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Need to improve Koha users list world wide
by Vimal Kumar 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Dear Friends, Its high time to implement a user friendly "Koha users list world wide", http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide In the present situation very difficult for entering libraries in the list. Its good to create a database with form to enter the details with search facility. Login option to edit the information by Koha users. Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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KohaCon13 Voting Closed - Venue Chosen
by Nicole Engard 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hello all, The voting closed at 3am EST this morning and the tallies are in. I have shared the files (without names) on the Wiki: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Kohacon2013 The final point totals from the voting are: Reno, NV, USA [Sept or Oct] :: 2256 Ibadan, Nigeria [Jul, Aug, or Sept] :: 1411 Córdoba, Argentina [Jul, Aug, or Sept] :: 1381 The National Capital Region, USA [Oct or Mar] :: 1366 Erie, Pennsylvania, USA [Summer] :: 1344 The voting rules were shared with you all, but here they are again: If you vote for someplace as #1 it gets 5 points, #2 it gets 4 points, and so on. In the end we tally the points to see where the conference takes place. That way if everyone picks one place as #1 but more people pick it as second and third it still might win. So basically if you won't go somewhere no matter what then don't vote for that location and it will get no points from you. And so the numbers above are not the total votes for first place, they are the tallies using the math described above. I did do some checking for duplicates voters. If you voted more than once your final vote was saved and the others deleted. If you left out your email address (which was required and which we used to find duplicates) your vote was deleted. Other than that no modifications were made to the votes. Thanks Nicole C. Engard

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Patrons - Set Privileges
by thandu venkat narayana 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Dear All, According to my knowledge, Patrons who have the privileges to: (borrowers) Add or modify borrowers are restricted to modify privileges but they can delete any patron, even Super Librarian. For testing purpose I deleted the super librarian name from the patrons list. There is no another option to create super librarian with all permissions, only way is reinstalling the software. I think (borrowers) Add or modify borrowers to be split in to sub categories i.e. 1) Add or modify (only data) borrowers 2) Delete borrowers Or Super Librarian / Administrator account should be disabled. Regards, Venkata Narayana

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Koha & exim4 problem UTF-8
by kamild 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hi, The Notices email does not display correctly characters other than English. The topic is fine but the message is problem shows strange characters. Lang and other values on Debian are set to UTF-8. What may be problem? Thx -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-exim4-problem-UTF-8-tp5720224.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Has anyone created a FAQ for the OPAC?
by Cathi Wiggins 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

There seems to be lots of documentation for the staff client, but not so much for the OPAC. Has anyone created a FAQ for those users? I know there are great videos that Nicole has developed, but streaming media is restricted inside our Library so I'm looking for 'helpful hints' in a bulleted FAQ format for internal use. Thought I'd ask around before putting one together, no sense reinventing the wheel. If you have one and are willing to share...thank you so much.

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Newbie
by Tony Morton 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Hi Just a note to introduce myself. I am the Senior Librarian at Waimate District Library (South Canterbury New Zealand). We have just gone live with Koha. I am still very much a newbie and I am looking forward to when I can say that I know what I am doing. Regards Tony Morton Senior Librarian Waimate District Library ______________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scrubbed for your protection by SMX. For more information visit http://smxemail.com ______________________________________________________________________________

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Request to list as paid supporter
by 毛慶禎 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Hi, I am Chinese Translator at Taiwan. There was a company listed as paid supporter at Taiwan. It was removed for some reason. Could you kindly list my organization as paid supporter at Taiwan. I am sorry my web site is in Chinese only. Company Name: Department of Library and Information Science, Fu Jen Catholic University. Contact Person: Anthony Mao Contact email: mao(a)lins.fju.edu.tw, maolins(a)gmail.com Website: http://koha.wikispaces.com Telephone: +886 2 29052334, +886 912 830886(mobile) Address: Department of Library and Information Science, Fu Jen Catholic University, No.510, Zhongzheng Rd., Xinzhuang Dist., New Taipei City 24205, Taiwan Short description of your services: There is a Library Services Network organized by Prof. Anthony Mao since 2000. We serve more than 100 libraries around the Taiwan, and one at China, one at Los Angels. We provide Koha service, including, not limited, installation, setup, data transfer, and maintainance. -- Wishing you all the best. . . . Anthony Mao 毛慶禎 http://bit.ly/maolins Department of Library and Information Science Fu Jen Catholic University http://bit.ly/lins No.510, Zhongzheng Rd., Xinzhuang Dist., New Taipei City 24205 Taiwan + 886 2 29052334 Taiwan

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expressions of interest for Koha sip enhancement
by Chris Meech 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Hi, Are you interested in financially contributing to a koha sip enhancement? There is a need for system service init.d script for sip server, so it is started on reboot and is easy to start it up/shut down on demand. We should create: * scripts koha-start-sip and koha-stop-sip as interfaces for C4/SIP/sip_run.sh and sip_shutdown.sh * init.d script koha-sip that will call koha-start-sip and koha-stop-sip as required Approximate cost $2500 USD Please contact me for additional details. Regards Chris Christopher Meech Reference Librarian Waitaki District Libraries P.O. Box 134,Oamaru 9444 62 Thames St, Oamaru 9400 cmeech(a)waitaki.govt.nz 03 433 0850

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"location" after search incorrect
by Shelley & Kurt Kemperman 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Our server went down and has been replaced. Data appears to be mostly intact. When I search, I get the list of results, but the location column will say "No items available" (not sure if this is exact wording) for most results, even though they are checked in. The occasional result will have the correct location info, but some will also say the item is checked out when it is not. Any suggestions? Thanks, Shelley

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Re: [Koha] RLIN
by Paul 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

At 09:45 AM 7/17/2012 -0400, Nicole Engard wrote: >Paul, >There is no more RLIN (although I now the references are still there >in the frameworks). In 2006 RLIN was merged with OCLC. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Libraries_Group Thanks Nicole. Good background (shame that our budget doesn't permit full membership of WorldCat) but I'm still looking for the technical background for ease of cataloguing. Am I correct in summarizing: - the "RLIN" is not searchable, per se, and its appearance in the GUI serves no useful purpose to cataloguers? - therefore, all frameworks can "hide" (but not delete) all subfields referring to RLIN? Assuming its use for indexing authorities, it appears to be just as important as biblio and item numbers, but where and under what name is this data stored in MySQL? Thanks - Paul >Nicole > >On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Paul <paul.a(a)aandc.org> wrote: > > I can't find anything in the documentation about RLIN, nor can I find it in > > the sql schema, so am looking for some assistance, please. > > > > First (enquiring mind) what does the abbreviation stand for? > > > > Secondly, if I understand correctly, it is used for indexing authority > > entries, but how can it be searched? > > > > Example: the default 730 for "serials/continuing resources" shows only a > > single input line "9 (RLIN)" - obviously, I can add $a to get a searchable > > "UNIF_TITLE", but there must be some reason for the default to hide this > > option. > > > > Thanks - Paul > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>

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