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Koha Community Newsletter: January 2023
by Koha Newsletter 28 Jan '23

28 Jan '23

The Koha Community Newsletter for January 2023 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-january-2023/ Many thanks to everyone who submitted articles and news to this newsletter! Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. -- Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Koha 22.05.09 is here!
by Lucas Gass 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hello, Hola, Bonjour, Guten tag, Olá! The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 22.05.09! Koha 22.05.09 includes 1 enhancement and 29 bugfixes. The full release notes can be found here: https://koha-community.org/koha-22-05-09-released/ <https://koha-community.org/koha-22-05-02-release/> Debian packages should be available shortly! -- Lucas Gass Web Developer

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Koha 22.11.02 released
by O'Mara, Jacob 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 22.11.02. This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes. As always, you can download the release from https://download.koha-community.org and the packages are already available now. This is the new development team at ptfs-europe's second release as the stable branch maintainers and we'd like to thank the community for this opportunity and the support we've received from the other branch maintainers already in getting up to speed. We would also like to welcome Pedro Amorim as a late addition to the release team at PTFS-Europe. Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release. Release notes are available online now at: https://koha-community.org/koha-22-11-02-released/ -- *Jacob O'Mara* *Junior Software Engineer* E: jacob.omara(a)ptfs-europe.com P: +44 (0) 1483 378728 ext. 1019 www.ptfs-europe.com

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koha-US February 2023 Events & Meetings
by Jennifer Marlatt 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Hello! koha-US online meetings and events are free and open to all. See our calendar for a full list: http://koha-us.org/calendar/. For Google Calendar users, add our events calendar to your list for easy access to meeting times and links: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=a29oYS11cy5vcmdfZG1xb2pkczE5Zn… *Meetings* Board Meeting - Wednesday, February 1 @ 8:30a PT / 11:30a ET / 16:30 UTC General Meeting - Wednesday, February 8 @ 8:30a PT / 11:30a ET / 16:30 UTC *Special Interest Groups* Cataloging - Thursday, February 2 @ 8:00a PT / 11:00a ET / 16:00 UTC Circulation - Cancelled System Administration - Tuesday, February 14 @ 8:00a PT / 11:00a ET / 16:00 UTC Web Development - Thursday, February 16 @ 10:00a PT / 1:00p ET / 18:00 UTC Acquisitions - Tuesday, February 21 @ 9:00a PT / 12:00p ET / 17:00 UTC Demonstration Instance - Cancelled Visit http://koha-us.org/special-interest-groups/ to learn more and sign up for topic-specific mailing lists. Most meetings and events are recorded and made available at https://www.youtube.com/kohaus Jennifer Marlatt koha-US Secretary secretary(a)koha-us.org

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Special CatalogingSIG at later time!
by Hernandez, Heather H 24 Jan '23

24 Jan '23

Hi, all! The second Koha-US Cataloging Special Interest Group ("CatSIG") January meeting is coming up on Thursday, January 26, 2023, at 1(13:00)PT / 4(16:00)ET /9NZT / 20UTC! You don't have to be a member of Koha-US to join us, so we're hoping the different times will make it possible for more folks to join in! This meeting is the first of additional, quarterly CatSIGs during the US's afternoons, as an experiment to see if more folks would like to join us at that time. And remember that you don't even need to self-identify as a cataloger! There will be our usual roundtable of questions, solutions and resource brainstorming, tips, tricks, suggestions, bug & development awareness, and the usual laughter, fun, and fellowship to discuss anything cataloging, authority, or metadata related in Koha. Not sure if it's cataloging related? It probably is! Actual catalogers do attend, as well as the cataloging curious and those who have had cataloging thrust upon them! Information on joining us is on the Koha-US calendar: Calendar – koha-US<https://koha-us.org/calendar/> Can't make it? No worries--it will be recorded and available on the Koha-US YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/kohaUS/playlists (See the Cataloging Special Interest Group's playlist for more cataloging fun!) As ever, feel free to send me any questions or topics for discussion ahead of time! See you there! --h2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ms. Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers) Technical Services Librarian Library catalog: https://keys.bywatersolutions.com/<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkeys.bywa…> San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032 (office, generally M, W, F, telecommuting Tu,Th) heather_hernandez(a)nps.gov<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwebmail.l…>

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Re: [Koha] OAI-PMH harvester
by BOUIS Sonia 23 Jan '23

