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Loading Authority records
by Hillyard, Cecil 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

I believe someone asked about this not too long ago but I don't recall seeing any answer. I can get authority records from our bibliographic vendor but how do you get them into Koha? __________________________ Cecil Hillyard Cataloger Washoe County Library Technical Services Reno, NV 89505 www.washoecountylibrary.us

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Searching by 'object' numbers
by Hillyard, Cecil 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

When viewing the cataloging log the items or bibs are designated by an object number. How do you search the catalog by these numbers? There isn't anything in advanced search. Thank you, __________________________ Cecil Hillyard Cataloger Washoe County Library Technical Services Reno, NV 89505 www.washoecountylibrary.us

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Koha - call number indexing
by Linda Culberson 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

All, Can someone explain to me where the call number indexes are pulling from? We have our local call numbers pulling from the 092 and I thought that was the field being indexed, but it seems to be the items.itemscallnumber Is that correct? For some reason, not all of our records are pulling up by call number and I'm trying to figure out why. Thanks in advance for your help. -- 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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Re: [Koha] OPAC MARC View display not working well
by Vimal Kumar 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Dear Hugo and Mason, I successfully imported the same MARC file in previous versions. The MARC view problem with 3.6.2 and 3.6.3 version. Other OPAC views are good. Nothing wrong happened during importing records. Problem with MARC View only. Where I can find bibitems marcxml field ? Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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Re: [Koha] Which directory is Koha database on Ubuntu?
by Randall Rowe 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

mysqldump should "just know" where to find the database. But as you asked it should be in /var/lib/mysql/XXXXXXX where XXXXXXX is the name you gave it during install. Randy Rowe Lincoln City Libraries I.T. (402) 441-8523 -----Original Message----- From: "Raphael Muonga" <chisangaz(a)gmail.com> Sent 2/2/2012 1:35:43 AM To: "Koha" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] Which directory is Koha database on Ubuntu? I am using Koha 3.2 installed using LiveCD with Ubuntu 10.10 In which directory is the database located? I would like to do msqldump of it. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ��

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Search problems
by Perch 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

We're experiencing a problem with search with Koha 3.04.04.000. The search doesn't return any results at all. This is what's in koha-error_log [Thu Feb 02 08:54:50 2012] [error] [client nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn] [Thu Feb 2 08:54:50 2012] search.pl: Use of uninitialized value $key in hash element at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Templates.pm line 227., referer: http://name.of.the.koha.server:8080/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl?idx=kw… Help? -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Search-problems-tp5450449p5450449.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Which directory is Koha database on Ubuntu?
by Raphael Muonga 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

I am using Koha 3.2 installed using LiveCD with Ubuntu 10.10 In which directory is the database located? I would like to do msqldump of it.

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Re: [Koha] How or maybe where are relevance rankings established?
by Doug Dearden 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Hi Ian, Thanks for the info. Your comment that “exact matches in the title field are most relevant (in keyword searches, at least), then partial title matches, then regular matches” is the behavior that I expected, but doesn’t seem to always hold true. If you go to our public catalog at http://library.sarsf.org and do a Title search on “coming of age” (without the quotes), there are four hits returned, all of which have the phrase in either the Title or the Remainder of Title field. If you do the same search as a Keyword search, the returned list is topped by an item that has the phrase “coming of age” in the Summary, Etc. field (520a). The four hits that get returned when doing a Title search appear in positions 2, 4, 5, and 9. We would like to get the books that have the exact phrase in the title at the top of the list. Looking at the code in Search.pm it does look like it is trying to weight for title, but I also traced the system preferences it is calling at the beginning of the subroutine and they all say “REQUIRES ZEBRA” on them. So I assume any final tweaking would include both zebra config and perhaps refining what is going on in the subroutine in Search.pm. None of the above am I up to right now. ;) We will live with things as they are. Again thanks for the response. Best, Doug From: Ian Walls [mailto:koha.sekjal@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 4:29 AM To: Doug Dearden Subject: Re: [Koha] How or maybe where are relevance rankings established? Doug, Relevancy weighting is determined in C4/Search.pm. It's pretty complex, and not as rich as one might think. The basic truth is that exact matches in the title field are most relevant (in keyword searches, at least), then partial title matches, then regular matches. I'm simplifying quite a bit, but things like author matches or "newness" of publication year don't factor in. The exact code starts currently around line 757, in the internal subroutine _build_weighted_query(). Cheers, -Ian On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:57, Doug Dearden <dearden(a)sarsf.org<mailto:dearden@sarsf.org>> wrote: Thanks Mason, you've put me on the yellow brick road. I've looked at several config files in the ..../zebradb subdirectory, and am now surrounded by the flying monkeys. :) Best, Doug -----Original Message----- From: Mason James [mailto:mtj@kohaaloha.com<mailto:mtj@kohaaloha.com>] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 6:50 PM To: Doug Dearden Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz<mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] How or maybe where are relevance rankings established? On 2012-01-31, at 12:44 PM, Doug Dearden wrote: > Hello All, > > I am trying to get a grip on how a search is ordered when "relevance" is specified. Is there a place in the staff client where these results are controlled - i.e. which fields are given weight? afaik, the relevance is determined in zebra, internally here's some doc.. http://www.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/administration-ranking.html http://www.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/querymodel-zebra.html > > Or perhaps the question is where would I find the algorithm that is being used - assuming it is hard coded somewhere? > > The "about" info pasted below my name in the event an update will make a difference here. yes indeed, good thinking :) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz<mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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How can one batch delete null barcoded item records?
by Raphael Muonga 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

We are using Koha 3.2 on Ubuntu. Our Assistant Librarian generated multiple item records (100) with null barcode number with same title. We have failed to delete as "delete this record in Edit is not doing anything". And worse still the Tools > Batch Item Deletion cannot work with null barcode. How cann we delete these records with are sequentially number as item #3315 to #3414? Any SQL solution or whatever that can do? Raphael

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Importing circulation records
by Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Is there an import tool for bringing patron circulation records (patron name, ID of book, book title) into Koha? If so, what format is recommended to bring this over .. CSV, Excel, etc. Thanks for any input.. David W. Hartman Global Business Technology Strategy Library Team Disney 336N

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