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Inventory/Stocktaking Functions in Koha 3.02.06
by Darcy Gullacher 03 May '11

03 May '11

Good afternoon, If anyone has used the Inventory/Stocktaking feature in Koha 3.02.06, I have a few questions: - First of all, I loaded a same sample of 52 item barcodes using MS Notepad. The load went fine, and the “Date Last Seen” updated to the current date. - However, all that happens is “Date Last Seen” is updated. If an item is not on the shelf, the tool does not indicate that an item is missing. Also, if an item is mishelved but its barcode is scanned, then the “Date Last Seen” is updated, but the tool does not indicate that the item is actually mishelved. To do both an inventory and a shelf-reading, I'm assuming it would be smarter to pull up a listing of items using call number range under “Select items you want to check” and manually check for items instead of loading a barcode file. Is this a correct assumption? - What does the item statuses feature do? Every time I try to limit a search by an item status I get no results. To my mind, this should limit search results to items of a certain status. - What do the “Inventory Date” and the “compare barcodes list to results” features at the bottom third of the page do? Thanks in advance for any and all advice. Darcy Gullacher Head Librarian Rocky Mountain College 4039 Brentwood Road N.W. Calgary, AB T2L 1L1 Phone: (403) 284-5100 ext. 244 Fax: (403) 220-9567 www.rockymountaincollege.ca "It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." -- Ernest Hemingway

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Koha - changing advance search page
by Linda Culberson 02 May '11

02 May '11

All, I'm trying to figure out out to remove whole sections from the advanced search in Koha, notably, Language and Subtype limits. I saw that Horowhenua Library Trust had done it for the subtype limits and there is an id="subtypes". But I can't figure out how to make the Language limits go away since there doesn't seem to be an id for that one. 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 Facsimile: 601/576-6824

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printing items in cart
by Sandra Busutel 02 May '11

02 May '11

Hi All We have found that the only way to print All the items in the cart is by selecting 'control P'. The print option on the cart page will only print the first 3 pages.Is anyone else having this problem Sandra -- Mrs Sandra Busutel Director of Information Services St Peter's Anglican Primary School Howe St Campbelltown 2560 Email:sbusutel@stpeters.nsw.edu.au PH 02 4627 2990 Fax 02 4627 4789

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An entertaining article about libraries and librarians
by hansbkk＠gmail.com 02 May '11

02 May '11

Check out the bit about being sure to wake up sleeping patrons - in case they're dead!! http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/01/the-secret-life-of-librarie

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Help- 3M RFID and Koha
by Mark Osborne 02 May '11

02 May '11

Kia ora whanau, We've got a new 3M RFID security system and self check unit being installed (which is wonderful, and a really exciting development for our library). The problem is that the 3M technician installing the system says that the RFID reader needs Windows XP middleware (called 'Pad Staff Workstation Model 895') to go between the RFID reader and the catalogue. We are an open source school and run Linux on the desktop so we don't want to have to use XP just to run our security system. This is strange given the RFID reader has a USB interface- I would have thought it would put the text string directly into the browser like our barcode reader used to do. The technician also said that we can't catalogue items directly into Koha, we need to use the 3M RFID Conversion Software. This sounds nuts to me. Does anyone have experience with 3M RFID systems and Koha? Is there a way to run Linux, Koha and 3M security whilst keeping one's sanity? -- Hei konā mai, Mark Osborne Deputy Principal, Albany Senior High School. http://wikieducator.org/Albany_Senior_High_School http://wikieducator.org/Albany_Senior_High_School/ICTs

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Koha authority
by Sunitha 02 May '11

02 May '11

Hi , I am facing a problem with my koha authorities. In Koha Admin, under the menu item "More" choose "Authorities". At the resulting screen a search using "Search Authorities" produces no results; Also, when importing a record, using the "Tag editor" at the end of the author field to open a screen and search for the authority record gives no results if the heading is in the "Main entry ($a only)" field but does work if the "Main entry" field is used. Could someone tell me what is the problem? Please help me... -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-authority-tp4364371p4364371.html Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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memc missing
by Paul 02 May '11

02 May '11

During checks prior to installing 3.4, I found: paul@server2:~/koha3.4/koha-3.04.00.000$ ./koha_perl_deps.pl -u -m Module Name Current Version Required Version Module Required --------------------------------------------------------------------- CGI::Session::Driver::memc 0 * 0.04 Graphics::Magick 1.3.12 * 1.3.5 Does anyone know where CGI::Session::Driver::memc might be found? I thought it could be libcache-memcached-perl but we seem to be up-to-date. Many thanks, Paul Tired old sys-admin

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3.2.7 noZebra to 3.4 Zebra
by Bob Ewart 01 May '11

01 May '11

I'm currently running 3.2.7 noZebra although Zebra packages have been installed. I'm going to 3.4 with Zebra. The question is: should I convert to Zebra before or after I do the upgrade to 3.4? I tried to switch to Zebra once before on 3.2.2 and couldn't get it to update properly when cataloging. Where is a good description of how to switch to Zebra? Thanks -- Bob

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perl modue Graphics::Magick not found
by uknet80 01 May '11

01 May '11

Question: Hi guys, I am trying to install KOHA, (Install Graphics::Magick) I got following error: ((( Warning: Cannot install Graphics::Magick, don’t know what it is. Try the command I /Graphics::Magick/ To find objects with matching identifiers. ))) Then I install GraphicsMagick-1.3.7-4.el5.x86_64.rpm and GraphicsMagick-devel-1.3.7-4.el5.x86_64.rpm Still after running my program which is called koha, it gives me error message (Warning: prerequisite Graphics::Magick 1.3.5 not found.) What is the solution, is it version issue or something else? -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/perl-modue-Graphics-Magick-not-found-tp43… Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Undefined subroutine
by Cybermon 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Dear All, When I update patron information by UTF-8 by ,,,/koha/opac-userupdate.pl ? I have following error: Undefined subroutine &Mail::Sendmail::encode called at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/Sendmail.pm line 308. I just added following script for /usr/share/perl5/Mail/sendmail.pm $mail{'Message'} = encode_qp(encode("UTF-8", $mail{'Message'})); How can I fix it ? Gana

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