23 Jan '23

Hi, Just to let you know that during the KohaLa hackathon (until wednesday), we are thinking about the OAI-PMH harvester. I add our first thoughts on the BZ ticket : https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10662#c318 Kind regards, Sonia -----Message d'origine----- De : Arthur Suzuki [mailto:arthur.suzuki@biblibre.com] Envoyé : mercredi 23 novembre 2022 14:44 À : Mike D. <black23(a)gmail.com>; BOUIS Sonia <sonia.bouis(a)univ-lyon3.fr> Cc : koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz; koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org Objet : Re: [Koha] OAI-PMH harvester Hello there, If I may suggest a good harvester library, Catmandu may do the job pretty well. I've not used the OAI module but used it to harvest from a JSON source and transform to an UNIMARC file with pretty good success so far. It can export seamlessly to iso2709 or marcxml. https://metacpan.org/dist/Catmandu-OAI Best, Arthur On 2022-11-22 15:57, Mike D. wrote: > Hey. Hey, > I'm really glad to see the OAI-PMH harvester debate going on for Koha. > I > think if we choose a good external harvester with support, we can save > a lot of energy and resources to implement related activities in the > system. > Shoveling the logs is only part of the story. The easy part. Since the > result of shoveling is a lot of records, most of the time we can't > avoid post-processing, merging with the records in the local database. > For example, if you need to update records from a source where there > are millions of records, but there are hundreds of thousands in the > local database. Only a slice of that huge amount is relevant. If we > design the processing workflow wrong, it will take unnecessarily long > and burn valuable resources. > I would hereby like to invite us to be in touch, to debate and share > our experiences. Let's get this area moving towards a successful > finish. > > Take care. > > Michal > > út 22. 11. 2022 v 15:13 odesílatel BOUIS Sonia > <sonia.bouis(a)univ-lyon3.fr> > napsal: > >> Hi, >> Thanks to David, Tomas, Michal and Michael for your replies. >> >> So we have decided to evaluate several external OAI-PMH client that >> could be used by Koha and to choose one in the end of January There a >> lot to do after that and we discussed about the background jobs and >> cronjobs seems to be appropriate. We thought that the settings in the >> koha intranet should be only to define URLs, SETs, or XSLT sheets >> (for example, to transform DC XML in MARCXML). >> >> We are only at the begining of the process 😊 >> >> Kind regards, >> Sonia >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:37:49 +1100 >> From: "David Cook" <dcook(a)prosentient.com.au> >> To: "'Tomas Cohen Arazi'" <tomascohen(a)gmail.com>, "'BOUIS Sonia'" >> <sonia.bouis(a)univ-lyon3.fr> >> Cc: "'koha'" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>, "'koha-devel'" >> <koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org> >> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] OAI-PMH harvester >> Message-ID: <07af01d8e8ca$dfbddef0$9f399cd0$(a)prosentient.com.au> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Hi Sonia, >> >> >> >> I’m excited to hear that KohaLA would like to finance an OAI-PMH >> client in Koha! This functionality is always brewing in the back of >> my mind, since I first raised 10662 back in 2013. >> >> >> >> As Tomas says, I think that the background jobs are a key component >> for processing incoming OAI-PMH records. >> >> >> >> However, the ***missing component right now is the scheduling of the >> OAI-PMH harvesting tasks***, and I think this is where opinions get >> divided. Below, I’ll provide some history and opinions on Koha >> OAI-PMH. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> With 10662, the sponsored goal was for Koha library staff to schedule >> OAI-PMH harvests through the Web UI. However, Fridolin from BibLibre >> raised a point with me at Kohacon18 about how letting library staff >> control the timing of harvesting tasks could be a problem for support >> vendors. If too many libraries using the same public IP address tried >> to harvest from the same OAI-PMH repository, they could be rate >> limited or blocked. There could also be server load concerns. So >> there probably needs to be a balance between user configuration and >> system configuration. If I recall correctly, this is how DSpace’s >> OAI-PMH harvester works. Users set up targets and can start/stop >> harvests, but things like frequency and concurrency are handled by >> the system configuration. >> >> >> >> Based on my experience working on OAI-PMH on and off for nearly 10 >> years and as a Koha support vendor, I think my preference would be >> for sysadmins to handle most of the OAI-PMH harvesting details. >> >> >> >> The sponsorship for 10662 had certain requirements that many other >> libraries might not have, which is what made me think that it might >> be better to have an external client that connects to Koha. I thought >> maybe I could get the ordinary requirements pushed into Koha, and >> then handle extraordinary requirements externally. However, an >> external harvester won’t perform as fast as an internal harvester. >> (The compromise would be to write the harvester in such a way that >> people could provide different OAI-PMH harvester Perl modules that >> all stage records using the same core Koha >> modules.) >> >> >> >> Even then… the scheduling would depend on a library’s needs. Back in >> 2013, I had a Koha OAI-PMH harvester which worked as a cronjob. It >> would run each night. However, some libraries want to