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by vimal kumar 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Dear users, I am using Koha 2.2.4 version in Linux platform. In present situation Koha can only renew the item for default loan length. How can I set renewal period to days I want? Is it possible in this version (2.2.4)? If not, I expect this facility in coming 3.0 version. Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos

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Tag 880
by Carol Ku 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Have anyone successfully imported MARC record with tag 880? In Library of Congress, this field contains information of book stored in its native language. In MARC records, there seem to be some fields to match the information in tag 880 to 245(title), 100 (author name) etc... But I know Koha only has the subfield structure. If anyone has used the tag 880, I would like to seek your advice in this area. Thank you. --------------------------------- Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!

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RE: [Koha] Koha Installation Upgrade 2.2.4 to 2.2.5 Windows
by Amzari Abu Bakar 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

The instructions given is for manual Koha installation under windows (without using Windows installer). You can download Koha2.2.5(linux version)from Koha official download site. Extract tar.gz files using gunzip or power archiever (You can download from http://www.gunzip.org) Then you can continue using the following steps. Notes that, I haven't test thoroughly the effects of this manual installation. If anybody finds any error, please let me know. So far, I notice that Barcode generator doesn't work, even when I used the correct API2::PDF version. maybe, the error on httpd.conf configuration. still troubleshooting :) Amzari FingerClick Solutions. --- "Josï¿½ Negrete L." <hemeroteca(a)seminariopontificio.cl> wrote: > HELLO IF YOU CAN HELP ME. SINCE PLACE I CAN > DOWNLOAD THE VERSION 2.5 FOR > WINDOWS > > AT THE MOMENT WORK WITH VERSION 2.4 And I DOWNLOAD > IT FROM : > > http://www.koha.rwjr.com/ > > THANKS > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: koha-bounces(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] > En nombre de Amzari Abu Bakar > Enviado el: Lunes, 23 de Enero de 2006 7:27 > Para: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Asunto: [Koha] Koha Installation Upgrade 2.2.4 to > 2.2.5 Windows > > Hi everyone; > > For those interested to upgrade Koha2.2.4 windows to > Koha2.2.5. > > Referring to my previous email on this matter, I > have > realize that I have made several mistakes. > Previously, > I have advice to extract Koha2.2.5 to c:\usr\koha225 > and make changes to koha.conf in c:\etc. The > mistakes > is in apache, it still referring to old folder (i.e: > c:\usr\koha224.) You can test it by renaming koha224 > folder to koha224_bak, and run your koha. you will > find 404 -access forbidden. > > Apart from extracting koha files to c:\usr\koha225, > you have to alter your koha.conf and httpd.conf. > make > sure you make a backup first. My current setting is > Apache2.0.54, WinXP, MySQL4.0.15-nt. > Activestateperl 5.6 install at c:\usr\, perl > localted > at c:\usr\bin\ > > Here are basic guidelines of upgrading from Koha > 2.2.4 > Windows to Koha 2.2.5. > 1. Install koha2.2.4 for windows according to > guidelines in http:\\www.kohadocs.org > > 1. change c:\etc\koha.conf configuration as follows: > > database=<db_name> > hostname=localhost > user=koha > pass=koha > intranetdir=c:\usr\koha225\intranet-cgi > opacdir=c:\usr\koha225\opac-cgi > kohaversion=2.2.5 > opachtdocs=c:\usr\koha225\opac-html\opac-tmpl > intrahtdocs=c:\usr\koha225\intranet-html\intranet-tmpl > includes=c:\usr\koha225\intranet-html\intranet-tmpl\npl\en\includes > > 2. Add the following lines in Apache configuration > files, httpd.conf: > > Listen 8080 > > 3. Modified the following lines: > > DocumentRoot "C:/usr/koha224/intranet/htdocs" > <Directory "C:/usr/koha224/intranet/htdocs"> > > TO > > DocumentRoot "C:/usr/koha225" > <Directory "C:/usr/koha225"> > > AND > > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ > "C:/usr/koha224/intranet/cgi-bin/" > > <Directory "C:/usr/koha224/intranet/cgi-bin"> > AllowOverride None > Options None > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Directory> > > TO > > ScriptAlias /intranet-cgi/ > "C:/usr/koha225/intranet-cgi/" > > <Directory "C:/usr/koha225/intranet-cgi"> > AllowOverride None > Options None > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Directory> > > And Virtual host configuration as follows: > > <VirtualHost _default_:*> > ServerAdmin amzari79(a)yahoo.com > DocumentRoot "C:/usr/koha225" > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ > /usr/koha225/opac-cgi/ > ServerName opac > ErrorLog logs/opac-error_log > CustomLog logs/opac-access_log common > SetEnv PERL5LIB "c:/usr/koha225/modules" > </VirtualHost> > > <VirtualHost localhost *> > ServerAdmin amzari79(a)yahoo.com > DocumentRoot "C:/usr/koha225/opac-html" > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ > /usr/koha225/opac-cgi/ > ServerName opac > ErrorLog logs/opac-error_log > CustomLog logs/opac-access_log common > SetEnv PERL5LIB "c:/usr/koha225/modules" > </VirtualHost> > > <VirtualHost localhost:8080> > ServerAdmin amzari79(a)yahoo.com > DocumentRoot "C:/usr/koha225/intranet-html" > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ > /usr/koha225/intranet-cgi/ > ServerName intranet > ErrorLog logs/intranet-error_log > CustomLog logs/intranet-access_log common > SetEnv PERL5LIB "c:/usr/koha225/modules" > </VirtualHost> > > 4. change system environment variables for perl5lib > variable: perl5lib > value: c:\usr\koha225\modules > > DONE. You can run opac from http://opac/ or > http://localhost/ and intranet from > http://intranet:8080 or http://localhost:8080 > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Koha] import references from KOHA to Reference manager
