- Koha - lists.katipo.co.nz

[Fwd: Testing Z3950 searches]
by Pedro Faria 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Dear all, I am having serious problems with Z3950 searches. I'm trying to make some searches on pre-added z3050 searches but it keeps giving No results found when it should give some results! I read something about a deamon which is in koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/ . Can someone explain me what I need to do to set this up?

2 1

Re: [Koha] Simple MARC reference information
by Lenora Oftedahl 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hi. I'm willing to help out with MARC questions. That's what I'm good at. 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 ************************************** >>> Kevin O'Rourke <lists(a)caboose.org.uk> 8/22/2006 6:57:43 AM >>> Thanks to everyone for their input on this, it's helping. I can see the benefit of all this complexity and of making sure that all the catalogue records are as complete as possible. > > You usually enter the author's name in the 100a field - this is not > true of corporate authors or organisational authors, but generally, > you aren't dealing with that. Nor do you put more than one author in > this field together. Additional authors go in the 700a field, provided > they aren't corporate authors or organisational authors, too. You add > a new 700a field for each additional author. This is the problem, I'm sure I could understand all the rules after a while. However I'm not going to be the one doing the data entry and so far the library staff are completely bewildered by MARC. > The 650a field is _terribly_ important. These are your subjects. The > 500a and 505a are also very important, but you'll use those more as > you become a better cataloguer. The LoC tutorials seem to suggest that sometimes the subjects are in a different 6xx field (such as 600 or 610). So I need to tell the staff that the subject always goes in 650a, except when it doesn't? What exactly is the 505a for? The examples I've found aren't very informative. > Don't feel completely lost at sea. I do think that most people copy > catalogue, and that cataloguing in general is very similar to an > elementary school classroom. There are 2 or 3 very smart kids at the > front of the room like Steven B. that know what they're doing. > Everyone behind him tries to catch a glimpse of what he's doing to > copy off of him. Needless to say, the records at the back of the room > aren't so great. > > I really think that the easiest way for you to learn to catalogue is > to hit the Nelsonville Library's Catalogue (Or any other library that > has a MARC view, but I'm picking on Nelsonville because it's a Koha > library). Look up your favourite books. Click on the MARC view button > and try to understand the MARC record. After looking at enough of > these, they'll start to make sense. Eventually, your brain gets dented > enough to be able to read a raw MARC record, but that's after a while. It's back to the same problem, after a while I'll be able to understand MARC records but everyone who will be entering records will also need to understand. So what it comes down to is: should I persist with MARC and then spend (a lot of) time training the library staff or would I be OK reinstalling without MARC? The library is just one aspect of my work here, I don't have much time to help the staff and I'll be gone in September next year, so they need something they can look after themselves. Kevin -- Kevin O'Rourke ICT Coordinator, National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria 062 316972 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

2 1

Re: [Koha] Simple MARC reference information
by BWS Johnson 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Salvete! If you didn't like the tutorials, I don't think there's anything written at a more simple level out there. >Can anyone suggest a good simple guide to MARC? I'm looking to develop >some simple guidelines along the lines of "Enter the author's name in >the XXX field, surname first then a comma followed by the other names". > This is harder to understand than the tutorials, but it's a great guide for which fields to use, and I can always translate this into simpler language. http://www.slc.bc.ca/marc.htm You usually enter the author's name in the 100a field - this is not true of corporate authors or organisational authors, but generally, you aren't dealing with that. Nor do you put more than one author in this field together. Additional authors go in the 700a field, provided they aren't corporate authors or organisational authors, too. You add a new 700a field for each additional author. Title goes in the 245a field, usually.Religious texts are a little different, so do look up a Qu'ran entry and a Bible entry. You should even find a few Arabian Nights entries - that title is as different as they get. The 650a field is _terribly_ important. These are your subjects. The 500a and 505a are also very important, but you'll use those more as you become a better cataloguer. Don't feel completely lost at sea. I do think that most people copy catalogue, and that cataloguing in general is very similar to an elementary school classroom. There are 2 or 3 very smart kids at the front of the room like Steven B. that know what they're doing. Everyone behind him tries to catch a glimpse of what he's doing to copy off of him. Needless to say, the records at the back of the room aren't so great. I really think that the easiest way for you to learn to catalogue is to hit the Nelsonville Library's Catalogue (Or any other library that has a MARC view, but I'm picking on Nelsonville because it's a Koha library). Look up your favourite books. Click on the MARC view button and try to understand the MARC record. After looking at enough of these, they'll start to make sense. Eventually, your brain gets dented enough to be able to read a raw MARC record, but that's after a while. Feel free to ask me questions. Cheers, Brooke @ Hinsdale MA

