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LITA 2009
by gsl 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Any Koha people planning to be at the 2009 LITA National Forum in Salt Lake City, NV, USA, October 1-4, 2009? They are soliciting proposals now, but among the requested topics is "Library-specific open source software (OSS) and other OSS "in" Libraries" and digital libraries. If I were more familiar with Koha I'd probably submit a proposal since I'm expecting to go to the meetings anyway. This is a great opportunity to promote Koha, Evergreen, Greenstone or Kete. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lita2009/ Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 x2303

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Adding or editing Patron category Type
by Vimal Kumar 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Dear Friends, How can we edit or add new "Patron category Type" (e.g. Adult, Child, Staff, Professional etc.) which appeared in Patron categories. -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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Koha at GNUNIFY'09
by Krishnan M 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

GNUNIFY'09 is on the 13th and 14th of February at Pune See http://gnunify.in/ Prashant Kulkarni and myself are hosting a session on Koha, at least on the 13th, and perhaps even on the 14th, when we expect a large audience from academic world. Be there! Also, watch this space for some more announcements tonight... regards, krishnan mani Pune, India Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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FW: Koha 3.0 LDAP Question?
by Barry Cannon 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

I have been trying to configure LDAP and have a couple of questions: The Wiki says: There are two parts of the KOHA_CONF file (default location: /etc/koha.xml) relevant to LDAP authentication: the configuration stanza itself, and the "switch" line that enables or disables LDAP. The switch appears in the main <config> section, 0 for "off" and 1 for "on",.... Should I take this to mean the koha-conf.xml file? There is no koha.xml file on our installed server? If it is this file, do I simply add the LDAP server options in the config file. I have assumed that is what is needed but I can't figure out where to go from there? Is there an Admin tool to configure/test the LPAD authentication? Thanks Barry

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Error at Biblio.pm line 1642, Koha users in Denver Colorado, USA
by Jeffrey LePage 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Hello all, First, is there anyone out there who has installed Koha in the Denver Colorado USA area. It would be nice if we could meet and compare notes. I'll buy the beer. Second, I'm trying to get Koha running, and I'm almost there. We're still having occasional problems cataloging books. However, we're successfully checking out books and we've already imported around 10,000 books from our aging Athena system. The latest problem seems to be related to this: http://www.nabble.com/Re:-error-occurs-when-adding-new-biblio-td21247760.ht… and this: http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2008-December/016248.html Basically when I try to save the result of Z39.50 search on _some_ books I get the following error: Can't call method "fields" on an undefined value at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 1642 myan or mwood: did you find an answer to this problem? -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 40, Issue 28
by Bob Birchall ＠ Bigpond 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Vimal, Assuming you are using 3.0, select Koha Administration and you will find Patron Categories under the Patrons and Circulation Heading. Bob Birchall Calyx Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:28:43 +0530 From: Vimal Kumar <vimal0212(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Koha] Adding or editing Patron category Type To: Koha-List <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Message-ID: <5b978ad90902120058y1e1f97a3k6ee002d627f9ae4d(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Friends, How can we edit or add new "Patron category Type" (e.g. Adult, Child, Staff, Professional etc.) which appeared in Patron categories.

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Koha 3.0 LDAP Question?
by Barry Cannon 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

I have been trying to configure LDAP and have a couple of questions: The Wiki says: There are two parts of the KOHA_CONF file (default location: /etc/koha.xml) relevant to LDAP authentication: the configuration stanza itself, and the "switch" line that enables or disables LDAP. The switch appears in the main <config> section, 0 for "off" and 1 for "on",.... Should I take this to mean the koha-conf.xml file? There is no koha.xml file on our installed server? If it is this file, do I simply add the LDAP server options in the config file. I have assumed that is what is needed but I can't figure out where to go from there? Is there an Admin tool to configure/test the LPAD authentication? Thanks Barry

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Koha windows help
by zair rizvi 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Sir My self Zair from Jahangirabad Institute of Technology. I was running Koha 224 version apache 1.3.33 and perl 5.8.7 build 813 and sql 4.0.26 client. Suddenly the system got shutdown and when i opened the computer koha was not working. I tried to reinstall Apache version 2.0 and koha 229 leaving perl and sql the same as it was earlier believing that it will be containing data. but nothing has happened. apache server gave error" could not bind with 0.0.0.0:80". now i have installed koha with apache 2.0.63 sql 4.1.22 and perl 5.8 module and koha 229 version and it is working fine. now the problem is that i have to transfer data from old system to the new one. plz tell me how to do that as we have a lot of data. it would be a great help to me if you could mentioned step by step method to do the same. the other option is that if your could help me in reparing the old koha. if you have any mobile number i can call you. with regards rizvi

