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Let Unimarc and USmarc work together
by Peter Zhao 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

Dear developer, Koha is a wonderful library system. The current version just allows to choose either UNIMARC or USMARC. How can let Koha support to choose both UNIMARC and USMARC? I hope the future version can let more option on marc framework. Thanks a lot. Peter Zhao

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Server error 500
by babu 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

encounter in error log [Fri Apr 27 13:57:50 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Compilation failed in require at C:/Usr/koha229/opac/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl line 7. [Fri Apr 27 13:57:50 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Usr/koha229/opac/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl line 7. Pls help Babu Bangladesh -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Server-error-500-tp5669731p5669731.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Koha 3.8 on Debian Squeeze
by Sander898 28 Apr '12

28 Apr '12

Hi everybody, i'm completely Newbie with koha, and i'm very little familiar with packeges and installation on linux SO also. I've installed Debian Squeeze (6.0.4-i386-xfce) and i'm wondering where can i find a step by step guide (with all packeges requires, apache, mysq, zebra and perl configuration) for the installation of Koha 3.8 on this operating system, all the guide that i've seen seems to be too generic, for my little knowledges. Sorry for my inexperience, and thank you for your patience and your support. Regards Sandro -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-3-8-on-Debian-Squeeze-tp5672233p5672… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Patrons being fined twice for a single loaned book
by sheldon_tappin 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

We are experiencing a problem whereby some patrons are being charged twice for a single loaned book. Can anyone help me with this issue. The image below explains the issue. http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/file/n5670969/fine_charging_twice.jpg *Your help is very much needed and appreciated* Sheldon -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Patrons-being-fined-twice-for-a-single-lo… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Koha] Kohacon12 Accomodation (Olugbenga Adara)
by Dianna Roberts 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

Hi Olugbenga, I'm going by train, which takes about four hours but is less hassle than getting to and from airports. I went through this site http://new.raileasy.co.uk/ and by booking early got a 52% discount. Regards, Dianna Roberts Dianna M Roberts Manager Information Centre Opus International Consultants Ltd Email Dianna.Roberts(a)opus.co.nz Tel +64 4 471 7250, Fax +64 4 473 1075 http://www.opus.co.nz Level 6, Majestic Centre, 100 Willis Street PO Box 12004, Wellington -----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: Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:00 p.m. To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Koha Digest, Vol 78, Issue 52 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: Kohacon12 Accomodation (Olugbenga Adara) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:27:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Olugbenga Adara <gbengaadara(a)yahoo.com> To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Kohacon12 Accomodation Message-ID: <1335385679.97371.YahooMailClassic(a)web161001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Bob, Brooke and Colin, Thanks to you all for the info. I have been able to book online and pay for Pollock Hall, so I am happy my accommodation is sorted out. Just remains for me to sort out transportation from London to Edinburgh. See you all in Edinburgh Olugbenga ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha End of Koha Digest, Vol 78, Issue 52 ************************************

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Field 099
by Vitor Fernandes 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

Hi Koha Community, I'm currently using Koha 3.2.X with UNIMARC configuration in many installations and everything is working fine. Today one of the clients asked if it's possible to search by the record creation date and the last modification date. I've checked the UNIMARC configuration and the record.abs and told then that what they want it's possible. There are entrances in the record.abs to the 099$c and 099$d, which sould be the record creation date and the last modification date. The problem is that the marcxml (column in the biblioitems table of the database) in any record doesn't have the 099 field. The values are filled in the biblio table, but should also be in the marcxml (to be indexed by Zebra in order to be searchable). There is any configuration to fill the 099 automatically in the creation or in the editing? Anyone have this working? Best regards. Vitor Fernandes

