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Setting up system preferences
by Megan Wiebe 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

I have just had Koha installed and I am trying to set up the system preferences. However, the Systems preferences table seems to be missing (figure 1.4 from the Koha 2.2 user guide). I'm not sure how to get this working. Any ideas?

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Hardware configuration
by anu＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hello List, Could you please suggest hardware configuration and OS details for a large size library holdings (more than 10,000,000 records) with z3950 feature enabled, to be accessible both on intranet and Internet? Regards, Anuradha -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sample Data
by Surendran KK 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hello, Installing Koha in Debian4.0r3 box. I am unable to find the script to create the .mrc file ( for example the sample data: intranet/scripts/misc/sql-datas/english/sample_usmarc.mrc ) from comma separated text file? We are creating doing library automation first time. Thank you for your attention. ___Surendran KK -- The meaning of Maya is not that things do not exist, but that they exist by inference alone.

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Request for documentation
by Anahit Hovhannisyan 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi everybody, Can you help me to get the comprehensive documentation on Koha. Thanks you. With kind regards, Anahit No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.9/1364 - Release Date: 4/7/2008 6:38 PM

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Problem with Amazon content
by benson Mugambi 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

I have installed koha 2.2.9 on ubuntu 6.06 and everything was working properly intil the OPAC began crashing when loading search results. Am not able to access the error log file to get the exact causes for the problem, but after i disabled the Amazon content, the OPAC worked well albeit without the Amazon book images. So what could be wrong here, what should i do to correct it? Is there another way of getting the book images, apart from Amazon? BENSON "Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification." Romans 14:19 Benson Mugambi EAWEB Solutions(K) NAIROBI-KENYA --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good helps you make a difference

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NZ English Translation
by Joshua Ferraro 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:17 PM, <russ(a)russandsarah.gen.nz> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Please forgive the re posting, but I think I managed to time my original > for when HDL was moving the lists. > > Anyway here is my request again. > > I would like to do a Koha Translation into NZ English. This way we can > manage some of the terms in the interface that those of us in this part of > the world don't use. Things like zipcode -> postcode, state -> region etc. > > Can a en-NZ language code be setup please? If we're going to start getting picky about English in the official releases, and having multiple variants, I'd suggest we first clean up the existing English to a specific variant so that we have something to work from, rather than the hodge podge that's currently in /prog/en (it's currently a mixture of en-NZ/GB, en-FR and en-US). The best way to do that would be to have some kind of official language dictionary for library terms ... Fortunately, there's a free Dictionary for Library and Information Science that we can avail ourselves of: http://lu.com/odlis/. Would anyone be interested in 'cleaning up' the English language strings in accordance with ODLIS? Also, w/respect to en-NZ, isn't that the same or nearly the same as en-GB? Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE CEO migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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ISBD field
by Lenora Oftedahl 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Took me some tweaking, but here's what I finally came up with to show how to format citations for documents in my library (requested by customers) #050|<label>Location: </label>|{050a}{ /050b}| #024| <label>SN RefID: </label>|{024a}| #245| <label>Citation: </label>|{245c }.| #260||{260c}.| #245||{\n245a}{ : 245b }{ [245h]}.| #260||{ 260a}{ : 260b}. | #300||{300a}| #020|<label>ISBN/ISSN: </label>| { 020a}{ / 022a}| #490|<label>Series: </label>|{\n490a}{ : {490v.}| #500|<label>Notes: </label>|{\n500a.}| #505|<label>Contents: </label>|{\n505a.}| #520|<label>Summary/Abstract: </label>|{\n520a}| #650|<label>Descriptors/Keywords: </label>|{\n650a }{-- 650x}{-- 650z}{-- 650y.}| #651|<label></label>|{\n651a }{-- 651x}{-- 651z}{-- 651y.}| #600|<label></label>|{\n600a.}| #610|<label></label>|{\n610a.}| #856|<label>Available online: </label>|{\n856u}| Copy and paste into address bar to access document. If anyone knows how I can tweak the 856 block so that the link is click-able, please let me know. You can view how this looks on documents tomorrow at http://www.fishlib.org For a test search, try Pacific Salmon life histories and choose the first record. -- *************************************** Lenora A. Oftedahl, MLS MEPM StreamNet Regional Librarian Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission 729 NE Oregon St, Ste 190 Portland, OR 97232 503-736-3581 / ARIEL: 207.173.155.8 503-731-1260 FAX OFTL(a)critfc.org http://www.fishlib.org ************************************* "One by one, the penguins are stealing my sanity" ************************************** "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." --(Charles Schultz) ************************************** "The problem with adults is that they are contaminated by experience." --Kumi Naidoo, General Secretary and CEO of CIVICUS **************************************