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Re: [Koha] Follett to Koha 3 Migration
by Doug Dearden 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

>>> Ed Roche <edward_roche(a)solanco.k12.pa.us> 2/11/2009 9:55:11 AM >>> Good Morning/Afternoon All Anyone who has migrated from Follett to Koha, would you happen to have documented how you did it? If so would you be willing to share? Thanks Ed Edward J. Roche Network Administrator Solanco School District -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Follett-to-Koha-3-Migration-tp21958260p21958260.html Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha Hi Ed, I recently did a migration from Follett, and can give you some broad stroke guide lines. Install Koha. If you haven't done this yet, take a look at the wiki for links to some installation guides. I used Debian Etch, and since the server I was setting up on did not have hardware raid, I set up software raid using this guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_software_raid . If you aren't intimate with Linux, you have a pretty steep learning curve here. You need to get a base Linux install done, then download the latest stable koha release and unwrap it. Look at the INSTALL.debian file and follow all of those instructions to get the prerequisites installed and a base koha installation done, or use one of the installation guides in the wiki if you are installing on a different Linux distro. I installed SSH and phpmyadmin so I could work easily from my desktop computer. You probably want to review some of the installation guides on the wiki just to get a feel for the process and the potential snags. I installed this on a test computer to begin with, then did it again on the server it is running on. I started over from scratch more than once, and found that getting all of the Perl modules that koha needs installed to be my biggest hurdle. Again, some tricks in the install guides on the wiki helped. Once you have koha installed and working, get with your librarian and go through all of the System Preferences and set those. I think you will find a link on kohadocs.org to a setup guide that will help. You pretty much have to read the online manual about the different options and make decisions that fit your situation. Also, get a look at the frameworks, and make sure you understand how the "hidden" field controls the display in the OPAC and the staff client. Take a look at all of the other options in the staff client and get those set. Migrating the patrons was pretty straight forward. The import patrons page has a sample csv file you can download, I exported the patrons from Follett, imported them into excel and then did a cut and paste of columns into the csv file, saved it and imported it into koha. With the size of our library, we did not have to migrate circulation records, so that one you get to figure out. We also didn't migrate authorities, as our librarian wanted to build those anew. For the biblio records, export from Follett (we use marc 21). If I remember right you do that from the cataloging screen. The Follett records are in pretty good shape, with a couple of exceptions. If you haven't used marc edit, download it from here: http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php . This utility will take a marc file, break it out so it is readable, and after editing put it back into the machine readable format. It also has a script generator. This all runs on Windows, the script generator creates VB Script. If you haven't worked with marc files before, your cataloging librarian will be happy to talk about it. A lot. Follett exports the holding info into the 852 record, including a $x field that has a string of stuff delimited by @ signs. I used the script generator to create a basic script, then modified it to read that line and manipulate the data into the correct fields for koha. In addition our librarian wanted to move a couple of other fields around that had been misused in the past. I will attach my modified script to this with the caveat that it is extremely kludgy, as I kept revising it to handle this and that issue. You may want to generate a script from Marc Edit and start from scratch. You are free to use, modify, no guarantees, no support provided, etc. Once you get the Follett records converted into the koha format (mainly getting the item info into the 952 record), you can use the import tool in the staff client to bring them in. I would suggest breaking them into smaller pieces using marc breaker/maker, and importing those. The import can take a while and if it chokes on a particular record part way through you won't have one giant file to deal with. I wound up with a couple of records that didn't want to import, so removed them from the file and redid the import. I think we had to recatalog three records manually. (I could have done the troubleshooting, but it was quicker just to catalog them in). All in all this is pretty straight forward as migrations go. This project did take me weeks though, as I had limited experience with Linux and spent a lot of time getting up to speed on it. We also are running multiple databases, so I had to do a bit of work figuring that out (Merci Henri) and did a minor bit of customization to the look of things. My big hurdle though was getting the server set up with the basic koha install done. I did not install the zebra engine, as we have a small collection, so if you are doing that you have another layer of complexity. Good luck Ed. Best, Doug Note to list - The mail list server refused to post this because of the attached script file (good security). I am posting to the list without the attachment, if someone else wants a copy of the script email me with "Follett/Koha script" in the subject line and I will send it to you . Doug Dearden dearden(a)sarsf.org

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PromptCat spine labels
by Rachel Hollis 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Greetings colleagues, is anyone printing spine labels received via PromptCat in Koha? Would it be okay to talk to you about the process off-list? Thank you, 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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