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KohaCon 2011 voting result
by Vimal Kumar 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

The KohaCon 2011 Location Survey is closed.Total of 877 responses received. If you voted for a location as your first choice it got 4 points, your second choice 3 points, and so on. Below is the break down in points. * Thane, India [ End October - Beginning November ] 2640+150+62+33= 2885 * Kathmandu, Nepal [ November / December 2011 ] 432+96+186+24= 738 * Kolkata, India [ November / December 2011 ] 156+339+104+33= 632 * Somerset or Bristol, UK [ September / October 2011 ] 160+141+72+108 = 481 Over whelming response shows that growing number of Koha users from India. And many libraries would like to adopt Koha in future. Thank you again for your support in favor of Koha community. Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.co.nr Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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worldcat search target?
by Caitlin McGurk 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

Hey Koha- Is there a way for me to use WorldCat as one of our search targets? Could someone explain to me how to set this up, or where I'd get the coding for it? Thanks! Caitlin -- Caitlin McGurk Librarian The Schulz Library The Center for Cartoon Studies McGurk(a)cartoonstudies.org

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Barcode Printing
by Prasanth 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

Dear all, Please inform me about bar code printing and de-signing features in Koha. These fecility available or not in Koha version 2.2.5.Now we using this version but unable to generate barcode.pls advice me. Regards Prasanth Librarian Chinmaya Institute Of Technology Kannur,Kerala India

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KohaCon 2011 : The Votes Are In
by Nicole Engard 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

Hello all, The KohaCon 2011 Location Survey is closed. We had a total of 877 responses. If you voted for a location as your first choice it got 4 points, your second choice 3 points, and so on. Below is the break down in points. ** Thane, India [ End October - Beginning November ] 2640+150+62+33= 2885 ** Kathmandu, Nepal [ November / December 2011 ] 432+96+186+24= 738 Kolkata, India [ November / December 2011 ] 156+339+104+33= 632 Somerset or Bristol, UK [ September / October 2011 ] 160+141+72+108 = 481 The raw results will be posted to the wiki (I can't upload a CSV file - I need some admin help). I do want to know what your opinions are about posting the full CSV file to the wiki - it does have all our email addresses. I might remove that column before posting if enough people express a concern about that or just email the CSV to those who want to see the raw results and not worry about posting it publicly at all. Even if we ignore votes from those who didn't fill in all the information I'm pretty sure we have a winner. Thanks Nicole C. Engard PS. I recommend that we soon move on to voting for the location for 2012 so that we can get on top of things and conference planners have more time to prepare.

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Edit the Comments feature
by Cole Hudson 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

Hi all, I'm running Koha 3.02 on Ubuntu 10.10. I'm trying to edit the comments feature that displays with each record in the opac. I'd like to edit it where the name of patron is not pulled from each patron record-so as to make comments anonymous. Could someone point me in the right direction here on what code to edit/remove? Thanks. Cole Hudson Library Assistant MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine Macomb University Center

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Re: [Koha] Checkout and other tasks takes a while
by Thommy M. Malmström 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

2011/2/18 Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen(a)gmail.com>: > 2011/2/18 Thommy M. Malmström <thommy.m.malmstrom(a)gmail.com>: >> >> What I find is that a checkout takes 35 seconds for a single item and >> my question is what part of the spec is most important for better >> performance? > > What are you calling "checkout"? You mean the process of searching for > a patron, choosing him, introducing the barcode of the item and koha > updating the page? Or do you mean just the barcode part? With checkout I mean the time from I hit the button "Check Out" to the right of where I entered the bar code until the web page is updated.

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Checkout and other tasks takes a while
by Thommy M. Malmström 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Hi all! Iv'e done a test installation (for demonstration purposes) of Koha 3.2.3 on my laptop with Ubuntu 10.10 (32-bit). See specs below. What I find is that a checkout takes 35 seconds for a single item and my question is what part of the spec is most important for better performance? What are your times for different tasks and what specs are your servers? CPU: 1.8GHz Turion 64 ML-34 RAM: 2048 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM 333MHz Graphic: ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128MB Disk: Seagate ST9100823A 50GB 5,400rpm Cheers, /Thommy M.

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imported reocrd indexing in KOHA
by sohel pathan 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Sir, I want to know how indexing of mark record is achieved in KOHA to searched imported record from other resource. I am importing books reocrd from SQL server databse into KOHA's MySQL database. Data is successfully imported into the KOHA's database but it can nor be searched from the KOHA's catalogue search. I also want to know that in which directory the indexing is saved? How can be index generated? I don't perl but i know C# .net very well\ Please reply me. Every suggestion is appreciated. Thanks

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Re: [Koha] ItemType icons and "biblio vs biblioitems" revisited (sorry)
by Owen Leonard 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

>>> Now if that **Biblio-level** SomeField has say seven possible values, >>> enforced by Authority, isn't there a way to assign an icon to each >>> value and have this show up in search results? Or failing that, >>> re-purposing an existing field that will at least show the text there? >> >> I don't know of any way to do that. > > Ouch. So this thread was more about "would be nice" rather than Koha's > actual capabilities? As far as I understand Koha's capabilities, yes. > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2009-March/017532.html > > Now I'm back to confusion - is it the case that the ONLY icons that > can show in the search results are the 16px ones tied to the MARC > leader codes via XSLT? As far as I know, yes. If you read that whole thread you'll find that I questioned some of the things that Joshua claimed were possible in that and subsequent messages. He never followed up with an explanation, and I assume he was wrong. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org

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Re: [Koha] Circulation
by Jonathan Larson 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

That does sound like a good workable solution, thanks. You could also probably put the students photo with it to make it even easier. Thanks muchly for your thoughts Jon On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:06 AM, chad <chad(a)pennmanor.net> wrote: > Hi Jon, > > I work for a school district and I think we solved this problem a > different way. > > I imported all of the student homerooms as attributes into koha. As you > noticed that doesn't help with searching. However I created a report that > generates a pdf with scannable barcodes based on the room attribute. > > This allows the librarian to print a barcode sheet per classroom. When the > kids come in for that class she can do a completely keyboard-less checkout > by utilizing the patron barcode sheets. > > If this is something you would be interested in I can probably send you an > example pdf and the source. > > Chad > > On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Jonathan Larson wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I am testing out Koha for a small international school in Bogota > Colombia, and I was wondering if there is a way to display a list of > patrons, say from a whole class in the circulation screen. I tried adding a > patron attribute type for the grade level, but that did not seem to allow me > to search this way. I have my own copy of Koha setup on a VM presently, so > I have easy access to all the files. > > > > Thanks. > > > > jon > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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