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PTFS News: Amy De Groff joins PTFS
by Bavousett, J. David 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * * *Amy De Groff Joins PTFS* Bethesda, MD—March 24, 2010—Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS), an industry-leading library solutions provider, has added Amy De Groff as Transition Manager for the LibLime acquisition. Mrs. De Groff, most recently Director of Information Technology for Howard County Library, is pleased to return to PTFS to serve in this role. PTFS’s primary focus during the transition process is on enhancing customer support for the LibLime contracts, and Mrs. De Groff’s expertise and talents line up perfectly with these goals. With over 15 years of experience in libraries, archives, records and knowledge management, Mrs. De Groff was an ideal fit at Transition Manager. “Libraries using and/or considering using Koha are on the right path." De Groff explains, “Because these libraries grasp the fundamental reason for having an online inventory of materials is to make information available to and for customers. Koha offers unparalleled opportunities for libraries to provide unique and innovative services to their customers – meeting these customers where they already are – on the web." Mrs. De Groff brings a proven track record to the transition project; under De Groff’s direction, 3 out of 4 computers managed by Howard County Library’s IT department were upgraded to run nearly exclusively open source software – during this upgrade computers offered to customers and staff increased and requests for technical support on computers declined. Mrs. De Groff continued, “I have seen the value open source software can bring to an organization and I think PTFS is a firm with the talent, commitment, and track record to help many libraries set ambitious goals for their ILS deployments – and achieve them all.” *About PTFS, Inc.* Founded in 1995, PTFS is a library centric company and is the developer of the ArchivalWare content management software. PTFS has provided commercial ILS systems integration, implementation, and support since its inception. In 2008, PTFS entered the open-source library marketplace in 2008, developing, implementing, and supporting Koha ILS solutions. Providing digital library and content management solutions for over a decade, PTFS is experienced in executing complete turn-key solutions as well as on-site library staffing and consulting services. For more information, see www.ptfs.com. Contact: Rbangs(a)ptfs.com

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Extracting authorities from Biblios
by Toni 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Hello, We are currently using Koha 3.0.5 but we have not been using authorities and we would like to start using them. Is there a way to extract authorities from existing Biblios? Doing some searches on the Internet I saw some posts talking about an script "migration_tools/auth_from_biblio.pl" that doesn't seem to exist anymore in Koha 3. Was it deprecated? Is there a new way of extracting auths (populating them) from biblios? Regards, Toni

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Koha version 3..?
by nico rubo 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Dear Koha, How do we get the version update? We're still on version 2. Can that be done without having someone from your end come up here to do it? Thanks and kindest regards. Nick Rubosa SICHE Library --- On Thu, 25/3/10, koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz <koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> wrote: From: koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz <koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Koha Digest, Vol 53, Issue 71 To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Received: Thursday, 25 March, 2010, 10:00 AM Send Koha mailing list submissions to koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz You can reach the person managing the list at koha-owner(a)lists.katipo.co.nz When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Koha digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Printing search results (Nicole Engard) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:36:36 -0400 From: Nicole Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Koha] Printing search results To: Chris Cormack <chris(a)bigballofwax.co.nz> Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Message-ID: <d35b50d41003241336x30c8406cmd026c514c7791720(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Chris Cormack <chris(a)bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote: > The COinS support was designed to work with Zotero, and as far as I > know does. (At least in the current master branch of the git > repository) COinS Support is there and does work very well with Zotero - I was going to send a link to the manual page on this - but I didn't write it yet :) Also, using Lists/Carts might work for some of the printing of bibliographies you're looking for. I will write the Zotero section of the manual today and tomorrow and you'll find it here: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x8293#AEN8322 Thanks Nicole Documentation Manager ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha End of Koha Digest, Vol 53, Issue 71 ************************************

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Re: [Koha] Kia ora tatou Hello everyone
by Jos Black 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Diolch yn fawr thanks very much for the extra vocab Chris, and also for the pointers on documentation, I'm sorry to hear Nicole has been poorly, I'll wait to hear from her. Jos

