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Public Lists Query
by Peel Lisa 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hello Apologies for what is going to seem a very stupid question: I was under the impression that the public lists in the OPAC could be viewed by everyone but only edited/deleted by the original creator. However, have just realized that if any patron logs in to the OPAC they can indeed edit and delete all the public lists. We were hoping to use the public lists to create basic reading lists, new additions lists, etc until we have the acquisitions module up and running (we are going live tomorrow with the cat and circ modules). Could someone confirm that indeed anyone logged in can edit the public lists or advise what to change so they are read only to anyone but the creator? Thanks you in advance Lisa Lisa Peel Librarian "César Ritz" Colleges Switzerland 1897 Le Bouveret - Switzerland Tel: +41 24 482 82 82 Fax: +41 24 482 82 80 E-mail: lisa.peel(a)ritz.edu<mailto:hortense.hofer@ritz.edu> http://www.ritz.edu - http://www.culinaryarts.ch 25 Year "César Ritz" Colleges Switzerland

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Official Koha Newsletter : Volume 1, Issue 8: August 2010
by Nicole Engard 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

The newsletter can be read online (with live links) here: http://koha-community.org/koha-newsletter-volume-1issue-8-august-2010/ and subscribed to via RSS here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KohaNewsletter Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 1, Issue 8: August 2010 Table of Contents * Tips & Tricks o Patron Card Creator Tips o Reporting & Patching Koha Bugs o Learn Koha through Videos * Koha in Libraries o British Library of Development Studies Implementing Koha o Combining open source forces: Koha search block in Moodle * Koha Events o Levin Mayoral Reception and Marae Visit o Koha packaging talk at Debconf Tips & Tricks Patron Card Creator Tips by Chris Nighswonger When uploading images for use with patron cards (including patron images) be sure to provide images at 300ppi (dpi) resolution. These images will be scaled on-the-fly to 72ppi for on-screen display and may look somewhat pixelated there. However, the pdf standard provides for both a “display quality” image and a “print quality” image. When the cards are printed, the “print quality” image (300ppi) will be used and the images will look the same as those uploaded. The short of this is: Don’t use the on-screen images as a judge of the print quality of the image. When preparing images for use with Koha, you should always begin with a picture of at least 300ppi and dimensions equal to or greater than the finished dimensions you desire. The aspect ratio (width:height) should also remain consistent after editing. If you have an image over 300ppi, scale the ppi first. Then scale the dimensions so that either width or height is the desired finished dimension. You can then crop the other dimension to finish. Reporting & Patching Koha Bugs by Nicole C. Engard Reporting and patching Koha bugs can be a simple process if you follow the many tutorials on the wiki and mailing lists. For those who are all ready to start patching, here are the steps you want to follow: 1. Report a bug (or enhancement) 2. Make yourself the assignee for that bug and change the Status to ‘Assigned’ so that others know you’re working on the bug 3. Write your patch and send it to the patches list 4. Change the bug Importance to ‘PATCH-Sent’ and attach your patch to the bug Following these simple steps will keep everyone in the loop as you work on and fix bugs/features in Koha. Learn Koha through Videos by Nicole C. Engard Many libraries have been creating videos to help train their staff on Koha. I personally have started a series (that I hope to release once a week) of tutorial videos on Koha 3.2. For more videos check out the Koha channel on YouTube (and feel free to add your videos to the channel if they’re not already there. Koha in Libraries British Library of Development Studies Implementing Koha by Andrew Buxton The British Library of Development Studies at Brighton, UK is implementing Koha on Debian Linux primarily to run its Z39.50 service. Records will be copied across regularly from Ibex, the library system developed in-house. About one third of the records are for journal articles. Ibex does not use a MARC format so a conversion routine has been developed to produce a text file which is then processed using MarcEdit. Further information from Andrew Buxton, a.buxton(a)ids.ac.uk Combining open source forces: Koha search block in Moodle by Jonathan Harker On Saturday 24 July, Wellington Summer of Tech held its 2010 Hackfest – a day of intense coding, soft-drinks and hourly prizes, as a warm up for its Summer of Tech student internship programme at the end of the year, the New Zealand summer. Brendan Vercoelen from Victoria University worked with Jonathan Harker from Catalyst IT on a Koha search block for the learning management system Moodle, as a first attempt to get these two open source projects to work more closely together. The Koha search block, part of the existing Moodle external search block, allows students and teachers to search by keywords, sends the request to Koha over SRU (Search / Retrieval via URL) and parses and displays the MARCXML results. The result can be seen in http://www.flickr.com/photos/4nitsirk/4830516298/ This block represents a great kick-off – in the future, we’d like to see a Koha record available as a Moodle resource type, so that (for example) a Moodle course can include a suggested reading list, where the item is fetched from the learning institution’s Koha library system, including its lending status. Previous work by Piers Harding (also at Catalyst) has enabled Moodle and Koha to share single sign-on using SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language). The Hackfest allowed students to work closely with a mentor on a pre-defined project and gave them the opportunity to learn from experienced programmers. After 5 hours of programming, the students presented their results to the other participants of the Hackfest and invited guests. Links: * http://www.summeroftech.co.nz/ * http://www.moodle.org/ * http://www.catalyst.net.nz Koha Events Levin Mayoral Reception and Marae Visit by Kristina Hoeppner Koha celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. As you know, we will hold this year’s KohaCon in Wellington from 25-27 October 2010, followed by a Hackfest. You still have time to register. As you will be in the country of the birth of Koha, why not pay a visit to Koha’s proper birthplace? We have planned an exciting trip to Levin, just north of Wellington, where everything started, for 28 October 2010. This excursion does not only give you the opportunity to visit Levin, it’s library, and meet the mayor, but also participate in a powhiri, a traditional Maori welcome ceremony. The Kawiu is a contemporary Marae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marae) and you will be eating in the usual dining room alongside locals. That will give you a real-life experience. You can find the trip details at http://www.kohacon10.org.nz/2010/program/levintrip.html and will have to register by 10 October 2010 for organizational reasons. Koha packaging talk at Debconf by Lars Wirzenius Lars Wirzenius discussed lessons learned from making Debian packages for Koha in a talk at Debconf10. Koha was used as an example of an upstream project to bring up challenges they face when trying to Debian packages made, and things they may improve upon to make their software easier to package. The talk and slides are at http://liw.fi/swimming-upstream/, with videos to become available later. Newsletter edited by Nicole C. Engard, Koha Documentation Manager, send all story ideas to nengard(a)gmail.com.

