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Re: [Koha] Koha in Linux Festival
by Zeki Celikbas 07 May '04

07 May '04

Goodmorning to all, I saw that lots of reply to my email which I've wrote yesterday night when I was leaving work. Thanks all again. I'll try to reply all friends. This festivals aim is to introduce and to become widespead of linux in Turkey and to meet the linux comminity. me and people will work to set up linux people onw machine who bring to festival for free. I'll also show to librarians how to set up and work koha. > If you'd like, Zeki, I could try to find some Turkish language records > in Canada's National Library (NLC-BNC) database Amicus (a little more > user-friendly, BTW). I'm pretty sure we can specify language targets, > and I know we can batch records if you prefer. Also, if there are > specific types of book or non-book materials that you'd like for your > sample (theses, technical papers, etc.), give me a shout off-listserv > and I'll be glad to help gather whatever you want (got lots of free > time now). Steven you are so kind to leave time for me. It isn't necessary becoming Turkish language for sample materials. I'll only need some marc and/or sql data to import koha but it is good idea to became difternt types of materials. > Denise Sharp and Jamey Sharp, "Open Source in Libraries: Philosophy > and Tools" February 2004, available at http://minilop.net/OnlineNW -- > I think Denise Sharp reported that it was well-received. > thanks MJ Ray I'm also working on open sources in libraries. > > 2. Some sample data (sql format). > > I will try to get this for you, but it may not be soon enough. > I have time untill the middle of nex week. > > Can you make your presentation available online and tell us how it > goes, please? > Here is one of my old peresentation about koha. but sory it is in Turkish. http://seminer.linux.org.tr/seminer-notlari.php I'll reply this seminar on 16 of june at IBM Linux Center in Istanbul. > > > I have. > But in french & in UNIMARC. Tell me if you want them. > Thanks Paul please send me some records. It will be very usefull for me. > > 1. The name of the institutes using Koha for > > examples. > > OK, I'll grab the easy question. There's a pretty good list at > http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=KohaUsers Thanks Stephen I haven't seen this list before. I hope that linux, koha and other free softwares are wide know in Turkey and will be use at people own work. Thank to all people again. Zeki Celikbas Librarian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Istanbul Technical University e:mailto:celikbas@itu.edu.tr Faculty of Aero. & Astro. w:http://www2.itu.edu.tr/~celikbas 80626 Maslak Istanbul Turkey t:(212)2853108 f: (212)2853139 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: [Koha] Extending Koha for Movies
by Steve/Ollie/Steven F. Baljkas 07 May '04

07 May '04

Thursday, May 6, 2004 18:38 CDT Hi, Frank, Just a quick response to your query on extending Koha for movies, etc. > we would like to extend KOHA in order to add DVD's and VHS tapes to our > library. We would need to enter some movie specific stuff that is present in > KOHA's MARC structure (info about actors, in MARC field 511). I'm not sure about your question. If you are using Koha 2.0.0, you would just need to define the fields in the MARC parameters and (IIRC, in the item types beforehand, for circulation management purposes, and) it should be accessible to you for data entry in cataloguing. > Where would I want to start looking in order to allow this info to be entered in KOHA > (acquisition dialogues). If you're using MARC records you probably don't want to rely on searches using information that is only gathered (and haphazardly at that) in note fields like 511. Since title is going to be the main entry for 99+% of movies, is there a reason that doesn't work for your searches? Or are you really thinking about cataloguing and intending to created added entries for cast? > How would I handle repeatable fields in KOHA? They should be fine. > Thanks a lot in advance for any hints, Hope this may help. Write back with further questions/specifics. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Re: Re: [Koha] Koha in Linux Festival
by Steve/Ollie/Steven F. Baljkas 07 May '04

