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Group multiple items in a "box" for easy circulation
by Jason O'Neil 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Hi List I'm helping a high school library upgrade to koha, and they have a few unusual requests I'm trying to help with. They keep "boxes", collections of about 20 books relevant to specific topics that are loaned out to teachers. In circulation, they use a single barcode on the front of the box to check out, and all of the items will now be checked out to that patron. Similarly for checking in the items, using the barcode on the box will check in all the contained items. I'm wondering if Koha currently has any similar functionality? If not, I'll move to the devel list and talk about implementing it myself :) Thanks Jason O'Neil

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Is KOHA suitable for Digital Library?
by mohan pradhan 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

On 03/09/2011 01:13 AM, atiqse wrote: > I am new to KOHA ILS Solution, Can any body guide me that whether or not to > use the KOHA ILS in place of digital library requirements? > > To what extend can KOHA cater to manage digital contents (PDF and TIFF and > etc)? For Digital Library, you can use GSDL. We i.e. DlnetSA have developed Koha GSDL Live CD, this can be downloaded from the url: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsdlkohalive/ Mohan Raj Pradhan General Secretary DlnetSA e-mail: mpradhan(a)healthnet.org.np

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Re: [Koha] trouble placing hold on book
by ksckemperman＠chartermi.net 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi Bob, I am using version 3.00.06.008 The only place you suggested that I can't find is in circulation rules. I can't find a spot to specify the number of holds for patron categories. The only hold rule I can see on this screen is to specify holds allowed to item types, which I have set to default. Am I not finding the right spot or does it not exist on my version? I checked the other areas you suggested and from what I can understand, they all seem to be set properly. Thanks, Shelley On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Bob Birchall wrote: > Hi Shelley, > > What version of Koha are you using? > > Check your circulation rule - how many holds are allowed for that > category of patron? What is the holds policy for that library? > > Also check the following circulation system preferences to be sure > they have the value you want: > - CircControl > - HomeorHoldingBranch > - all of the preferences under the heading Holds Policy > > Hope that helps, > Bob Birchall > CALYX > > > > On 09/03/11 09:01, Shelley & Kurt Kemperman wrote: >> I tried and failed to place a hold on a book today. The book was >> already checked out and I wanted to place a hold so that when it was >> checked in, our volunteer would be alerted. I went to the book >> record, clicked place hold, then entered the student's number. I >> received the message "no copies are available to be placed on hold". >> Well of course not, if there was a copy available, I wouldn't need to >> place a hold - lol. Why can't I place the hold? >> >> Thanks, Shelley >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >> Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> > > > -- > Bob Birchall > Director > Calyx Group Pty Limited > > Mob: 0414 796 988 > Email: bob(a)calyx.net.au > Web: www.calyx.net.au > _______________________________________________ > 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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Help! Error starting Sip server.
by kotd 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi! I'm having a problem starting sip server on Ubuntu 10.10. Can anybody help to solve it? kotd@ubuntu-koha:/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/SIP$ sudo perl -I./ ./SIPServer.pm ./SIPServer.xml [sudo] password for kotd: Can't locate C4/Auth.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./ /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /Sip/MsgType.pm line 20. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Sip/MsgType.pm line 20. Compilation failed in require at ./SIPServer.pm line 17. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./SIPServer.pm line 17. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Help-Error-starting-Sip-server-tp3423393p… Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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problems saving bid record
by amutsikiwa 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi all, I upgrade my koha system from 3.0.06 to 3.2.3. I had problems on 3.2.2. I used my back up to revert to 3.0.0.6. Now I cannot add bibliographic record. I am getting the error attached in the attached file. Regards, Admire Mutsikiwa

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software error message - authorities
by Elaine Bradtke 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I tried to delete an authority record with 0 biblios and got the following message: Undefined subroutine &C4::AuthoritiesMarc::prepare called at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm line 720. We're running 3.2.5. I can't seem to delete any authorities at the moment. Any idea what this means, or how we can fix it? -- 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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Fwd: Request to mailing list LibLime-Users rejected
by Buster 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hello, all. I have been following the discourse about LibLime on here with interest, as we will be searching a vendor for our selected system (which is Koha, of course). However, I had read little from those who actually use LibLime as a vendor. Since there are so many out there I assumed I was missing something. On a recent visit to a library consortium in Texas that uses LibLime, the director of that system told me about a LibLime listserv. Figuring I might receive different information from that list (and thus allowing me to pass on pros and cons to our director, instead of just cons), I attempted to sign on to the list, only to receive the the below rejection notice. So much for "open source". Why the secretive approach if the system is not proprietary? But, I'm still seeking information on PTFS/LibLime. So, if there are any customers of this vendor lurking out there, I would love to hear from you, either pro or con. You may email me off list if you are more comfortable with that. My email is storypage [at] gmail.com. Thanks in advance, --Jim Maroon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <liblime-users-bounces(a)lists.liblime.com> Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:45 PM Subject: Request to mailing list LibLime-Users rejected To: storypage(a)gmail.com Your request to the LibLime-Users mailing list Subscription request has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the following reason for rejecting your request: "We appreciate your interest - but this list is a private list for customers of LibLime - if you are interested in our services - please let us know http://www.liblime.com/contact" Any questions or comments should be directed to the list administrator at: liblime-users-owner(a)lists.liblime.com -- ================================================== "The man, who, by his own and his family's labour, can provide a sufficiency of food and raiment and a comfortable dwelling place, is not a poor man."--William Cobbett, *Cottage Economy*, 1826.