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Google Chrome
by Lola McKee 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Is anyone out there using google chrome for Koha? If so what printers are you using and are you having any trouble printing slips in google chrome? -- Thanks, Lola McKee Tech Systems Specialist Salina Public Library 785-825-4624 Ext. 239

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Fwd: zebra index
by Lenora Oftedahl 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

Could this error have something to do with getting no results when searching? Koha version: 3.00.00.107 OS version ('uname -a'): Linux poplar 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Fri Feb 19 23:40:03 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Perl interpreter: /usr/bin/perl Perl version: 5.008008 Perl @INC: /usr/share/koha/lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . MySQL version: mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.32, for pc-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 5.2 Apache version: Server version: Apache/2.2.3 Zebra version: Zebra 2.0.34 (C) 1994-2007, Index Data ApS Zebra is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Configured as: i486-pc-linux-gnu Using ICU >>> From: Hilary Forrest To: Lenora Oftedahl Date: 8/12/2010 11:25 AM Subject: zebra index ok - it ran fine but you may want to see if you can track down what caused this: zebraidx (5662) [log] Records: 8000 i/u/d 0/8000/0 - this line is fine, just included to show you where the error was zebraidx (5662) [log] MARC: Bad directory zebrzidx (5662) [warn] MARC: Bad offsets in data. Skipping rest.