by Steven F.Baljkas 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:46 CST Salut Anne! It may be possible to import citations from Reference Manager into Koha using a free tool such as MARCEdit as a bridge to convert the references at text level. Could you perhaps provide an example or two of the "specific tagged format" that you need? That info would allow me to see if MARCEdit could be used to transform MARC records without too much additional effort on your part. Also, one needs to know if you are dealing with UNIMARC or MARC21 records. If you want to find out about MARCEdit on your own, you can surf to the MARC Records, Systems and Tools area of the LC website, and Find info on it on the page at URL <http://www.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html> Hope this helps. Get back to me if you want further assistance. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: "Anne Gibert" <anneg(a)spc.int> Date: 2006/01/24 Tue PM 05:51:29 CST To: <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] import references from KOHA to Reference manager Dear all, I would like to import references from koha to Reference Manager, but I don't know exactly the process. I saved records in format .txt and encoding ANSI. What is the right "import filter Editor" in reference manager to read this specific tagged format, is it possible to do an import from this file? Our Z39.50 doesn't work so I think it's the only one way to try to import references. The aim is to build a bibliography. Thanks a lot for your assistance. Anne Gibert Bibliothécaire adjointe CPS - Secrétariat Général de la Communauté du Pacifique BP D5 - 98848 Nouméa Cedex - Nouvelle-Calédonie Téléphone : 687 26.20.00 ligne directe : 687 26.01.32 Télécopieur : 687 26.36.18 e-mail: anneg(a)spc.int <mailto:anneg@spc.int> Librarian assistant SPC - Secretariat of the Pacific Community BP D5 - 98848 Noumea Cedex - New Caledonia Telephone: 687 26.20.00 direct line: 687 26.01.32 Facsimile: 687 26.38.18 e-mail: anneg(a)spc.int _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Re: Re: [Koha] Questions about Koha features
by Steven F.Baljkas 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Saturday, February 11, 2006 15:45 CST Hi, Brooke, Well, this is try 2 at a response after a computer crash here, so a quick thank-you for your reply, and onwards before something else goes wrong on this end. After writing, I did some more checking and what I eventually discovered in my personal Koha archive was that Phill H. had written a while back (March 2005 IIRC now) that the 856u did work in the classic template set-up of Koha, but not in the NPL template set-up of Koha that he, like so many us, want to use. Are you using "Koha-classic", Brooke, or the Koha-NPL style? If NPL style, where/how do I "flip the proper switches in parameters to display from 856u"? I don't see anything like that in parameters. That admitted, I probably should remember the important computer science info that the programmers are always reminding us to include when asking questions of this sort, as perhaps it is only a matter of me (and others) needing to use a later version of Koha: my current set-up is with Koha 2.2.3 (forgot to note what version Phill was using if he had included that info in his posting). BTW, Brooke, I love that 'Click the URL, I'm an E-book' idea: I plan to steal that! ;-) Thanks again for the reply, Brooke. Hopefully, I'm not taxing your patience too much in asking for yet more, please. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: "BWS Johnson" <mhelman(a)illinoisalumni.org> Date: 2006/02/11 Sat PM 01:27:45 CST To: <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> CC: baljkas(a)mts.net Subject: Re: [Koha] Questions about Koha features Salve! >*** If someone does have the solution to providing live-link access, please, >please share. *** > Koha does already do this. For instance, I have the Tale of Genji linked up and Free Culture linked up in my catalogue. I can't show anyone yet, because my local ISP is giving me issues with trying to get to the catalogue externally, but it does work. You just have to make sure you flip the proper switches in parameters to display from 856u. I tag my locations as Click the URL I'm an Ebook. Now what would be truly awesome would be to have Dublin Core support in addition to MARC, but I know how taxed everyone already is. And I definitely think that having happy subfields in 650 would take precedence. Cheers, Brooke @ Hinsdale _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Re: [Koha] Questions about Koha features
by BWS Johnson 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Salve! >*** If someone does have the solution to providing live-link access, please, >please share. *** > Koha does already do this. For instance, I have the Tale of Genji linked up and Free Culture linked up in my catalogue. I can't show anyone yet, because my local ISP is giving me issues with trying to get to the catalogue externally, but it does work. You just have to make sure you flip the proper switches in parameters to display from 856u. I tag my locations as Click the URL I'm an Ebook. Now what would be truly awesome would be to have Dublin Core support in addition to MARC, but I know how taxed everyone already is. And I definitely think that having happy subfields in 650 would take precedence. Cheers, Brooke @ Hinsdale

