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Serials subscriptions
by Andrew Buxton 07 May '10

07 May '10

Can someone tell me please exactly how to start on "Add a new subscription"? There are two boxes against "Biblio" (the second with brackets) and underneath Search for Biblio | Create Biblio. What do I put in what box and what is supposed to happen then? I think it's not working but I'd like to be sure! Thanks, Andrew --- Andrew Buxton, Library Web and Information Systems Manager Direct line: 01273 915795 - International +44 1273 915795 IDS website: http://www.ids.ac.uk/ Library website: http://blds.ids.ac.uk<http://blds.ids.ac.uk/>/ This message is for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of IDS. Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE Tel: +44 (0)1273 606261; Fax: +44 (0)1273 621202 IDS, a charitable company limited by guarantee: Registered Charity No. 306371; Registered in England 877338; VAT No. GB 350 899914

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Unable to search
by Catherine Chambers 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hi there I have recently joined a library that is attempting to get Koha operational. Due to a number of factors, we decided to do a fresh installation of Debian and Koha to try a fix a few problems and gain some understanding of how the system works. We installed Debian Lenny and Koha 3.00.05, the installtion seemed to go fine. Before running ./rebuild_zebra -b -a -z we did a dump of the data from the previous installation (koha-3.00.04) and loaded it into the freshly created koha-3.00.05 database. I then ran rebuild_zebra and tried searching the opac only to be faced with "No Result found!" I get the same message when I try a catalogue search through the staff interface. Can anyone tell me something I may have missed? Or where I should be looking to find out what has gone wrong? Many thanks, Catherine Chambers Systems Librarian : Mzuzu University : Malawi

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wiki.koha-community.org
by Galen Charlton 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hi, I am making a proposal for Equinox to host the new koha-community.org wiki. We will provide a virtual machine, bandwidth, backups, and system administration. Shell access and wiki administration access will be given to anybody who expresses a desire to help and who is known to me or another Koha project regular, though I reserve the right to boot anybody off in the unlikely event of abuse (i.e., spamming, destructive activity, attempts at network intrusion, or other anti-social behavior). As with the current wiki, anybody in the world will be able to create an account for themselves to edit the wiki. Thomas Dukleth has offered to work on the wiki, so he will be one of the people who has shell and wiki admin access to start. Email me if you want in on the fun. As part of our hosting proposal, I will do the following to ensure continuity of this wiki: * a backup of the wiki's data and files will be done nightly and the tarball made available for anybody to download. * if the wiki moves to a new host in the future, we will give the new host a copy of the Ganeti image of the VM Thomas has some ideas about the content and organization of the wiki, which I'll leave to him to propose, but I see a couple questions that may be worth answering first: * Do we want to take this opportunity to switch to MediaWiki (or $some_other_wiki), which can manage multiple languages better than DokuWiki? I'm personally open to any suggestion, but I'm happy to install the current version of DokuWiki and upgrade to MediaWiki or something else later. * Do we want to start the wiki's content from scratch? That would allow us start fresh with a clean organization of the information, and would also allow us to establish the GPL as the license for the new wiki from the get-go. I'd appreciate feedback on those questions and general feedback about the proposal. The VM should be up soon. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Data Services Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source email: gmc(a)esilibrary.com direct: +1 352-215-7548 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/

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Sporadic warning about 245 field not being filled in
by Kurt Bodling 06 May '10

06 May '10

Is this a known bug (or are we just a little buggy ourselves)? Every so often - and I haven't yet discerned a pattern - I import a record from OCLC, do a little local editing, and click my save record button only to see a warning message that reads: Can't save this record because the following field aren't filled : * Field 245 is mandatory, at least one of its subfields must be filled. All these imported records already have valid titles in the 245, naturally; and the only way around this seems to be to enter a blank space in one of the yet unused subfields in the 245. Doing that will allow me to save the record. If the imported record also already has something in the 245 $b, then I have to enter a blank space in the $c or $h ... whatever subfield hasn't already been used. Entering and deleting a blank space doesn't work. Deleting the record and re-importing it doesn't make a difference. We're on Koha 3.01.00.061 on a Linux server hosted by PTFS, with Zebra 2.0.34 Just wondering, Kurt Kurt A. Bodling Technical Services Librarian George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens Mount Vernon, VA 22121

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maps on koha-community.org
by Reed Wade 06 May '10

06 May '10

I had a play around with the geo mashup plugin for wordpress. It's nicely done and seems to work pretty well-- http://reedwade.net/wordpress/ You tag any posting with a location then you can see a map full of pins. -reed

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Headings don’t link to pages containing records with those headings
by MiguelSB 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hi, I am having the following problem: I am using Unimarc and while subfield 700$a (entry element of Primary Intellectual Responsibility) and subfield 610$a data (Uncontrolled Subject Terms) link to pages that have records with either that author or that subject (in the 700 field case, the URL ends with: opac-search.pl?q=au:Author name), the subfields 701$a (Alternative Intellectual Responsibility) and 702$a aren’t linking to pages that have records with those authors, and the subfield 606$a (Topical Name Used as Subject) isn’t linking to pages that have records with that subject. In the 701 field case, the URL ends with: opac-search.pl?q=an:8 and links to a page that has no results. I chose the same subject thesaurus for the 606$a and the 610$a subfields and the same author thesaurus for the 700$a, the 701$a and the 702$a subfields and, I really I don’t understand why this is happening. Could you please help me? Thank you very much. Best regards, Miguel -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Headings-don%E2%80%99t-link-to-pages-containing-recor… Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Call for Newsletter Articles
by Nicole Engard 06 May '10

