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Re: [Koha] marc mapping questions.
by Steven F. Baljkas 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

Friday, January 7, 2005 19:50 CST Hi, Tim, Don't know about the first question (though I think it was asked a few months ago too without an answer being given?) but I think the bulkauthimport was Authorities, not for MARC bibliographic records. HTH. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada > From: Tim McMahon - West Liberty Public Library <tmcmahon(a)wlpl.org> > Date: 2005/01/07 Fri PM 04:01:26 CST > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: [Koha] marc mapping questions. > > What koha fields should I map to marc fields to get the format and > subtitle to display? I was also wondering if bulkmarcimport.pl was > replaced with bulkauthimport.pl. > > -- > Tim McMahon > Technical Services > West Liberty Public Library > http://www.wlpl.org > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Koha 2.0.2 Install problem
by Michael Dittmer (An Inside Job) 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Hi All... I decided to have a go at installing Koha 2.0.2 on to a fresh install of Debian 3.0 (Sarge). The install all happened as it was supposed to and I choose defaults for everything. My problem is that when I go to http://server/koha or http://server/opac I get page not found errors. I'm thinking that I need to edited the httpd.conf file to add something, but I'm not sure what. Any ideas? Thanks Michael

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Koha] POSIX error in Windows98SE/XP !!!
by Adalid Ortiz 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

The installer/upgrade scripts send this message when try to upgrade or install Koha. Any help? POSIX::termios not implemented on this architecture at install.pm line 109. Compilation failed in require at installer.pl line 5. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at installer.pl line 5.

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a few koha errors
by zero＠vtr.net 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Hi all, 2.2 is out and i'm testing it, but got errors (well got them since 2.0.0) when I try to add a new biblio get an error just after pressing OK. Also get another one after adding a member (same thing) but this time the member is succesfully added anyway. But changing setting I don't get any errors seems only when adding stuff. How do I make the error be displayed on browser? I'm also viewing the koha-error_log and found very interesting things.... It claims for a favicon.ico (man what the heek is taht?) and the always spected Premature end of scripts headers. And a few others like ERROR: Date::Manip unable to determine TimeZone., Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm line 76., Ok i'm only asking for a few poniters. I've installed it succesfully, with all the modules in Linux FC3. Hope someone could help... Cheers bye... jose

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How to merge duplicate biblio records?
by Michael Joyner 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

How does one merge items together into one single biblio? I tried direct SQL queries, but when I remove the old biblio that I moved the items from, it deleted the items anyways!

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How to use Item callnumbers and Branch categories
by Giuseppe.Angilella＠ct.infn.it 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Hi everybody, I am a newbie to Koha, and I am practicing with Koha 2.2.0RC5 (installed and removed several times) under RedHat 9.0, before starting using it to run a branch of a university library. While I am getting acquainted with most of its features, some details are still obscure to me. Some issues have been already addressed to earlier in this mailing list (whose archive I tried to consult, before posting the message), but I was not able to apply the answers found there to 2.2.0RC5. Let me therefore state again a couple of problems I have, presently. 1) Shelving location/Item callnumber. I am assuming that both these terms mean "where a particular book is located" (i.e., at which position, in which shelf, given a particular library branch). From the Catalogue Search of the Administrator interface, I see that a Call Number is searched in the items.itemcallnumber kohafield. However, browsing the MARC/Koha association table (mysql table: marc_subfield_structure), I see that items.itemcallnumber is not associated to any kohafield, and is thus ignored by Add biblio. I tried linking items.itemcallnumber to the 852c MARC subfield, with tab "10", so that it is displayed in the "items" tab (which I think it should, since I would like to have one-to-one correspondence between callnumbers and items, as it is with barcodes), but "Marc check" complains that the "items" kohafield should contain only MARC entries belonging to the same tag, i.e. 952. On the other hand, no other free (i.e., not already linked) subfield in tag 952 seems appropriate, and if I link 852c to some other kohafield (say, biblioitems.classification, as was suggested in a previous posting) it would apply to a "biblio", and not to an "item", which I do not think would be appropriate. (One can have several items of a given book, located in different positions.) My question is therefore, how should I link items.itemcallnumber so that it is properly searched by the Catalogue Search pages? 2) I spent some time to define appropriate "branch categories" for a given "branch" (from the Parameters menu in the Administrator interface), but I don't see any place where they can be used to classify a biblioitem. For example, an "Item type" window menu pops down when adding a new biblio at tab 5 (MARC tab and subfield: 942c, "Biblioitem information, item type"). The same kind of menu is available in the Catalogue search page to select "Item types". I wouldn't mind having my "branch categories" as possible options for MARC tag 650a (Subject added entry-topical term), currently linked to kohafield bibliosubject.subject, searched for as "Subject" by the Catalogue search page. Should I define a new Authority for that? On the other hand, if 650a must be left free of taking any value (not just those listed in the user-defined branch categories), where can I take advantage of my branch categories in classifying _and_ later searching my own records? Thank you for any suggestion. Giuseppe.