run OAI-PMH >> harvests as frequently as every 3 seconds. A cronjob’s smallest >> frequency is 60 seconds, so that wouldn’t work for that requirement. >> >> >> >> If a cronjob isn’t suitable, then I think you’d need a daemon created >> by a new command like “koha-oai --start <instance_name>”. It could >> read a configuration file and handle scheduling accordingly. With >> 10662, I used the POE module, because I knew it well and it has some >> timer tools for scheduling tasks. If I were to work on it again, I’d >> probably use Mojo::IOLoop instead these days, since Mojolicious is >> already part of Koha while POE is not. (That said, using modules like >> Mojo and POE are difficult, because they’re difficult to test using >> automation. That was one of the stumbling blocks with 10662. While >> the 10662 harvester worked very well, it was difficult to unit test. >> In hindsight, I should’ve written it in a way that was easier to unit >> test, but it had a lot of event-driven code which made things more >> difficult.) >> >> >> >> Another option would be to create a generic daemon for task >> scheduling in general (e.g. “koha-schedule”). Koha could use this for >> many things, but it’s a project in itself. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> The process of downloading OAI-PMH records and importing MARCXML into >> Koha is actually a fairly straightforward process. The difficulty is >> the task scheduling and management of tasks (and unit testing). >> >> >> >> I don’t know the answer that will make everyone happy. There’s lots >> of different ways of managing and scheduling the tasks. Based on my >> experience, I’d suggest targeting the simplest approach first, >> because complexity will make it less likely for the project to succeed. >> >> >> >> On that note, I’d be happy to test/QA any OAI-PMH harvester put >> forward. >> When I was writing OAI-PMH harvester patches, I found it really hard >> to get QA, so I’m happy to be that resource for someone else. I’ve >> spent a lot of time thinking about this topic, so happy to provide >> advice, warnings, emotional support 😉. >> >> >> >> David Cook >> >> Senior Software Engineer >> >> Prosentient Systems >> >> Suite 7.03 >> >> 6a Glen St >> >> Milsons Point NSW 2061 >> >> Australia >> >> >> >> Office: 02 9212 0899 >> >> Online: 02 8005 0595 >> >> >> >> From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces(a)lists.koha-community.org> On >> Behalf Of Tomas Cohen Arazi >> Sent: Wednesday, 26 October 2022 3:46 AM >> To: BOUIS Sonia <sonia.bouis(a)univ-lyon3.fr> >> Cc: koha <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>; koha-devel < >> koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org> >> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] OAI-PMH harvester >> >> >> >> I think with background jobs we have most of the framework that is >> needed to deal with this within Koha. >> >> >> >> Best regards >> >> >> >> El mar, 25 oct 2022 7:08, BOUIS Sonia <sonia.bouis(a)univ-lyon3.fr >> <mailto: >> sonia.bouis(a)univ-lyon3.fr> > escribió: >> >> Hi, >> KohaLA would like to finance an OAI-PMH client in Koha but, we have >> questions that we want to raise to the community. >> There was already tries to propose an OAI-PMH client : >> - https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10662 : >> it's >> an old project that doesnt seem compatible with the current version >> of Koha >> - https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25905 : >> the >> scope is more to use an external OAI-PMH client and to connect it to >> Koha >> >> Our main question is about the way to handle this. Do you think that >> it's a better idea to use an external software or PERL routine and to >> find a way to connect it to Koha. Or would it be better to a new >> module in Koha from scratch and that Koha have his own OAI-PMH >> client. >> >> Please, let us hear your toughts about this projet. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Sonia >> >> Sonia BOUIS >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> Responsable du Service informatique documentaire Département d'Appui >> à la Recherche et aux Projets (DARP) Bibliothèques universitaires >> Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 ADRESSE GÉOGRAPHIQUE > Manufacture des >> Tabacs | 6 cours Albert Thomas | LYON 8e ADRESSE POSTALE > >> Bibliothèque de la Manufacture | 1C avenue des Frères Lumière | CS >> 78242 - 69372 LYON CEDEX 08 >> >> Ligne directe : 33 (0)4 78 78 79 03 >> >> http://bu.univ-lyon3.fr<http://bu.univ-lyon3.fr/>| Suivez-nous > >> Facebook< https://www.facebook.com/bulyon3/> | >> Twitter<https://twitter.com/bulyon3>| >> Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/bu.lyon3/?hl=fr> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >> <mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was >> scrubbed... >> URL: < >> http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/attachments/2022 >> 1026/d7712779/attachment-0001.htm >> > >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Subject: Digest Footer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> Koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org >> https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> website : https://www.koha-community.org/ git : >> https://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : >> https://bugs.koha-community.org/ >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> End of Koha-devel Digest, Vol 203, Issue 15 >> ******************************************* >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Arthur Suzuki, 🌈🏔️ Développeur @BibLibre

