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Deleting Patron Records
by Kay Smith 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

We use Koha V 2.2 in a Correctional Facility Library but seem to be unable to delete patron records for borrowers no longer at the facility. After deleting the record and receiving the confirmation message, and you go back into the patron file, the patron is still listed. Has anyone else struck this problem??? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Deleting-Patron-Records-tp27940557p27940557.html Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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NDF2010 and KohaCon2010
by Joann Ransom 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

If you were looking for another reason to come on down to Wellington, New Zealand for the Koha Conference then it was just announced. The National Digital Forum is an excellent annual conference for the GLAM sector in NZ. (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). NDF 2010 is being held 17th and 18th October. Which is the week before the 3rd international Koha Conference which is also being held in Wellington from Monday 25th October (3 days of conference - 2 day hackfest). Here is the ndf ning site where announcements about NDF planning will happen: http://ndf-aotearoa.ning.com/ and here is the Koha conference site: http://kohacon.appspot.com/ where planning is also underway. Cheers Joann Ransom. Head of Libraries. Horowhenua Library Trust.

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Circulation fine accessed by prior patron when item is already checked out
by Darrell Ulm 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Hello, Question to anyone out there. Do Koha 3 or Koha 3.2 currently have an option (or ability) when checking out an item that is already checked out by another patron to waive the fine for the prior patron. If not I am looking at putting this option into 3.2. Thank you, Darrell Ulm

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importing bibliographic records with system number
by Linda Culberson 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

I have tried to import records into Koha using the 999 $c to use our current bibliographic identifier numbers, but it didn't seem to work. It looks like it didn't use those numbers where overwritten by koha. The numbers where sequentially assigned by Koha apparently. Are there any special setting in the import or perhaps something else that I may have done incorrectly? Thanks in advance for your help. -- Linda Culberson lculber(a)mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824

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Re: [Koha] PTFS Acquisition of LibLime Reactivated and Completed (Wagner, Jan
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Bingo! "The Community" should control the site, however Thanks, Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/) I think if PTFS wants to host the site on their servers, that would be fine, and their support and contributions would be more than welcome, as it is now. "The Community" should control the site, however, as koha-community.org is controlled and managed now. That implies that the community should own the domain name koha.org. I don't see anything that changes the need to make forward progress with the HLT organizational effort, which could hold the domain ownership. If that doesn't happen, then koha-community.org will continue to be the Real Koha website. PTFS could still own liblime.com. Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Minges" <jminges(a)nekls.org> To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:06:00 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [Koha] PTFS Acquisition of LibLime Reactivated and Completed (Wagner, Jane) Without commenting on any other effect of the announcement regarding the PTFS acquisition of LibLime, I am curious about views of the Koha community regarding the statement: "PTFS pledges to enhance and maintain the www.koha.org site as the focal point for the world’ s Koha activities– the place to find the latest information on Koha support, documentation, news, and downloads." Will a PTFS hosted koha.org be regarded as the web presence for the global Koha community? Will koha-community.org/ continue, and which site will in fact be regarded as the global community site? Jim -- Jim Minges, Director Northeast Kansas Library System 4317 West 6th Street Lawrence, KS 66049 Phone: 785-838-4090 FAX: 785-838-3989 jminges(a)nekls.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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PTFS Acquisition of LibLime Reactivated and Completed (Wagner, Jane)
by Jim Minges 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Without commenting on any other effect of the announcement regarding the PTFS acquisition of LibLime, I am curious about views of the Koha community regarding the statement: "PTFS pledges to enhance and maintain the www.koha.org site as the focal point for the world’ s Koha activities– the place to find the latest information on Koha support, documentation, news, and downloads." Will a PTFS hosted koha.org be regarded as the web presence for the global Koha community? Will koha-community.org/ continue, and which site will in fact be regarded as the global community site? Jim -- Jim Minges, Director Northeast Kansas Library System 4317 West 6th Street Lawrence, KS 66049 Phone: 785-838-4090 FAX: 785-838-3989 jminges(a)nekls.org

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Location not displaying on detail screen
by Otis, Perry W Civ USAF AETC AUL/LTIA 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

I'm running Koha 3.0. I've got the bibs and holdings loaded and everything seems to be working, except for the Location field on the detail screen. The call number displays fine, the status displays and so does the date due. The Location field, however, is blank. If I look at the holdings in cataloging it shows that there is data in the shelving location field (952b). Does anybody know how to make this information display on the detail screen in OPAC? Thanks. //SIGNED// PERRY OTIS Systems Librarian Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center DSN 493-6498 Comm 334-953-8081

