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i need a real help
by suzy sameh 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

dear Mr. stephen , i need your help , my name is susan sameh from Cairo - Egypt . I work for Huge organization called PMEC and i set up KOHA system to this organization and i need your help to finish my work in KOHA system Please answer for my E- mail ASAP: How can I modify or change all the templets in the KOHA and put our logo ? Does KOHA V.1.2.3 run on WIN server 2003 , what the steps to get it run perfect ? I need to get PMEC as a real company that use KOHA at cairo -Egypt as AUC ? How can I set up reports that match with my company needs? i need the steeps to do all this with coding materials, how can i use Open book with my libraray and MARC ? Please provide me with details i need them Urgent thank you for your help susan sameh --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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i need a real help
by suzy sameh 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

dear Mr. stephen , i need your help , my name is susan sameh from Cairo - Egypt . I work for Huge organization called PMEC and i set up KOHA system to this organization and i need your help to finish my work in KOHA system Please answer for my E- mail ASAP: How can I modify or change all the templets in the KOHA and put our logo ? Does KOHA V.1.2.3 run on WIN server 2003 , what the steps to get it run perfect ? I need to get PMEC as a real company that use KOHA at cairo -Egypt as AUC ? How can I set up reports that match with my company needs? i need the steeps to do all this with coding materials, how can i use Open book with my libraray and MARC ? Please provide me with details i need them Urgent thank you for your help susan sameh --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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MARC21 authorities import script?
by kim＠secondhandknowledge.net 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Hi Koha folks, Has anyone edited "build6xx.pl" to work with MARC21 (to import name authority records) and would share the script? ...And, perhaps, additional scripts for importing subject authority records as well? Thanks! Kim Scannell _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Multilingual Koha and MARC
by KEVIN ZEMBOWER 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Thanks all for your continuing advice and suggestions. For those new to the conversation, I'm working on converting a set of records in a flat-file database in English into a format usable in Koha in both English and Arabic. Please help me with my understanding of how Koha works in multiple languages. It's my understanding that Koha's interface works in multiple languages, including Arabic, right 'out of the box.' Is this correct for both the current version and 1.2.3? The 1.2.3 version I'm working on has an Arabic pull down menu which controls the interface language, but I don't know if this was added by the local programmers or was a standard part of that version of Koha. Other than the interface appearance, I can't think of anything else in the Koha program (not catalog contents) which would need to be changed in order to work in Arabic. Am I overlooking anything? Regarding the content of the catalog and other databases, I'm currently leaning towards converting our existing records into MARC, or, I guess more properly, UNIMARC, in order to input them into Koha. I've learned that certain fields, such as the one for title, have corresponding fields for the title translated into other languages. My question is, for all the fields containing English text, is it possible to have a corresponding parallel field translated into Arabic or another language? If I was successful translating all the fields needed into parallel fields in Arabic, would the 1.2.3 version of Koha and bulkmarcimport.pl handle it successfully? Thanks, again, for all your help. -Kevin Zembower _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Planet koha
by MJ Ray 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

You can read the latest news from koha developer blogs and the wiki changelog on the web at http://www.otherwayup.org.uk/planets/koha/ Some other improvements will happen over time (better parsing of non-xhtml html), but for now please email me if you want a blog adding to it. Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), K. Lynn, England, email see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ http://www.ttllp.co.uk/koha/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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New document on kohadocs
by Stephen Hedges 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

