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converting csv file to marc21
by divya lissia joseph 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

hi, i'm trying to migratre a csv file to koha. is there any option other than using marcedit to convert the csv file to marc21? please help...

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Fwd: Koha questions!
by Chris Cormack 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Catherine Murphy <Catherine.Murphy(a)marist.edu> Date: 7 March 2012 13:53 Subject: Koha questions! To: koha-owner(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Hello, My supervisor asked me to look at Koha and compare its features with our current ILS (Voyager). We had seen a support company's version of Koha a few years back and I started using this company's version for the comparison. Are support company versions of Koha part of the Koha open source community? How different is LibLime Koha from other open source Koha? How many libraries use Koha currently? How many academic institutions? Are most Koha sites hosted? Are any academic institutions maintaining their own open source Koha and working with the Koha community? Is there a list of features Koha offers, compared to traditional ILS? Thank you, Catherine Catherine Murphy / Information Technology catherine.murphy(a)marist.edu Marist College, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 | 845.575.3000

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Re: [Koha] Edinburgh tourist tax
by Dianna Roberts 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi MJ, I believe you are right in correcting me on this one as after further investigation I see that it is still only a proposal. I had misinterpreted what the 20% tax was referring to, not realising that it was in fact VAT. Thanks for the clarification, and the reminder that I should be able to claim a refund! Regards, Dianna Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:39:49 +0000 From: MJ Ray <mjr(a)phonecoop.coop> To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Edinburgh tourist tax Message-ID: <E1S5alB-0006bJ-JB(a)petrol.towers.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 "Dianna Roberts" <Dianna.Roberts(a)opus.co.nz> > Be aware that Edinburgh applies a tourist tax to all hotel bookings at the > rate of 20% per night. I discovered this when making a booking last night. Are you sure? A ?2-a-night tax has been suggested but reports say city governments don't have the legal powers to raise such a tax: http://www.eturbonews.com/26930/minister-edinburghs-planned-tourist-tax-not- legal The current UK rate of Value Added Tax is 20%, which might be what that was. To individuals, VAT behaves pretty much like a sales tax, but I believe the law is that you must show tax-included prices to them - and non-EU visitors can claim a tax refund when you leave. More on this at http://wikitravel.org/en/United_Kingdom#Shopping - other than that, VAT is evil because it taxes the poor more than the rich, but our shiny-faced leader shows no sign of changing it in the budget later this month, so a tax cut would be a surprise. If you spot any Edinburgh sites that aren't aimed at business sales quoting VAT-excluded prices, let us (software.coop) know and we'll report them to local customer protection agents. Anyway, if there is now a tourist tax, let me know more and I'll update our notes, but I'm pretty sure there isn't one yet. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

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Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Retrieving 10-digit ISBNs in a report
by Cab Vinton 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Thank you, Nick! We're hosted by Equinox, so getting that php code in place would take a bit of extra work for us. I'm now thinking that we may better off just using a custom field for this purpose. If we stick w/ Amazon, their ASIN would be the best way to go. This is the ISBN for most books, but something else entirely when dealing with movies & certain other items. Yet another step in our cataloging workflow ... Then again, there are other options for book covers, so I'll be looking into Google Books, LibraryThing, etc. If folks have specific thoughts on this, I'd be happy to hear them. Many thanks again, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH Life is short. Read fast! On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Nicholas van Oudtshoorn <vanoudt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > A simple bit of code can be used to get the first valid 10-digit ISBN. This > is the php code we use - it could be adapted to perl quite easily, > though.... (Actually, if I recall correctly, there is a C4 function to get > the Normalised ISBN...) > > // Normalise the ISBN > $isbn = preg_replace('/(.*) \| (.*)/', '$1', $isbn); // Get first isbn > $isbn = preg_replace('/(.*) (.*)/', '$1', $isbn); // Get rid of text > if (strlen($isbn) == 11) { > if ($debugging) { print "Chopping 11 digit ISBN to a 10 digit ISBN"; } > $isbn = substr($isbn,1,10); > } else if (strlen($isbn) == 13) { > $isbn = substr($isbn,3,9); > $checksum = 0; > $weight = 10; > $isbnCharArray = str_split($isbn); > foreach($isbnCharArray as $char) { > $checksum += $char * $weight; > $weight--; > } > $checksum = 11-($checksum % 11); > if ($checksum == 10) { > $isbn += "X"; > } else if ($checksum == 11) { > $isbn += "0"; > } else { > $isbn .= $checksum; > } > } else if (strlen($isbn) != 10) { > if ($debugging) { print "<p>Illegal ISBN Found: $isbn</p>"; } > exit; > } > if ($debugging) { print "Normalised ISBN: $isbn"; exit; } > > > - > Nick > > > On 03/07/2012 05:50 AM, Cab Vinton wrote: >> >> Hi, All -- >> >> For the purposes of creating a web-based carousel of book covers of >> 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 the max length >> = 30 restriction. >> >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> Koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org >> http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> website : http://www.koha-community.org/ >> git : http://git.koha-community.org/ >> bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/

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Fwd: [Koha-devel] Blog post about BibLibre development rebases
by Claire Hernandez 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hello I wrote this on koha-devel mailing list but I think sending to this list is a good idea too! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Koha-devel] Blog post about BibLibre development rebases Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:12:09 +0100 From: Claire Hernandez <claire.hernandez(a)biblibre.com> To: koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org Hello all, I wrote a blog post about our developments and the community integration. You can read it here: http://drupal.biblibre.com/en/blog/entry/biblibre-developpments-rebase-and-… It is about: - 2012 goals development rebases - Vision and roadmap - Progress and learnt of january and february - Why the community needs you The purpose was to make visible our work and explain how people can invest into this development integration (for example for our french customers). If you have questions, juste ask. Have a good day, Claire;

