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Zoom install error
by David Harty 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Hi all, I am trying to install koha-2.2.9 on a Fedora Core 6 box but I get an error saying that I am missing the Zoom module. The corrective action is to install it via the perl -MCPAN -e 'install "ZOOM"' command. However this leads to an error: /usr/bin/ld cannot find -lexslt Collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Make: *** [blib/arch/auto/Net/Z3950/ZOOM/ZOOM.so] Error 1 /usr/bin/make --NOT OK Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible I have also tried to download the tar and install it manually to no avail. Can anyone tell me what I am missing. Thanks in advance, Dave

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run Koha using MAMP
by libropesia 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

hi all, Is it any posibility to run Koha using MAMP?, a program for Mac OSX, that allows you to manage the website locally (installs in one Apache, MySQL, PHP...), I used it to install things like joomla without having a real server, but i get lost with Koha. Any hints? Thanx

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Inventory & items.itemcallnumber
by Matthew Metzger 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hello, thanks to Joshua Ferraro and Ryan Higgins for helping me understand this problem more. See the thread "inventory.pl not working for me" for the history of this discussion. My problem is that our librarian cannot currently do inventory because we have not been entering in a value for items.itemcallnumber (which I believe to be MARC 082b). Our call number is, however, recorded in the database field biblioitems.classification. What seems to be the solution is for the value of biblioitems.classification to be copied to, or synced with, the value of items.itemcallnumber. I'm sure that if I knew SQL decently that I could invoke some command to do just that. I don't know SQL. Could anyone give me a way to copy biblioitems.classification to items.itemcallnumber? I'm assuming that this syncing of fields would solve my problem and that then our librarian could begin working on inventory. Thanks in advance to any help you can give me in this area. -Matthew

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Re: Koha Digest, Vol 21, Issue 13
by Jackson Ray 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

I write to let you know that I have problem when entering my bibliographical data. A message appears telling me that my site (http://192.168.0.6:8080) cannot be opened. It is either unavailable or cannot be found. This also makes it difficult for me to do z39.50 search. Can any body tell me what's wrong. Am I online or not? Regards, Jackson Ray A Clean Healthy Planet for Our Children. --------------------------------- Yahoo!7 Mail has just got even bigger and better with unlimited storage on all webmail accounts. Find out more.

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A True Story; AKA: Check out our IRC Channel!
by Joshua M. Ferraro 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

Hey folks, I just thought I'd share a moment (actually, 15 minutes) from today's Koha IRC log (chat for Koha users and developers) ... it's a great example of how rapid development works in the Open Source world. Owen, one of our community's template designers,(from the Nelsonville Public Library), had an 'itch to scratch' ... 05:46 < owen> Patrons should be able to cancel a reserve online! 05:47 < kados> owen: they can't? 05:47 < owen> Not unless this is a secret which has been kept from me :) 05:48 * owen doesn't know if this has been added in 3.0 05:48 < kados> probably not added, but it would be a trivial feature to add 05:49 < kados> there's already a separate column for reserves in the account page, right? 05:49 < owen> A separate tab 05:49 < kados> that's what I meant 05:50 < kados> ahh, I see now: 05:50 < kados> If you no longer want a reserve, please send us an e-mail, or go to the circulation desk at your library to get it removed. 05:50 < kados> hmmm 05:54 < kados> owen: 05:54 < kados> add the following somewhere in the template: 05:54 < kados> <form action="/cgi-bin/koha/opac-modrequest.pl" method="post"> 05:54 < kados> <input type="hidden" name="from" value="borrower" /> 05:54 < kados> <input name="rank-request" value="del"> 05:54 < kados> <input type="hidden" name="biblio" value="16595" /> 05:54 < kados> <input type="hidden" name="borrowernumber" value="22994" /> 05:54 < kados> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Remove" /></p> 05:54 < kados> </form> 05:55 < kados> owen: the biblio and borrowernumber numbers will need to be TMPL_VARs 05:55 < owen> Will that redirect back to the reserves list? 05:55 < kados> remove that stray </p> too 05:59 < owen> Hey, works like a charm 05:59 < kados> :-) 05:59 < kados> ok, I'll commit my script, you can commit the template :-) 06:00 < owen> Sure. I'm going to take a moment to add a javascript confirm 06:00 < kados> *nod* So you never know what could happen if you log on to chat and complain about something ;-) Join us sometime: http://koha.org/community/irc.html Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology 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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Re: [Koha] No edge label - Is is realistic ?
by BWS Johnson 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

Salvete! This is a very interesting approach. My take on it is that it sounds to my public ears very similar to things attempted by academic libraries for off site storage. Off site storage is very space efficient. Before you embark, I would counsel you to stick by the old method for popular and highly utilised books so that your Patrons would not be frustrated, nor would your Staff. This would follow Ranganathan's law of saving the time of the user. However, once books have run their course as far as popularity is concerned, this might be a good thing to at least experiment with. I would counsel you to do a JSTOR search or maybe even better a Wilson search through LITA or ALISE or something field journaly to get a perspective on this apart from mine own. Cheers, Brooke @ Hinsdale MA

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Re: barcode scanner in koha
by Michel Virard 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

Resubmitted with proper subject line > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 03:26:41 -0700 (PDT) > From: mars123 <swathiha(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Koha] barcode scanner in koha > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Message-ID: <11477214.post(a)talk.nabble.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > sir > i have installed koha 2.2.2 in fedora core 4. > How can i implement or use a barcode scanner for cataloging purpose that is > for issuing books, returning books, renewing books operations. > > I found in koha there is provision for generating barcodes. > > which type of barcode scanner is i can use with koha. > > it is possible to use the barcode scanner for stock verification purpose. > > How can i use a barcode scanner for all these purposes... > > i am waiting for answers..... > Thanks in advance.. -------------------------------------------- To answer first question: which type of bar-code scanner? The easiest is to mount what is called a "wedge wand" (that is a handheld bar code reader that connect between a PC keyboard and a PC) on one or more client terminals, (not on the server). Price goes between 100USD and 300USD for good quality, reliable bar code readers (Intermec, Symbol). Typical encoding is Code39 for numbers. Once this wand is installed, you can scan the ISBN number bar code (already present on most book back covers) and of course any additional bar code label you may have designed. The wedge wand simple principle is the following: whenever your client terminal Koha administrator interface is waiting for an input (on the right MARC field, of course), the stream of hand typed digits can be replaced by a single scan of the proper label with the wand. Speed and error free are the benefits. If the wand is out of order, you can still enter those number manually. During lending and return operations, the bar code reading with the wand will come handy. You can also go one step farther and make borrower cards with bar-codes (another story) so identifying the borrower and his book is now completely automated. Now the trickier part is to create the book label(s) themselves: you don't want too much or too little information on the label. Just the right amount for the job. The current program for printing labels in Koha 2.2.9 uses large sheet of many labels (by the way, I have not been able to print them correctly so far). I would appreciate an easier program that prints a single label at a time (using a small label printer, not a standard laser printer) at the end of the cataloguing operation of one book. Has anyone worked on such a single label program ? Michel Virard, ing. - Symtec international 101-5000 Decelles, Montréal, QC, H3V 1J1 Tél. 514 343 4571 - Fax. 514 343 9403 mvirard(a)symtec.ca

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ccfls template
by mohamed fekry 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

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covert data
by mohamed fekry 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

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fines
by mohamed fekry 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

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