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Fwd: FOSS4LIB registry now open for new packages/releases/providers/events/institutions
by Cab Vinton 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Thought this might be of wider interest to the Koha community. Cheers, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Murray <peter.murray(a)lyrasis.org> Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:39 PM Subject: FOSS4LIB registry now open for new packages/releases/providers/events/institutions To: CODE4LIB(a)listserv.nd.edu All -- The project that I was seeking feedback on over the fall is seeing the light of day. http://foss4lib.org/ is now open for use by the community. For the Code4Lib audience, this mostly means you can create an account, log in, and create content nodes for specific packages, releases, and events. See http://foss4lib.org/content/adding-information-foss4lib for links on how to get started. For people or organizations that provide support for open source software in libraries -- implementation consulting, hosting, custom code development, training, etc. -- we especially want to encourage you to sign up and post your availability on the site. One of the overarching goals is to promote an ecosystem of open source support providers for packages that are specific to libraries. So we want to make this registry a better place to go to find those support options over a scattershot Google search. Please note that there is one bit of functionality in the registry that is not done right now. Some software packages have well developed lists of providers and institutions that use the software, and we're not trying to reproduce those in the registry. There is a capability coming that will allow URLs to these community lists to override the provider/using-institution functionality of the registry. More on that soon. Speaking of additional functionality, I am very interested in hearing ideas about how the registry can advance the goal of supporting open source software in libraries. If you have any, feel free to discuss them here or send me a direct e-mail. A press release about FOSS4LIB will be going out in the next couple of hours, and it will include information about one-hour introductory sessions at Midwinter and webinars later in January and February. Here's the instructions: Go to http://foss4lib.org/user/register and create an account for yourself. The pattern for usernames is recommended to be your first and last name, but you can make it anything you want. You'll receive an e-mail with a one-time password to follow and set your password. Then browse (http://foss4lib.org/packages) or search (http://foss4lib.org/search/node) for your target software package(s). If you see it/them, great! -- move onto the next step. If not, follow "Add content -> package" (http://foss4lib.org/node/add/package) to create it. Put in the common name (no release numbers) for your package as its title and some descriptive chunk of text for the body. Below this is a series of technology choices that you can make. In the case of Package Type, License, and Development Status you can pick one of the choices. For Operating System, Technologies Used, Programming Language, and Database you can pick more than one (using Command-Click or Control-Click, depending on your operating system). For anything in this Technology area, if there are terms that you need that aren't listed let me know and I'll add them. Below Technology is Links, and you can fill in any URLs that you know/have for this package. Below that is an Associations sect! ion where you can link this package to other packages in the system. (See the DSpace entry, for instance -- http://foss4lib.org/package/dspace -- on how it is associated with Djatoka.) Now hit "Save" (or hit "Preview" then "Save") your package and go onto the next step. As appropriate, create a Provider for your company/organization/self (http://foss4lib.org/node/add/provider) Put in the title and description. Then in the "Supports" section, pick one or more choices for "Provider Type". (If you provide services other than the ones listed here, let me know and I'll add them to the list.) In the Package field start typing the name of the package until it pops up in the auto-complete drop-down and select it there. (When you do so, you'll see the package name appended with "[nid:x]" representing the node ID.) You can mix-and-match your Provider Type and Packages by selecting "Add Another Item". In the Employees Registered section, you can add people registered on FOSS4LIB (including yourself) that will appear as associated with your firm. Below that add arbitrary URLs (such as to your homepage, client list, contact information, etc.) that will appear on your provider page. Then hit "Save" (or hit "Preview" then "Save") and your done! Feel free to add Events (http://foss4lib.org/node/add/event) Package Releases (http://foss4lib.org/node/add/release) and other Packages (http://foss4lib.org/node/add/package) that you know about. And thank you for extending the usefulness of the FOSS4LIB site. Peter -- Peter Murray Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS Peter.Murray(a)lyrasis.org +1 678-235-2955 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 800.999.8558 Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org LYRASIS: Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers.

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question about creating a donor report in Koha
by Library＠boystown.com.au 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hi There, I have received a large donation of books for my library and would like to run a report summing the number of items donated, totalling the rrp of the books donated so that I may determine a value for the donation. For the time being as I catalogue I have put donor info in the supplier id and rrp in price field in the items record. Any suggestions as to how this might be done? I would like to set up a system which I can use for other donations. Thanks, Amanda BoysTown Milton, Qld. library(a)boystown.com.au http://www.boystown.com.au http://www.boystown.com.au http://www.kidshelp.com.au http://www.parentline.com.au

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Serials Planning Help
by Nicole Engard 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

I have a strange Serial planning question. American Libraries publishes 6 issue a year, and number them like this: Volume 42 #7/8 Volume 42 #9/10 Volume 42 #11/12 Can anyone come up with a way to enter this in to Koha to allow for this type of numbering? All I can come up with (and it's way sloppy) is to tell Koha that it's 12 issues a year and then delete every other issue and manually edit the volume/number field to show 7/8 or 9/10 etc. Thanks in advance for any tips you can provide. Nicole PS. I am still looking for serials planning examples from all types of journals/magazines so that I can share them in the manual and save new Koha librarians time!