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Re: [Koha] PTFS Acquisition of LibLime Reactivated and Completed (Wagner, Jane)
by gsl 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

I think if PTFS wants to host the site on their servers, that would be fine, and their support and contributions would be more than welcome, as it is now. "The Community" should control the site, however, as koha-community.org is controlled and managed now. That implies that the community should own the domain name koha.org. I don't see anything that changes the need to make forward progress with the HLT organizational effort, which could hold the domain ownership. If that doesn't happen, then koha-community.org will continue to be the Real Koha website. PTFS could still own liblime.com. Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Minges" <jminges(a)nekls.org> To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:06:00 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [Koha] PTFS Acquisition of LibLime Reactivated and Completed (Wagner, Jane) Without commenting on any other effect of the announcement regarding the PTFS acquisition of LibLime, I am curious about views of the Koha community regarding the statement: "PTFS pledges to enhance and maintain the www.koha.org site as the focal point for the world’ s Koha activities– the place to find the latest information on Koha support, documentation, news, and downloads." Will a PTFS hosted koha.org be regarded as the web presence for the global Koha community? Will koha-community.org/ continue, and which site will in fact be regarded as the global community site? Jim -- Jim Minges, Director Northeast Kansas Library System 4317 West 6th Street Lawrence, KS 66049 Phone: 785-838-4090 FAX: 785-838-3989 jminges(a)nekls.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Re: [Koha] PTFS Acquisition of LibLime Reactivated and Completed (Wagner, Jane)
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Thought I warned some or all of you at one time of the error of a company controlling this domain name.... Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC In a message dated 3/16/2010 8:15:38 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, jminges(a)nekls.org writes: Without commenting on any other effect of the announcement regarding the PTFS acquisition of LibLime, I am curious about views of the Koha community regarding the statement: "PTFS pledges to enhance and maintain the _www.koha.org_ (http://www.koha.org/) site as the focal point for the world’ s Koha activities– the place to find the latest information on Koha support, documentation, news, and downloads." Will a PTFS hosted _koha.org_ (http://koha.org/) be regarded as the web presence for the global Koha community? Will _koha-community.org/_ (http://koha-community.org/) continue, and which site will in fact be regarded as the global community site? Jim -- Jim Minges, Director Northeast Kansas Library System 4317 West 6th Street Lawrence, KS 66049 Phone: 785-838-4090 FAX: 785-838-3989 _jminges(a)nekls.org_ (mailto:jminges@nekls.org) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz _http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha_ (http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha) CONFIDENZIALE: Questo messaggio e gli eventuali allegati sono confidenziali e riservati. Se vi è stato recapitato per errore e non siete fra i destinatari elencati, siete pregati di darne immediatamente avviso al mittente. Le informazioni contenute non devono essere mostrate ad altri, né utilizzate, memorizzate o copiate in qualsiasi forma. CONFIDENTIAL: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may contain reserved information. If you are not one of the named recipients, please notify the sender immediately. Moreover, you should not disclose the contents to any other persons, nor should the information contained be used for any purpose or stored or copied in any form.