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Fwd: zebra question
by Lenora Oftedahl 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Can someone help with this? Our server had to be rebooted. We lost the ability to search, so we were rebuilding the Zebra indexes. Thanx. Lenora StreamNet Regional Librarian Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission http://www.fishlib.org >>> From: Hilary Forrest To: Lenora Oftedahl Date: 8/12/2010 11:04 AM Subject: zebra question I see a warning message in the indexing procedure: Index 'any' not found in attset(s) Does this mean anything to you? I'm guessing there is a list of words somewhere and 'any' is not in it and zebra thinks it probably should be.

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More export/import questions
by Scott Owen 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hi all, Thank you all for the responses to my previous questions about exporting/importing biblio data. I think I have a grasp of what need to be done. (seems to be a big bigger job than I was hoping for...) With that said.... I noticed another potential issue (maybe?). ************************************* =942 \\$cBOOK =952 \\$bPINE$dPINE$kF HAN$p74238$r{dollar}11.96$t3$v2010-05-13$u4247 =952 \\$bPINE$r0.00$w2008-08-17$u266$kF HAN$p70265$v2008-08-17 =952 \\$bPINE$r0.00$dPINE$w2010-05-13$u4247$kF HAN$p74238$v2010-05-13 =952 \\$bPINE$dPINE$kF HAN$p70262$r{dollar}13.99$t2$u263 =952 \\$bPINE$dPINE$kF HAN$p70262$r0.00$v2008-08-17$w2008-08-17$u263 =952 \\$bPINE$dPINE$kF HAN$p70265$r{dollar}10.96$t5$u266 =952 \\$bPINE$dPINE$kF HAN$p74255$r{dollar}10.96$t6$u4264 ************************************** In the above snip from MARCedit, the 3rd line and the 7th line both reference the same item ($p70265 -- barcode # 70265). Is this normal? Will the data in line 7 overwrite the data from line 3? ie: if line 3 contains the $v2008-08-17 field data, and line 7 does not, will the result be an empty $v field? Should I be concerned with this, or is this a normal occurrence? Thank you again for any insight. -Scott Owen Alma Public Schools

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Did someone integrate Koha with another software?
by Geovana de Paula Santos Tarricone 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hi, I'd like to know if someone integrated the ILS Koha with another software. My idea is reflect the users cadaster that I have in my system to ILS Koha. How difficult should it be? Thanks, Geovana.

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Batch item deletion using a file
by Behar, Evelyn 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

We are using 3.0.6. In Tools - Batch Deletion of Items, I am unable to use a file of barcodes to delete item records. I have tried using txt, csv and Excel files, without success. If the bar codes are scanned a batch deletion is possible. Evelyn W. Behar Metadata Librarian New York University Health Sciences Libraries 212.263.8615 evelyn.behar(a)med.nyu.edu </PRE> <html> <body> ------------------------------------------------------------<br /> This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is proprietary, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender by return email and delete the original message. Please note, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The organization accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.<br /> ================================= </body> </html> <PRE>

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August Koha Newsletter: Call for Articles
by Nicole Engard 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

It's that time again, the next newsletter will be published in 15 days. I need any and all announcements/tips/tricks/news/koha events sent to me by the 12th of August if I'm to get the newsletter out on time. Articles should be short and if you have a lot to say then send along a link to the full article. Remember you don't have to write a whole lot, just a short 2 liner is A-OK! Thanks in advance, Nicole C. Engard

