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Managing ebooks and databases
by Joann Ransom 17 May '11

17 May '11

Good morning my Koha friends, I need some advice. We are running 3.2 and within a few months we will be joing a consortia offering ebooks for download. It will either be Overdrive or a vendor using the Overdrive platform. I am not interesting in discussing how bad / evel etc Overdrive are - I have no choice as practically all of NZ will be joining together into several consortia. My question is how do Koha libraries provide access to ebooks within the Koha OPAC? Ditto with suubscription databases - is there a clever way to manage these in a useful ways for library patrons? Thanks in advance, Cheers Jo. -- Joann Ransom RLIANZA Head of Libraries, Horowhenua Library Trust.

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Search has stopped working
by Chris Hobbs 17 May '11

17 May '11

Our search has stopped working in both the staff client and the OPAC. Regardless of the type of search we attempt, we end up with nothing being found. Based on prior similar issues posted on the mailing list, here's what we've confirmed and/or attempted: 1) OpacSuppression is, and has been, set to 'hide', an index exists on 'Suppress' (we use MARC21), and there are currently 84 suppressed biblios in the system. 2) I ran rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -r in the hope that corrupt indexes were the problem. Two distinct [warn]'s pop up ("Index 'any' not found in attset(s)" and "Index 'Heading-Main' not found in attset(s)"), both of which I'm pretty sure we've been receiving since day one, but no errors and the indexing finishes. 3) Nothing in the system has changed recently (in many weeks, in fact). We are running version 3.01.00.140 and planning on upgrading to 3.4 this coming weekend. What do I check next? Thanks! Chris -- Chris Hobbs Director, Technology New Haven Unified School District

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Call for Newsletter Articles
by Nicole Engard 17 May '11

17 May '11

The newsletter is published on the 25th of each month, that means I need some content ;) I have no articles as of yet for this newsletter. Please send me your stories (big and small) so I can share the Koha news with everyone. Articles due by the 23rd (your local time). Thanks Nicole

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Re: [Koha] Koha answer re linking to individual items in Koha
by Linda Culberson 16 May '11

16 May '11

All, Sorry, everyone, I spoke too soon. The combination with the barcode did not work. Still working on it and would appreciate hearing from anyone working on a similar problem. Thanks. On 5/16/2011 3:43 PM, Linda Culberson wrote: > > > On 5/16/2011 3:30 PM, Linda Culberson wrote: >> From experimentation, I found that this works: >> http://koha.mdah.state.ms.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=$bibn… >> >> >> >> >> On 5/16/2011 3:23 PM, Linda Culberson wrote: >>> All, >>> Is there a way in Koha to get a link to a specific item or holding >>> either by barcode or itemnumber or some combination of fields? For >>> example, in our current system we can use either items.barcode or the >>> equivalent combination of items.biblionumber & items.enumchron fields. >>> Thanks in advance. >> > -- 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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Koha linking to individual items in Koha
by Linda Culberson 16 May '11

16 May '11

All, Is there a way in Koha to get a link to a specific item or holding either by barcode or itemnumber or some combination of fields? For example, in our current system we can use either items.barcode or the equivalent combination of items.biblionumber & items.enumchron fields. Thanks in advance. -- 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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DO i have to have zebra to search for Item under KOHA?
by uknet80 16 May '11

16 May '11

Dear experts, after installing KOHA, I added several records, but when i try searching for record I get no results (book not found). Do I have to have zebra search engine to search for item under KOHA, or zebra's job is just to speed search query? I have sent several question on this site, no one ready to give an answer, can anyone help please. thanks -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/DO-i-have-to-have-zebra-to-search-for-Ite… Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Koha advanced search 1 result brings up MARC view
by Linda Culberson 16 May '11

16 May '11

All, On our Koha version 3.02.02.003, when we do an advanced "phrase" search - such as title phrase - which has one result, instead of going to the normal view it is going to the MARC view. Has anyone else noticed this behavior? 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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Re: [Koha] vanishing contents in lists and Error message Can't "next" outside a loop block at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/XSLT.pm line 67.
by Elaine Bradtke 16 May '11

16 May '11

Owen, thanks for the pointer. That might explain the empty lists. But the problem seems much bigger than that. I accessed the lists first. But something is scrambled. It's possible to search for things, but clicking on an item in the search results brings up an error message: Can't "next" outside a loop block at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/XSLT.pm line 67. Here's what my IT person did to clone the site. I wonder if he's missed a step? Snapshot the production database mysqldump --add-drop-table koha | gzip > /home/koha/koha.20110213-1750.sql.gz Stop Koha Test zebra processes /etc/init.d/koha-test-zebra-daemon stop /etc/init.d/koha-test-zebraque-daemon stop Update the Test mysql instance (koha_test) zcat /home/koha/koha.20110213-1750.sql.gz | mysql -u root koha_test Access the test admin and fix several preferences: OPACBaseURL StaffClientBaseURL intranetcolorstylesheet: intranet-test-color.css IntranetNav HTML needs to be updated. Rebuild the Zebra indexes chdir /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools su koha export KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/test-conf.xml ./rebuild_zebra.pl -r -a ./rebuild_zebra.pl -r -b Restart Zebra daemons (you’ll need to be root) /etc/init.d/koha-test-zebra-daemon start /etc/init.d/koha-test-zebraque-daemon start

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Koha hardware interface
by ajesh＠maxenna.com 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hi, I have recently installed Koha3.4 on Ubuntu. I would like to interface an RFID reader with Koha. More specifically when the user goes to Circulation -> check out -> and enter the patron details, there will be a place to "Enter item barcode". The usual procedure is that the barcode scanner will fill in this value. But what we want to implement is an RFID reader instead of the barcode scanner. Each book will have a RFID tag. The patron will pick the books from the shelf and bring it and place some books on top of RFID reader which will read all the books at once, say for example 4-5 books at once. My doubt is how can I read this information into koha. Any suggestion please. On further thought, I was thinking on developing an application which would read the data from the RFID reader and update the MySQL database in the same way/format Koha would do. Would someone recommend doing it this way. If so how do I develop this application. Because I know C#.net and VB.net. But these can be used only for developing application on windows. How do I develop an application that will run on Ubuntu and suffice as an interface for Koha. Regards Ajesh

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Fwd: Course Reserves
by Ian Walls 16 May '11

16 May '11

All, Yes, ByWater has received some funding to make Hourly Loans happen, and we're working with Catalyst to get it done. The goal is to get it working as soon as possible, but as stated, it's a big development, and will require lots of testing and integration. All the work will be made available to the entire community, and every effort shall be made to make sure it's of high enough quality and completeness to be integrated back into Koha (I cannot promise it's integration by any specific date as I'm not the Release Manager and the current release is time-based not feature based; I can only promise my efforts towards quality assurance). Cheers, -Ian On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Margo and Owen, > > Yes, ByWater is working on hourly loans (I think with Catalyst - but I > might be mixing up developments), but for most that is not enough for > course reserves, so that's why I said what I said :) > > As for date, that's Ian's arena so he'll have to say where the development > is. > > Nicole > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard(a)myacpl.org> wrote: > >> Development by ByWater. The hourly loan portion, at least (which, > selfishly, is the only part of reserves I'm really wanting right now). > > > > Well if ByWater says they're working on it then we know we'll get it > > when it's done. > > > > They talk the talk *and* walk the walk :) > > > > -- Owen > > > > > > -- > > Web Developer > > Athens County Public Libraries > > http://www.myacpl.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions ALA Booth 732 Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.walls(a)bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal

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