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Linux or Windows?
by Amber Amland 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

We're currently running Koha version 2.2.3 on Linux. We've had it for about three years and really like Koha! Now we're looking at upgrading. Is the Linux version or the Windows version better? We're a small K-12 school and don't have tech staff who know Linux well; however, Linux has run so well so far we've only needed help once to change some dates in the "sticky due date" field and were able to get help from some of you. (Thanks again!) The only reason we're thinking about Windows is because our tech staff would be able to help us more. Does Koha 3.0 run so smoothly on Linux we could get along without the tech help as we have so far? Thanks! Amber Amber Amland Librarian Mountainview International Christian School www.mountainviewics.org library(a)mountainviewics.org

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Introduction
by Nadel Catura 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I am Nadel from the De La Salle Canlubang, Philippines. This is the second time that i subscribed in the Koha Mailing List. For an unknown reason, i have stopped receiving messages from the koha mailing list. So i used another mail account to subscribe in this mailing list. I really need this to be able for me to provide adequate assistance to the librarians in our school that use Koha as the main library system. I am hoping for your support. Thank you very much. -- Nadel D. Catura System Developer Information Technology Office De La Salle Canlubang Brgy. Malamig, Binan, Laguna

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Printing search results
by Jared Camins-Esakov 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hello. We are are in the process of converting our library from a custom ILS to Koha. Although we have only had our proof-of-concept Koha instance running for a few months, I have already had two patrons ask if it was possible to print out search results as a bibliography (preferably in some standard format like MLA, Chicago, APA...). Has anyone customized Koha to print bibliographies based on search results, or does anyone have any suggestions for other ways we might meet our patrons' needs? We're also looking into extending the COinS functionality, so that our patrons could use Zotero (or another citation manager, I assume) to produce bibliographies, so if anyone would be willing to share any improvements to Biblio::GetCOinSBiblio for MARC21 flavor, we would be grateful. Regards, Jared Camins-Esakov -- Jared Camins-Esakov Cataloger - American Numismatic Society 75 Varick Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10013 Tel: (212) 571-4470, ext. 171 camins(a)numismatics.org http://www.numismatics.org/Library/Library

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labels
by Erik Lewis 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Never been in labels, before today. It looks really interesting as I play, however I do realize I made one bad mistake when I ran the web installer I deselected the label templates, which I think now would have been helpful. Is there an easy way to get the templates into my system now?

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Re: [Koha] Kia ora tatou Hello everyone
by Jos Black 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi Greg Thanks for your kind words and support, and for your curiosity. I'm not based in NZ despite the Maori, but I do have an appreciation of indiginous languages as I work for a training provider in Wales, UK, so thought it might be nice to try out a little of Koha's birth language, of which I now know 4 words ;-) We're still in the very early stages of Koha, and we haven't yet given our formal notice to quit to our current provider, but I'm doing this initial investigation so I know what options I've got. Kind regards Jos

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Re: [Koha] Advanced Search problems
by GLBTLIB 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

My item types and 952 $y match up. Running 3.0 with NoZebra (small library). When I checked each area of advanced search, it appears as if none of them are bringing up results (i.e. limiting by year or itemtype bring up no results) Thanks, Rene Message: 2 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:44:54 -0400 From: Erik Lewis <elewis(a)ngrl.org> Subject: Re: [Koha] Advanced Search problems To: GLBTLIB <glbtlib(a)indiana.edu> Cc: "'koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz'" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Message-ID: <70C680A3-1234-483E-8E29-0347E26E40D4(a)ngrl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Try limiting it in steps to determine the problem. Do your search and limit by year, again as item type and again as library. My guess is you have some mismatch between your item types and whats in your 952 $y On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:42 AM, GLBTLIB wrote: > Basic searches seem to go off without a problem, but advanced searches (where you specify that you?re searching just for books or movies, etc.) bring up nothing. I?m not real KOHA savvy, so I?m sure I?ve just messed something up. Any ideas? Thanks! > > Ren? > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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