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Do you have a need for sub-branches within Koha?
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Hi I was wondering wether there are other libraries, particularly corporate or specialty libraries who have a need (or could see one :-) for sub branches. The context for this is a Branch which is the office building in a city - eg Wellington And then a sub branch which is the third floor. This would be quite a lot of stuff to "touch" in Koha - specifically it would involve changing circulation and I think adds a layer of complexity perhaps to issuing and returning items. On the other hand I'd imagine that the libraies who would use this wouldn't do that much issuing and returning? SO thoughts pleasa? Is it a useful idea? Does anyone do it already? Cheers Rachel -- _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications MANAGING DIRECTOR Ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org

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RE: [Koha] Do you have a need for sub-branches within Koha?
by Bigwood, David 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Rachael, There is the option of specifying where in a particualr library something is located. I think you can let the patron know if something is in the reference collection or large print area in a particular library. Would it be possible to treat the sub-branch as a location within the branch? Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood(a)lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin(a)lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of Rachel Hamilton-Williams Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:39 AM To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Do you have a need for sub-branches within Koha? Hi I was wondering wether there are other libraries, particularly corporate or specialty libraries who have a need (or could see one :-) for sub branches. The context for this is a Branch which is the office building in a city - eg Wellington And then a sub branch which is the third floor. This would be quite a lot of stuff to "touch" in Koha - specifically it would involve changing circulation and I think adds a layer of complexity perhaps to issuing and returning items. On the other hand I'd imagine that the libraies who would use this wouldn't do that much issuing and returning? SO thoughts pleasa? Is it a useful idea? Does anyone do it already? Cheers Rachel -- _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications MANAGING DIRECTOR Ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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regarding koha software
by Srinivasulu P 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Hello sir I would like to download the Koha software for the use of my Library, Kindly send me details of How to dowload the software, and requirements to download etc -- P.srinivas

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Re: [Koha] Do you have a need for sub-branches within Koha?
by Owen Leonard 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

> > I was wondering wether there are other libraries, > > particularly corporate or > > specialty libraries who have a need (or could see one :-) > > for sub branches. > > Yes, I think libraries with locations/branches and > offices/subbranches > are more likely to transfer books between subbranches often I'm curious...what exactly does transferring a book *do*? It seems that by transferring a book you're pre-emptively setting the item's location to it's destination, even though it's not there yet. This isn't much better than simply checking in the book when it arrives--in both scenarios the book's location is inaccurate until it arrives. I'm also confused about the purpose of having both homebranch and holdingbranch. It would make sense if Koha have some kind of feedback about changes--"This book belongs in the Athens Branch. Transfer?" How are other libraries using these features? Am I misunderstanding how they're supposed to work? -- Owen ---- Web Developer Nelsonville Public Library http://www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us

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[Fwd: Re: [Koha] Koha Documentation Project]
by Stephen Hedges 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

I'm sharing parts of a message from Nick R., please feel free to comment. Stephen ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Documentation Project From: etome-nsr(a)mail.korksoft.com Date: Thu, September 23, 2004 12:52 am To: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges(a)skemotah.com> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The original manual covered Sysadmins (mainly install, when parameters were much simpler) and staff, and developers (we had a handy chunk of why/how-stuff-is-done info -- some architectural info for presentation/explanation wouldn't hurt either -- never occured to me until recently how hard it was to explain some of the webserver/perl/db potential issues etc until I looked over some of the more typical questions). I like the idea of OPAC help (as Paul's nifty built in thing is providing), but also think we could add (separately from a formal manual) a getting started card (or at least a template) and signage.... the sort of thing left/displayed/handed out at a typical library. This'd also give us the chance to include the logo ... exposure is always good, no? I think MJ mentioned something like this also. Also needed, and always a problem, is work re the FAQ and troubleshooting info -- come to think of it, some newer hardware recommendations wouldn't be amiss (CMSD I think gave us their original specs). Thoughts? I'm thinking MARC and associated questions will need special handling. Possibly a "Cataloging In Brief" for the MARC-uncomfy... also, some wise words on tags wouldn't kill us. Ditto something on translating. Any ideas on some sort of other name for the Breeding Farm? It seems to cause confusion, for one, and I had have a longtime sneaking suspicion it doesn't work well when translated. In the past (formal) docs have been in DocBook SGML/XML.... advantage here is that it permits easy multi-format output, and is relatively easy to translate the raw XML for other languages (we successfully handed the file over to people with them returning translations of stuff between tags). And gives a nice, clean look and feel. Opinions? Nick ..reply offlist cause for some reason I needs must force a listadmin to moderate my posts onto it at the moment(sigh). -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Incorrect mapping of Copyright between Breeding Farm and Koha Tables?
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Hi I'm going to report this as a bug, but I thought I should check here as well as I'm not that strong in this area... Details: Koha V 2.0 on Windows, Vanilla Templates, MARC OFF, Simple Acquisitions I think that this is a problem in the scripts or the template.Basically the person gets their record in from their national library (Kinetica) into their breeding farm, and it comes with a copyright date, but when they select it to use and drag it into Koha the copyright date doesn't come accross. I *think* this is either a template problem, or a mapping problem, but I'm not sure which - or if there is anything she can do about it - is there a test I can run to make sure it's not the data though? Any help would be appreciated I'm sorry they don't have their intranet available for looking at - but I'd hope that others would know if this is a problem they've had to? Cheers Rachel -- _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications MANAGING DIRECTOR Ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org

