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Zebra Indexing Problems
by Mueller, Christine, DCA 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Environment: Koha 3 Alpha / Ubuntu 7.1.0 / Zebra 2.0.26 / Mac-Tel Hardware / MARC21 No experience with Koha 2.x; our goal is to become familiar with Koha while waiting for Koha 3 Beta Problems with Zebra Indexing: 1) When biblio and biblioitem deleted from database data remained in Zebra indexes and search results displayed link to biblio which was no longer in database, even after indexes rebuilt. - How to prevent? 2) Sometimes new biblios would not be indexed for 20-30 minutes and other times Zebra indexes would need to be rebuilt to force indexing of new biblios. - Any suggestions for solving delayed indexing problem? 3) When Zebra server is restarted Zebra directories are missing and must be restored. - How can server be restarted without deleting directories? 4) Today searching no longer works at all. Zebra server was restarted, missing directories were restored and indexes were rebuilt. Biblios and biblioitems are still in the database. - Any suggestions for restoring search function *without* reinstalling Zebra? 5) If we want to export the biblios and biblioitems (less than 25 at this time) in the database to create a backup file in case we need to do a total reinstall of Koha and Zebra are there any "gotchas" or best practices? Thanks in advance for assistance. Christine Mueller Database Administrator Office of Information Technology New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey Santa Fe, NM 87507 Phone: 505-476-9744 christine.mueller(a)state.nm.us http://www.stlib.state.nm.us/ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System.

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Searching for Bibid
by Lenora Oftedahl 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi all. I'd like to add a search field for Bibid to the administrative search page. Since I am a lowly librarian and not as much of a tech goddess as I'd like to be, could someone help? Where do I find the pages to tweak for search functions? TIA. Lenora -- *************************************** 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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Data Migration
by Hemu Agrawal 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Dear Members, I am very much interested for using Koha at our organization. At present we have our in-house developed software which was developed with visual basic and back end as Microsoft access. I have installed Koha at our end. It is providing good feature and fulfilling our organization library requirement. can you provide the procedure to import my existing database from microsoft access environment to koha environment so that we can switch over in Koha??? with regards hemu agrawal

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Can not install "MARC::File::XML"'
by Quanzhong Zhang 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Dear Sir/Madam, Could you kindly help me? I am trying to install Koha 3 on CentOS5.0 x86_64 with perl 5.8.8. Everything has gone well up until Perl �CMCPAN �Ce 'install "MARC::File::XML"' I have searched for the solution from Koha mailing list, but no method fit me. No idea for it and expecting your help now. A part error message as following Best Regards, Yours Faithfully, Zhang QZ ----------------------------------- # Failed test 'escaped leader' # at t/escape.t line 26. # '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> # <collection # xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" # xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd" # xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"> # # <record> # <leader>&xyz<123></leader> # <controlfield tag="005">&abc<def></controlfield> # <datafield tag="245" ind1="0" ind2="1"> # <subfield code="a">Foo&Bar<Baz></subfield> # </datafield> # </record> # # </collection>' # doesn't match '(?-xism:&xyz<123>)' # Failed test 'escape control field' # at t/escape.t line 27. # '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> # <collection # xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" # xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd" # xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"> # # <record> # <leader>&xyz<123></leader> # <controlfield tag="005">&abc<def></controlfield> # <datafield tag="245" ind1="0" ind2="1"> # <subfield code="a">Foo&Bar<Baz></subfield> # </datafield> # </record> # # </collection>' # doesn't match '(?-xism:&abc<def>)' # Failed test 'escaped field' # at t/escape.t line 28. # '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> # <collection # xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" # xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd" # xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"> # # <record> # <leader>&xyz<123></leader> # <controlfield tag="005">&abc<def></controlfield> # <datafield tag="245" ind1="0" ind2="1"> # <subfield code="a">Foo&Bar<Baz></subfield> # </datafield> # </record> # # </collection>' # doesn't match '(?-xism:Foo&Bar<Baz>)' # Looks like you failed 7 tests of 10. t/escape......... Dubious, test returned 7 (wstat 1792, 0x700) Failed 7/10 subtests t/namespace......Unable to provide required features Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 3. at t/namespace.t line 9 # Looks like your test died before it could output anything. t/namespace...... Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) Failed 1/1 subtests t/subfield0......Unable to provide required features Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 3. at t/subfield0.t line 8 # Looks like your test died before it could output anything. t/subfield0...... Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) Failed 1/1 subtests Test Summary Report ------------------- t/batch.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 3 Failed: 1) Failed test: 1 Non-zero exit status: 255 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 23 tests but ran 3. t/encode.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 2 Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output t/escape.t (Wstat: 1792 Tests: 10 Failed: 7) Failed tests: 1-4, 8-10 Non-zero exit status: 7 t/namespace.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 255 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 1 tests but ran 0. t/subfield0.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 255 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 1 tests but ran 0. Files=5, Tests=13, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.01 sys + 0.66 cusr 0.09 csys = 0.78 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 5/5 test programs. 8/13 subtests failed. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 KADOS/MARC-XML-0.88.tar.gz /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK //hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try: reports KADOS/MARC-XML-0.88.tar.gz Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