2 1

Re: [Koha] Simple MARC reference information
by the undead 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

her is a full tuturials about marc Tutorial: Understanding MARC Bibliographic http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/ Tutorial: Understanding MARC Authority Records http://www.loc.gov/marc/uma/index.html marc bibliographic lists: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhome.html for more documentations about marc: http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcdocz.html I want you also to note that koha marc forms has the explain of name record before it, so it's easy to use it, but always put in your mind if you don't need marc you can use koha with a non-marc format. From: Kevin O'Rourke <lists(a)caboose.org.uk> Subject: [Koha] Simple MARC reference information To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Hi, I'm in charge of information technology at the National Teachers' Institute in Kaduna, Nigeria. NTI provides teacher training by distance learning, so our students are scattered all over the country. One of our aims is to make the library more accessible to the students. I've just set up a Koha server at our library so that the staff can try it out. If this trial is successful we'll set up a dedicated server and we'll start the long process of adding all the books to the system. One problem we've encountered so far is that none of us understand MARC. The reference materials I've found so far are all a bit theoretical, which is probably fine if your degree was library-related. Can anyone suggest a good simple guide to MARC? I'm looking to develop some simple guidelines along the lines of "Enter the author's name in the XXX field, surname first then a comma followed by the other names". Kevin _________________________________________________________________ Got something to buy, sell or swap? Try Windows Live Expo ttp://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwex0010000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://exp…

3 4

Re: LDAP (it just a wild guess)
by the undead 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

first of all if koha reads from ldap so skip the next step if not find the lines below # my $binddn = "cn=$userid,$name"; my $binddn = "uid=$userid,$name"; my $db = Net::LDAP->new( $ldapserver ); # do bind my $res =$db->bind( dn=>$binddn, password =>$password); you have two things to try: the fist one is to figure out if the "userid" is true in your organization database, if it's not "userid" it could be "id" or any thing else, change the string "userid" to the wright one. if it's true and nothing happened so move the # from the fist line and add it to the second line and see what will happen if nothing happened I think that you will have to write the password after "password =>$" and see what will happen if there is now a connection but it didn't work now we shall change the configuration of date base to match your own the next lines are the lines you should edit to make koha know which field it sould get the data from the koha definations are the one next to the $borrower, leve it unchanged and change the strings after the = &$ to match the database in your own organization and see what will happen my %borrower; $borrower{cardnumber} = $userid; $borrower{firstname} = $memberhash{gecos}; # MANDATORY FIELD $borrower{surname} = $memberhash{gecos}; # MANDATORY FIELD $borrower{initials} = substr($borrower{firstname},0,1).substr($borrower{surname},0,1)." "; #MANDATORY FIELD $borrower{streetaddress} = $memberhash{street}." "; #MANDATORY FIELD $borrower{city} = $memberhash{l}." "; # MANDATORY FIELD $borrower{phone} = $memberhash{homephone}." "; # MANDATORY FIELD $borrower{branchcode} = $memberhash{department}; # MANDATORY FIELD $borrower{emailaddress} = $memberhash{mail}; $borrower{categorycode} = $memberhash{designation}; _________________________________________________________________ Search from any web page with powerful protection. Get the FREE Windows Live Toolbar Today! http://get.live.com/toolbar/overview