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zebra permissions in 3.6
by Linda Culberson 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

All, I'm still having trouble with permissions with zebra indexing in a new test installation of Koha 3.6 - this time using 3.6.4. I followed the instructions at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installing_Multiple_Instances_of_Koha to install. I've checked as many of the permissions using the config files and against the 3.4 installation as I can find and verified the ownership to be koha, but realize that there may be others somewhere that I don't know about. What is happening is that using ./rebuild_zebra.pl -v -b -x -r cleans the index but doesn't rebuild it. It also doesn't write to the the /var/log subdirectory. I know that the bibliographic records are there because I can see them in the database and pull them up by biblionumber. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks -- Linda Culberson lculber(a)mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Fax: 601/576-6824

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Edinburgh tourist tax
by Dianna Roberts 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Be aware that Edinburgh applies a tourist tax to all hotel bookings at the rate of 20% per night. I discovered this when making a booking last night. 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, 8 March 2012 12:00 p.m. To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Koha Digest, Vol 77, Issue 12 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: Hotels for KohaCon 2012 (tajoli(a)cilea.it) 2. Re: Customizing code obtained via git (Tom Hanstra) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:13:39 +0100 (CET) From: tajoli(a)cilea.it To: Fr?d?ric Demians <frederic(a)tamil.fr> Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Hotels for KohaCon 2012 Message-ID: <5465d8f5-b3e5-4d4e-b879-9d13000165d7@esx-revenge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi to all, ----- Messaggio originale ----- > Da: "Fr?d?ric Demians" <frederic(a)tamil.fr> > A: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Inviato: Marted?, 6 marzo 2012 19:49:36 > Oggetto: Re: [Koha] Hotels for KohaCon 2012 > > Kohacon12 will be located in University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square > neighborhood: thank yuou very much for the answer, I have insert the info in the wiki page. Bye Zeno Tajoli ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:10:11 -0500 From: Tom Hanstra <tom(a)nd.edu> To: "koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Customizing code obtained via git Message-ID: <4F57DCC3.6020008(a)nd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I tried this, but it does not look as if it takes care of such things as having a completely different perl location than the default. If what I did actually worked, there were no localized copies of the software made but rather just pointers in the httpd configuration which point back to the source location I downloaded via git. Is that what I should expect to happen? If so, and I have installed my own perl (/shared/perl/bin/perl), things are not going to work properly since all of the source code is hardcoded with /usr/bin/perl. Or is it my install which did not work properly? I find very few files copied over; and almost all are in the misc/translator directory. Thanks, Tom On 03/06/2012 04:10 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: > * Tom Hanstra (tom(a)nd.edu) wrote: >> I need to explain a bit more what I'm currently trying to understand... >> >> I can use what I've learned to compile and install the software that >> I pull down using git when I first pull it down. >> >> Then, what I do is make changes which localize the software (template >> changes, etc.). >> >> Now, if/when a patch comes along that I would like to make and I pull >> down that patch/change, what I'm not clear on is how best to move >> that change along to my installed version. If I fully install again, >> it seems that I could run the risk of overwriting something that I've >> localized. But I don't know of other ways in which to get the change >> into place. >> >> So, I'm interested in understanding how others handle this. How does >> a single patch best get moved into place for testing without mucking >> up the localizations which have been made? > When you did your install, you should have chosen dev install. This > sets Koha up to run out of your git checkout. > > If you didnt do this, you can manually edit your koha-conf.xml and > apache config to make it run from there. That way you apply the patch > in git, and now Koha is using it. > > Chris > >> Thanks, >> Tom >> >> On 03/05/2012 06:14 PM, Tom Hanstra wrote: >>> Is there documentation somewhere which provides some guidance on how >>> to properly set up a clone obtained via git? I'm still learning how >>> git works so I need some pretty basic guidance on incorporating it >>> into my environment. >>> >>> The primary questions I have are how to get the cloned version to >>> find what it needs in a non-standard environment. For instance, I >>> installed my own version of perl because the OS version was too old. >>> How do I get the clone to use that? >>> >>> I have learned how to set things up using the packaged versions, but >>> would like to explore my options for setting up a clone instead. >>> But the documentation I've seen on the Koha Wiki assumes a level of >>> git that I have not yet achieved and/or assumes a very standard >>> environment (as far as I can tell). So pointers on how to take the >>> next step beyond that would be most appreciated. >>> >>> 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 >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha End of Koha Digest, Vol 77, Issue 12 ************************************

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OPAC DISPLAY
by MARC FELIX 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi, how do i make field 040,500,856, and 942(c) to be displayed in catalog normal view and OPAC results? What file does one edit and how? Kindly assist. Marc Felix, Kenyatta University, Kenya.

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Chinese Language Code
by 毛慶禎 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi, Can I suggest using zh-Hant-TW for Chinese written using the Traditional Chinese script at Taiwan. /usr/share/koha/misc/translator/po Quote few paragraph for you from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5646.txt: Language subtag plus Script subtag: zh-Hant (Chinese written using the Traditional Chinese script) zh-Hans (Chinese written using the Simplified Chinese script) "zh-Hant-TW" is more specific than "zh-Hant". Language-Script-Region: zh-Hans-CN (Chinese written using the Simplified script as used in mainland China) -- Wishing you all the best. . . . Anthony Mao 毛慶禎＋886 2 29052334 (voice) + 886 2 29017405 (FAX)

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Opac don't show Checkout information
by kamild 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi, I checkout some book but when I search in OPAC then not show information in Availability. But When I enter the book now I see information about checkout in Holdings - Status. What may be the problem? Thx -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Opac-don-t-show-Checkout-information-tp54… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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