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koha-US April 2023 Events & Meetings
by Jennifer Marlatt 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

Hello! koha-US online meetings and events are free and open to all. See our calendar for a full list: http://koha-us.org/calendar/. For Google Calendar users, add our events calendar to your list for easy access to meeting times and links: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=a29oYS11cy5vcmdfZG1xb2pkczE5Zn… *Meetings* Board Meeting - Wednesday, April 5 @ 8:30a PT / 11:30a ET / 15:30 UTC General Meeting - Wednesday, April 12 @ 8:30a PT / 11:30a ET / 15:30 UTC *Special Interest Groups* Cataloging - Thursday, April 6 @ 8:00a PT / 11:00a ET / 15:00 UTC System Administration - Tuesday, April 11@ 8:00a PT / 11:00a ET / 15:00 UTC Acquisitions - Tuesday, April 18 @ 9:00a PT / 12:00p ET / 16:00 UTC Web Development - Thursday, April 20 @ 10:00a PT / 1:00p ET / 17:00 UTC Cataloging - Thursday, April 27 @ 1:00p PT / 4:00p ET / 20:00 UTC Circulation - on hiatus Demonstration Instance - on hiatus Visit http://koha-us.org/special-interest-groups/ to learn more and sign up for topic-specific mailing lists. Most meetings and events are recorded and made available at https://www.youtube.com/kohaus Jennifer Marlatt koha-US Secretary secretary(a)koha-US.org

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Koha mysql DBMS fix
by Decka David 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

Dear Koha Community, Here is a problem that someone here in this community might come across or know to share how to solve this problem; I talked with my ICT administrator to solve this issue to have access to the koha mysql but was unable to do so to fix the DBMS auto increment problem. The issue of the "unknown variable" in the script is; *mysql: [ERROR] unknown variable 'init-file=/var/lib/mysql/init-file_koha_library.sql'* I can do the mysqldump and run the backup on the test server but on the production server, I have no access at all. Looking into the past forum emails, wikis there is not much help. Thanking everyone here in advance for their invaluable insight and pointing me towards solving the problem. Kind regards *Decka David* Matheson Librarian | PNG University of Technology | PMB | Lae, 411 | Morobe Province | PAPUA NEW GUINEA Alternate E: decka.david(a)gmail.com | P: 657 4734353 <%28657%29%20473-4353> | F: 675 4374363

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Uploading files
by Ma. Victoria H. Silva-Manuel 24 Mar '23

24 Mar '23

I successfully uploaded a file in tag 856$u but when I checked it out in OPAC, I'm getting Error 404 (Sorry, the requested page is not available). I already choose "upload.pl" in plugin in the bibliographic framework. What should I do? Thanks.

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Getting 503 Service Unavailable every day on Koha 22.11.03
by Evan Stewart 24 Mar '23

24 Mar '23

Recently, I've been getting many 503-Service Unavailable failures running 22.11.03. My librarian reports that Koha crashes when he is adding/editing a record or trying a Z39. 50/SRU search. In the past week, the server has stalled at least once a day while the librarian is managing records. If I restart the server, everything starts working again. It seems like this is a capacity problem and the server is freezing, but I don't know what's causing it. I'm using an Amazon Lightsail instance, running Debian with 2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU. I know this is a very slim resource, but the instance has been working without crashing for over a year. The library has grown by thousands of records over the year, so I'm wondering if I need to bump up the RAM. Looking for advice on minimum RAM that is suggested for a Koha 22.11 instance. Any suggestions? -Evan Africa's Hope, USA

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Re: [Koha] Zebra reindexing issue
by David Cook 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

Hi David, Firstly, /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Filter/MARC/Index880InZebra.pm has been removed from the Koha master branch and Koha 22.11.x as it was superseded by BZ 31532. It should've been removed from Koha 22.05.x as well, but it looks like it wasn't. That's an oversight. I'll ask the 22.05.x maintainer to look at that. That error message means that you have 6 bad 880 entries though. To find those records, look through https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SQL_Reports_Library for examples to "Query MARC". You'll want to use the ExtractValue function to use Xpath to query the MARCXML to find the problematic entries. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 -----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:13:19 +0100 From: David Liddle <david(a)liddles.net> To: koha <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] Zebra reindexing issue Message-ID: <CAP3zdfaKcXOLs8RdGZ95BFri-sgbckENEhBTV_5OV=_5J2xNwg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hello all! After enabling search for non-Roman scripts in our instances, as detailed at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_chains_configuration, I needed to rebuild the index. Our production and test systems run Koha 22.05.10 on Debian 11. As the process was running, the following message was displayed 6 times: "Use of uninitialized value $sub6 in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Filter/MARC/Index880InZebra.pm line 77." - What does this indicate? (I mean, beyond the obvious.) - Is it something that we should track down and correct? - How can we identify the bibliographic records that trigger the notice? There are no log entries that I can find with details about the records causing the message. Thank you in advance for your attention and help! David Liddle IT Manager david.liddle(a)wycliff.de (just not for this list) Wycliff e.V., https://wycliff.de Seminar für Sprache und Kultur, https://spracheundkultur.org Internationales Tagungszentrum Karimu, https://karimu.de

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Modifying Koha for a citation database, or, Hey folks, try this at home!
by King, Fred 22 Mar '23

