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Mandatory ISBN
by Maria Doria 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Dear All, I'm still a newbie running Koha 2.2.7 on Debian. I have been looking for answers on the mailing list, but have found none yet. Here at INETI we have loads of papers and reports with no ISBN in it. My question is related with the mandatory ISBN field: is there a way to import records at once (using bulkmarcimport script) that have no ISBN? I thought of turning the ISBN field not mandatory on MySQL... would it be enough? Anyone facing this same problem? Any suggestions on how to solve it, even if it can only be done by creating false ISBN? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Maria Doria --------------------------------------------------- CITI / DEP - Divisão de Estudos e Projectos INETI - Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação Estrada do Paço do Lumiar, 22 - 1649-038 Lisboa - Portugal Tel.: + 351 217 127 030 (directo) Fax: + 351 217 127 059 Endereço de correio electrónico: maria.doria(a)ineti.pt

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Koha 2.2.8 not available
by Daniel Armando Rodriguez 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hi, trying to download latest version from http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/koha/koha-2.2.8.tar.gz only get a server timeout. Anyone could download that file? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Armando Rodriguez Departamento de Informática Ministerio de Cultura y Educación (03752) 447613 int. 161 www.mcye.misiones.gov.ar

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2 questions - help needed
by Muhammad Rafiq 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I'm a new user to Koha and using Koha on WindowsXP. I have two questions: 1. Whenever I try to Upload MARC records to the reservoir from a MARC file that I have generated from other remote installation of Koha. I found the following error. Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Error message: Premature end of script headers: breeding.pl If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 500 192.168.96.69 03/14/07 17:45:42 Apache/2.0.59 (Win32) 2. I have entered a number of records in English and Urdu (Pakistani Language with Arabic Writing System). How can I browse all the records that I have entered (Sorry if you feel it a kidding question). Thanks for your prompt response and help. Rafiq ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html

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Reg: Report generation & photo import in Koha
by shafali bhatt 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Dear All, I have installed Koha 2.2.8 on Fedora 4. I am able to generate any type of Reports and also members photo can not be imported. Can you help me in this regard. Thanking you Shafali Bhatt India International Centre New Delhi __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Koha] Creating a Japanese Library System
by Steven F.Baljkas 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 17:23 CDT Hi, Jeff, Just a little addendum to Chris Cormack's substantial answer. Since you are in Canada, you may find the free registered service, AMICUS, with our national library and archives, helpful in downloading records. One of the nicest things about it is you can batch results when searching for records individually (still the best way to do it, since you can review the quality of each individual record that way). Of course, the Z39.50 services work well also. You can find out about AMICUS at URL <http://www.collectionscanada.ca/amicus/006002-122-e.html> If you want to determine if AMICUS will be able to help out with supplying records before signing up, please feel free to send me, off listserv, a small test sample of 20 or so ISBNs and I'll be glad to run them through and see what turns up. In any case, Jeff, welcome to the Koha community and good luck with the set-up of your library! Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: "Jeff Yamamoto" <jeffya(a)yumisa.com> Date: 2007/03/13 Tue PM 03:45:14 CDT To: Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Creating a Japanese Library System I'm very new with Koha (and library cataloging for that matter) so please excuse my newbie questions. I'm helping a Japanese school in Canada setup a electronic library cataloging system and was considering using Koha since it's budget friendly and has a well established community. The school has about 4000 Japanese children's books and videos which needs to be catalogued and maintained by Koha. My questions: - Some of the books are very old but most have an ISBN number. Where can I download the book information so I don't have to manually input the info for each of the books/videos/etc. - Has Koha ever been deployed in a Japanese library? I've installed Koha on XP and Japanese characters can be inputted and displayed but will it search properly with Japanese characters? - Are there any "skins" or templates that simplifies or customizes the Koha GUI? - I'm assuming you can use a barcode scanner during check in/out of the books but are there any recommended bar code scanners in the market? Thanks in advance. Jeff ============================================================ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Creating a Japanese Library System
by Jeff Yamamoto 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

I'm very new with Koha (and library cataloging for that matter) so please excuse my newbie questions. I'm helping a Japanese school in Canada setup a electronic library cataloging system and was considering using Koha since it's budget friendly and has a well established community. The school has about 4000 Japanese children's books and videos which needs to be catalogued and maintained by Koha. My questions: - Some of the books are very old but most have an ISBN number. Where can I download the book information so I don't have to manually input the info for each of the books/videos/etc. - Has Koha ever been deployed in a Japanese library? I've installed Koha on XP and Japanese characters can be inputted and displayed but will it search properly with Japanese characters? - Are there any "skins" or templates that simplifies or customizes the Koha GUI? - I'm assuming you can use a barcode scanner during check in/out of the books but are there any recommended bar code scanners in the market? Thanks in advance. Jeff

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ldap with koha
by R Hariram Aatreya 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

hi All, Here is a Auth.pm file that gets LDAP to work with Koha on our installation here. Also see: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/koha/ticket/49 hari. ------

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Re: [Koha] Having more than one 'barcode' for an item
by Kevin O'Rourke 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

James Weinheimer wrote: > Once you start to barcode--which is a unique number, I think there will be > little reason to continue the accessions numbers. I have discovered that > this can be very difficult for staff to accept, but maintaining multiple > unique numbers is even more difficult in the long run. > I don't think our library staff have any particular attachment to accession numbers, so changing over to a different system would not be an issue. > Barcoding should not be seen only as more work. They can take the place of > old processes as well. And if you are definitely going to barcode, then it > should begin as soon as possible, since everything you do today will need a > barcode sooner or later. It's easy to put a barcode on an item while you > process it, but believe me: afterwards, it becomes *very difficult!*. > The issue isn't so much the work of sticking barcodes on items, although even just buying appropriate labels to print barcodes on is difficult in Nigeria! It was more to reduce manual data entry, barcode readers are going to be expensive and difficult to procure here and when they fail (as they inevitably will) it will take time to get replacements. Kevin -- Kevin O'Rourke ICT Coordinator, National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria 062 316972

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Having more than one 'barcode' for an item
by Kevin O'Rourke 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Is it possible to have more than one barcode for an item? Our library currently does not have barcode scanners, but will in the future. I don't want to make the staff have to enter long barcode numbers now, so I'm thinking of just using our (unique per item) accession numbers instead. However, when we do eventually change over to barcoding it would be nice to be able to either enter the accession number OR scan the barcode. Similarly for members it would be convenient to have short numbers for manual entry as well as barcodes. Is this possible with Koha 2.2.8? I see the 952p MARC field is shown as non-repeatable, so I'm assuming it's not. Kevin -- Kevin O'Rourke ICT Coordinator, National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria 062 316972

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koha v2.2.7 marc-21 repeatable field not working
by dpl＠dpl.gov.in 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Sir, I would like to inform that I have installed koha v.2.2.7 on linux redhat 9 and window xp for testing but when I am adding additional author that any repeatable field are not working what is the cause kindly inform that whether it is bug basavaraj

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