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Re: [Koha] Questions about Koha features
by Steven F.Baljkas 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Friday, February 10, 2006 14:52 CST Hi, Kevin, In quick answer to your questions ... > From: Kevin O'Rourke <nti(a)caboose.org.uk> > Date: 2006/02/10 Fri AM 05:11:55 CST > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: [Koha] Questions about Koha features > > Hi, > > I'm a volunteer from the UK working with the National Teachers' > Institute in Kaduna, Nigeria, to help them make better use of IT. > [snip] > At present they have started to set up a web library of electronic > documents using Mambo and its DocMan module (http://www.mambodocman.com/) > They would like to move from card indexes (inaccessible from outside the > library) to a computerised catalogue that users all over the country can > access. > > After that (long) introduction I have a couple of questions: > > > 1. Can Koha be used as an interface to both the catalogue of physical > books and the electronic books? > > The list of features on the website mentions virtual libraries but I > couldn't find any more information. 1. Yes, Kevin, Koha can be used to provide access to an OPAC (online public access catalogue) of diverse materials of information, including but not limited to physical books (traditional monographs), journals (serials, periodicals, magazines) and electronic books (journals, etc.). For teachers in particular, it would be relevant perhaps (now or in the future) to distinguish various other sub-categories of printed or electronic text such as lesson plans, curriculum guides, testing standards, etc. as well as other categories of non-print materials such as maps, pictures, charts, audio-visual resources, etc., etc. I have long been curious about the virtual libraries out there. If someone from a virtual library -- or even a more conventional library that happens to have found a way to provide live access to electronic resources via Koha -- reads this message, perhaps that person could take a moment and sound off on listserv and let the Koha community know where they are and how they have managed their Koha. Kevin, I know that Koha can support inclusion of electronic resources after a fashion (see NPL site e.g.), but I was sure that someone had posted (or perhaps sent me directly? if so, since lost apparently) a solution to a question I had asked a while back about providing live-link access to electronic resources. In looking at my favourite model of Koha, the NPL site, I have found examples of electronic resources, but the only way to find the URL is to look at the MARC view and even then that is not a live link to the site indexed. In terms of MARC21 cataloguing, providing a live-link/active URL would entail Koha being able to process the 856 field properly; as usual, I have no idea what that entails in the computer programming side of things. *** If someone does have the solution to providing live-link access, please, please share. *** > 2. Are there any Koha users in Nigeria? > > It would be very useful to be able to discuss how local issues (lack of > electricity, difficult communications, etc.) have affected your use of Koha. 2. (Obviously) I have no idea if there are other Nigerians out there making use of Koha, but I would hasten to add that if you have difficulties with lack of electricity and reliability of communications links, you may *not* want to go completely electronic. One option to consider might be pursuing Koha while at the same time using the MYSQL to query the database you are developing in order to create, at the same time, on the side as it were, print (book) catalogues -- which could be updated monthly, quarterly, annually, whatever -- so that, when the power was out or telephone lines down, staff would still be able to conduct their research. When OPACs were first coming into fashion here in my home province of Manitoba, it was quite common for larger libraries to have COM (computer produced microfiche) catalogues kept around, just in case. In fact, some libraries even kept their old card catalogues (often hidden in the back in the technical services area) for staff use, again, just in case. Just a word of advice, which you can treat as you will. Hope that this helps a little and that someone will get back to the listserv regarding live-linking of URLs. In the meantime, Kevin, welcome to the Koha community and good luck with your Koha efforts for the ITC. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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Questions about Koha features
by Kevin O'Rourke 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Hi, I'm a volunteer from the UK working with the National Teachers' Institute in Kaduna, Nigeria, to help them make better use of IT. NTI are a government organisation providing teacher training by distance learning. NTI headquarters in Kaduna has a library that they want to make more accessible to the student around the country and they are also planning to set up branch libraries nearer the students. At present they have started to set up a web library of electronic documents using Mambo and its DocMan module (http://www.mambodocman.com/) They would like to move from card indexes (inaccessible from outside the library) to a computerised catalogue that users all over the country can access. After that (long) introduction I have a couple of questions: 1. Can Koha be used as an interface to both the catalogue of physical books and the electronic books? The list of features on the website mentions virtual libraries but I couldn't find any more information. 2. Are there any Koha users in Nigeria? It would be very useful to be able to discuss how local issues (lack of electricity, difficult communications, etc.) have affected your use of Koha. Thanks, Kevin O'Rourke Interim Head of ICT NTI Kaduna