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Stupid Breeding Farm Question....
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Hi Ok this is a silly question I suspect, and I should probably know it already, but when you have a record in the breeding farm, if you then catalogue using that record, does the record stay in the breeding farm as well? Cheers Rachel -- _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications MANAGING DIRECTOR Ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org

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Re: [Koha] Do you have a need for sub-branches within Koha?
by Baljkas Family 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Thursday, September 23, 2004 02:02 CDT Hi, Rachel, Roger, et al., Regarding -- > From: Rachel Hamilton-Williams <rachel(a)katipo.co.nz> > Date: 2004/09/23 Thu AM 01:39:28 CDT > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: [Koha] Do you have a need for sub-branches within Koha? > > Hi > > I was wondering wether there are other libraries, particularly corporate > or specialty libraries who have a need (or could see one :-) for sub > branches. > > The context for this is a Branch which is the office building in a city > - e.g. Wellington > > And then a sub branch which is the third floor. -- IIRC this was somewhat the situation for Roger's law firm in trying to specify locations for various legal volumes. > This would be quite a lot of stuff to "touch" in Koha - specifically it > would involve changing circulation and I think adds a layer of > complexity perhaps to issuing and returning items. Rachel, do you mean in the sense that an item would have to be returned to its originating branch and none other? Couldn't that problem be solved, as it is by say my home city's public library system with its 20 some odd branches, by the receiving library simply checking the item out to "In Transit" and returning it by whatever mutual return agreements exist locally? Even various community libraries in Winnipeg with no formal ties to the public library system return public library books mistakenly left with them to the public system, and vice versa. I should think that within the same building, it wouldn't be as much an issue as long as the source/reshelving destination are distinguishable. > On the other hand I'd imagine that the libraies who would use this > wouldn't do that much issuing and returning? I think you're probably right about that. From what I recall of Roger's example, the use was pretty strictly in-house. > SO thoughts please? Is it a useful idea? Does anyone do it already? Pretty much anything you can add to an ILS without hampering users who only need the basics is good. What you are proposing could be very handy for organisational holdings, where there isn't even necessarily a consolidated 'main library' location but where people might need to share what resources there are. One of our local highschools was originally designed to have 'pod' libraries scattered throughout its complex rather than a single main location; it eventually failed and a series of rooms became the one library in part because they had no computer system subtle and refined enough to do what you are suggesting is possible, Rachel. I'd definitely be curious to learn, as well, if anyone else knows of decentralised library systems -- perhaps in business or NPO environments -- where this kind of locating detail would be useful? Good idea, Rachel. :-) Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada > Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications > MANAGING DIRECTOR Ph 021 389 128 or P.S. Congrats on the promotion (at least, that's how I read it when I finally noticed yesterday that it didn't say Web Mistress anymore!)! +64 04 934 1285 > mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington > http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand > Koha Open Source Library System > http://www.koha.org

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[Fwd: Re: [Koha] Re: More questions for migrating to koha]
by Stephen Hedges 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [Koha] Re: More questions for migrating to koha From: "Paul POULAIN" <paul.poulain(a)free.fr> Date: Wed, September 22, 2004 12:47 pm To: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges(a)skemotah.com> Cc: "Dana Huff" <dana(a)sefovan.org> koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Hedges a écrit : >>Also, I get errors when I run >>"rebuildnommarc.pl" complaining of null data in the tagorder field. >> >> >Could you go to bugs.koha.org and submit a bug report on this? > > No need, i've fixed this today (i'll commit it immediatly) Note this mail may not appear on koha ml, as it seems i've DN problems from france. in this case, pls stephen, forward this information. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org) -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Re: Re: [Koha] Re: Questions about Koha
by BWS Johnson 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

Salvete! I would once again like to stress that Z39.50 is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. It's kind of like that old game show with the curtains. You really should look at the records you end up with, which to me means that you may as well find the one most suited to your needs by hand in the first place. Point number 2 - since you're automating a rather small collection, I would certainly recommend Koha. I've entered about 2600 bibliographic records and about 1900 patron records. Phew! I have about 7,000 bibliographic or so to go. I've been working at automating since about last February. Point number 3 - Library of Congress stinks for records for Kid's Stuff. I use Access Pennsylvania or Maine Infonet or in a real pinch Ohio Link. All of these can be found on the Free MARC page brought to you by SKCLS. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/sckls/sysserv/tutorials/marc/freemarc.html If you type "Free MARC" into google, that will get you there, too. The great thing about that page is that they give you instructions on how to get the records themselves. Watch for redundant tags with Access Pennsylvania. Doesn't happen often, but it does happen. It is really, really worth it. Oooooh so much better than cards. Brooke @ Hinsdale MA

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