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Official Koha Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 4: April 2012
by Daniel Grobani 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Official Koha Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 4: April 2012 [Below is the text of the newsletter. For active links and a more readable format, please visit http://koha-community.org/koha-newsletter-volume-3-issue-4-april-2012] Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 3, Issue 4: April 2012 Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor. Please submit news items to danielg.koha(a)gmail.com. Table of Contents Koha Development Koha 3.8.0 Released Koha 3.10 Roles Koha Statistics Browse Headings Using Solr SemantiKoha Koha Community New Koha Libraries Community Gossip Pacific Islands Koha Users Call Past Koha Events April General IRC Meeting Upcoming Koha Events May General IRC Meeting Symposium Koha 2012 Koha and Dspace Training in India KohaCon12 Koha Development Koha 3.8.0 Released by Chris Cormack The Koha release team is happy to announce the release of Koha 3.8.0, the third major release since we shifted to time based releases. The release team would like to thank everyone involved in this release for making it possible. Koha 3.8.0 contains over 130 enhancements with over 1000 changesets from 71 developers. Please read the release notes for more information. Koha 3.8.0 can be downloaded here. Installation instructions can be found here or in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball. Koha 3.10 Roles by Chris Cormack Positions for the Koha 3.10.0 release cycle (due October 2012) were confirmed at the April general IRC meeting. It is our biggest release team yet and a really good sign of the health of the community that we had so many volunteers. The roles are: Release Manager : Paul Poulain, France Translation Manager: Shared between Samuel Desseaux and Frédéric Demians both from France Translation Assistants: Katrin Fischer, Germany; Marijana Glavica, Croatia Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard, USA DB Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard, USA Quality Assurance (QA) Manager: Ian Walls, USA Quality Assurance (QA) Assistants: Marcel de Rooy, Netherlands; Jonathan Druart, France; Mason James, New Zealand Release Maintainer 3.8.x: Chris Cormack, New Zealand Release Maintainer 3.6.x: Jared Camins-Esakov, USA Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat, New Zealand Packaging Assistant: Mason James, New Zealand Bug Wrangler: Magnus Enger, Norway; Katrin Fischer, Germany; Dobrica Pavlinušić, Croatia; Koustubha Kale, India Meeting Chair: BWS Johnson, USA So that’s 17 people in total who have volunteered and been accepted to positions for the next 6 months (starting after the release of 3.8.0 on April 23). I think it is also great we have a nice geographic spread, especially the bug wrangler team. Koha Statistics Chris Cormack, statistician par excellence, has posted bug statistics for March and statistics for Koha 3.8.0. Adding Browse Headings to Koha Using Solr by Stefano Bargioni The Library of the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome added browse headings to Koha. This is perhaps the first example of integration of Koha and Solr in a production environment. Users can scan lists of authors (established or unestablished forms), titles, title series, author/title, uniform titles, subjects, etc. An engine written in Perl runs on a regular basis to synchronize Solr entries with Koha data. The process is driven by an xml config file where chosen tags and subfields of authority or bibliographic records are described in order to feed one or more lists for browsing. More than 500,000 entries were generated, starting from about 111,000 authority records and 147,000 biblio records. Browse search was added at the top of “Browse by Subject” page; see http://catalogo.pusc.it/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authorities-home.pl. This topic will be presented exhaustively at KohaCon12 in Edinburgh. SemantiKoha by Magnus Enger Recently, there has been a fair amount of discussion about RDF/Semantic Web technologies being central to the efforts to replace the MARC family of “standards”, including from the US Library of Congress [1]. However, there has not been much testing of these technologies in the context of actual ILSes. I aim to do something about that with my “SemantiKoha” project. The goal is to explore how openly available semantic/linked data can be used in the Koha OPAC to enhance the user experience and aid in discovery. The practical work is at a very early proof-of-concept stage, but there is a live demo available [2] and the source code is also available [3]. If anyone wants to join the fun and contribute please don’t hesitate to contact me! [1] http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-051311.html and http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html. [2] http://semantikoha.libriotech.no/. See, for example, the page for Charles Darwin: http://semantikoha.libriotech.no/cgi-bin/koha/opac-view.pl?uri=http://data.…. [3] https://github.com/MagnusEnger/semantikoha. See especially the README, which explains how the demo is set up: https://github.com/MagnusEnger/semantikoha/blob/master/README.txt. Koha Community New Koha Libraries Middletown Township Public Library (via ByWater Solutions) Wilderness Coast Public Libraries (via ByWater Solutions) Community Gossip Owen Leonard has revisited the process of customizing OPAC cart and lists buttons, this time using CSS3 features. Adalid Ortiz reports that Biblioteca Loyola of the Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana in Mexico has published an online manual in Spanish for their Koha OPAC. They previously published an online manual in Spanish on cataloging with Koha. Matt Adams has posted an update on LibLime’s application for the New Zealand Koha trademark. Pacific Islands Koha Users Call by Pam Bidwell, University of the South Pacific I would like to hear from users of Koha in the Pacific Islands. Many small Pacific countries struggle with extra issues when automating their libraries, such as unexpected power outages (and damaging power surges), intermittent and slow Internet access, old technology and limited IT expertise. For many Pacific libraries, Koha is their first automated system, and staff training is a real issue. Quite a few Pacific Koha projects have stalled as a result of these problems. We need to develop a supportive local community that shares knowledge and offers support. I hope to set up a smaller discussion forum for the Pacific Koha community (while still being involved in the wider Koha community discussions). The forum will talk about day to day use of Koha, answer basic questions about using the system and share resources such as training materials. I would also like to discuss regional training possibilities. Please email me at pamela.bidwell(at)usp.ac.fj if you would like to be involved. Past Koha Events April General IRC Meeting The April general IRC meeting was held on 4 April 2012. More info, including the agenda and links to the minutes, is here. Upcoming Koha Events May General IRC Meeting The May general IRC meeting will be held on Wednesday, 2 May 2012. More info is here. Symposium Koha 2012 Symposium Koha 2012 will be held at BULAC in Paris 14-15 May 2012. The symposium will be a forum for exchange and meetings between Koha users, future users, and providers. More info is here. Koha and Dspace Training in India Two-day Koha training and certification workshops are being offered in Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi. More info is here. Three-day Koha and Dspace training and certification workshops are being offered in Mumbai and Bangalore. More info is here. KohaCon12 KohaCon12 will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 5-7 June 2012. A hackfest will be held 9-11 June. This is a free conference for everyone interested in the Koha library system. There is no registration fee, but attendees are asked to pre-register. The organizers are seeking sponsors to help defray the cost of the conference. Sponsors so far include Tamil, PTFS Europe, Catalyst, Libriotech, Projektlink Konsult, and The Galecia Group. Information on sponsorship is here. More details on the conference can be found here.

