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[koha] new user
by gcikolbuszowa＠o2.pl 28 May '04

28 May '04

Hello! My name is Lukas Szymanski, i worked in Public Library in Kolbuszowa, Poland. Our Library want to use the Koha system. We are alredy using Marc and i want to ask about yours experiences in using Koha with Marc. Is this works correctly? I think if I could help you in work over Koha or polish translation (i'm much better in translation to polish then writing in english :)). Maybe I could help in php and mysql programming? Yours sincerely Lukas Szymanski

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Again....
by Silva, Ernesto - Webmaster 27 May '04

27 May '04

Hi, Can somebody please tell me how to contact the developers team leader/s? Thank you. Ernesto Silva. ********************************************************************* Hi, I'm trying to offer a Koha installation for my university but the system will need some customization which I believe could be usefull for all the Koha community. If I succeed I'll have some funds to invest in the product and I want to add these new features to the koha main source tree so I can get them back in future versions. I don't know if this is a subject for this list so I'm asking here for a Koha proyect chief/administrator/etc to contact me back, so we can talk about this or at least tell me if this is the right list. Thank you. -- Ernesto Silva - Webmaster - Universidad ORT Uruguay Cuareim 1451. Montevideo. Montevideo - 11100. Uruguay. Email: silva(a)ort.edu.uy "Men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted." Katz law.

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A little bit slow...
by Silva, Ernesto - Webmaster 26 May '04

26 May '04

Hi, I´m evaluating Koha running on a PIII at 800 MHZ with 256MB of RAM and it seems to me like it's a little bit slow considering that I only have 4 record in the database. It's running in the intranet and the page delay is grater than 2 seconds. I know perl scripts running in cgi-bin is not the fastest model, can I do something to improve speed? thanks -- Ernesto Silva - Webmaster - Universidad ORT Uruguay Cuareim 1451. Montevideo. Montevideo - 11100. Uruguay. Email: silva(a)ort.edu.uy "Men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted." Katz law.

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Koha for windows
by david 26 May '04

26 May '04

Dear all, I just installed mysql, perl and then koha for windows. When I try to run it by doing http://localhost:80, it give me the following error: ======= Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Error message: couldn't create child process: 720003: opac-main.pl If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 500 localhost 05/26/04 18:58:37 Apache/2.0.49 (Win32) ========= What can be the error? Please help. David -- CIUEM WebMail (http://www.ci.uem.mz)

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Re: Re: [Koha] Newbie question
by Chris Cormack 26 May '04

26 May '04

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:33:01PM -0500, Steve/Ollie/Steven F. Baljkas said: > Tuesday, May 25, 2004 21:18 CDT > > Hi, Maggie, > > Without P.O'ing you or Chris unnecessarily, I have to say that the idea of wanting to run a library without learning and fully utilising MARC (in whatever flavour and with whatever local usages you determine) is rapidly becoming (already is for most of us in North America) like the idea of running a library without an OPAC in general. > > That is, to be clear, not a good idea. > Hi Steven I think in general that your comments are correct. But I think there are some flaws. Namely I think that you overestimate the size and budgets of some libraries. THere are numerous small community libraries with little or no budget run by mainly volunteers all over the world. Should we force them to all have to learn MARC ? I dont think we should, I think we should continue to give people the option to catalogue in a way they chose, I enjoy working on Free software because I enjoy freedom. I dont force, or seek to persuade people to catalogue without MARC, i simply seek to offer them the ability to do so. I think the chances of me teaching the 76 year old librarian at the theosophical society how to catalogue in MARC is very unlikely but he is happily cataloging books now. (Albeit in MARC just hidden from him) So in general I agree cataloguing in MARC is a good idea. However I dont think we should force people to do it. Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris(a)katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz

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Re: [Koha] MARC cataloguing & AMS classification -- Addendum
by Steve/Ollie/Steven F. Baljkas 26 May '04