06 May '10

It's that time again! The newsletter will be released on the 15th of next month and that means I need some submissions from users and developers alike! Articles can be as short as 2 sentences - so send along any news/tips/guides/ideas you want to share with the community. As usual, email your articles to me. Thanks Nicole C. Engard

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Subject indexing and searching/linking in 3.0.5.1
by Christopher Curry 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hello all, We noticed that Koha 3.0 includes linked subject headings, but the links execute a subject search for only subfield a. XSLTResultsDisplay & XSLTDetailsDisplay system preferences are turned ON. I tried updating the XSL to change the link to search for the whole subject string, but these searches get no results. Are subject qualifier subfields indexed (we use Zebra)? If not, can anyone explain (or direct me to documentation explaining) how indexing can be turned on for these qualifiers? I've looked at the zebra indexing docs in the 3.0 manual, and they are a bit vague. http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/searching/guide-to-searching/index… mentions configuration files, but does not inform me what the names of the files are (or a clue to where they are located). Running on Debian Lenny. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Cheers, Christopher Curry Assistant Technical Librarian / Assistant IT Officer American Philosophical Society 105 South Fifth Street Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386 Tel. (215) 599-4299 ccurry(a)amphilsoc.org <mailto:ccurry@amphilsoc.org> Main Library number: (215)440-3400 APS website: http://www.amphilsoc.org

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Koha 3.2.0 alpha 2 released
by Galen Charlton 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hi, I am pleased to announce release of the second and final alpha of Koha 3.2.0. The package can be retrieved from http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha2.tar.gz Checksums and signatures are also available: http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha2.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha2.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha2.tar.gz.sig I will be mirroring these on Savannah shortly. The next two milestones for release are beta and general release. At this point, I am declaring a soft string freeze; template changes other than those to fix typos and structural problems will be deferred to 3.4. *Preliminary* and *draft* release notes for Koha 3.2 follow: RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.2.0 ======================================================================== New features ================== ACQUISITIONS * the acquisitions module has been significantly revamped: * support for hierarchical funds and budgets * budget planning by calendar and item type * vendor contract periods ADMINISTRATION * significant usability enhancements to the system preferences editor * many additional granular permissions CATALOGING * bulk item editing * revamped inventory/stocktaking * ability to export bibliographic information in CSV format from the staff cart * new quick spine lable print button * support for temporary location and in-process item statuses * usability enhancements to cataloging workflow: * can now choose whether to edit items after saving a bib record * option to move an item from one bib to another * option to delete all items attached to a bib * ability to clone an item CIRCULATION * ability to define library transfer limits * email checkout slips * option to enable alert sounds during checkin and checkout * improvements in Koha's ability to express circulation policies * option to charge fines using suspension days instead of money * hold policies are now on the branch/itemtype/categorycode level * renewal policies are now on the branch/itemtype/categorycode level * ability to specify an expiration date for a hold request when placing it via the staff interface or OPAC * daily batch job to cancel expired holds * improvements to interface to change the priority of hold requests for a bib in the staff interface * new messaging system for patron records, allowing an unlimited number of patron notes to be stored and managed OPAC * additional patron privacy options * numerious enhancements to the bib display XML templates * per-patron OPAC search history, with ability for patrons to manage the retention of their search history * support for Syndetics, LibraryThing, and Babeltheque enhanced content * support for RIS and BibTeX export REPORTS * guided reports can now take runtime parameters SERIALS * can now specify the subscription end date, library location, and grace periods * option to automatically place hold requests for members of a serials routing list * numerous bugfixes STAFF INTERFACE * the cart has been added to the staff interface * enhanced patron card and item label creator * support for XSLT templates in the staff bib details display WEB SERVICES AND INTERFACE * integration with SOPAC, including support for various web services defined by the ILS-DI recommendation * support for CAS single sign-on * improvements to OAI-PMH support Documentation ================== As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. Credits ================== We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.2: * Aix-Marseille Universities, France * BrailleNet (http://www.braillenet.org/) * BULAC, France (www.bulac.fr) * East Brunswick Public Library, East Brunswick, New Jersey, USA * Foundations Bible College & Seminary, Dunn, North Carolina, USA * Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany (www.hfjs.eu) - XSLT changes to display 880 fields * Howard County Library, Maryland, USA (http://www.hclibrary.org/) * MassCat, Massachussetts, USA * Middletown Township Public Library, Middletown, New Jersey, USA * Northeast Kansas Library System, Kansas, USA * Plano Independent School District, Plano, Texas, USA * SAN Ouest Provence, France * vokal (Vermont Association of Koha Automated Libraries), Vermont, USA * www.digital-loom.com Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton RM 3.2 gmcharlt(a)gmail.com

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MARC records
by Ken Lomax 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hi All I have recently installed Koha 3.0.5 on a standalone machine (Debian Lenny) for a small personal library (about 800 holdings). In the past (a couple of years ago) I tried to install the then current version on Fedora, but had too many problems, both with the installation and then using Koha itself. Happy to report the latest install and the software is a big improvement. Just two things though: 1) Like a recent thread I am finding the response of Koha to be very slow. This was from initial setup. I have about 60 holdings loaded and it is the same as initially with no holdings. I am the only user accessing the system. The machine is a reasonable size PC and so I would have thought there would not be too much problem, so I am surpirsed at the slowness (generally about 5 seconds to respond to any request). Opac is the same as Koha. 2) I am using z3950 for my cataloging whever I can and making modifications as required for myself. As this is only a small personal library, it is not critical. However I tend to like to do things *properly* whenever possible. I am more of a computer person than a librarian, so I am looking for a newbies guide to cataloging (and using MARC). Any suggestions? Regards Ken

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