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Hide Information from nonregistered patrons
by sheldon_tappin 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hi All, Is there any way how information can be hidden from patrons? We would like to add some additional subscription information to the bibliographic record. Only registered patrons should have access to the information, others should just see the normal records as is. Your response is greatly appreciated Kind Regards, Sheldon -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Hide-Information-from-nonregistered-patro… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Next week is Global Bug Squashing Week!
by Magnus Enger 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

Dear Community, The deadlines for getting stuff into version 3.8 are drawing near: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roadmap_to_3.8 As most of you are probably aware now, there will be a super cool hackfest in Marseille next week: http://drupal.biblibre.com/en/blog/entry/2012-hackfest-in-europe For those of us who can't be there in person, it's still possible to contribute to the fun, by joining the Global bug squashing week: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2012-03-19_Global_bug_squashing_week As far as I can tell, the beginning of this week will be the last chance for having new features signed off with any hope of getting them into 3.8. And there are bugfixes and minor improvements to look after. Not sure how you can help? Jump on the IRC channel ( http://koha-community.org/get-involved/irc/ ) and we will help you get started! And with the sandboxes provided by BibLibre all you need in order to join the fun is a web browser! http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2012-03-19_Global_bug_squashing_week See you there! Magnus Enger

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Problem in Koha search through subject and keyword terms.
by iftikhar ahmed 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hello group members, I am facing problem in koha search through subject terms in librarian and user interfaces. For example, If i want to see books on 4th subject term by clicking on the hyperlink(i.e. wave propagation) than koha merge all previous terms with 'and'. Example mentioned in below line: http://--------/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=su:Engineering and su:Electrical engineering and su:Satellite communication and su:Wave propagation Koha has to make query term as below for proper searching: http://--------/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=su:Wave propagation Please help to resolve the issue, so that koha consider each term as individual entry rather than automatically combining all previous terms with 'and'. Regards, Iftikhar Ahmed.

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Kohacon 12 - Invitation letter
by Olugbenga Adara 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hello, I think this should be directed to MJ Ray and KohaCon12 organizers. I have some users of Koha in Nigeria, showing interest in attending KohaCon12 in Edinburgh. However, they do require a letter of invitation, to present to their institution and the embassy. I guess the letter should just state the conference date(s), venue and the fact that it is a free conference but participants will have to sort out feeding/accommodation/visa by themselves. Is it possible for the conference organizers to do something about this? Regards. Olugbenga Adara Mobile: 234 (0) 8033220288 Home: 234 (2) 8721720 Skype: gbengaadara Blog: http://gbengaadara.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/gbengaadara Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gbengaadara

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ISBN 13 to 10
by Paul 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Would some kind soul with "corporate memory" please give me background on *why* the staff-admin page (basic search, search.pl) converts a 13 digit ISBN to the "old style" 10 digit format? As soon as you click on the title the details.pl page gives the 13 digits as entered in the biblio record (and for completeness the OPAC appears to only use the 13 digit format.) The reason for the query is that our cataloguers have pointed out that an "advanced search" for ISBN on the truncated, recalculated value, gives a "No results match your search for 'nb: 1551250934'" while the full 9781551250939 (i.e. with 978 at the beginning and correct check sum) for the same book finds it instantly. At some point in the past, someone must have considered this a "desirable feature" -- I'm intrigued as to the reasons. Thanks - Paul

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Retrieving 10-digit ISBNs in a report
by Cab Vinton 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

OK, this got no responses on the Koha developers list :-(, so trying here -- For the purposes of creating a web-based carousel of book covers for our recent acquisitions, I'd like to run a report that generates a list of ISBNs of items added between 2 dates. Amazon, & therefore Koha, rely on 10-digit ISBNs for book cover retrieval. However, when I run a report using biblioitems.isbn, this is the output I get. Many truncated ISBNs, presumably because of the max length = 30 restriction for this particular field. 9780425243244 (pbk.) | 0425243 9780307718099 | 0307718093 0804840288 | 9780804840286 (tr 9780811876377 : | 0811876373 : 1569244677 9781400064588 (acidfree paper) 9780061429255 | 0061429252 9781451661064 (hardcover) | 14 Is there a way to run a report that outputs only the 10 digit ISBNs? Many thanks, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH

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Logins
by Hal Bright 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Do any public libraries allow their users to modify their login from their library card number? How do you accomplish that? Are their problems you encountered...I forgot my login...etc. Thanks, Hal Harold Bright Director of Information Services Farmington Libraries - 6 Monteith Drive Farmington, CT 06032 - hbright(a)farmingtonlibraries.org<mailto:hbright@farmingtonlibraries.org> W 860-673-6791 x 204 - F 860-675-7148 http://www.farmingtonlibraries.org

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rebooting git.koha-community.org and manual.bywatersolutions.com
by Melia Meggs 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hello Koha community, We are undergoing some mandatory cloud maintenance and need to reboot a couple of servers that are being used by the community, specifically git.koha-community.org and manual.bywatersolutions.com. We wanted to give you advance notice that we will be rebooting these servers on Friday, March 16 at midnight EST, and we hope this doesn't cause you any inconvenience. Thank you, Melia -- Melia Meggs Chief Operations Officer ByWater Solutions bywatersolutions.com

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Problem: non-latin characters (Arabic, Chinese, etc)
by Stefano Barale 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hello again everybody, after some struggle I finally succeeded installing Koha, configuring it and working with English records using MARC21. All under both Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04. Now my problem is that my records will be 99% in Arabic. Thanks to the help of many of you I found this valuable past message that outlines the steps for installing Chinese charsets. But this did not solve my problem 'cause: > For this: > * install ICU (unicode library from IBM) > * activate it by editing default.idx file, and : > comment this line: > #charmap word-phrase-utf.chr > add this line: > icuchain icu.xml > > Your icu.xml should look like this: > <icu_chain locale="fr-FR"> > <transliterate rule="\'>\ "/> > <transliterate rule="[:Number:] { '-'> '' "/> > <transform rule="[:Control:] Any-Remove"/> > <tokenize rule="l"/> > <transform rule="[[:WhiteSpace:][:Punctuation:]] Remove"/> > <transform rule="NFD"/> > <transform rule="[:Nonspacing Mark:] Remove"/> > <transform rule="NFC"/> > <display/> > <casemap rule="l"/> > </icu_chain> 1) Install ICU. What debian package provides ICU? Is it this? i libicu42 4.2.1-3ubuntu0.10.10.1 International Components for Unicode ii yaz-icu 4.2.25-1indexdata ICU utility for the Z39.50 toolkit or am I missing something, maybe? 2) defatult.idx: is the one under /etc/koha/zebradb/etc? 3) I'm unsure about the meaning AND location of the icu.xml file. Should it be placed under /etc/koha/zebradb/etc as well? What should contain in the case of Arabic? I suppose that the tranform rules will not be the same as French... does anybody have a template for Arabic? 4) after all these aspects will be fixed, how do I make myself sure that everything works fine? Best! Stefano

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Computers in Libraries
by Stacy Pober 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Anyone going to this year's Computers in Libraries conference? -- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober(a)manhattan.edu

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