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Call for News for the January Newsletter
by Daniel Grobani 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Dear Koha Kommunitarians, I'm harvesting news for the January newsletter. Please send me by the 25th anything you think your fellow community members might like to know about. "News" can be as short as a sentence or as long as a paper. I especially encourage you to send me a line or two about what you're currently working on for publication in the gossip/society column. And if you know of a go-live not announced on the list, please be sure to let me know about it. Thanks, Daniel Grobani

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is there a way to mass-add books?
by Huck 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

I've imported a backed up MARC-21 file... with the 7000 or so books of the library... is there a way to mass-add them without having to input these 2 required fields? 040 and 924 (I think are the fields)... Thanks, --Huck

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question on fields and links
by Hugo Agud 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Dear all I have one doubt... in Koha there are some field that your are able to click, like series, author, or publisher... and there are other that thet are not clickable. I wish to ask If anybody knows how to configure if one field is clickable or not... I have checked that you can configure in the Koha Frame work if a subdiled is an url... but it seems it doesn't work or at least I do not know how to configure propertly. Any idea or suggestion? Kindest regards Hugo -- *Hugo Agud - Orex Digital * *www.orex.es* * * Director Avenida Sarriá 29 · 08029 Barcelona <http://twitter.com/OrexDigital> :<http://orexsl.blogspot.com>hugoaguda - Tel: 93 539 40 70 Fax: 93 539 33 30 hagud(a)orex.es · http://www.orex.es/ No imprima este mensaje a no ser que sea necesario. Una tonelada de papel implica la tala de 15 árboles y el consumo de 250.000 litros de agua. Aviso de confidencialidad Este mensaje contiene información que puede ser CONFIDENCIAL y/o de USO RESTRINGIDO. Si usted no es el receptor deseado del mensaje (ni está autorizado a recibirlo por el remitente), no está autorizado a copiar, reenviar o divulgar el mensaje o su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, por favor, notifíquenoslo inmediatamente y bórrelo de su sistema.

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How can we set results_per_page for the manage-marc-import page?
by Doug Kingston 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

It seems to have a default of 25 entries per page displayed. I'd like to be able to significantly increase that. How can I change the default results_per_page for this other than editing tools/manage-marc-import.pl? -Doug-

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Re: [Koha] RDA Toolkit
by Irma Birchall 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Hi Lori and others interested in cataloguing, Thanks Lori for raising this topic. Can we schedule a time to be in #Koha so that we can discuss the way forward re RDA for Koha? A good time for me would be Sydney 20/1 @ 7.55am Would this time suit others? http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+and+RDA&iso=2… http://koha-community.org/get-involved/irc/ With best regards, Irma ------------------ Irma Birchall Founding CEO CALYX information essentials Koha & Kete implementations and services T: +61 (2) 80061603 ~ M: +61 (0) 413 510 717 irma(a)calyx.net.au ~ www.calyx.net.au DM on twitter irmalibraries Participating in the Open Source projects: http://koha-community.org & http://kete.net.nz ** > > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Koha] RDA Toolkit Date: Wed, > 4 Jan 2012 14:46:24 -0800 From: Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre(a)galecia.com><lori.ayre(a)galecia.com> To: > Koha list <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>, koha-devel > <koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org> <koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org> > > Hi All, > > I've recently been in touch with James Hennelly ( > future--jhennelly(a)ala.org) who is involved in the RDA Toolkit. He drew > my attention to their free MARC linking service ( > http://www.rdatoolkit.org/sites/default/files/marc_api_linkguide_final.pdf) > that allows for ILS users to open RDA Toolkit from a MARC input screen. The > service is already being used by OCLC's Connection and SkyRiver. They'd > love to see this service implemented with an open source product so would > like to talk to someone about it. > > Would anyone be interested in pursuing this for Koha? > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Lori Bowen Ayre // > Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group > Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen > (707) 763-6869 // Lori.Ayre(a)galecia.com > Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre > > Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, > workflow optimization, and materials handling > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > --

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advance search
by KLib Tech Support 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Hi, Can we hide advance search option on OPAC?

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Marc 21 for Koha 3.4
by anaisabel.gonzalez＠MCU.ES 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Dear all, I have a question about the Marc 21 update used in the default framework of Koha version 3.4. Does anybody can tell me which is the Marc 21 Update used? The WorkGroup into the Koha-Kobli Community in Spanish (http://kobli.bage.es) is working in analyze the new functionalities for Koha and our customized distribution named Kobli. In order to study the Marc 21 – RDA we need to know the Marc 21 Update and if Koha Community has worked on it or has any report about it. (For further information about KOBLI , please see Koha archive http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2011-April/028481.html) Kind regards in advance, Nani Gonzalez Saez Koha-Kobli Community http://kobli.bage.es Subdirectorate General of Library Coordination Secretary of State for Culture. Spain.

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