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Multiple primary key defined
by Tim McMahon - West Liberty Public Library 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

I get the following error trying to update our database to version 3. alter or create bookfundid in aqbookfund DBD::mysql::db do failed: Multiple primary key defined at installer/data/mysql/update22to30.pl line 1960 The source says it will run the query twice. Should I just ignore this error if I only get it once? This is from a fresh git install this morning. -- Tim McMahon Technical Services West Liberty Public Library 400 N. Spencer St. West Liberty, IA 52776 Phone: 319-627-2084 Fax: 319-627-2135 tmcmahon(a)wlpl.org http://www.wlpl.org

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Koha in Croatia
by Marijana Glavica 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Dear list members, Here at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia, we decided to use Koha. About the reasons I could write very long story, but for now I just want to share with you my happiness about that fact. And some fears :) We decided to be very brave so we installed Koha 3.0, and we will be using it very soon, for production. I know it is not recommended for production use yet, but it looks comfortable to me for our needs right now. Some functionality we need right now, other can wait, and also we plan some development on top of Koha (primarily for communication with other systems). Everything what I seriously need right now, seems to be working in Koha 3.0, except the trouble with subtitles (bug 1621), which is pretty serious to me. Also, we wanted to run Koha on Postgres but we didn't get system preferences loaded into the database during installation, so we thought maybe not for now :) So, first thing I wanted to check with developers - how silly is to use Koha 3.0 for production right now? (by now I mean in about 2 months :). Specifically, do you expect any database changes which would give me a trouble with data in current database? What is with subtitles, will they get separate field in Koha database? (actually, it is better to call it "reminder of title" because that is the meaning of the 245b field in MARC21, although in UNIMARC you have distinction - 200e for subtitle, 200k for another title, 200d for parallel title) Second, I want to ask developers to open Croatian translation chapter on Koha translation site (local name: Hrvatski, abbr: hr). (I see Croatian already listed on About Koha page) Third, is there are any serious or potential users from Croatia or countries with similar languages already? I would very much like to be in touch with you. And finally some words to introduce myself and my dearest and generous friend Dobrica who is helping us during last few years in implementing free software in our libraries. He is very proficient in Perl and also very active in open source community. We developed our current library catalog which is actually search engine, indexer for data in different formats (e.g. native CDS/ISIS format, ISO2709, DBF or Excel) so we are not limited just to data coming from bibliographic database but we search different sources (e.g. list of e-journals coming from publisher) all in one interface. (http://svn.rot13.org/index.cgi/webpac/browse/trunk) Also, we started to develop conversion tools for very messy data :). About what came out you can read here http://webpac.us/. Please read WebPAC::Manual first and sorry for not having any user documentation, I hope that will change. So, conceptually this is very broad project, tending to be data warehouse and search engine, but for now it is really only the very powerful tool for restructuring data. You can obtain it here: http://svn.rot13.org/index.cgi/webpac2/browse/trunk Hope some of these conversion tools may be useful to Koha community, so if I see some interest I will be very happy to help and explain, and that would motivate me to write some user documentation :). That's for now, hope to be here more. I appreciate your work very much. Marijana Glavica Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Libraries I. Lucica 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia http://www.knjiznice.ffzg.hr/

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Authorized value not displaying correctly in OPAC simple view
by Jennifer Johnston 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi all, Having a problem with this: using Koha version 2.2.9 on Windows XP, in testing stage. I have 952c set up with an authorized value menu for shelving location (2nd floor, 3rd floor, etc). In the OPAC, my test record displays this text fine in the "complete" (marc) view, in the "items" tab--but in the "simple" view, the location displays the authorized value NUMBER, not the TEXT, i.e. "LibraryName 3 call#" instead of "LibraryName 4th floor call#" Anyone have any suggestions? I'm not sure where I messed up- Thanks, Jennifer

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