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Circulating magazines/ Printing barcodes
by Cab Vinton 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

We circulate individual copies of our magazines and are wondering how other Koha (3.0) libraries handle this. We generally keep only a year's worth of back issues, so in theory we could simply create individual items for the 6, 12, or whatever number of annual issues. This would involve printing barcodes on stickers to attach to each issue (using the same barcode for each January issue, for example.) I haven't experimented w/ Koha's label printing utility, but it occurs to me that there are probably simpler programs, or perhaps we could use MS-Word + a specialized font. Grateful for any guidance on any of these issues. Thank you, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH

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Currency Management in KOHA
by R N Pandya 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

We are facing problem in handling currency. Can anyone help ? Problem: KOHA allows currency association with the Vendor at the time of creating/modifying a new Vendor (i.e. 1 Vendor - 1 Currency. Generally in our situation it is not possible to have 1 Vendor - 1 Currency. There are many orders placed with different curreny to a single vendor. Following is an example for clarification. BOOK 1 ordered to VENDOR-1 which is priced in USD BOOK 2 ordered to VENDOR-1 which is priced in POUND BOOK 3 ordered to VENDOR-1 priced in INR Can anyone suggest how to manage such transactions in KOHA 3 Thanks Ravindra IIM Ahmedabad

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Re: [Koha] regarding koha3.00.00 installation on ubuntu8.10
by Zeno Tajoli 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hi to all, At 09.37 28/01/2009, arun kumar wrote: >while installing koha3.00.00 on ubuntu 8.10 . Yaz is missing .and >i have try to install through systamatic package manager also but >it is not installed .it shows error if you want to install ubuntu 8.10 [in particular for test on a local hardware], read this: http://www.blazingmoon.org/guides/k3-on-u810-1.html In particular about Yaz: http://www.blazingmoon.org/guides/k3-on-u810-5.html To install Yaz you need to use Index Data repositories and to use apt-get If you want to do a more stable installation, use ubunutu 8.04, LTS http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=koha_3_install_guide_ubuntu_hardy I have done a test installation with ubuntu 8.10 and I can use perl 5.10. But for production I suggest to use perl 5.8 Bye Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @)

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regarding koha3.00.00 installation on ubuntu8.10
by arun kumar 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

while installing koha3.00.00 on ubuntu 8.10 . Yaz is missing .and i have try to install through systamatic package manager also but it is not installed .it shows error as yaz: Depends : lidgnutls 13(>=1.4.0-0) but it is not installable Depends : libyaz3 but it is not going to be installed so i try to down load from net this libyaz3-3.0.34-2-alpha.deb . and i have stored it in my desktop so i have move it to root and type the command dpkg -i libyaz3-3.0.34-2-alpha.deb . and tried but this time it shows error as dpkg : error processing libyaz3-3.0.34-2-alpha.deb(......install) package architecture (alpha) does not match system (i386) same error also for lidgnutls 13 what shall i do for that please help me -- -- WITH BEST WISHES ARUNKUMAR.P

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Koha advanced search
by Liny Varghese 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Dear All, We have installed Koha 3 on Debian etch. It is running okay. but the 'Advanced search' is not working properly when we select the Libraries. Any help in this regards is appreciated regards Liny Varghese Information Scientist University Library Cochin University of Science and Technology Kerala, S. India

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SICHE LIBRARY
by Nelson Manerara 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hi all We are new to koha and just beginning to input bibliographical data into our local server, and currently this process is done locally as we are unable as yet and continued to experience difficulties accessing Z39.50. We are far from achieving what koha meant to do, but with some help I am certain we will in the near future able to master and appreciate the benefit of this library system. May be subscribing to this forum is a starting point for a novice to koha Nelson Manerara Manager Library

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Fwd: regarding koha3.00.00 on ubuntu
by Chris Cormack 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: arun kumar <arunjan13(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:43 PM Subject: regarding koha3.00.00 on ubuntu To: koha-owner(a)lists.katipo.co.nz while installing koha on ubuntu . Yaz and libssl is missing . whether Yaz is needed if yes what shall i do .and i have try to install through systamatic package manager also but it is not installed .it shows error as yaz: Depends : lidgnutls 13(>=1.4.0-0) but it is not installable Depends : libyaz3 but it is not going to be installed what shall i do for that please help me -- WITH BEST WISHES ARUNKUMAR.P

