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Access 2011 Conference - Early Bird registration reminder
by Shirley Lew 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

It's only 112 days until the Access 2011 conference this fall. A friendly reminder to look at the schedule and started making plans to come to Vancouver! We're also still accepting Hackfest project suggestions: http://access2011.library.ubc.ca/hackfest/<https://red001.mail.microsoftonline.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e6365a5e10a48da80…> Early Bird registration rate is only available until August 1st http://access2011.library.ubc.ca/registration/<https://red001.mail.microsoftonline.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e6365a5e10a48da80…>. At only $169/night the conference hotel is quickly booking up. The rate is available for several days before and after the conference, but you must book through the link on the conference website http://access2011.library.ubc.ca/hotel/<https://red001.mail.microsoftonline.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e6365a5e10a48da80…> . Open data, open source development and community building, digital preservation, and artful data visualization! We hope to see you here for all this and more October 19-22, 2011 in Vancouver. Shirley Lew Access 2011 Conference Planning Committee Follow us on Twitter - @access_2011

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Koha 3.4.2 is now available
by Chris Nighswonger 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.2. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.02.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.02.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.02.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.02.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.4.2 are below. Come and get it! RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.4.2 - 27 June 2011 ======================================================================== Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org/ Koha 3.4.2 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.02.tar.gz Installation instructions can be found at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball Koha 3.4.2 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.4.2 ====================== 6518 blocker XSS vulnerabilities in the OPAC 2246 critical Label printing doesn't work with Unicode characters 4993 critical ldap search always anonymous when using auth_by_bind 5658 critical can't delete subfields in frameworks 5683 critical link_bibs_to_authorities.pl can corrupt records 5860 critical Adding duplicate stocknumber will fail silently 6343 critical Label Creator not working, Current Branch: NULL 6395 critical cannot create routing list - template error? 6472 critical HidePatronName no longer works as stated 6525 critical hold filled emails not going out 3140 major It is possible to email someone else's private list 4319 major waiting items cannot be reserved 5094 major auth_by_bind authentication can fail even if given a correct password and userid 5918 major When AddPatronLists is set to "general" and EnhancedMessagingPreferences is set, messaging prefs not copied from defaults 6258 major Guided reports wizard 'Build new' brings up empty page 6300 major can't get to other pages of marc import 6340 major Pagination bar on guided reports result page broken 6351 major Cannot delete library-specific circulation rules 6370 major news showing that it's for the opac when it's for the librarian interface 6452 major Missing SQL placeholders 6497 major MARC URLs not showing up in both OPAC and staff client Details page under non-XSLT view Bugs fixed in 3.4.2 ====================== 5509 Packaging scripts get upset when there's an LDAP configuration in the koha_conf.xml 5653 default new label layout and sample data have broken call number placeholder 5684 Z3950 search on OCLC pulls in items (tag 952) 5868 Subject indexes do not search most 6xx fields 6031 koha-rebuild-zebra doesn't allow XML and verbose indexing 6067 When Add Duplicate changing framework would lose data 6103 Many MARC21 fields not searched with CCL indexes due to misconfiguration 6131 (unimarc only) improper index name for personal-name 6170 'More options' in advanced search broken 6306 It is not possible edit news 6337 Variable scope errors in staff client cart print view 6338 Datepickers on OPAC hold form does not work 6342 Help link doesn't popup anymore contextual help page 6353 Erroneous prefixes before the singleBranchMode preference 6355 Late orders report shows cancelled orders 6363 The "Item Location" selectbox in inventory.pl doesn't appear when the default MARC framework is the only one avaiable. 6364 Display of item availability broken on OPAC detail screen 6365 Missing information about tab number when mandatory fields unfilled 6402 Lists sorted by year appear to be empty 6408 column alignment off on the patron categories admin 6409 pagination bar for guided report output does not work if report has parameters 6417 Template variable errors in Guided Reports 6436 Don't allow deletion of an itemtype used in items.itype 6444 Encoding problems with vendor names in subscription-add.pl 6446 batch item deletion interface problems 6463 Authorities browsing error when using auth. plugins 6487 No error explanation if patron expiration date is missing 6510 "Sort by" in intranet search alters search and number of hits 6512 Time missing from Item circulation history table 6521 Editing a patron fails with blank cardnumber 5268 Language Issue: Debarred 5714 Unescaped ampersands in OPAC facets 6091 Remove undeclared syspref OPACAdvSearchInputCount 6357 Items (un)availability not displayed correctly (OPAC) 6367 'Preview MARC' hover button does not show correct MARC record 6375 Markup and style corrections for overdue report 6377 fines should be red on patron search 6378 Misaligned columns on tags approval page 6388 Broken pager images in branch_transfer_limits.tt 6389 Administration menu like Tools menu 6397 Mis-named variable in .TT causes table cell shift 6442 opacnav pref explained wrong 6453 The "Compare barcodes list to results" functionnality of inventory.pl can't find barcodes 6462 Authority type is not displayed in OPAC 5020 on patron record sex should be gender 6332 missing 'clear date' link 6350 Bug for tracking updates to the history file 6401 Give Ian Walls credit in the history file. 6459 Needless call to C4::Context->dbh in C4::Templates::themelanguage() 5929 Use branch admin email for advance_notice.pl emails 6050 GetItemsInfo ignores second parameter 6294 Add {BIBLIONUMBER} parsing support to SearchForTitleIn syspref 6347 Bug in opac-reserve.pl stopping item level holds 6362 Fix MARC display in OPAC 6415 Can't make a patron card batch 6429 Updating development team in about 6433 rebuild_zebra.pl does not handle MARC::Record exceptions gracefully 6464 Add inconsistence check for '%s' count in tmpl_process3.pl 6491 Add Div in privacy page System requirements ====================== Changes since 3.2: * Template::Toolkit Documentation ====================== As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/documentation/ As of the date of these release notes, only the english version of the Koha manual is available: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-4-manual/ The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary Translations ====================== Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages: * Chinese * Danish * English (New Zealand) * English (USA) * French (France) * French (Canada) * German * Greek * Hindi * Italian * Norwegian * Portuguese * Spanish * Turkish Partial translations are available for various other languages. The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate The most up-to-date translations can be found at: http://translate.koha-community.org/ Release Team ====================== The release team for Koha 3.4 is Release Manager: Chris Cormack <chrisc(a)catalyst.net.nz> Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> Translation Manager: FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians <frederic(a)tamil.fr> Release Maintainer (3.2.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> QA Manager: Colin Campbell Credits ====================== We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.4.2. Tomas Cohen Arazi Alex Arnaud D Ruth Bavousett Jared Camins-Esakov Colin Campbell FrÃ©dÃ©rick Capovilla Galen Charlton Chris Cormack Jeremy Crabtree Elliott Davis FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians Nicole C. Engard Magnus Enger Katrin Fischer Srdjan JankoviÄ‡ Janusz Kaczmarek Owen Leonard FrÃ¨re SÃ©bastien Marie Ricardo Dias Marques Chris Nighswonger Dobrica Pavlinusic Ian Walls MJ Ray Liz Rea Marcel de Rooy Robin Sheat Fridolyn Somers We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-patches(a)lists.koha-community.org. Revision control notes ====================== The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git The branch for Koha 3.4.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix releases) is 3.4.x. The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.6.0. Bugs and feature requests ====================== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini