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Search results problem on upgrade from 3.14 to 17.11
by clint.deckard 23 Jan '23

23 Jan '23

Greetings, I have moved an old Koha library ver 3.14 to 17.11 (packages). This included changing to dom indexing as per the wiki. After rebuilding zebra I can search in the staff client and retrieve results ie. 12 result(s) found for 'kw,wrdl: pooh'. but all that displays is two boxes with Results and Location and nothing else. Searching at the OPAC returns no results. Any help would be appreciated. Clint.

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Reply
by Mubassir Ahsan 22 Jan '23

22 Jan '23

Nope. I've checked the holidays too. Can you confirm which fields are required to generate fines. I mean, the requirements of generating fines.

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Using the Recalls feature
by Eric Phetteplace 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

Hi collective wisdom, Are there other libraries out there using the fairly new (as of 22.05) Recalls feature? Our prior ILS had recalls so we were looking forward to using this but as our circulation staff tested it, we began running into some problems. I've read the wiki page <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Catalyst_IT_Recalls> and the manual documentation <https://koha-community.org/manual//22.05/en/html/circulation.html#recalls> but they either omit some details or there are bugs. Here are our issues: There's no indication from a patron's details page if their items have been recalled. When you check in an item with a recall on it, a pop-up does not appear like the documentation says and a notification is not sent to the patron who placed the recall. If the current due date on a checked out item is closer than the recall period, recalling an item *extends* the due date (e.g. item is due tomorrow, recall period is one week, recall => item is due in one week). Question: if the RecallsMaxPickUpDelay setting controls recall expiration, then what does the "Recall pickup period" circulation rule do? The *Place recall* action displays even when it's not relevant (e.g. on a bib with all available items). Finally, if you are not logged in and you select *Place recall*, you are taken to the login page, then to the patron details page. You have to re-navigate to the place you were originally to place the recall again. I have a convoluted OpacUserJS hack to work around this but thought I should point this out, it doesn't match user expectations. Are we doing something wrong? Or should I file some bug reports for these issues? If anyone else is using recalls in production, I would love to hear from you. Best, ERIC PHETTEPLACE Systems Librarian, Libraries (he/him) ephetteplace(a)cca.edu | o 510.594.3660 (cca) *CCA is situated on the traditional unceded lands of the **Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone** peoples.* Black-owned bookstores in Oakland: Ashay by the Bay <https://ashaybythebay.com/>, Marcus Books <https://www.facebook.com/marcus.books/> :(){ :|: & };:

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Wiki account requests - now working
by David Nind 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

Account requests for the Koha Community Wiki are now working ( https://wiki.koha-community.org) Following the Wiki upgrade last year, some work was required to get the email notification working. This was resolved and working again from about mid-December. If you unsuccessfully tried to request an account after the Wiki upgrade (and up until about mid-December), please try again. Notes: - New account requests are emailed a confirmation request - please check your spam folder if it doesn't arrive within a reasonable timeframe. - Please include some information in your profile: it doesn't have to be much, just enough to help us separate you from spam requests (such as you are interested in Koha, or your organisation uses Koha). - Confirmed new account requests are moderated by selected community members, so there may be a delay before your account is active: at most this is normally done within a day or so (moderation is used to minimise spam registrations). David Nind | david(a)davidnind.com Oamaru 9492, New Zealand m. +64 21 0537 847

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