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Re: [Koha] Making Patron's Card Design
by Marty 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

On the subject of a third party for your patron card design, we have used kbarcode for years now (because we never could get the koha barcodes to work :-( ) (http://kbarcode.net/) It is very powerful, designed to run under kde, but runs very nicely on gnome as well. The name is a bit misleading, but you can easily make patron cards with it, with all the information you possibly could want, it is very versatile. We use an extra table in the koha database to extract information. Hope that helps you, Marty Jongepier __________________________________________________________________ Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/

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hello ! I have proplem with koha, please help me
by my famil 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

I have installed Koha on Ubuntu am new on this, I have tried to follow the instructions but am getting the following error when I access koha main page. Can please help me. Thanks! This is error when myaccoutn on ubuntu is: th and i try to accept: http://th-desktop:8080/ ! I set up it with standard and some field is default Please help me! thanks. Koha error The following fatal error has occurred:Access denied for user 'kohaadmin'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /usr/share/perl/5.8/CGI/Carp.pm line 314. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm line 25. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Circulation.pm line 25. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Overdues.pm line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Overdues.pm line 24. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Members.pm line 27. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Members.pm line 27. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 31. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 31. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/mainpage.pl line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/mainpage.pl line 24.

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Official Koha Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 1: January 2010
by Nicole Engard 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hello all, The first official Koha Newsletter in ages has been published. You can read it online (complete with active links) here: http://koha.web2learning.net/2010/01/volume-1issue-1-january-2010/ or you can read it in plain text below: ----------------------------- Official Koha Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 1: January 2010 Table of Contents * Events: o Venue and Dates booked for Kohacon10 o Code4Lib 2010 Koha Preconference o KUDOS Meeting at ALA Midwinter * News from Koha Libraries o News from Crawford County o NYU Health Sciences Libraries migrate to Koha o Middletown Township Public Library Live on Koha o Saugeen Library Consortium goes Koha * Tips & Tricks o BibLibre’s Community Branch of Koha 3.2 o New Koha Manual Available in Git o Speed tips for Z39.50 catalogue searching Venue and Dates booked for Kohacon10 by Chris Cormack So we now have a venue (The Wellington Townhall) and we have dates: October 25 – November 2 2010 * 3 day conference * followed by 4 day hackfest The conference has a website http://kohacon.appspot.com/ which is pretty sparse at the moment but will be filled with more information as we get it. If you blog, use twitter, identica or flickr … please use the #kohacon10 hashtag to tag you posts/pictures/tweets. And as always any help offered, or suggestions gratefully received – this includes sponsorship offers. Code4Lib 2010 Koha Preconference by Ian Walls At the Code4Lib annual conference in Asheville, North Carolina, Brendan Gallagher of ByWater Solutions and Ian Walls of the NYU Health Sciences Libraries will be hosting an all-day Koha preconference session. The session will take place on Monday, February 22nd, from 9AM to 4:30PM Eastern Time. The session will include updates of the latest goings-on in the community, roadmaps for Koha 3.2 and 3.4, and an afternoon hackfest. More information about Code4Lib 2010 sessions can be found at http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/schedule. KUDOS Meeting at ALA Midwinter by Vicki Teal Lovely Just a quick note to let you know that there will be a KUDOS (Koha Users and Developers, US) meeting at ALA midwinter in Boston. It will be held on Saturday, January 16 at 3 PM at the Boston Public Library. The room is not known at this time, but please get it on your calendars if you will be at ALA. We will send further information to the lists. You can also check the KUDOS web site (http://kudos.koha.org) for updates. News from Crawford County by Kyle Hall Here at the Crawford County Federated Library System we are nearly finished with our switchover from Koha dev_week to Koha 3.x. The large number of changes between the two has meant more time spent on the transition than anticipated, but the effort will certainly have paid off. I have been porting many of has dev_week additions to Koha, including the “Fines on Return” and “Clubs & Services” features to Koha 3. To allow others the ability to access my work, I has created a Sourceforge project named Koha Plus ( as in “Koha, Plus some more features” (http://sourceforge.net/projects/koha-plus/) The CCFLS staff has also begun offering their knowledge and expertise with Koha to others as Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com/ ). NYU Health Sciences Libraries migrate to Koha by Ian Walls The New York University Health Sciences Libraries migrated from their previous Millennium ILS to Koha on Sept. 1st, 2009. The installation, setup and migration were all done in-house, and staff training was purchased from ByWater Solutions. The NYUHSL look forward to developing Koha to further meet the needs of medical and academic libraries. Middletown Township Public Library Live on Koha by Susan O’Neal In mid-October, the Middletown Township Public Library in NJ went live with Koha. The library, which circulates over 900,000 items per year and serves a community of 68,000 from a main library and three branches is the third public library in New Jersey to migrate to Koha. Middletown partnered with the East Brunswick Public Library and PTFS on a substantial development list of twenty-eight items, which are being submitted to the Koha community as we sign off on them. Among these are batch editing of items, creation of a shelving cart status, a bestsellers club, an OPAC “Did you mean?” function, and many report templates. We also integrated our self checkout and RFID services from our vendor, TechLogic, computer management services with Comprise Technologies, and a phone notification system [itiva] with TalkingTech. This route to our new ILS was necessary because we did not have the IT talent in-house to do the development