The first chapter of the Koha Users Guide -- "Setting Up Your Koha System" -- is now available in the "General Information" section of http://www.kohadocs.org/ -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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How does MARC work?
by KEVIN ZEMBOWER 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Thank you, Stephen and Steven, for your responses to my earlier questions. I now have some questions on the basics of MARC, not so much the technicalities, but almost the philosophy. If you're curious, you can see the superset of the collection in question at http://www.hcpartnership.org/mmc/mmc_search.php. I'm interested in importing the materials listed under Region = "Near East" into a 1.2.3 Koha system in Egypt. These materials are currently stored in a MySQL DB which we created without reference to any outside schema or organization. Originally, I thought that I had two choices to electronically import these records. I could reverse-engineer the 1.2.3 Koha database and use perl and SQL to import them, or I could convert them to MARC records and import them using bulkmarcimport. In either case, I thought, the work that I did to import them would be of no further use to anyone but me. >From a little bit more reading and pondering things, I wonder if I'm mistaken. If I go to the trouble of converting these records into MARC, could other collections with the same materials somehow use this information, instead of recreating them? These are my MARC questions: How does somebody become the authoritative source of MARC records for a material? Is it just the first collection that does the work? The producer of the publication? Is there a central repository of MARC records? The Library of Congress gets mentioned a lot. Is this just for USA? Do they accept submissions from others, or originate all the work themselves? It seems like the Z39.50 system allows for a distributed repository. How do collections know that my system might be the source of authoritative MARC records? Would setting up a Z39.50 server allow the folks in Egypt to get the information from me when they add the same items to their collection? Can they catalog items into MARC records and we in Baltimore get their information? If all this is covered in a document on the web somewhere, please point it out to me. I've found plenty of documents on the technicalities of MARC, including concise definitions of all the fields, but I feel I'm missing the 'big picture.' Thanks for your help, advice and suggestions. -Kevin Zembower _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Re: Koha Library System Report up for changes
by MJ Ray 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Ashneil Ameet Singh <a.singh(a)fsm.ac.fj> wrote: > I would like to share this report that I have prepared by collecting > information from the Koha website, FAQ and mailing lists.=20 You sent the attachment in Microsoft Word format, a secret proprietary format, so it is hard for me to read. If you send me plain text, HTML, or PDF, then I will read it. Distributing documents in Word format is bad for you and for others. You can't be sure what they will look like if someone views them with a different version of Word; they may not work at all. Receiving Word attachments is bad for you because they can carry viruses (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_virus) Sending Word attachments is bad for you, because a Word document normally includes hidden information about the author, enabling those in the know to pry into the author's activities (maybe yours). Text that you think you deleted may still be embarrassingly present. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3154479.stm for more info. But above all, sending people Word documents puts pressure on them to use Microsoft software and helps to deny them any other choice. In effect, you become a buttress of the Microsoft monopoly. This pressure is a major obstacle to the broader adoption of free software. Would you please reconsider the use of Word format for communication with other people? To convert the file to HTML using Word is simple. Open the document, click on File, then Save As, and in the Save As Type strip box at the bottom of the box, choose HTML Document or Web Page. Then choose Save. Note that Word changes interface in inconsistent ways--if you see slightly different menu item names, please try them. To convert to plain text is almost the same--instead of HTML Document, choose Text Only or Text Document as the Save As Type. Your computer may also have a program to convert to pdf format. Select File => Print. Scroll through available printers and select the pdf converter. Click on the Print button and enter a name for the pdf file when requested. OpenOffice.org has PDF export built-in. Can you post it to a website in an open format, please? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), K. Lynn, England, email see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ http://gnu.hands.com/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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New install
by Lars Kelto 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hi all, I'm new to Koha and have spent the past week finding every piece of documentation I can on 2.2.3, but there seems to be a critical gap in all the install docs/help I've found. I've got Koha running great, and can go to both the OPAC and Intranet pages. However, I don't know if there's a default login for administrators created, or if I need to create on manually, or what. What am I missing? Why isn't this mentioned anywhere? Thanks, Lars _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Documentation of database structure for Koha 1.?
by KEVIN ZEMBOWER 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Greetings, all. I'm working on a Koha system that I think has been heavily hacked to work in both Arabic and English. I was told that it's version 1.1 or 1.2 or 1.2.3. Is there any way to tell definitively? I can access the Intranet interface, but don't see where the version information would be listed. I can also shell into the host. Because of the effort that went into changing this version to work in Arabic, I don't think that there's any desire to upgrade it to the current versions. However, if the current versions work 'out of the box' in Arabic, they could possibly be persuaded. Any chance of this? I'm trying to import a set of data representing items in a database of Health Communication materials (posters encouraging people to use condoms, for example). This data isn't in MARC format, unless I convert it myself. There's too much material, over 1,000 items, to input them one at a time through an acquisitions page. What advice would you offer on how to efficiently input records like these? I'm pretty good with perl and MySQL and can transform the records however needed. If I wanted to just input the records directly into the MySQL tables of Koha, I need some documentation on the tables. Do diagrams or descriptions of the tables that make up this version of Koha exist anywhere? I'm thinking of things like entity relationship diagrams, or relation schemas, ideally. Thank you for all your advice and suggestions. -Kevin Zembower ----- E. Kevin Zembower Internet Systems Group manager Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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