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Adding a MARC Tag
by Marie Wardall 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

I would like to add the MARC Tags 508 and 511 when I am cataloging. We are working with Koha 2.2. In system preferences admin we have the Label MARC view =standard, the advanced MAREditor is set to 0 and the MARCflavour is MARC21. Is there anything else we can add or change so that we can add those tags? Thanks, 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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Re: [Koha] Additional authors in OPAC?
by Weinheimer Jim 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

I had exactly the same problem. I think you may understand this problem better if you go into the MySQL tables and just browse the tables. As in most systems, the records are in the database twice: 1) as a MARC record and 2) a second time in various relational tables, where the authors, titles, subjects, etc. are. The information that comes out with the  comes from the second areas, NOT from the MARC records. For some reason, only a single additional author is put into additionalauthors table, and this is where the information you get comes from. Because of this, I have opted for the main record to display in the ISBD version, where I have complete control over the view of the record. So, I have substantially reworked the ISBD display to do what I think it needs to do. As an example, see: http://www.galileo.aur.it/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=20791 If you want my ISBD display to work with on your own, I would be happy to send it. James Weinheimer j.weinheimer(a)aur.edu Director of Library and Information Services The American University of Rome Rome, Italy > Hi there! > > SIPRI library in Stockholm, Sweden is aiming to become a Koha library > shortly. Our IT-staff helped us to download and install the system > (version 2.2.9 on Linux) and we in the library have been making the > necessary changes and adjustments in templates and parameters to shape > the catalogue to our satisfaction. Although we are learning as we go > along, our knowledge of Perl and programming is fairly limited, which is > why we would appreciate any help more experienced Koha users might be > able to offer us. Our main problem at the moment concerns "additional > authors": > > For some reason no matter how many additional authors we enter in > repeated 700 fields (we use Marc21), only the last one is visible in the > OPAC and we have had no success in trying to fix this. Suggestions? > > Sincerely, > Magdalena Söderqvist > librarian > > > > ***************************** > Magdalena Söderqvist > SIPRI Library > Signalistgatan 9 > SE-169 70 SOLNA > > Tel +46 8 655 97 78 > Fax +46 8 655 97 33 > E-mail: soderqvist(a)sipri.org > ***************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Issued books do not appear
by Muhammad Rafiq 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

WE have installed Koha 2.2.9 on Debian (Linux). We are facing a problem i.e. In circulation, as we issue a book (item) to the member. It does not show in the bottom under "Issues". Same happens in OPAC. The user (after is unable to see the books issued to him/ her. Although in librarian interface, the books issued to the patron shows under the patron record as we access the patron record. Your help will be highly appreciated. Regards. Muhammad Rafiq Manager Information Resource Center, Head Electronic Resources & Services Division, Central Library, International Islamic University, Sector H-10, Islamabad - 44000 [PAKISTAN]. Office: +92-51-9019386 Cell. +92-321-7836131 Web: www.iiu.edu.pk In campus (IIU) calling: 386 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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Failed to install KOHA
by Karina Tumon 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hello! I am currently attempting to install KOHA in our small library system but have failed miserably. I have installed Apache, MySql and ActivePerl but could not install KOHA! I am thinking of hiring IT support so really I have a few questions: . How long will it take to set up KOHA? . How much will it cost? . Does anyone know of a librarian's manual of KOHA? If so, how do I get a hold of it? Hope you can help. Regards, Karina Tumon Cataloguing Project Officer Drug Education Network Inc. 2 Midwood Street Newtown TAS 7008 p: (03) 6211 2350 m: 0422 251 643 e: karinatumon(a)den.org.au

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script to migrate patron database into Koha 2.2.9
by Deb Bergeron 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

We're using Athena ILS and have our patron db in MS Access. How can we migrate the patron db into Koha 2.2.9? Thanks, Deb -- Deb Bergeron <mailto:bergeron@macalester.edu> System Admin: User Support CLIC Consortium <http://clic.edu> 1619 Dayton Avenue, Suite 204A Saint Paul, MN 55104 O:*651.644.3878* C:*651.487.7609* F:651.644.6258

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Marc Checking error
by SANDEEP BHAVSAR 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Respected All I have installed Koha 2.2.9 on Fedora 7 Server. When I run the MARC Checking setup in MARC21, 1 problem appears: *item fields. * ALL items fields MUST : - be mapped to the same tag, - and they must all be in the 10 (items) tab. what it means please help me in solving this error!!! Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W) 400601 MUMBAI. INDIA @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 9987049099 elibrary :http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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