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Koha question about 942 $n suppression
by Linda Culberson 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Everyone, I could use some advice here from those who use the 942 subfield $n to suppress records from the opac. When we create records they are generally suppressed upon creation, and then double-checked by a supervisor (or sometimes by the cataloger themselves) who removes the suppression. Is this possible in Koha, and if so, how is the best way to achieve it? 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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Re: [Koha] Idea: Basing Cart off Items instead of Biblios
by Ian Walls 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

You can still have items of different item types attached to a single biblio; that's no problem. And you could still have patrons add the biblios to their Carts, for tagging, putting on Lists or placing Biblio-level holds (amongst many others). This should work just fine. If this does break your use-case, though, you can disable the Cart for patrons by turning off opacbasket in the system preferences area. -Ian On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:06 AM, <hansbkk(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/3/10 Robin Sheat <robin(a)catalyst.net.nz>: > >> Or, maybe having two separate Carts, Biblios and Items, would be the > >> way to go, though that seems to be overcomplicating things. > > > > Presumably an option so that a cart can contain both items and biblios > > would be a good middle-ground. A little more complex to deal with > > programmatically, but if written properly it shouldn't be too bad. It > > would also be easy to have a syspref that lets this be items > > only/biblios only/both, as it would just have to change a bit of OPAC > > UI. > > Wow, the fact that carts are biblio-level is news to me, and actually > throws a bit of a spanner in the works for my plans for using > item-level item-types. > > I was really hoping to take advantage of the fact that I could have > different types of items associated with a single biblio record. But > it seems if I go this route, then I should disable Carts for patrons? > Is that even an option? > > To review my situation with an example: > > > My current use case is that I have multiple media types for a single > film. It's all exactly the same video, not a different edition, but one > might be a disc that's playable on a consumer player (Disc-Video), another > may contain computer files (Disc-Data), another combines both (Disc-Mixed), > some of our VHS tapes haven't been converted yet, and some really old home > movies are even on 35mm! > > If I catalog these as separate biblios, this will creates multiple > identical copies of the biblio-level MARC data, and just different > ("holdings level") data in the items table, including item type. So > when a patron searches for "2009 Proms Gala" they will get four > identical but separate results. > > Also, I'm planning on using user tagging, virtual shelves, etc. which > if I use duplicated biblio-level item-types will somehow need to be > synchronized between duplicate biblio records - yech! > > Any advice would be appreciated > -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.walls(a)bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal

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Fwd: Access to British Library Z39.50 servers
by Elaine Bradtke 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Just in case anyone is experiencing difficulty with the British Library servers - there's a reason for it and it should be temporary. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lowery, John <John.Lowery(a)bl.uk> Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:20 AM Subject: Access to British Library Z39.50 servers To: "Lowery, John" <John.Lowery(a)bl.uk> Cc: "Tiplady, John" <John.Tiplady(a)bl.uk> Due to problems with our servers you may be experiencing intermittent connection problems to our MARC Z39.50 service. We are currently working on upgrading our servers and hope to have this work completed in the next 2 – 3 weeks. Please accept our apologies for this problem and thank you for your patience while we resolve the problem. Regards John ------------------------------ [image: British Library Logo - www.bl.uk] <http://www.bl.uk/> *John Lowery** **Online Systems Analyst** **Metadata Services* *THE BRITISH LIBRARY** **Boston Spa** **WETHERBY** **West Yorkshire** **LS23 7BQ** **United Kingdom** **www.bl.uk* *T +44 (0) 1937 546551** **F +44 (0) 1937 546586** **john.lowery(a)bl.uk* ------------------------------ ************************************************************************** Experience the British Library online at www.bl.uk The British Library’s new interactive Annual Report and Accounts 2009/10 : www.bl.uk/knowledge Help the British Library conserve the world's knowledge. Adopt a Book. www.bl.uk/adoptabook The Library's St Pancras site is WiFi - enabled ************************************************************************* The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and notify the postmaster(a)bl.uk : The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the British Library. The British Library does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. ************************************************************************* Think before you print -- 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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