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Record Error
by inakayenga 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

This is Irene from Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi. We have of recent noticed an error with one of our records. It is a book that was borrowed a week ago. On return we enter the accession/barcode number and it displays an error as follows; "Koha error The following fatal error has occurred: Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/25124,c++ <-- HERE howtopr\-(\d) at /opt/koha/src/C4/Biblio.pm line 2277." On searching the record by title, it displays 2 items in Library, 1 item available, 1 item on loan, if you go to the Normal view of the record, it is 1 accession/barcode 25124 that displays and it is that very book that has been out. I have tried to edit the record but still the error re-occurs. I am stuck and request that you help us out on this. Hope to hear from you soon. Nakayenga Irene Assistant Librarian Uganda Martyrs University P.O. Box 5498 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256-(0)38-410630 Tel: +256-(0)38-410611 Fax: +256-(0)38-410100 Web: http://www.umu.ac.ug --------------------------

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koha 3.00.00: web installer fails: production mode "trapped fatal error"
by ghenry 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

hello, when connecting to http://....:8080, i got these errors: [Tue Jan 27 14:02:44 2009] [error] [client 147.94.64.14] [Tue Jan 27 14:02:44 2009] mainpage.pl: Install required, redirecting to Installer at /home/henry/public_html/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 443. [Tue Jan 27 14:02:45 2009] [error] [client 147.94.64.14] [Tue Jan 27 14:02:45 2009] install.pl: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /home/henry/public_html/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm line 45. [Tue Jan 27 14:02:45 2009] [error] [client 147.94.64.14] [Tue Jan 27 14:02:45 2009] install.pl: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /home/henry/public_html/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm line 45. [Tue Jan 27 14:02:45 2009] [error] [client 147.94.64.14] [Tue Jan 27 14:02:45 2009] install.pl: Can't call method "id" on an undefined value at InstallAuth.pm line 278. Anyone can help? thanks gerard

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Koha 3.0 problems
by Marie Wardall 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

I again come to this group to see if you can help us through somethings that have been happening. I want to let you know that I'm the librarian that's been working through the problems and trying to communicate them to our IT staff who are trying to do more of the support themselves. I do not have access to any of the operations dealing with MySQL, Zebra, etc. I only have access to what I see with the program. Having said all that here are the problems we are experiencing. Any help or direction you could point us in would be appreciated. 1) When we catalog new items (whether it be a record we have imported in, an item we have added to an existing record or a new record we have done original cataloging for) we are unable to get it to show up in the results screen when we search for it in the catalog. I can enter the barcode at check in and it comes up and I can enter the barcode in at checkout and check it out to a patron and it comes up fine. It just doesn't come up when I search for it in the catalog. 2) Because the book is not coming up when I search for it I'm also not able to search for it when I want to print the barcode. I can print the barcode using a barcode generator but it should work in the program. 3) When I am able to print other barcodes that I have in existing batches, some of the barcodes print like they are supposed and others just print as black boxes so it's hit and miss wheter or not the barcode will print correctly or not. 4) We followed the Koha spec information about where and what information needed to be included in the 952 tag. I assumed that because we had the vendor put the information there that it would show up in the item record area in the corresponding fields. The information does not and I then need to input all the data into the required fields. Shouldn't the information show up there if it's in the 952 tag? 5) When I can get back into an item record and look at the edit items area I notice (with just the books I have added) that there is column that says Koha normalized classification for sorting. In this column it shows the call number but it's not quite right ie: FIC _DUP. What does the Koha normalized classification for sorting mean? And finally, 6) Our It person found this today: Cron job to update Zebra indexes every 15 minutes returning the following via email: X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/koha> X-Cron-Env: <PERL5LIB=/home/koha/kohaclone> X-Cron-Env: <KOHA_CONF=/home/koha/koha-dev/etc/koha-conf.xml> X-Cron-Env: <TZ=US/Central> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=koha> X-Cron-Env: <USER=koha> DBD::mysql::db do failed: Unknown or incorrect time zone: 'US/Central' at /home/ koha/kohaclone/C4/Context.pm line 675. Again, any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance for any help you can send our way. Marie J. Wardall Library Media Specialist Mountain Bay Elementary School 8602 Schofield Ave. Weston, WI 54476 mwardall(a)dce.k12.wi.us Phone: 715-355-0302 ext. 5824 Change Today, Change Tomorrow, Keep Changing

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