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Koha Newsletter: Volume 1/Issue 3: March 2010
by Nicole Engard 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 1, Issue 3: March 2010 Read Online: http://koha-community.org/koha-newsletter-volume-1issue-3-march-2010/ Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KohaNewsletter Table of Contents * KohaCon 2010 o KohaCon10 Registrations Open o Call for Papers Open o Sponsorship * Koha News o New Koha Community Site o Popular Libraries in Argentina Choose Koha o Growing Trend: Koha integrated with Kete * Koha Tips o Meta-searching with Koha and Paspar2 KohaCon 2010 KohaCon10 Registrations Open by Russel Garlick The 3rd Koha Conference will be held in Wellington, New Zealand October 24-29, 2010. The conference consists of a 3 day conference proper followed by a 3 day hackfest. The conference is open to all members of the Koha Community and registration is essential. It is free to attend the conference, but due to room size and other constraints, the organisers need to know exactly who will be turning up. If you are looking to get to NZ from the far flung reaches of the world, then please check out the conference website www.kohacon10.org.nz. Members of the community have contributed advice on traveling from the US, Europe and elsewhere. We have also arranged some accommodation deals with local hotels. Call for Papers Open by Russel Garlick If you have already registered, have you considered giving a talk? The call for conference papers is also open. We’d love to see presentations from librarians for librarians, sharing their experiences, tricks and tips. Talk times are flexible, with long and short options, so please consider registering as a speaker. Sponsorship by Russel Garlick KohaCon10 is being organised and run by volunteers and is entirely reliant on sponsorship. The organisors would like to thank the sponsors that have already come on board (Libriotech, ByWater Solutions, BibLibre and Catalyst IT). If your company is interested in sponsoring the event, please contact Russel Garlick (russ on irc, or russel.garlick(a)gmail.com) As a free conference, reliant completely on sponsorship, we regret that we are unable to provide financial assistance for anyone wishing to attend the conference. Koha News New Koha Community Site by Owen Leonard The Koha community has attempted to communicate with LibLime about the situation without success. The Koha community has nominated the Horowhenua Library Trust to act as an independent steward of Koha-related assets like the Koha.org and the Koha trademark. We have proposed to LibLime that, given their lack of care and interest in Koha.org, transfer the domain and its management to HLT and let the Koha community take back control. LibLime has not responded to these requests. The community was left with no choice: we had to create a new home for the Koha project. We can no longer depend on the good will of LibLime. Koha-community.org came together quickly and beautifully thanks to all involved. Thanks are owed especially to Liz at the Northeast Kansas Library System for all her hard work. If you want to share a link to the real open source Koha, please use http://koha-community.org. Read the entire post at http://www.myacpl.org/koha/?p=522. Popular Libraries in Argentina Choose Koha by Verónica Lencinas In 2007 five popular libraries from Córdoba (a province in Argentina) united to form a union catalog. Popular libraries are non governmental organizations in Argentina that receive funds from the national government through the Comisión Nacional Protectora de Bibliotecas Populares (http://www.conabip.gov.ar) In most villages, towns and cities they are the only public libraries available. Since there were no special funding for the union catalog, all work had to be done for free and free software were the only option considered. In September 2007 the first version of the catalog went online at http://catalogo.puntobiblio.com running on Koha 2.2.9. Now the network has broadened to 18 libraries and include now not only popular libraries but also public, school, academic and special libraries. The first popular library to implement Koha 3.0 in Argentina was the Biblioteca Popular República Argentina, who was also the founder of the network. Now other popular libraries as well as the Comisión Nacional Protectora de Bibliotecas Populares had shown their interest in a broader implementation of Koha. Growing Trend: Koha integrated with Kete by Walter McGinnis A number of organizations using Koha are tying in search results from an affiliated Kete site. These same Koha OPACs are then accessed from their Kete sites for their search results, too. This makes it easier for users to discovery complimentary resources no matter which system the items are stored in. This is accomplished via both software packages’ support of the OpenSearch standard. On the Koha side, Chris Cormack from Catalyst IT has written a simple add-on to the Koha OPAC to take a user’s keyword search terms and request results from a designated Kete site and place the results in a sidebar beside the normal catalog results. Kieran Pilkington from Katipo Communications has also contributed to this code. The code works fine, but is not apart of the Koha codebase yet as it could have a better user interface for setting the designated OpenSearch source by non-technical Koha administrators. On the Kete site, site administrators simply fill out a form to identify the Koha catalogue’s search interface as an external search source. A similar sidebar then will appear next to the Kete site’s search results. In Kete, there is also the ability to automatically look up an item’s title in external search sources and display their results while on the item’s Kete detail page. Since both the Koha add-on and the Kete External Search Sources functionality are built around the OpenSearch standard, other services that follow this standard can also be tied in as search target. The sites using this functionality are in New Zealand, Australia, and the Middle East. Koha Tips Meta-searching with Koha and Paspar2 by Mark Osborne “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” Sound familiar? It’s the opening line of Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. It’s a great novel but we don’t have a copy of it in our library. But then with freely available e-books and public domain audio books it’s probably not the end of the world. What we do need to have is the ability for our students to search for and find these resources; which is why we’re setting up Paspar2 integration with Koha. It allows us to set up meta-searching beyond our catalogue, querying Project Gutenberg, Librivox.org, Google Books and a host of other online resources. That means if we don’t have a physical holding of an item, our students can still access a copy for an e-book reader, laptop or iPod. --------------------- Newsletter edited by Nicole C. Engard, Koha Documentation Manager. Please send future story ideas to nengard(a)gmail.com.

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