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Upgrade from 3.02.xx to latest koha version
by Raosoma 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Hi, My present Koha installation is as follows and is live. Koha version: 3.02.09.000 OS version ('uname -a'): Linux xxxxxxxxx 2.6.35.4-rscloud #8 SMP Mon Sep 20 15:54:33 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Perl interpreter: /usr/bin/perl Perl version: 5.010000 Perl @INC: /usr/share/koha/lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . MySQL version: mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.51a, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2 Apache version: Server version: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) I require help in upgrading it to latest Koha version. Can anyone please help me out with step by step upgrade to latest version of koha? Regards, Sekhar -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Upgrade-from-3-02-xx-to-latest-koha-versi… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Koha] Kohacon12 Accomodation
by Olugbenga Adara 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Bob, Brooke and Colin, Thanks to you all for the info. I have been able to book online and pay for Pollock Hall, so I am happy my accommodation is sorted out. Just remains for me to sort out transportation from London to Edinburgh. See you all in Edinburgh Olugbenga

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Database timeouts with patron updates
by Tom Hanstra 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

I'm hoping someone might have some ideas for us... We've just lately been running into problems with database timeouts when making changes to patron records. We did not run into this until just recently, and I don't know what we may have changed to cause this. The errors we receive are like the following: [Wed Apr 25 12:31:36 2012] [error] [client 10.41.63.254] [Wed Apr 25 12:31:36 2012] memberentry.pl: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction at /shared/lupprod/soft/lib/C4/SQLHelper.pm line 213., referer: https://lup.library.nd.edu:8443/cgi-bin/koha/members/memberentry.pl?op=modi… [Wed Apr 25 13:10:14 2012] [error] [client 10.41.63.254] [Wed Apr 25 13:10:14 2012] memberentry.pl: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction at /shared/lupprod/soft/lib/C4/Members/Messaging.pm line 155., referer: https://lup.library.nd.edu:8443/cgi-bin/koha/members/memberentry.pl?op=modi… and I was able to see at the database level locks on both the borrowers table and the borrower_message_preferences table while at least one transaction was being attempted. Anyone have an idea of what might be going on? Thanks, Tom -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Hanstra Systems Administrator Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame Phone: (574)631-4686 213 Hesburgh Library Email: tom(a)nd.edu Notre Dame, IN 46556 "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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