1 0

Simple MARC reference information
by Kevin O'Rourke 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hi, I'm in charge of information technology at the National Teachers' Institute in Kaduna, Nigeria. NTI provides teacher training by distance learning, so our students are scattered all over the country. One of our aims is to make the library more accessible to the students. I've just set up a Koha server at our library so that the staff can try it out. If this trial is successful we'll set up a dedicated server and we'll start the long process of adding all the books to the system. One problem we've encountered so far is that none of us understand MARC. The reference materials I've found so far are all a bit theoretical, which is probably fine if your degree was library-related. Can anyone suggest a good simple guide to MARC? I'm looking to develop some simple guidelines along the lines of "Enter the author's name in the XXX field, surname first then a comma followed by the other names". Kevin -- Kevin O'Rourke ICT Coordinator, National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria 062 316972

1 0

Re Re: [Koha] Koha reports not working
by the undead 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

From: "Mohamed Imran K R" <mohamedimran.kr(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha reports not working Hi all i sorted out my reports prob on the IRC but i am still stuck on the ldap front. i dont know much about perl, so i am stuck up. after lots of reading of previous posts on the ldap front, i got koha to authenticate against the college ldap but i am still not able to get the details of all users into koha. Dear Mr. as I understand "LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an Internet protocol that email and other programs use to look up information from a server." as it's in http://www.gracion.com/server/whatldap.html so why do u need it for koha? could u please explain that to me if you have time for that --------------------------------- http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=arabic _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC. Get a free 90-day trial! http://www.windowsonecare.com/trial.aspx?sc_cid=msn_hotmail

4 6

can't search by subject/author
by Eleanor Kleiber 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hello all, We have an interesting dis-connect with the functions of our Koha system. We cannot successfully search the catalogue by subject or by author. All searches end with "No results found." Even if we select a subject from a successful dictionary search (so we know that there must be something in the catalogue) we still get "No results found." All other search fields work just fine. Needless to say, not being able to search by author or subject severely limits our ability to find what we need! Any thoughts? Eleanor ____________________ Eleanor Kleiber Librarian / Bibliothécaire Secretariat of the Pacific Community Library / Bibliothèque, Secrétariat général de la Communauté du Pacific BP D5 98848 Nouméa Cedex New Caledonia tel: +687 26 01 37 fax: +687 26 38 18 email: EleanorK(a)spc.int <mailto:EleanorK@spc.int>

3 2

Re: [Koha] Where I get MARC::Record perl package
by the undead 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

From: vimal kumar <vimal0212(a)yahoo.com> Dear Koha Users, I am trying to install Koha 2..2.6. Where I get the latest version of MARC::Record ?. there is a link In the document "Installing and Configuring Koha's Zebra Plugin (for Koha 2.2.6)" leads to the perl module in http://bugs.koha.org. But i couldnt fiound any perl package. If anybody have knowledge about this, please send me the package as an mail attachment or as exact weblink. just run this command from the shell as a root perl -MCPAN -e install MARC::Record or download this file and u shall find the most of the perl packages u need for koha 2.2.6 and all the perl modules for koha2.2.5 http://mega-file.net/file.php?file=11e6dc036792657b05fb3e03f37e47b5 for more info, please visit: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=fc4 I will also e-mail you the package in a separate e-mail message --------------------------------- askress2009(a)yahoo.com http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=arabic _________________________________________________________________ Check the weather nationwide with MSN Search: Try it now! http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=weather&FORM=WLMTAG

1 0

[junbunlee@hotmail.com: which table is for searching book records?]
by Chris Cormack 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

----- Forwarded message from ben lee <junbunlee(a)hotmail.com> ----- Dear Sir or Madam, I am trying to transfer our library's old database from Access to the Koha MySQL database. I inserted several book records into the bibilo, item and marc table of the Koha DB through a perl script. However, those records can not be found when I try to search from the web interface.I am guessing I did not update some table that is used for searching.Could anyone give me some help? Is there a table that is used for keyword searching? Or Do anyone have a script written for transferring data to Koha's DB?Thank youBenjamin LiIT Volunteer Vancouver IBPSwww.vanibps.org _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-49… ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris(a)katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz

1 0