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Adding Stop Words
by Zachary Spalding 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Does anyone know how to add stop words to a Koha instance using Zebra? I think they need to be added to the word-phrase-utf.chr file, but the formatting in that file is not clear to me. I would like to add the words 'and' and 'or' because I notice that if you do a search with them Zebra is using them as search terms, which is a behavior I do not want. Thanks -- Zachary Spalding Systems Manager Southeastern NY Library Resources Council 21 S. Elting Corners Rd Highland, NY 12528 Phone: 845-883-9065x11 Fax: 845-883-9483 Email: spalding(a)senylrc.org

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scanning call numbers
by Linda Culberson 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

All, I was asked by a staff member whether there a browse capability, specifically browse call numbers? I'm not finding anything in the documentation. 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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Linux anti-virus software and other security issues
by Buster 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Hello, all. We have selected Koha for our ILS and plan to run it in a virtual machine on a Windows server. The contract goes before our City Council tomorrow night. It is on the consent agenda, which means it will be voted on along with a slew of other measures. There is no debate, just up or down vote, unless a councilman has a concern. A councilman has a concern. He is the former head of our IT department, is a Windows guy, and dislikes and distrusts anything Linux. His specific concern is security. Namely, he is worried someone can hack into our system and steal patron information. He is also concerned about mal-ware in general and wants us to install antivirus software on it. So I guess my questions are, how do I answer the patron information concern, and how do I answer the malware concern? How do the rest of you handle Linux security concerns? What antivirus software do you use and from whence do you get it? Please explain it to me in a way even a Windows guy with zero understanding of Linux will understand it. Thanks in advance, Jim Maroon