07 May '04

Thursday, May 6, 2004 18:27 CDT Hi Zeki, MJR, etal., Regarding your requests, Zeki -- > > 3. If possible some sample marc data to import. > > This should be downloadable from a MARC web search interface. I > believe there is one on the www.LOC.gov site. Yes, MJ, you're right. They're are search tools available, the basic and guided search catalogs are off of URL <http://catalog.loc.gov/> which works well for a small set of searches but not practicably with large conversion projects (unless you want to go real SLOW and/or have to check/correct each LC record for local reasons). Before you try dealing with setting Koha to deal with LC you might want to read through the technical info -- URL <http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/lcserver.html> -- which will give you what you need to know for Z39.50 configuration. If you'd like, Zeki, I could try to find some Turkish language records in Canada's National Library (NLC-BNC) database Amicus (a little more user-friendly, BTW). I'm pretty sure we can specify language targets, and I know we can batch records if you prefer. Also, if there are specific types of book or non-book materials that you'd like for your sample (theses, technical papers, etc.), give me a shout off-listserv and I'll be glad to help gather whatever you want (got lots of free time now). Otherwise, good luck with your conference presentation! Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Re: [Koha] Koha in Linux Festival
by Stephen Hedges 06 May '04

06 May '04

Hi Zeki - > There will be a linux festival > (http://senlik.linux.org.tr/2004/) in the > Ankara the capital of Turkey next week at 13-16 > May . <snip> > But I need some helps blow: > > 1. The name of the institutes using Koha for > examples. OK, I'll grab the easy question. There's a pretty good list at http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=KohaUsers > > Zeki Celikbas > Librarian > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Istanbul Technical University > e:mailto:celikbas@itu.edu.tr > Faculty of Aero. & Astro. > w:http://www2.itu.edu.tr/~celikbas > 80626 Maslak Istanbul Turkey t:(212)2853108 > f: (212)2853139 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephen Hedges Nelsonville Public Library

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Re: [Koha] Koha questions on MARC setup
by Harvey Lee 05 May '04

05 May '04

Hi Stephen, Thanks for your reply. Concerning your response on question 2d below (splitting subfields of same tag onto different tab pages), the reason I was thinking of doing this is actually related to my question 4 in my original email. What I wanted to do was to create a "call number" which combines several fields from the biblio and biblioitem records (i.e., title, dewey, author). I wanted to have this "call number" in the items record, so I figured that this needed to share the same mapped tag as the other items fields that are on tab page 10. As well, I was thinking that I would need to fill this field manually, so I wanted this particular field on the same tab page that the other fields (title, dewey, author) was located on (which will make it easier to cut and paste data from the other fields into this "call number" field). In order for this method to work though, I realized that there were a lot of assumptions I was making on how Koha operates. However, this weekend, I found another solution to this problem. I've added some code into additems.pl that, whenever a new item is to be created, will automatically pull the title, dewey and author info from the database and pre-populate the "call number" field to be displayed with the rest of the fields of the "New Item" form. But in order for me to do this, I needed another MARC subfield under tag 952 for this "call number" field. All of the currently defined subfields that I see in Koha are already mapped to other items fields. So what I did was create an additional field "call number" in the items table in mysql, as well as create an additional (arbitrary) subfield 952 $f in the marc_subfield_structure to map this to. Can you tell me if I broke any MARC rules by defining a new subfield this way? In other words, is tag 952 fully user-specified such that I can define my own subfields within this tag? I'm realizing that this question may be more suitable for the koha-devel list, but I haven't been able to access that list for the past couple of weeks. Thanks, Harvey ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Hedges <shedges(a)skemotah.com> Date: Friday, April 30, 2004 5:25 pm Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha questions on MARC setup > Lee, I'll try to answer a couple of questions: > > Harvey Lee said: > > 1. biblio-to-biblioitems relationship. > > I have read about the biblio-biblioitems-items relationship that > Koha> uses. But from what I can see, there seems to be a strict > one-to-one > > relationship between every biblio record created and every > biblioitems> record created. In other words, for every book I > enter there is always one > > biblio record and one biblioitems record created. It seems there > is no way > > to have 2 biblioitems associated to the same biblio. Looking at > the code, > > it looks like with the configuration MARC=on and > acquisition=simple, this > > will always be the case. Is this true, or am I missing something? > > No, you're not missing anything, it's true. This comes about > because of > the nature of MARC records, which are "two-part": the basic > bibliographicinformation tags, plus some tags for holdings > information. When your try > to fit such records into the three Koha tables, the basic > bibliographicinformation gets split into the biblio and the > biblioitems tables. So > when you use MARC records, you end up with a one-to-one relationship > between your biblio records and your biblioitems records. (When > you don't > use MARC records, this doesn't happen.) > > > 2. MARC links > > I've seen in previous posts/documents on the topic of creating > links from > > MARC subfields to Koha fields that, for the items table, all MARC > > subfields must be in the same tag. This raises some questions: > > a- Can the other subfields of this tag that is not used for > linking to an > > items field be used in other Koha fields (for instance, for a > field in the > > biblioitems table)? > > I think not. Nelsonville actually splits it's MARC holdings tag > into two > separate tags before records are imported (using the MARC::Record > module)to work around this. > > > b- Is it legal to map the same subfield to 2 different Koha > fields? For > > example, to map Dewey 082$a to both biblioitems.dewey and > items.bulk? > Nope, Koha will keep the mapping that was defined last, not both. > > > c- Out of curiousity, what MARC tag are people using for the > items fields? > > I've seen both 852 and 952 mentioned, but 952 seems very limited > in the > > number of subfields that can be used given the number of items > fields that > > are available t be mapped. > > I mentioned that Nelsonville splits theirs. The original records > beforeimport contain a 952 tag, but part of that information is > split out into a > 942 tag, which is then mapped to some biblioitems columns. > > > d- I think I saw it mentioned that subfields of the same tag > cannot be > > spread across more than one of the 10 tab pages; they must > reside on the > > same tab page. Is this true? > > The tabs are for displaying your MARC records, so I'm not sure why you > would want to split the display of any single tag. (Do you mean like > having 245a in one tab and 245b in another?) But I really don't > know the > answer to this question. > > > 3. editing an items record for an existing entry > > One field that I would like to have available to the librarian > for editing > > is items.itemnotes. However, it seems that the items > configuration page > > (additem.pl) is hidden behind the MARC configuration page > (addbiblio.pl);> one must select a biblio to edit and then save it > before the items > > configuration page is shown. Is this the only way to reach this > page? > So far as I know, unless you are willing to do some template > modifications. (Someone else may have devised a secret shortcut.) > > -- > Stephen Hedges > Skemotah Solutions, USA > www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com >

