- Koha - lists.katipo.co.nz

searching subjects in PAC
by Rachel Hollis 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Greetings friends, I believe that I need to change something for the users of our PAC and I can't believe that I have just noticed this issue. When our users click a subject heading, they receive a "No results match your search for 'an:2812' in CASI Libraries Catalog" screen even when we have more than the one item with the subject heading. The "an" with the number part of the message indicates to me that the authority files are being used. Assuming that, under Administration > Systems Preferences > Authorities the following selections have been made: authoritysep set to -- BiblioAddsAuthorities set to ON dontmerge set to ON Using the authority files while cataloging I have noticed that we have multiple headings; for the search above there are two headings in the authorities database, one with control number 2812 and one with 3488. What can I do to allow our PAC users to click on heading and find the other titles with the same heading? Do I need to ask our system administrator to enable the merge_authorities.pl cron job? We are using Koha 3.01. Rachel Hollis, librarian Stevens-Henager College, Boise Idaho Campus ________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

2 2

Circulation report w/ each item
by Cab Vinton 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

We break our circulation statistics down in a number of ways & for the moment at least the best way to get these will be to produce a circ report listing the call number & checkout date for each item. Can anyone provide some help with producing a report in this format? Thank you, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH

2 1

Question regarding MARC importing
by umpajosh＠yahoo.com 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Greetings, We are in the process of starting a small library for our small college. I have an Excel file with 5 columns. The first column is our own internal proprietary number we were using just to have a simple unique identifier, and, it wouldn't probably be a big deal if it were totally absent from the MARC record. The second column is the Library of Congress number associated with the book. The third column is the publication date. The fourth column is the author. The fifth column is the title. I am entirely ignorant when it comes to the MARC record format. Terry Reese was kind enough to provide me with the following information when I was stumped as to how MarcEdit could complete this conversion for me: Field 0: 035$a = proprietary book number Field 1: 090$a = LC classification number Field 2: 260$c = Publication date Field 3: 100$a; indicators: 10 = Author Field 4: 245$a; indicators: 10 = Title Using that information (as best as I can figure out how), and then putting the MARC file through MarcEdit's validator, I receive the following errors: Record #: 18 001 (if defined): 245 (if defined): = Title$aOur High Calling Errors: 100-ind1: Invalid data (\) Indicator can only be 013. 245-ind1: Invalid data (\) Indicator can only be 01. 245-ind2: Invalid data (\) Indicator can only be 0-9. I am rather stumped. I have found several sites that elaborate on MARC file indicators, but I cannot figure out for the life of me what I need to do. The errors seem to indicate above that the 'indicator' 10 is not valid for the 'fields' of 100 or 245- but perhaps I am not reading that correctly? Any help would be very appreciated, Joshua

4 3

Independent branch?
by Laurie Henry 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Hello, First, I wanted to say that we were able to resolve our MARC importing issues. Thank you to those who suggested solutions. Our school has six campuses. Books travel freely among five of the campuses, but the sixth campus is too far away for intralibrary loan to be feasible. That sixth library has not yet migrated to Koha. My question is, if you have a similar situation, could you send me a URL so I can see (and show others) how Koha looks, with a combination of independent and non-independent branches? I'm having a bit of trouble envisioning this. Thank you, Laurie Henry, MFA, MSLS Regional Librarian Southwestern College (Kentucky and Ohio) This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you.

1 0

Zebra indexing issue
by Koller Wolfgang 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Hi all! We are now starting to use Koha in a production environment, and encountered some strange behaviour when it comes to series. We've catalouged some Series which do not have a title, but only a series title. So far no problem. However when searching for them, some times the result shows the correct series title, and sometimes it show "No Title". It seems as if Zebra (which we are using for indexing) sometimes returns the series title as title, and sometimes it wont. Any clues / hints / tips what I can do / check? Regards, Wolfgang Koller -------------------------------------- Information gemaess UGB Par. 14 Abs. 1 Naturhistorisches Museum 1010 Wien, Burgring 7 Firmenbuchnummer: FN 236724z Firmenbuchgericht: Handelsgericht Wien UID: ATU 38020609 --------------------------------------

1 0

Koha and 508 Compliant
by Zachary Spalding 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Does anyone know if Koha is section 508 compliant? http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=12#Web Thanks Zack

6 12

Error while adding authority
by Walid AZIZ 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Hi, When we try to add a new authority, we have the following error : Koha error The following fatal error has occurred: No _parse_* routine defined on this driver (If it is a filter, remember to set the Parent property. If you call the parse() method, make sure to set a Source. You may want to call parse_uri, parse_string or parse_file instead.) [XML::SAX::Expat=HASH(0x87fb420)] at /usr/share/perl5/XML/SAX/Base.pm line 2616. Apache Server version: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) Server built: Aug 8 2008 17:37:15 Koha 3.00.00.107 Koha DB 3.0000107 MySQL mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.51a, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 5.2 OS Linux komak 2.6.25.4dedibox-r9-smp-x32 #1 SMP Tue May 20 15:28:05 CEST 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Perl 5.010000 Thanks for your help

1 0

How to add Date TO and FROM in custom reports
by nitesh rijal 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Hello all. I am trying to generate report of all the patrons who have enrolled between certain date. I can see the date from and to in the inbuilt report formats, but how do I use them in my custom reports? My desired output is of form in table like: [First Name Last Name Card Number] but between certain date..... Please Help. -- Nitesh Rijal BE IT email: rijal.it(a)gmail.com url: http://niteshrijal.com.np facebook: http://facebook.com/openrijal twitter: http://twitter.com/openrijal +9779841458173

2 2

How to add custom fields in new patron creation
by nitesh rijal 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Hello all. I am using KOHA 3.0.3 in Debian Lenny. I was trying to add a patron in the library of Student type. I can see that the fields available there are not enough, I want to add some more fields in it. In our library there we need to add fields like: "Level", "Address", "Interests" etc. I know that it is possible to do so through modifying the source and database, but I just wanted to know that is there any way we can do it from the Staff Client Interface. I got the source template file, but how do I define the variables in the template source so that my link from source goes to the database. Thank you. Regards. -- Nitesh Rijal BE IT email: rijal.it(a)gmail.com url: http://niteshrijal.com.np facebook: http://facebook.com/openrijal twitter: http://twitter.com/openrijal +9779841458173

2 2

Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 51, Issue 15
by Bob Birchall ＠ Calyx 10 Jan '10

10 Jan '10

cleanup_database.pl is not described in either version of the manual: http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.2/appendices/cron-jobs What does it do? Will it break if used in 3.0 ? Thanks, Bob CALYX > Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:17:45 +0100 > From: Frederic Demians <frederic(a)tamil.fr> > Subject: Re: [Koha] Culling old session data > To: Rick Welykochy <rick(a)praxis.com.au> > Cc: Koha-List <Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Message-ID: <4B4865D9.9040803(a)tamil.fr> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > Is there a periodic job that can be run to cull old sessions from the > > table? We don't want to backup all the useless session data every night. > > misc/cronjobs/cleanup_database.pl > > Or just before doing a backup command (mysqldump), you can truncate > session table: > > mysql -u<kohauser> -p<password> <koha-db-name> -e 'TRUNCATE TABLE > sessions' > > -- > Fr?d?ric

3 2