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Re: [Koha] Can we use Koha?
by BWS Johnson 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

>> Hello Koha >> >> We are a not-for-profit organisation and we run a small library (approx >> 10,000 items). We currently use a manual card system but would like to move >> to a system such as Koha. >> We have seem Koha online and it looks very good, but can you please tell us >> a bit more? >> What would it cost for start up and ongoing maintenance? Howdy antipodean folks! We've the same number of approximate items. I feel your pain, as I too am on a manual card system until things are all catalogued. We're getting there, thanks to Koha! My server ran us about $700. If I were to get the same components today, I would expect to pay round $500. Remember if you run Linux that you've got an extra $100-$200 since you won't need to pay for Windows. My server is still overpowered, but if I were buying something new, I would still get a tier under top of the line. Here's what I got Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz 533MHz FSB w/ 512KB (BOX) Kingston 1GB KIT DDR400 PC3200 CL3 (3-3-3) DIMM Codegen CAT-3307-CA Mid/Mini Tower ATX 350W PSU ENERMAX 80mm Adjustable Speed Case Fan Mitsumi 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Silver (Drive Only) Samsung 52x32x52 Internal CD-RW Drive ATAPI (OEM/Black) 2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Buffer SATA HDD Asus P4P800 i865PE P4 ATX Audio/GbLAN/SATA/RAID/AGP8X We later added the second drive for easier backup. We also ended up getting an el cheapo video card at a local store. If you can rope in a local geek (and chances are you can) it should take them just a small part of their day to install Koha. It took my husband (who is very geeky indeed) about 2 hours. Upgrades take my husband about 10 minutes. Now, the hard part is setting the Parameters, which took me about a weekend of trial and error. Once you get them set though, you don't have to fuss with them again. Also, I wrote a Newbie Guide http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=NewbieGuide that tells you what those settings are, and now there's online help available with Koha. So hopefully, it won't take you a whole weekend. Because Koha is webbased, you can access it from anywhere. Both your patrons and your staff can. This was great for us, because before Koha, we only had one computer to do cataloguing on. We would have had to purchase rights to use another computer for about $2000 if I wanted another cataloguing/staff station. With Koha, you can catalogue from anywhere! Just like you can check your holdings from anywhere. I've also found that it runs faster than III did, especially when I'm cataloguing. This could be me, but I doubt it. I nab a lot of my MARC records from III libraries, and they seem much slower to me. Cheers, Brooke @ Hinsdale MA

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Third-party tech support
by Neil S. Hebert 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Good morning, Can anyone point me to information on the topic of hiring a consultant to provide tech support or administration of a Koha installation? I've got an all-Microsoft all the time IT department, and I'm looking at the possibility of outsourcing for server space and technical guidance. Any names of consultants in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina would be especially helpful. Cheers, Neil -- Neil Hébert Research and Analysis Librarian North Carolina Department of Transportation 1549 MSC Raleigh, NC 27699-1549 (919) 715-2461 nshebert(a)dot.state.nc.us