ourselves, and PTFS presented us with a hosting and migration services proposal that was highly competitive. Our team is building skills in writing reports and strategic problem solving, but someday, and hopefully not too many years in the future, we’ll have the skills to be as independent as many of our Koha colleagues are today. Our library’s web address is : http://mtpl.org Saugeen Library Consortium goes Koha by Norma Graham and Agnes Rivers-Moore In the autumn of 2009, the six libraries comprising the Saugeen Library Consortium in Southwestern Ontario went live with Koha. We were all Spectrum orphans – cut off from support and upgrades for our old ILS when Follett bought out Spectrum – and got together as a group of small-town and rural public libraries to consider our options in 2007. We chose Koha in part so that we would never again be forced into a similar situation by another proprietary database company. Moreover, small public libraries are continually cash-strapped, and an ILS that costs more than our entire annual collections budget was certainly not in the cards! We were fortunate to receive a grant from the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture’s Library Strategic Development Fund to cover most of the costs incurred by our programmer, Petrus Van Bork of Virtual Libraries Corporation, who prepared the new system and migrated our data to it. There were some major challenges along the way – like the fact that several of the libraries had been using a number of different kinds of barcodes, necessitating the creation of a ‘healer code’ so that the new system could read all the barcodes – but we’re very happy with Koha. It works beautifully for our small public libraries, and both staff members and library users are thrilled with the features it offers. The Grey Highlands Public Library, for example, is a three-branch system that has never before had a union database. If one branch wanted to know if a book was at another branch, they would have to place a phonecall! Now a few keystrokes accesses all the information needed. Our users are really pleased – and surprised – when staff inform them that they can now browse the collections of all branches, place their own holds, renew material themselves, and even make suggestions for new additions to the collection and browse the libraries’ shelves! There have been some adjustments to make for staff, especially dealing with holds and with the cataloguing interface. In small libraries, not many staff members have the training to create MARC records from scratch, and using Z39.50, though very slick, isn’t always fruitful. And in multi-branch systems, holds cannot be placed for specific copies (even though it appears to be a function available in Koha). We are hopeful that the specific-copy holds function will become usable in the next iteration of Koha. BibLibre’s Community Branch of Koha 3.2 by Henri-Damien Laurent and Nicole C. Engard BibLibre has been maintaining a community branch of the upcoming Koha 3.2 release. If you’d like to check out some of the new awesome features and get a first hand look at what’s coming, you can easily set up a new branch on your Koha development installation for this branch. Once in your Koha git directory you want to use the following commands: git branch biblibre_branch # creates a new branch from your current branch git checkout biblibre_branch # change your current branch to biblibre_branch git remote add biblibre git://git.biblibre.com/koha_biblibre.git # adds a remote repository git remote update # gets data from remotes repositories git rebase biblibre/3.2_community This will create a community branch that you can test on your own local development installation. New Koha Manual Available in Git by Nicole C. Engard Since taking the role of Documentation Manager for Koha I have had several suggestions, compliments and complaints. Among the suggestions and complaints were the issues people had with translating and printing the manual. For this reason I have started all over for Koha 3.2! I am now writing the Koha manual using DocBook. This format will allow for easy printing to PDF and HTML, easier translation, and easier sharing via Git. BibLibre has set up a git repository for me to share my work with you all. You can keep up with my work here: http://git.biblibre.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=kohadocs;a=summary and in the near future you’ll be able to read the manual in plain HTML on the official Koha site. Speed tips for Z39.50 catalogue searching by Agnes Rivers-Moore I have been testing Z39.50 searching from time to time. 1. Response times: I have found that most systems respond very quickly, say 5 seconds. However, if there is one system that takes a while to respond, you get to wait until all the systems have sent their response before any hits are displayed. This said, it makes sense to check the response time of each database that you use, and to search only the fast ones in your initial search (that is, turn on ‘Checked (searched by default)’ in your Z39.50 target settings). For example, I found that I can search 14 libraries in under 6 seconds, but if I include Amicus in the list, the same search takes about 60 seconds. 2. ISBN searching: Not all systems can search by ISBN. Strange, I know. Unfortunately, many of the libraries that have Z39.50 access to their data, are using Horizon, which does not do ISBN searches. This is why you may often do a search by ISBN, no hits, so you do it again with Author/title, and the libraries you searched before pop up showing the ISBN that you searched before. To identify these, I searched for a few really popular books by ISBN, and for those sites that did to respond, I checked whether they had a Horizon system (lib-web-cats is really useful for this). If they were not Horizon systems, I found their online catalogue, picked a few titles, then searched for those ISBNs through Z39.50. If those failed I knew the system did not support ISBN searching. So, my suggestion is that cataloguers go through the Z39.50 settings in your systems, and set any really slow responders so that they are not checked by default. Also if you usually search by ISBN first, set any libraries that do not support ISBN search not to be checked. Then, if your first search by ISBN fails, do the search again by author/title, and select all except the slow ones. Lastly search the slow systems only, if no other sources have hits. This should improve the time taken to search for each MARC record dramatically. ------------------ Newsletter edited by Nicole C. Engard, Koha Documentation Manager. Please send future story ideas to nengard(a)gmail.com

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Buyout by Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS)
by Phil Suda 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

How will the buyout by Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) of Liblime impact services from Liblime to customers?