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export/import issues
by SCOTT OWEN 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hi all, First, please forgive my ignorance. I'm a tech, not a librarian, so if my terminology is off or if I seem a bit dense, please be patient and use small words....... I'm trying to move data from Koha 2.29 to Koha 3.00.06. I am exporting MARC records from Koha 2.29 (Windows) and then trying to import the *.mrc files into Koha 3.00.06. Some fields seem to transfer fine, while others (I believe it's the "holdings data"?) seem to be a bit off. Example: Here is a record for an item exported from Koha 2.29 and then opened with MarcEdit5.1 (after it was made into a *.mrk file) ******************************************** =LDR 01080nam a2200301D1 4500 =008 080817t\\\\\\\\xxu|||||\||||\00|\0\eng\d =008 890110s1988\\\\maua\\\j\\\\\\000\0\eng\w =010 \\$a488080340 ( file://\$a488080340 ) =020 \\$a0763603082 ( file://\$a0763603082 ) =035 \\$a.b11494293 ( file://\$a.b11494293 ) =082 \\$aF ( file://\$aF ) HAN =090 \\$c11$d11 ( file://\$c11$d11 ) =099 \\$aJ ( file://\$aJ ) PICTURE BOOK HAN =100 1\$aHandford, Martin. =245 10$aWhere's Waldo now?/$cHandford, Martin. =246 30$aFind Waldo now. =260 \\$aBoston ( file://\$aBoston ) :$bLittle, Brown,$cc1988. =300 \\$a1 ( file://\$a1 ) v. :$bill. ;$cslj 2. =500 \\$aPreviously ( file://\$aPreviously ) published as Find Waldo now. =500 \\$a"First ( 'file://\$a"First' ) published in Great Britain by "Walker Books Lts. as Where's Wally now?" =650 \0$aPicture puzzles$vJuvenile fiction. =942 \\$cBOOK ( file://\$cBOOK ) =952 \\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ( file://\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ) HAN$p74236$r{dollar}11.96$t5$v2010-05-13$u4245 =952 \\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ( file://\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ) HAN$p70251$r{dollar}13.99$t1$u252 =952 \\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ( file://\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ) HAN$p70254$r{dollar}13.99$t4$u255 =952 \\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ( file://\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ) HAN$p70253$r{dollar}13.99$t3$u254 =952 \\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ( file://\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ) HAN$p70252$r{dollar}10.99$t2$u253 =952 \\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ( file://\$bPINE$dPINE$kF ) HAN$p74252$r{dollar}10.96$t6$u4261 ******************************************************** If this is working as I think, the 952 field represents the 6 copies of the book that we have in our collection at the PINE location. Here is what shows up in koha 3.00.06 after I import the *.mrc file. ************************************************************ Date last seen Not for loan Date acquired Cost, replacement price Koha item type Uniform Resource Identifier Barcode Damaged status Lost status Withdrawn status Current Location Copy number $11.96 PINE2010-05-13 4245 ( http://10.1.1.23/cgi-bin/koha/4245 )74236 Pine Ave. Elementary5 $13.99 PINE 252 ( http://10.1.1.23/cgi-bin/koha/252 )70251 Pine Ave. Elementary1 $13.99 PINE 255 ( http://10.1.1.23/cgi-bin/koha/255 )70254 Pine Ave. Elementary4 $13.99 PINE 254 ( http://10.1.1.23/cgi-bin/koha/254 )70253 Pine Ave. Elementary3 $10.99 PINE 253 ( http://10.1.1.23/cgi-bin/koha/253 )70252 Pine Ave. Elementary2 $10.96 PINE 4261 ( http://10.1.1.23/cgi-bin/koha/4261 )74252 Pine Ave. Elementary6 ********************************************************************* So.....looking at this it seems that I need to swap the "date last seen" and "Cost, replacement price" fields. I also seem to have missing "Koha, Item type" and the "Date acquired" is showing the location...not the date. Lastly, the "Uniform Resource Identifier" link just takes me to a 404 error page... I have no clue what this is supposed to do? Am I exporting/importing this data correctly? Is there an easy way to repair/fix the 952 field, or am I going to have to swap/replace cut/paste as per http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/cataloging/item-fields-data-migrat… Thanks for any advise. -Scott Owen Alma Public Schools

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