26 May '04

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 21:48 CDT Hi, Zeno, Regarding your message -- > >> I'm installing Koha for a customer that want to use AMS (American > >> Mathematical Society) in it's MARC records. > >> I can't find where to store AMS in MARC. > > Hi, > > in fact you need to use the tag for the "Other Class Number". > > For Marc 21: > > tag 084 with subfield $2msc > > For Unimarc: > > tag 686 with subfield $2msc <is only a suggestion, I don't find a code > > form for the classification of AMS in Unimarc> -- Paul was bang on with the MARC codes for the classification numbers. If you are using MARC21, you will probably also want to take note of the thesaurus you are using (I am assuming if you're using AMS you are not using LCSH), so in your subject tags (6xx), you'll add another $2msc BTW, Library of Congress lists -- msc Mathematical subject classification (Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society) -- in its notes for FIELD 084 under Part III, Classification Sources, (URL <http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaclas.html>) of its MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions (URL <http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relahome.html>), so Paul was right on that account as well! In practice, Zeno, your library may choose to omit the $2 subfield in 6xx fields (CISTI in Canada does) but it's more friendly and better cataloguing practice to include an identifier for the subject heading/thesaurus used. Hope this little addendum to Paul's answer helps. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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Re: Re: [Koha] Thesaurus and Authorities Files
by Steve/Ollie/Steven F. Baljkas 26 May '04

26 May '04

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 21:32 CDT Salut Paul! > one month later, I answer ;-) Thanks for the reply, belated or not. I know how busy you top-level folks are so don't feel badly. As for the clarifications: > * free form means in fact "rejected form". It's the text that is not used. Okay. That is probably a really bad choice of words. 'Free form', when I have seen it in English-language cataloguing materials, tends to mean something like 'uncontrolled'. That is, something that is not necessarily a part of an official thesaurus or system of a given library but is being entered by the cataloguer anyway (sometimes in school libraries this can be used to identify materials an instructor wants for a particular project, or it can simply be a provisional term while one waits for a term to be added officially by LC or a term added locally for reasons of political sensitivity or other local-usage reasons). > Replaced by the "stdlib", which mean "accepted form" (translation of the official french term, not sure it's OK in > english) I think the English term would be "established form" or "preferred form". I have seen the latter used more than the former but the former is what I was taught formally. I don't know what the consensus of the Koha community would be -- sound in, people! -- but wouldn't it be easier, more clear, and more user-friendly just to use the LC term "USE:"? This is what my class was taught in lib tech training and it does seem to have replaced the older x/xx system that one saw in LC, etc. > * Authority & thesaurus is really poorly handled in 2.0. No BT or NT > neither UF. Only subdivision, accepted form & rejected form. With the subdivisions, I don't know about UNIMARC, but one would want to be able to differentiate the different kinds of subdivisions for MARC21 (free-floating, form, geographic, chronological, etc.) > * In 2.2 a complete MARC management of authorities will be available. > (Funded by ENSMP, in UNIMARC, but we will try to manage MARC21 too) Great! As I wrote you before, I'd be glad to try and help. I'll start taking a look at UNIMARC authorities later this week and see what I can make of it. Thanks again for the response, Paul. A bientôt! Amitiés, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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Some new features....
by Silva, Ernesto - Webmaster 24 May '04

24 May '04

Hi, I'm trying to offer a Koha installation for my university but the system will need some customization which I believe could be usefull for all the Koha community. If I succeed I'll have some funds to invest in the product and I want to add these new features to the koha main source tree so I can get them back in future versions. I don't know if this is a subject for this list so I'm asking here for a Koha proyect chief/administrator/etc to contact me back, so we can talk about this or at least tell me if this is the right list. Thank you. -- Ernesto Silva - Webmaster - Universidad ORT Uruguay Cuareim 1451. Montevideo. Montevideo - 11100. Uruguay. Email: silva(a)ort.edu.uy "Men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted." Katz law.

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Re: [Koha] MARC cataloguing & AMS classification
by paul POULAIN 24 May '04

24 May '04

Zeno Tajoli a écrit : > At 17.51 24/05/2004, you wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm installing Koha for a customer that want to use AMS (American >> Mathematical Society) in it's MARC records. >> I can't find where to store AMS in MARC. > > > Hi, > in fact you need to use the tag for the "Other Class Number". > For Marc 21: > tag 084 with subfield $2msc > For Unimarc: > tag 686 with subfield $2msc <is only a suggestion, I don't find a code > form for the classification of AMS in Unimarc> > Thanks. I agree for UNIMARC. I'll use 084 for MARC21 unless someone else tell me it's wrong. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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MARC cataloguing & AMS classification
by paul POULAIN 24 May '04

24 May '04

Hi, I'm installing Koha for a customer that want to use AMS (American Mathematical Society) in it's MARC records. I can't find where to store AMS in MARC. Hints : * "MARC21 AMS" in google gives me 1 useful link that says "856". I've some doubts. * no luck with ams.org neither log.gov -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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