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error
by vinod kumar 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

i have install Centos 5.4 in koha-3.004 show the error production mode - trapped fatal error plz help

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environmental variables or something else?
by Amy Schuler 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Good morning, Sorry for the re-post. I did not receive any responses so I will try once more in case there are any bright ideas A few days ago it was suggested to me that my environmental variables Koha_conf and PERL5LIB were not set up, which may lead to the problems I had running the migration tools (bulkmarcimport, authority import) . It seems to me that my environmental variables are set up correctly. Here we have run the echo command and also tried bulk authority import again. If this printout below suggests anything new, I am grateful to hear your thoughts. Thanks again! koha@Koha3:~/kohaclone/misc/migration_tools$ echo $KOHA_CONF && echo $PERL5LIB /home/koha/koha-dev/etc/koha-conf.xml /etc/perl/C4 koha@Koha3:~/kohaclone/misc/migration_tools$ ./bulkauthimport.pl -file bulkauthimport.xml Use of uninitialized value $conf_fname in concatenation (.) or string at /etc/perl/C4/Context.pm line 321. read_config_file() returned undef at /etc/perl/C4/Context.pm line 321. Use of uninitialized value $conf_fname in concatenation (.) or string at /etc/perl/C4/Context.pm line 321. read_config_file() returned undef at /etc/perl/C4/Context.pm line 321. Use of uninitialized value $conf_fname in concatenation (.) or string at /etc/perl/C4/Context.pm line 321. read_config_file() returned undef at /etc/perl/C4/Context.pm line 321. Use of uninitialized value $conf_fname in concatenation (.) or string at /etc/perl/C4/Context.pm line 321. read_config_file() returned undef at /etc/perl/C4/Context.pm line 321. Use of uninitialized value $conf_fname in concatenation (.) or string at /etc/perl/C4/Context.pm line 321. read_config_file() returned undef at /etc/perl/C4/Context.pm line 321. Can't call method "config" on unblessed reference at /etc/perl/C4/Context.pm line 655. Compilation failed in require at /etc/perl/C4/Items.pm line 30. Compilation failed in require at /etc/perl/C4/XSLT.pm line 22. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/perl/C4/XSLT.pm line 22. Compilation failed in require at /etc/perl/C4/Search.pm line 27. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/perl/C4/Search.pm line 27. Compilation failed in require at /etc/perl/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/perl/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm line 24. Compilation failed in require at ./bulkauthimport.pl line 20. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./bulkauthimport.pl line 20. Amy C. Schuler Manager of Information Services Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies PO Box AB Millbrook, NY 12545 (845) 677-7600 x164 schulera(a)caryinstitute.org<mailto:schulera@ecostudies.org>

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zebra for new item types
by Christopher Curry 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Hello all, I added three new item types and imported records from those item types. Only records with the existing "BK" item type are showing up in a search. I didn't get any errors during indexing. I wonder if it's necessary to configure zebra so it sees the new item types? Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've been looking at this page in the manual, but it doesn't reference which configuration files to edit: http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/searching/guide-to-searching/index… In addition, I imported 215,000 BK, but the following search: cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=kw&op=and&idx=kw&op=and&idx=kw&limit=mc-itype%3ABK&sort_by=relevance&do=Search only returns 135,906 results. I haven't yet determined the common properties (if any) of the 79,000 missing records. Any pointers to zebra configuration documentation 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> *For technical support, please use helpdesk(a)amphilsoc.org <mailto:helpdesk@amphilsoc.org>* Main Library number: (215)440-3400 APS website: http://www.amphilsoc.org

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New Koha Offline Circulation tool
by Kyle Hall 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Hello All, I would just like to announce that I've rewritten my Offline Circ program from the ground up. This version is written in C++/Qt4. The benefit over the previous version is improved stability, no need to install other components ( i.e. Gnope ), and it looks a bit nicer as well. It outputs the same .koc format the previous version does. If you want to use the borrower search feature, it requires a borrowers.db file in the SQLite3 format, rather than SQLite2 which the older version used. I've submitted a patch for the create_koc_db.pl script to add support for both versions. http://millruntech.com/koha/koha-tools/koha-offline-circulation Please check it out and let me know what you think. I'd be very interested to hear any suggestions for more improvements to it. Thanks, Kyle http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )

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Re: [Koha] New Koha Offline Circulation tool
by Kathy Rippel 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

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Re: [Koha] New Koha Offline Circulation tool
by Kathy Rippel 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

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