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Re: [Koha] Data Migration Issues...
by Somasekhar Rao K 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Hi, The concatenation as suggested by you works while importing data into Koha and it generates only one item. In the initial marc file there are different entries for 952 sub fields. I edited the marc file using marc editor and concatenated the 952 subfields as one line 952$a[Value]$b[Value]$c[Value]$p... It is ok to do for one record. But how to do it for multiple records. I meant how to cancatenate 952 subrecords for multiple records in a marc file. The data will not be the same for all items. Can you please suggest? Regards, Somasekhar Rao K 2011/6/27 R Sunil Kumar <sunil.kumar(a)ecoleglobal.com> > Dear Bob, > > There are fields which are changing in each bib records like barcode > number, > prices, shelf location (for many book shelf location is different). Do I > have to mentioned each value in column. Attached is the MARC specification > file. > > Thanks and Regards > > R Sunil Kumar > Library Technologist > +91-9686576695 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Birchall [mailto:bob@calyx.net.au] > Sent: 27 June 2011 17:32 > To: sunil.kumar(a)ecoleglobal.com > Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: Re: Data Migration Issues... > > On 27/06/11 21:04, R Sunil Kumar wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > During migration all data is successfully migrated MARC Tag from 020$ to > 830 > > but all errors. > > > > 942$c (BK- defined in the Item type - Basic Parameter - Administration) > > 952$a (OSL - Defined in the Library, Branches, Group - Basic Parameter - > > Administration) > > 952$b (OSL - Defined in the Library, Branches, Group - Basic Parameter - > > Administration) > > 952$c (Primary, Secondary, Senior, UK - Defined in the Authorized Values > - > > created a new one with LOC and defined all the lists mentioned) > > 952$d (Receipt Date) > > 952$g (Price of the book item) > > 952$p (Barcode number starting from Lib0000006562...) > > 952$t (copy number 6562...) > > 952$y (BK - Koha Item Type) > > 952$8 (Arts, English, General, etc.... all are defined in the Authorized > > Values - created a new one with CCODE and defined) > > > > > > Please note that following items 952$p and 952$t is required but 952$p is > > for circulation only whereas 952$t is for library patron. > > > > Issue: > > > > When I migrate the database, the system is taking multiple copies (for[ > > example 5 copies or 7 copies) and all the details mentioned above is > > individually appearing in each copy. > > > > Please help on the same. > > > > Thanks and Regards > Please reply to the list. Then others can also help you, and others may > learn from your experience. > > Because you have nine 952 tags, Koha thinks you have 9 items attached to > each bib. Instead, arrange a single 952 like this: > 952$a[Value]$b[Value]$c[Value]$p... and so on. (Don't put brackets [] > in your data: replace [Value] in each sub-field with the appropriate > value.) > > I hope that helps, > Bob Birchall > CALYX > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Guided reports not working in 3.4
by Elaine Bradtke 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

In 3.4 I went to create a report using guided reports and all I get is a blank screen when I clicked on Build New Used Saved and Create from SQL seem to work ok. -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Cornelius Simba via LinkedIn 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

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Re: [Koha] [CODE4LIB] call for programmers who know Koha!
by Joann Ransom 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg10851.html Madrigal, Juan A Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:25:05 -0700 I'd be interested in learning more about the project. Thanks! Juan Madrigal Web Developer Web and Emerging Technologies University of Miami Richter Library On 6/23/11 11:20 AM, "Caitlin McGurk" <mcg...(a)cartoonstudies.org> wrote: >Hello! I've recently built a Koha ILS for my institutions OPAC, and we've >run into quite a few snags. Hoping I could connect with someone on here >that >knows a bit about Koha and/or Library Thing For Libraries, as we've >integrated them both. > >Firstly, when using LTFL, tags are imported to a separate tag cloud than >tags originally made from Koha. We are trying to combine these into one >tag >cloud instead, but can't figure out how. > >Second- LTFL comes with a "tag browser", a separate search engine for the >LTFL tags. We are trying to get the html for just the tag browser so that >we >can embed it into our front page. > >Help, please! >Caitlin McGurk > >-- >Caitlin McGurk >*Librarian >The Schulz Library >The Center for Cartoon Studies <http://www.cartoonstudies.org> >mcg...(a)cartoonstudies.org* -- Joann Ransom RLIANZA Head of Libraries, Horowhenua Library Trust.

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Re: [Koha] Data Migration Issues...
by Bob Birchall 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

On 27/06/11 21:04, R Sunil Kumar wrote: > Dear All, > > During migration all data is successfully migrated MARC Tag from 020$ to 830 > but all errors. > > 942$c (BK- defined in the Item type - Basic Parameter - Administration) > 952$a (OSL - Defined in the Library, Branches, Group - Basic Parameter - > Administration) > 952$b (OSL - Defined in the Library, Branches, Group - Basic Parameter - > Administration) > 952$c (Primary, Secondary, Senior, UK - Defined in the Authorized Values - > created a new one with LOC and defined all the lists mentioned) > 952$d (Receipt Date) > 952$g (Price of the book item) > 952$p (Barcode number starting from Lib0000006562...) > 952$t (copy number 6562...) > 952$y (BK - Koha Item Type) > 952$8 (Arts, English, General, etc.... all are defined in the Authorized > Values - created a new one with CCODE and defined) > > > Please note that following items 952$p and 952$t is required but 952$p is > for circulation only whereas 952$t is for library patron. > > Issue: > > When I migrate the database, the system is taking multiple copies (for[ > example 5 copies or 7 copies) and all the details mentioned above is > individually appearing in each copy. > > Please help on the same. > > Thanks and Regards Please reply to the list. Then others can also help you, and others may learn from your experience. Because you have nine 952 tags, Koha thinks you have 9 items attached to each bib. Instead, arrange a single 952 like this: 952$a[Value]$b[Value]$c[Value]$p... and so on. (Don't put brackets [] in your data: replace [Value] in each sub-field with the appropriate value.) I hope that helps, Bob Birchall CALYX

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