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Koha Newbie With Hardware Questions
by Jennifer Pritchett 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Hello Fellow 'Kohaians', Hi all. Our small library (around 18,000 pieces) is getting set to install and use Koha. We really like the open source idea, and believe we have IT help to get it done. Our question is this: What hardware, exactly, will we need? We know we will need scanners, as well as competent computers to house Koha, we just aren't sure if there is a 'preffered' type. Any thoughts? Second, we already have quite a lot of 'dummy barcodes'. Will Koha allow us to use those, or do we -have- to use a printer for that? I'm very excited about this project, and appreciate the community that is here! Jen

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Re: [Koha] Subject-problem
by Steven F.Baljkas 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 15:45 CST Unni, There was a reply to a similar question on this problem a short while ago (from Thomas D? also from a newer listserv member IIRC). If memory serves, the overall answer was that, at present, there is no way to access the information in a properly coded 650 $a with any further subdivisions (i.e. $x topical subds, $v for forms, $y for chronological, $z for geographical). One suggestion made was to create an new **additional** 650 tag that would have the punctuation 'internalised' as it were, so that a proper tag like this 650 _0 $aDescriptive cataloging $xRules. would become instead 650 -) $aDescriptive cataloging--Rules. Of course, this is not an ideal solution. For a small collection, it might be possible to process the first -- or most important -- 650 for each record manually this way. For a large collection, that would be a nightmare. In any case, you would want to retain your original MARC records before re-editing so that you can revert to them in the future when Koha has solved this problem without needing to delete any of the pro tem 650 fields you had to create. Towards the temporary solution for larger collections: I know that in the past the programmers have discussed writing scripts to concatenate call numbers into desired strings in one tag subfield; perhaps it would be possible to do the same for the 650? I do not know how multiple 650s are handled by Koha, or indeed, how the search function might be hampered by having multiple levels of subdivisions within the 650 $a (I would imagine that it would help streamline things to remove form subdivisions for the meantime). I hope that this helps somewhat, Unni. You can check the Koha archive yourself to see if you can locate the discussion to which I refer above. Another Koha-ite will probably respond with greater technical detail. If someone who knows what status the solution to the 650 subdivisions problem has could respond, too, I am sure we would all be grateful. Best regards, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: Unni Knutsen <Unni.Knutsen(a)jbi.hio.no> Date: 2006/02/06 Mon AM 10:21:13 CST To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Subject-problem The Oslo University College (Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science) has entered a partnership with a Kenyan NGO. In this connection we are currently testing out KOHA. Our partner has asked us to help in developing a library in a Nairobi slum area. An open source library system seems to be a good choice! We have set up the system and most things run smoothly. However, we have not been able to figure out how the *650 subfields can be retrieved in the OPAC and in the cataloguing program. We therefor ask for advise on how to establish a proper connection between different subfields, for example $a and $x. The way things are now, we can`t manage to retrieve subjects with information (text) in both $a and $x subfields, or in the $x subfield alone. Regards Unni Knutsen Høgskolen i Oslo p48/R423 22 45 26 56 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ============================================================

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