22 Mar '23

Esteemed Colleagues, Some of you may be familiar with the MedStar Authors catalog, a Koha instance where I took citations from Medline, the database of medical journal citations run by the US National Library of Medicine and converted them to a format that could be seen and searched in Koha. I was new to Koha when I designed it, I didn't know what I was doing, and there were a lot of rough edges I wanted to polish in a future version. After much longer than I thought it would take, it's now available at http://www.medstarauthors.org. So who would want to set up a Koha instance of local authors from Medline citations other than me? >crickets< Thought so. However, doing this project involved: Deciding which Medline fields I wanted for the Authors Catalog. Converting Medline citations in Reference Manager format to MARC records. Adding new, non-standard MARC fields to the Koha framework. Editing the OpacResults and OpacDetail xsl files to display the fields I wanted. There are a lot more than in the standard OpacDetail xsl! Adding the new fields to Elasticsearch, and assigning them to indexes so they're searchable. Editing masthead.inc to add more basic search options. (Institution 651$a, Department 656$a, etc.) Editing opac-advsearch.tt to add more search options, and (when you click on "more options") even more search options. Editing opac-facets.inc to modify the left column in the detail view. Making it possible (and easy!) to add PDFs and other files to the Koha server itself. Adding a page to the News function so I can display links to most of the files I've mentioned so far. (needs 22.11) Putting a lot of data into a spreadsheet to keep track of what field is associated with what MARC tag, Elasticsearch index, etc. Anyone working on, and being frustrated by, any of the above? Then you may find some of what I've done worth harvesting, at least to look at to see what I've done. It isn't necessarily pretty--XSLT programmers might need their fainting couches--but it works. At least for this installation. Unfortunately, the site is blocked in some places outside the US, possibly in the EU because our IS department hasn't vetted it for GDPR compliance. (Thanks to David for suggesting the reason.) I think I can put the page with the files on a different server without running afoul of GDPR; I'll do it if anyone's interested. --Fred Fred King, MSLS, AHIP Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king(a)medstar.net 202-877-6670 ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279 MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org You know it's cold outside when you go outside and it's cold. --NPS Twitter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MedStar Health is a not-for-profit, integrated healthcare delivery system, the largest in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region. Nationally recognized for clinical quality in heart, orthopedics, cancer and GI. IMPORTANT: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is private, confidential, or protected by attorney-client or other privilege. If you received this e-mail in error, please delete it from your system without copying it and notify sender by reply e-mail, so that our records can be corrected... Thank you. Help conserve valuable resources - only print this email if necessary.

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Linking bibliographic records to the Wikipedia
by erlanda_simonyan＠flib.sci.am 22 Mar '23

22 Mar '23

Dear list, We are using Koha 21.05.19 and using JS to link 1xx fields in the bibliographic records to the Wikipedia relevant authors entry. We are cataloging in different scripts, e.g. Armenian books in Armenian (1xx is in Armenian), books in Cyrillic in Cyrillic script (e.g. 1xx is in Cyrillic), Persian books also are cataloged (e.g. 1xx is in Farsi), and Latin. Depending on the 1xx script (in each bibl. record only one script is present for 1xx), when pressing in Koha on Wikipedia icon next to the authors name we will be happy to be redirected to the different Wikipedia repositories, e.g. - for Armenian authors to be redirected to the hy.wikipedia.org - for Russian authors to be redirected to the ru.wikipedia.org - for English authors to be redirected to the en.wikipedia.org etc How to solve this problem? many thanks, Erlanda

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Koha Out of Memory
by Russel G. P. Shihepo 22 Mar '23

22 Mar '23

Hi everyone, I have an issue with the db-dumps created by Koha into the /var/spool/koha {instance name} . It finishes my memory. I was wondering whether running a CRON tab to auto delete these files will cause any harm. We run our own backups every 24 hours, thus we do not need these files. And does the database depend on these caches and dumps? Our koha is used to preserve African indigenous literature, and pre-colonial publications from the museum. Thank you so much in advance. Sincerely, Russel Shihepo Notitia Systems cc Namibia - Africa +264813223143

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Zebra reindexing issue
by David Liddle 22 Mar '23

22 Mar '23

Hello all! After enabling search for non-Roman scripts in our instances, as detailed at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_chains_configuration, I needed to rebuild the index. Our production and test systems run Koha 22.05.10 on Debian 11. As the process was running, the following message was displayed 6 times: "Use of uninitialized value $sub6 in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Filter/MARC/Index880InZebra.pm line 77." - What does this indicate? (I mean, beyond the obvious.) - Is it something that we should track down and correct? - How can we identify the bibliographic records that trigger the notice? There are no log entries that I can find with details about the records causing the message. Thank you in advance for your attention and help! David Liddle IT Manager david.liddle(a)wycliff.de (just not for this list) Wycliff e.V., https://wycliff.de Seminar für Sprache und Kultur, https://spracheundkultur.org Internationales Tagungszentrum Karimu, https://karimu.de

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Re: [Koha] Cataloging in Koha for dummies
by Hernandez, Heather H 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

Hi, Aida! I know nothing about UNIMARC, so I'm afraid I'm not much help with it. Luckily, there are a lot of people on these email lists who are, so I hope they'll answer! All my suggestions were based on MARC21, and the fields you mention are not MARC21, so please disregard my suggestions! But do, please, feel free to come to our CatSIG—there are people who attend who work in library consortia with international libraries, and I know they're more familiar with UNIMARC than I am! And some things are format-independent, e.g.: Regarding frameworks, I usually advise starting to troubleshoot one framework, for a book. Once that one is working with very basic fields for a book, one can use it as a basis for other frameworks if desired. (E.g., a serial is like a book record with fields added for title change(s), frequency, etc.) (And a thesis record is like a book record with added thesis note fields.) The simplest book to catalog first is usually well-known fiction--I would start there. Cheerio! h2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ms. Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers) Technical Services Librarian Library catalog: https://keys.bywatersolutions.com/<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkeys.bywa…> San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032 (office, generally M, W, F, telecommuting Tu,Th) heather_hernandez(a)nps.gov<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwebmail.l…>

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