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Koha 2.2.0 is born !
by Paul POULAIN 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hello all, Today it's an important day for 2 reasons : our preferred ILS has 5 years (project registered on sourceforge on 2000-12-12 22:46, but the 1st working version was in 2000-01-03) Today the version 2.2.0 of Koha is released. Here is the new features list. You can find the complete release notes on sourceforge, and, of course, download the software. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16466&package_id=1361… RELEASE NOTES ============= Koha is the 1st Open-Source Integrated Library System. Released at first in New zealand, in 2000 januaray, it is maintained by a team of volunteers from around the globe, the Koha system is a full catalogue, opac, circulation and acquisitions system. Koha 2.2 is more than 247 000 lines of code, developped by more than 30 differents developpers (excluding translators). With the 2.2 version, Koha is now a mature product, with a lot of nice features. It's used in more than 50 libraries, from all kinds (public, schools, search, religious...), of all size (from 1 to 8 branches, from 1000 to 300 000 items). ======== WARNINGS ======== * the librarian interface is tested only with mozilla/firefox. Should work (partially) with IE. OPAC should work fine with any navigator. * Any 2.1.x install must be uninstalled before installing 2.2.0 No update is provided for 2.1.0. ============= NEW FEATURES ============= Koha 2.2 has, of course, all the previous features from Koha (acquisition, cataloguing, circulation, members modules, OPAC, complete MARC support...) plus the following new ones : General : ********* * (almost) complete rewrite of librarian GUI : now Koha uses CSS, and is easier to use. However, users of Koha 2.0.0 won't be lost, as the general organisation of the product has not changed. * Online Help : an online help is available everywhere in the librarian interface. It's complete in the parameters section of Koha and for new features. It will be completed for the rest of the product. * Better LDAP suport : Koha 2.2 can be "connected" to a LDAP server and get all borrower informations from there (including borrower category where applicable). However, to avoid problems for libraries without LDAP server, the LDAP features have been stored in modules/C4/Auth_with_ldap.pm file. The standard Auth.pm don't use it. If you want LDAP, just perldoc Auth_with_ldap.pm and manually tune your Auth package ! * Auto installer : if you install koha with ./install -i /path/to/auto_install_file, then Koha will be installed almost without question. A very usefull feature for developpers that want to install/uninstall Koha quite often. A sample of auto_install_file is provided in misc/auto_install_file. * Uninstaller : run misc/uninstall.pl, provide the mysql root password. that's all. Koha is completely deleted and can be reinstalled. With the previous feature, it's a very nice solution for test platform. * mod_perl : Koha should now work under mod_perl, that gives a big performance boost (Release Manager don't use mod_perl. fixes comes from A. Tarallo, Argentina, that ensure Koha works fine with mod_perl with the patches applied) * Nelsonville have shared their templates. They are available as NPL theme. * Language : in this version, only english and french versions are fully functionnal. Spanish and chinese are provided, but not fully functionnal. Polish, German, Arabic, Hebrew, and many other languages have volunteers and should be here in a future 2.2.x BE CAREFUL with uninstaller : 1- This script does not ask for confirmation after mysql root password. 2- This script uses /etc/koha.conf. If you have more than 1 koha on your server, use /etc/koha.conf for a "deletable-test" one. Acquisition : ************* * suggestion : borrowers can suggest items to buy in OPAC. Then, the librarian can manage (accept or refuse) and order them. * possibility to close a basket, he can't be modified then * order a basket by publisher or by bookfund/publisher * search order history Cataloguing : ************* * Cataloguing frameworks : you can define as many frameworks as you want. A framework describes how a material is catalogued (which fields, subfields, which constraints on them...) * MARC authorities : Koha now supports authorities in MARC. You can define the MARC structure for authorities like for biblios. * New contraints can be set for subfields : - subfield is hidden : appears in MARC editor, but not in OPAC. - subfield is an URL : the field can be cliqued - related fields : a search made on a subfield also uses other subfields automatically. Using this feature, a search on "title" can