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Re: [Koha] retrieving checkout data
by Rachel Hollis 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Thanks Joe and Owen, I’d hoped that there would be some way to retrieve checkout data but it seems not. In addition to being a dummy and making checkouts (even the current ones) anonymous, we’ve not been very good about backing up our data either. Fortunately we haven’t migrated all our data and processes over yet; it could have been a much greater predicament. Rachel Hollis, librarian Stevens-Henager College, Boise Idaho Campus From: Joe Atzberger [mailto:ohiocore@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:53 AM To: Rachel Hollis Subject: Re: [Koha] retrieving checkout data You can try to extract the data from backups. It will be a great pain though, to merge it with whatever transaction data you have left since the last backup point. --Joe On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Rachel Hollis <Rachel.Hollis(a)stevenshenager.edu<mailto:Rachel.Hollis@stevenshenager.edu>> wrote: The wrong way is to anonymize check-out history older than <today>. Like a dummy, I did that and now patron data tied to titles does not display. I'm not sure that it is a bug, I can see benefit in making checkout history anonymous after items are returned. I'd anonymize check-out history again but use a date a year or two in the past. The step I took and screen shots are at the following link: http://home.earthlink.net/~rhollis/Koha/anonymize.pdf<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Erhollis/Koha/anonymize.pdf> I'd really like to notify our patrons with overdues and get the library's materials back. Any ideas or help will be most appreciated. Rachel Hollis, librarian Stevens-Henager College, Boise Idaho Campus -----Original Message----- From: Owen Leonard [mailto:oleonard@myacpl.org<mailto:oleonard@myacpl.org>] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:08 AM To: Rachel Hollis Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz<mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] retrieving checkout data > Everything I know, I learned the hard way. Recently I learned the wrong way to anonymize > check-out history. Is the "wrong way" to use Koha 3's new anonymize checkout history tool? If that's the case, a bug report needs to be filed at the very least. Let us know the details of how it happened so it can be tested. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org ________________________________ 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.

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Re: [Koha] koha features
by Doug Dearden 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Hello Sebastien, In reading your post I am reminded of one of the ways we implemented koha. We are using it to catalog archived images that have been scanned. Like your users, our need was for better searching capabilities to find the images that were needed. The connection to the image files was then accomplished using the 856 $u field - URL. A URL in this field is a clickable link in koha, and could be set up to point to your daisy files. Perhaps I am oversimplifying your needs as the public key infrastructure might add some complexity, but from your description I think this is an easy fit into koha. You may not need all the features, but being able to import bibliographic data and have full search capabilities sounds like the big plus. If the connection to the correct file is a URL address then you're done. I got some help from the list to format the URL on the record so that it could be easily redirected later using a simple change in the Apache configuration, in the event the files needed to be moved to a different server. I would suggest you talk to your librarian about MARC. I found that once I had a good handle on how it worked I saw how to easily implement Koha to fulfill our needs. I think you would find the same. You will need to hone your linux skills, but you may not need to do any heavy perl programming. Best, Doug >>> Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer(a)snv.jussieu.fr> 4/22/2009 8:06 AM >>> HI Zeno, many thanks for your two e-mails and for all the good questions raised in this one. > why do you want a library management system ? > Do you need to setup circulation policies ? No, I think this we don't need. > Do you need to catalague serials ? I don't know what serials are... I'm not a librarian myself, rather computer scientist. > Do you need to manage acquistion ? Perhaps. One thing I have in mind is that the acquisition module ould be used to mnage the file requests submitted to publishers and awaiting to be processed by them. > If from Koha you need only catalogue and Opac with 'simple' metadata, > well Koha is too much for you. You probably do a best choice if you > select a software like Greestone or Dspace. Well, one of the complains from our readers is that the present catalogue is not searchable enough. They say that they have to know preisely what they want to read to find it. We thought that, among other things, using koha could solve this problem. > Koha, IMHO, is ok if you want: > -- to catalogue with full MARC21/UNIMARC set of metatda As far as I understand things,yes, this is something we want.However, I have to say that I do not fully understand why this is important. > -- do you want an Opac with specific indexes on your data. Is not easy > but with Zebra you can index every field/subfield do you want This may perhaps turn out to be interesting. > -- a Z39.50 / SRU server is good extra for you Yes, I think this is interesting for us. We want to provide a standard-based way for other libraries to consult our catalogue and so on. Also, I think we'd like to be able to import bibliographic information easily, and in my iunderstanding this is an other reason why koha is interesting for us, i.e. it is marc-based, which makes us able to import data from the french national library, e.g. Does this make sense ? > -- To use an authority to catalogue is a good extra for you I think this is also the case, but I don't feel qualified enough to be more affirmative on this. > In fact you still have many work to do on Koha to gain your gaols. > Do you need inside (or you need to pay): > -- People with good Library Science knowledge (exp. on Z39.50) > -- People good on Linux and with good dev skills on perl Oh well, I'm the one supposed to do all that. Linux knowledge is okay, knowledge about development in general, too, though I'm less familiar with Perl than with other languages like OCaml. My Library science knowledge is almost inexistant, but we have a librarian working full time inour organization. As mentionned before, any comments will be warmly appreciate, so please donot hesitate to say everything this e-mail inspires to you. Thanks much in advance, Sébastien. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Re: [Koha] koha features
by Sébastien Hinderer 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

