them, provide the aggregated result list for verification, and then add the selected items as purchase suggestions to the library. I understand that this could be expanded to cover many other on-line shops, it's just that I'm a long-time Amazon customer and keep my wish-lists there. Thank you for your time and cnsideration Manos Petridis

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Question on Z39.50 cross-format queries
by Manos Petridis 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

First, allow me to present the context of my questions and suggestions: I've recently begun to use coha, trying to document and organise my personal library and perhaps the one of my brother, once I'm done with mine. I don't know much about library science, so I rely on Z39.50 look-ups to fill-in the blanks, literally. Question: I have selected USMARC/MARC21 as my installation's native format. This serves nicely when I perform Z39.50 queries against many USMARC/MARC21 sources. On the other hand, when I perform Z39.50 queries against UNIMARC sources, I don't get properly formatted results even though I have set-up those sources (origins) as UNIMARC in koha. I understand that both standards encode the same more-or-less information, differently. Therefore - if I understand correctly - koha would have to request from an UNIMARC-only-capable source that they return UNIMARC-formatted results, and koha would need to map them - if and as possible - to the native format of my installation, i.e. USMARC/MARC21. Apparently this doesn't happen. Is it normal? TIA Manos Petridis

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Suggestion regarding library presentation
by Manos Petridis 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

Ideas and suggestions for future development: Provide a convenient way for the visitor to browse a library, as one does in a real library: proceed to the row of shelves that contain the subject the visitor is interested in (i.e. display in koha a tree/list of the top-level DDC categories) and then browse through the items in the specific shelves (i.e. the items that belong to the DCC category selected, and those that follow them). I understand that such an ability already exists in some limited form (in OPAC, once the visitor has zoomed-in a book) but is described as resource-intensive in the koha administration panel. Thank you for your time and consideration Manos Petridis

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First post from a koha newbie
by Manos Petridis 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

Greetings from a koha newbie. > >Before posting any further, I would like to know/ask if this is the proper list for >a) posting questions on koha operation >b) posting ideas and suggestions for future development > >thank you for your time and patience >Manos Petridis

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Re: [Koha] Can't tick "item due" box in Patron messaging preferences
by Sonia P. 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

Hello everyone (not sure you ever received my previous message, as I received a delivery failure email...) I just realised one thing... "item due" in the default messaging preferences of a patron category is NOT about overdue items, is it? I didn't realise it was two different things. So there is nothing to do in the messaging preferences to enable overdue items notices... ? If I run a SQL query on the database, I can see that some people have a "1" set for overduenoticerequired, which is good, but then I really don't know why they don't receive it... Cheers, Sonia.

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Importing Catalogue Records
by franc＠library.iisc.ernet.in 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

Dear Members, I'm trying to import a few sample records using the 'Stage MARC records for import' feature of KOHA-3.08.03. A sample ,mrk record is given below for your reference: =LDR 00000nam 2200000Ia 45e0^M =008 120810s9999\\\\xx\\\\\\\\\\\\000\0\und\d^M =020 \\$a001^M =082 \\$a541.39$bN37^M =100 \\$aBailey, K.C.^M =245 \\$aGalactose regulation of yeast: From genetics to systms^M =260 \\$c1937$bEdward Arnold$aBANGALORE^M =300 \\$a100P^M =952 \\$p2^M After converting the .mrk file to .mrc file, records are successfully imported. While staging the records for importing, I have ensured that the 'check for embedded item data record' is set to 'yes'. Indexing through Zebra goes through without any issues. However, in the search results, the Holding Details for 'item type', 'current location', 'home library' and 'call number' are all blank. I have looked up the Koha documentation and also the Koha list's archived content, but not been able to find a solution for my problem. Could I request for some guidance from the fellow members? In the Administrative cataloging preferences, NewItemsDefaultLocation is set to JRDTML, the only library that exists as of now. Thanks for your attention. - Francis JRDTML, IISc, Bangalore, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [Koha] gmail as smtp error
by Chris Nighswonger 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

Hi George, Please always include the list on your emails as you will get more eyes on the problem as well as everyone benefiting from the answers. On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:01 AM, George Mikuchadze <giamik(a)vfemail.net> wrote: > Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: > > koha(a)localhost.localhost or root(a)localhost.localhost (localhost means > result of `hostname` command) > > > Technical details of permanent failure: > > DNS Error: Domain name not found > It looks like your hostname is not set to a resolvable domain name. I'd take a look at the host file to be sure things there are in order. localhost is definitely not going to resolve on any public network. > > As I understand koha can’t get right patrons email. > As for koha not retrieving patrons' emails correctly, I'm not sure there either. I would suggest going over the section on notices in the manual (http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/cronjobsch.html#noticescron) as there are a variety of options and sysprefs related to notices which must be properly configured in order for them to work correctly. My guess is that something is not configured correctly. > > How to configure koha 3.0 (prior to 3.2) to use gmail as smtp server? > This is probably not possible without backporting the mods in this commit: http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=commitdiff;h=d31c1603cca… Even then, there may be other issues which crop up. Kind Regards, Chris

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No search results and zebra warning
by Marius Stoica 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Hi, Our library has Koha 3.8 installed on Debian 6 using the deb packege koha-common. I've imported a part of our UNIMARC records with items, but it seems that no record was indexed - searching for known keywords gives no results. Running koha-rebuild zebra -f {instance name} gives this warning: [warn] Record didn't contain match fields in (bib1,Local-number) Is this a problem with wrong Unimarc records in the imported batch? Any hint is appreciated! Thanks! Marius

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Can't tick "item due" box in Patron messaging preferences
by Sonia P. 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Dear all I am trying to send reminders for overdue items. I am currently reading the manual and I think I have got everything, but still I can't tick that box (in an individual patron or in the administration "patron categories"). I can actually tick the box and then I click on save, but it's not saved. Though, if I tick other boxes (Item Checkout, Hold Filled, Item Check-in), it saves correctly and then it's really ticked when I load the patron preferences again... I did the notice triggers, the enhancedmessagingpreferences and I don't remember what else. Cheers, Sonia.

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