search title, but also subtitle, uniform title,... * Item location can now be done on 3 levels : the branch, the location (room), the callnumber. * The callnumber can now be calculated from the LC, the dewey, or be freely (and manually) entered. * Duplicate finder : this powerful feature help your cataloguers avoiding duplicate biblios. * ISBD view : in librarian interface as well as in OPAC biblios can be shown in standard (default) presentation, in MARC (human readable) or ISBD. The ISBD view can be tuned by the librarian team. There is also a systempref to define default view in OPAC (either normal, MARC or ISBD). Created automatically during install or update. Check that you have a Koha >> parameters >> systempreferences >> BiblioDefaultView, Variable type : Choice, Variable options : normal|marc|isbd * UNIMARC plugin for every 1xx fields : ESNMP have developped all the plugins for UNIMARC fields 1xx. Those fields are coded fields. Serial cataloguing : ******************** Koha 2.2 manage serial subscriptions and issuing of those subscriptions. (Only a few words to describe a very important & complete module !) Catalogue search : ****************** * Search in OPAC and librarian interface has been improved. They now are exactly the same. * Spelling suggestion : before sending a request, the user can ask for spelling suggestion. This shows other forms of words entered that would give results. Give poor results for instance, the Koha team is thinking to a true spellchecking. * The user can select the order of the results and the number of results shown. Members : ********* * The borrowernote field is shown on issue and transfer. * The textmessaging field appears in OPAC when the user logs in. Circulation : ************* * New issuing rules : Issuing can be set for branch / borrower type / item category, by number of days and number of items available. * "joker" issuing rules : the library can set issuing rules for "any branch" or "any borrower type", or "any item category". Both issuing rules are cumulative : a library can set issuing rules to 10 books, 5 CD, but 12 total (books or CD). OPAC : ****** In Koha 2.2, koha has : * baskets. A basket can be printed or sent by mail to the borrower * virtual shelves : a virtual shelf can be created and filled by any logged borrower. A given virtual shelf can be private or public. Or even free-for-all. * language chooser : the borrower can change the language on the fly. The default language being still choosen by the library * complete CSS definition. With a new systempref parameter : opacstylesheet. If this parameter is set to a stylesheet URL, this stylesheet will be used instead of the opactheme one. With this parameter, you can have your own stylesheet for OPAC, that will be used and kept when you update your version of Koha. The systempref must be a complete URL (http://www.koha.org/stylesheet/somestylesheet.css for example) Barcode printing : ****************** A new module has been added to the parameters section : barcode printing. It requires the PDF::Api2 Perl package. ============ Koha Future ============ The future of Koha is being discussed on mailing lists and on koha wiki : http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=KohaRoadmap2.2.x -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Internal Server Error on Fedora Core 3
by Giuseppe.Angilella＠ct.infn.it 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hi, while trying to solve the problems with Z39.50 on a RedHat 9.0 box (reported in my previous messages), I tried to install Fedora Core 3 on another computer, and Koha 2.2.0RC5, to see whether those problems depended on the operating system. I performed a standard installation of Fedora Core 3, and closely followed Joshua Ferraro's instructions on www.kohadocs.org (more or less equivalent to the procedures I followed on RedHat 9.0). Result: Koha gets installed without any problem, but on calling the very first page with mozilla: http://localhost:8080 ("Welcome to Koha" flashes rapidly, and then) it moves to http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl However, this gives an "Internal Server Error". (Error logs do not provide much more insight.) Any user (including apache, with sudo -u apache) can execute from shell the above script, which produces the expected html output. So, I guess it's a problem with the Apache configuration. What is strange to me, is that httpd.conf and koha-httpd.conf in my Fedora 3 box looks pretty much the same as httpd.conf/koha-httpd.conf in my RedHat 9.0 box. Nor have I made any other change to the standard configuration of Fedora. Any suggestion? Thank you in advance. Giuseppe.

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