HI Zeno, many thanks for your two e-mails and for all the good questions raised in this one. > why do you want a library management system ? > Do you need to setup circulation policies ? No, I think this we don't need. > Do you need to catalague serials ? I don't know what serials are... I'm not a librarian myself, rather computer scientist. > Do you need to manage acquistion ? Perhaps. One thing I have in mind is that the acquisition module ould be used to mnage the file requests submitted to publishers and awaiting to be processed by them. > If from Koha you need only catalogue and Opac with 'simple' metadata, > well Koha is too much for you. You probably do a best choice if you > select a software like Greestone or Dspace. Well, one of the complains from our readers is that the present catalogue is not searchable enough. They say that they have to know preisely what they want to read to find it. We thought that, among other things, using koha could solve this problem. > Koha, IMHO, is ok if you want: > -- to catalogue with full MARC21/UNIMARC set of metatda As far as I understand things,yes, this is something we want.However, I have to say that I do not fully understand why this is important. > -- do you want an Opac with specific indexes on your data. Is not easy > but with Zebra you can index every field/subfield do you want This may perhaps turn out to be interesting. > -- a Z39.50 / SRU server is good extra for you Yes, I think this is interesting for us. We want to provide a standard-based way for other libraries to consult our catalogue and so on. Also, I think we'd like to be able to import bibliographic information easily, and in my iunderstanding this is an other reason why koha is interesting for us, i.e. it is marc-based, which makes us able to import data from the french national library, e.g. Does this make sense ? > -- To use an authority to catalogue is a good extra for you I think this is also the case, but I don't feel qualified enough to be more affirmative on this. > In fact you still have many work to do on Koha to gain your gaols. > Do you need inside (or you need to pay): > -- People with good Library Science knowledge (exp. on Z39.50) > -- People good on Linux and with good dev skills on perl Oh well, I'm the one supposed to do all that. Linux knowledge is okay, knowledge about development in general, too, though I'm less familiar with Perl than with other languages like OCaml. My Library science knowledge is almost inexistant, but we have a librarian working full time inour organization. As mentionned before, any comments will be warmly appreciate, so please donot hesitate to say everything this e-mail inspires to you. Thanks much in advance, Sébastien.

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retrieving checkout data
by Rachel Hollis 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Everything I know, I learned the hard way. Recently I learned the wrong way to anonymize check-out history. The situation is that I cannot view patron checkouts and overdues for any items that were checked out up to sometime last week. Is there anything that I can do to view this data after anonymize check-out history? The most important data are the overdues. When I click on Circulation and run the Overdues Report, the data displays alright but the Patron column has parentheses. When I click on "download file of all overdues," the CSV file contains no data. How can I view check-out history? We are on Koha 3.01 on Debian. 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.

