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Re: [Koha] MARC Collector
by Baljkas Family 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

Monday, September 20, 2004 16:50 CDT ¡Hola Marco! Well, I read through their website and I couldn't find any statement about the cost. Geez, that's annoying: I am certainly no businessperson, but is it really so illogical to think that posting the price clearly and what to do about ordering is unexpected?! Argh. Anyway, Marco, from what I can tell, you are meant to install the program first and then send for the License Key. If you ftp'd it and read the ReadMe file, you'd find that info at the end of it (I won't get started on why that isn't clearly delineated at the end of the page on the product). As for waiting for their answer, I have learned from experience that having a website seems to make certain folk rather haughty. Depending on how long ago you wrote though, you may want to send a second email indicating this is urgent for you. At a cost of $350 US and with the possibility that a string of ISBNs will return poor records anyway, I would still favour what I was taught -- and what Brooke (ave atque salve, amica!) recently reaffirmed the usefulness of -- namely searching and verifying records individually. This is not nearly as awful a process as non-cataloguers imagine. Panning through garbage records on the other hand, o the stories I could tell you ... Hope this helps a little bit. Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada > From: "Marco Antonio Castillo Arreozola" <cobi31(a)hotmail.com> > Date: 2004/09/20 Mon AM 10:52:32 CDT > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: [Koha] MARC Collector > > Hi! > > I'm Interested to get a MARC records and I installed some tools shown into > http://www.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html > I liked Aurora ZMARC Collector. I want to buy it, and I sent a e-mail to > sales(a)ait.com.au but, I haven't received answer. Who knows where can I buy > it? or What another tool recommend to me? > > Thanks.

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More questions for migrating to koha
by Andres Tarallo 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

As I've told you I'm currently working on mapping the database of my current ILS (CDS/ISIS, CEPAL layout) to MARC21, to import it to koha. I've managed to generate MARC records form the exported data of my ILS. I've downloaded today the Koha DB Schema, what we want to insure is that for every title we have one record is added to the biblio table, no matter how many copies of this title we have, also we want to have as many items as copies we have for each title. In order to achieve this goals we are trying to understand the way bulkmarcimport.pl handles MARC records, in order to feed it with properly loaded records. It's not clear for me the way i have to build my MARC records, in order to represent fully the reality I've presented you above. Any help will be appreciated. Andrés

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Re: Re: [Koha] More questions for migrating to koha
by Baljkas Family 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:43 CDT Hi, Stephen, et al., Admittedly, I don't understand scripting, but doesn't the schema you gave miss definition of the Leader and the fixed fields (especially 008) which are critical to the record being valid MARC? Or is that already in MARC::Record? Just confused, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada > From: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges(a)skemotah.com> > Date: 2004/09/15 Wed AM 04:38:41 CDT > To: "Andres Tarallo" <tarallo(a)ort.edu.uy> > CC: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: Re: [Koha] More questions for migrating to koha > > Hi, Andres - > > Andres Tarallo said: > > ...we are trying to understand the way > > bulkmarcimport.pl handles MARC records, in order to feed it with > > properly loaded records. It's not clear for me the way i have to build > > my MARC records > > You're writing a script using MARC::Record if I recall. So what you > should do is open a file early in the script to save your records, > something like: > > open OUTFILE, "+>bibs" or die "Cannot open output file (bibs)"; > > Then go through the process of putting each record together tag by tag. > Something like: > > $tag100 = MARC::Field->new(100,'','','a'=>$author); > $record->append_fields($tag100); > > Then when you have all the tags built add the record to your output file: > > print OUTFILE $record->as_usmarc(); > > [The perl lines above assume you are using MARC21, change accordingly for > UNIMARC.] > > Now you have an iso2709 file ("bibs") that you can load using > bulkmarcimport.pl. > > -- > 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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MARC Collector
by Marco Antonio Castillo Arreozola 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hi! I'm Interested to get a MARC records and I installed some tools shown into http://www.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html I liked Aurora ZMARC Collector. I want to buy it, and I sent a e-mail to sales(a)ait.com.au but, I haven't received answer. Who knows where can I buy it? or What another tool recommend to me? Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

