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koha usage problem
by nadia muzaffar 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

i have configured koha on redhat 9.0 n since i m not a librarian, so i m facing a lot many problems in koha usage.. these are in cat maintenance , i dunno what really i have to enter in subject maintenance for example i have made 2 categories of mystery and computer science books category n whn i enter ne 1 of these in subject maintenace it shows me nothing...title search iz working properly . also i have got doubts about the field " undelete biblio"..i dunno exactly what it means..also i have no clear vision on what have to be enterned in authorised values. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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Re: Re: [Koha] What the use of websites table in Koha 2.0?
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Hi > Actually, I was wondering if you folks at Katipo had done a separate project > with website cataloguing. My last contract cataloguing was for a > federally-funded health library service here and they went to the trouble of > contracting for an online cataloguing system, only finding out about Koha once > it was nearly ready (and hence too late). Yes we've done projects before Koha cataloguing websites and various other resources - sort of baby libraries. > I'm not quite sure what you meant by "cataloguing URL's as separate items". One > can have various kinds of hyperlinks within a MARC record for different > purposes. > > With MARC -- which predated Katipo's work on website cataloguing by a number of > years -- one can catalogue various types of media, including websites. Is that > what you would mean by "as a separate item"? Ah - no I meant that we (katipo) did the work on cataloguing websites before the full MARC support was put into Koha (by Paul). I'm not sure how much you know about the history of Koha - but basically in the first version the MARC support was fairly rudementry - while you could import MARC into it just fine, it didn't store the MARC records in their native format, and there weren't the tools for mapping between the Koha and MARC fields. Most of Katipo's work is with organisations which *aren't* using MARC, so I would think that you would map your MARC URL fields to the Koha Website fields, but I'm not entirely sure about that. The "display" pages tend to use the Koha fields rather than going straight to the MARC I believe, so if you want to display the URLS "prettily" then you'll need them in the Koha database bit as well as the MARC database. This is particlarly for people who don't actually want to use MARC at all - and don't want to see it. I hope that makes sense - if you're planning on just using MARC for your display and searching then I would imagine you can just ignore that table > Maybe you/others could check out the LC info on it (URL > <http://http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhold.html#mrcb856> to see if > it provides for everything you intended/would need. It seems to me it's another > instance for "tidying up" otherwise. Hopefully my more detailed explanation makes a bit more sense - I know it can be hard to believe but there are some libraries who *don't* use MARC :-) 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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What the use of websites table in Koha 2.0?
by Indranil Das Gupta 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Hi, I couldn't exactly get what is the purpose of the Koha.websites table. I mean already 856u is storing urls, so what does this one do in Koha 2.0.0? thanks --indranil

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koha unsubscribe
by Gerhard Israel 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

please unsubscribe thank you

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Portugese Version of Koha?
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Hello, I've had an enquiry about a portugese version of Koha and wanted to check of there actually is one in progress? If so, is it just the OPAC being translated or the whole thing? 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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14 Aug '04

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by elimey 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Unsubscribe Koha Please, thanks, Eliane Mey.

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questions on spine labels, permissions, & virtual shelves
by Nicole Hatch 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Hello, I have been playing around with Koha 2.0 quite a bit lately and below are some questions that I would love to get answered. I've listed them in order of importance. 1) Is there a way to print spine labels directly from Koha? I just need the dewey decimal number. 2) When I set up my personal library account, I gave myself permission to do everything. This fall, I will have students working at the library, but I don't want them to be playing around with the parameters etc. I set up their permissions as follows. FLAGS superlibrarian Access to all librarian functions circulate Circulate books catalogue View Catalogue (Librarian Interface) parameters Set Koha system paramters borrowers Add or modify borrowers permissions Set user permissions reserveforothers Reserve books for patrons borrow Borrow books reserveforself Reserve books for self editcatalogue Edit Catalogue (Modify bibliographic/holdings data) updatecharges Update borrower charges I have found that because I am allowing them to "add or modify borrowers", they can also change their own user flags. I can get around this by not letting them "add or modify borrowers", but then they won't be able to tell people whether or not they have overdue items out etc. Is there some other way around this problem? 3) Is there a way to do a keyword search for "DVDs" that would bring up a listing of every DVD in our collection? This would be a really neat feature. 4) What on earth are virtual bookshelves? I don't understand this feature at all. Perhaps there is existing documentation that somebody could direct me to. Thanks so much! Nicole Nicole Hatch Programme Coordinator / Librarian European College of Liberal Arts Platanenstr. 24 13156 Berlin +49 30 4373 3124

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Re: [Koha] questions on spine labels, permissions, & virtual shelves: re DVDs
by Baljkas Family 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Thursday, August 12, 2004 17:39 CDT Hi, Nicole, Tackling the one question I think I can answer from your list -- > From: "Nicole Hatch" <N.Hatch(a)ecla.de> > Date: 2004/08/12 Thu AM 07:25:39 CDT > To: <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: [Koha] questions on spine labels, permissions, & virtual shelves > > [snip] > 3) Is there a way to do a keyword search for "DVDs" that > would bring up a listing of every DVD in our collection? > This would be a really neat feature. I am sure there is a more elegant way to do it in programming, but couldn't you just define DVD as one of the item types? In terms of a MARC solution, you could code a 655 tag as follows - 655 # # $aDVD. - or place the same information into a subject tag that is already indexed for searching (I am not certain which column in the Koha tables that would be). Hope this helps a bit. I am sure others will get back to you on your more complex questions. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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just a few questions
by Jose 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

My new questions are about to understand what the Thesaurus and Authorised values are, What it really change if i modify them or add new thing in here (i'll check out the newbie guide). Other thing, what is the Unido and css part for Intranet and OPAC respectively. I can tell they are other themes for the interface... Oh! another thing that calls my attention is in the additem-nomarc.pl page HERE YOU HAVE TWO COLUMNS, THE LEFT ONE SAYS 'BIBLIO RECORD' AND THE SECOND 'ADD NEW ITEM' BUT NEXT TO THE LEFT ONE IT'S A COLUMN VERY THIN THAT GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN AND IT SEEMS TO HAVE NO FUNCTION. WHAT IS THIS? Ok that's all for now, thnks for all the support. J0sep

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