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KOHA and ezproxy
by Melanie Hedgespeth 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Does anyone utilize ezproxy with KOHA? Thanks. Melanie Hedgespeth Tech Center Manager Salina Public Library 785.825.4624 x233 melanie(a)salpublib.org

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Koha project IRC meeting
by Galen Charlton 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi, I would like to call a general meeting on the #koha IRC channel on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 at 19:00 UTC with a nominal finish time of 21:00. I would like to hold this meeting monthly, and I'll arbitrarily pick the first Wednesday of every month. I would appreciate feedback on the time of day I've selected; I'm thinking of rotating the meeting time each month so that no one timezone always ends up having the IRC meeting fall in the middle of the night. Here are some items I would like to discuss. 1. Koha 3.2/tip status and timeline 2. Koha 3.0.x status 3. Koha bugs database 4. KohaCon 2009 report Please use this thread to suggest any other discussion topics. The #koha IRC channel (irc://irc.katipo.co.nz/#koha) can be accessed with the following settings: Server: irc.katipo.co.nz Port: 6667 Chanel: #koha Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha 3.2 Release Manager VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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Z39.50 barcode search
by Szymon Bobek 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi all, We have Just set up our koha library on the school server, and started to work with our catalogue. Everything works beautifully except that we cannot use Z39.50 so that it will search the online libraries using barcode search point. It works fine with ISBN, but barcodes are different than ISBN/ISSN. Is it possible to make koha do this? Regards, Szymon Bobek The International School of Krakow http://iskonline.org

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Fwd: Help me!
by Chris Cormack 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nguyễn Văn Tuân <tuannv(a)thienan.vn> Date: 2009/4/21 Subject: Help me! To: koha-owner(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Hi, when i run the script tmpl_process3.pl it return "Create FAILED". I run "./tmpl_process3.pl create -r -i ../../koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/ -s po/css_staff_pt_PT.po" inside misc/translation directory When i click enter i see on screen: "Warning: Can't determine original templates' charset, defaulting to UTF-8 Warning: Charset Out defaulting to UTF-8 Removing empty file po/css_staff_pt_PT.po I UTF-8 O UTF-8 at ./tmpl_process3.pl line 296." and after a while show "Create FAILED." Can someone help.

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On leave
by Wei Wei LEE 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

I will be out of the office starting 21/04/2009 and will not return until 24/04/2009. I will respond to your message when I return. For urgent matters, please contact Ms Ho Lam Fong at 6332 1812 for assistance.

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KohaFest in Córdoba, Argentina
by Veronica Lencinas 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi, in Córdoba, Argentina we are organizing together with the local free software user group (Grulic) an Installfest for Koha. This Saturday we receive libraries and librarians with their computers to install Linux and Koha. You are all invited! Cheers Veronica Lencinas Córdoba, Argentina El sábado 25 de abril, desde las 14hs., se llevará a cabo la 20ma. edición del InstallFest de GrULiC (Grupo de Usuarios Linux Córdoba), que se realiza conjuntamente con el FLISOL 2009, un festival de instalación de software libre organizado a nivel latinoamericano. El evento tendrá lugar nuevamente en las aulas comunes D de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (en ciudad universitaria) . Conjuntamente al InstallFest vamos a instalar Koha, un Sistema Integrado de Gestión Bibliotecaria Libre. Asi que los que quieran empezar a disfrutar de la libertad en sus bibliotecas pueden traer sus PCs y llevarlas de vuelta con un Sistema Operativo libre, estable y confiable: GNU/Linux en su sabor Ubuntu y un sistema de gestión para bibliotecas libre, robusto y altamente configurable para todo tipo de unidades de información, desde bibliotecas escolares o populares hasta grandes bibliotecas públicas o universitarias. Ya están abiertas las inscripciones para el evento. La entrada es libre y gratuita. ¡Te esperamos! Inscripciones Ubuntu Koha Koha Argentina Yahoo! Cocina Recetas prácticas y comida saludable http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

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