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Presentation to LIANZA Conference
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hi all I thought I'd do a quick update on our trip to the New Zealand Library Conference 2 weeks ago. 2 of us from Katipo and Rosalie Blake from Horowhenua Library attended the conference. We did 18 Koha installs in 3 days, and training for anyone who wanted it in how to use Koha. We had a really busy time which was great. It was also really nice to meet a few of you in person (Hi Bernadette :-) You can see a picture of our warm orange stand (yep that's fake fur on the back wall :-) on the Katipo site - http://www.katipo.co.nz/about-us/news/nr1095372677.shtml Rosalie Blake from Horowhenua Libraries Trust and I gave a talk on Open Source in Libraries, and you're welcome to read our notes, and take a look at the slides... http://www.koha.org/about/presentation/lianza/Koha-OS-slides/ http://www.koha.org/about/presentation/lianza/ Simon and I are in the USA from Sunday, We will be in San Francisco, driving to Montana, and then in qnd around Pitsbergh for a week. If anyone has a Koha library en-route then we would love to stop by and see you. 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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Volunteers for the next round of Koha work....
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hi all, tommorrow we are having our first Koha IRC meeting in a while - Monday 20th GMT 1900, on #koha. One of the things up for discussion is the need for a few more "roles" within the Koha community, in particular we could go a web-edtor. Someone to sort out the website, make links to the various Wikis etc, and where necessary take some of the more "stable" info off the wiki's and replicate it a bit "Fancier" on the website. SO if anyone thinks they'd like that role - it would involve working closely I suspect with some of the Katipo staff (not a bad thing I assure you :-), then please put your hand up. 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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rebuildnonmarc errors
by Dana Huff 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hello, When I run rebuildnonmarc.pl, I get an error for what appears to be every 952 tag mapped to the items table. It looks like this: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Column 'tagorder' cannot be null at c:\usr\koha200\intranet\modules/C4/Biblio.pm line 385. ERROR ==> insert into marc_subfield_table (bibid,tag,tagorder,tag_indicator,subfieldcode,subfieldorder,subfieldvalue) values (1,952,, ,b,1,SEF) The system still seems to function okay afterward. Fortunately I've only loaded 50 records so far for testing purposes. Any help will be appreciated, Dana Huff

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dewey class and subclass etc
by Dana Huff 19 Sep '04

19 Sep '04

Stephen, Did the display of "class" begin with a particular release? Or is there some other contingency? My OPAC search screens only show the biblioitems.dewey value and the number displays to 6 decimal places. The biblioitems.subclass field, though populated in the db, does not show up. I have installed Koha2.0.0-W32-R0. Is this a question for the W32 list? Any help appreciated. Thanks, Dana Huff --------------------------- Eric, Koha puts biblioitems.classification, biblioitems.dewey, and biblioitems.subclass together to form the "class" value displayed on search screens. So for instance, if you had an item with the call number: REF 781.23 Brown The classsification would be "REF", the dewey (which must be a number) would be "781.23" and the subclass would be "Brown". And search screens would return a "class" of "REF 781.23 Brown". Edit the data by editing the MARC tags/subfields that you have mapped to biblioitems.classification, biblioitems.dewey, and biblioitems.subclass. Stephen Eric G. Salayon said: > can anyone explain how should i fill up information in adding a new item? > like the Dewey, Dewey sub class what is this? When we tried, we keyed in > '005' and '133' accordingly but when c searched for the said book what we > saw on the Dewey info was 5.133, why? what does the 'Number' indicate? > another is the grouping, what is this for? i havent seen a entry for the > said grouping.. > How can u edit the data that you entered? im confused while finding a way > to do this. and also after searching for items, does the system display > the call card no, author no etc? pls help! > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Koha manual in Spanish
by Dana Huff 18 Sep '04

18 Sep '04

Hello, It looks like a number of people have completed migrations/installations of Koha in Spanish. How many systems are there up and running? Has anyone put together a user manual or a librarian's manual in Spanish? Thanks, Dana Huff Hola, Parece que hay unas instalaciones de Koha in español. Cuantas systemas hay que estan funcionando bien? Hay alguin que ha construido un manual en español para los usarios o para los bibliotecarios? Es claro que mi primera idioma no es español, ¿no?, entonces necesito mucha ayuda en esto proyecto. Muchas gracias, Dana Huff

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Barcodes with checkdigit
by Dana Huff 18 Sep '04

18 Sep '04

Hello, We are migrating to Koha from another system and so we already have barcodes on the books from that previous installation. But, the barcodes have a checkdigit at the end (probably not uncommon). When we export the current holdings from the old system, it only exports the "item" part of the barcode, not the location prefix or the checkdigit. I can easily add the prefix to each record before importing into Koha but the checkdigit is based on some unknown algorithm. I would like to avoid having to manually modify thousands of entries or even scan every barcode label and match it with the exported value. Any ideas? There must be someone who has faced the same problems (I hope). Thanks in advance, Dana Huff

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