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Custom bulkmarcimport.pl
by Tim McMahon - West Liberty Public Library 04 May '04

04 May '04

The "Migrating to Koha" document mentions using bulkmarcimport.pl as a starting point to make scripts for cleaning copyright dates and to allow imports of more than one subject per record. I was wondering if anyone already had scripts to do these things. -- Tim McMahon Technical Services West Liberty Public Library http://www.wlpl.org

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Re:Manual
by Kebede Hundie 04 May '04

04 May '04

Hi everybody, Regarding Selamawit's request for technical info/manual. about Koha, all support info. as well as a manual is accessible on: http://www.koha.org/installation/support.html Kebede

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Manual
by selamawit tadele 04 May '04

04 May '04

Hi all members of the Forum, I wanted to do some Library project using Koha i.e. Cataloguing and Circulation. And i could not be able to know how the khoa operates. So, pls is there any way of geting a manual? The other thing is that i have tried to download the koha software and yet i could not be able to run it. Regards Selamawit __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

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by Tarek Mehrem 04 May '04

04 May '04

Dear KOHA users, I'm using KOHA 1.2.3, and I fond it easer dealing with. I tried to use version 2.00 in the internet, but I found some difficulties viz: 1- I don't know the use of the catalogue when it says: more than or less than. How can it be more than a name or less than a name 2- In the membership module, I did not like the races part like: Asian or European. 3- Why isn't there a field for the edition ( in the old version and the new one), it is a very important field. 4- Why isn't there in the reports module more fixed reports (as the ones for reconciliation) like one for the overdue books, or the borrowed books (who took what). I think it is necessary for all the libraries. Best regards Tarek Mehrem Academic Support/ Library Sector IV tarek.mehrem(a)guc.edu.eg <mailto:tarek.mehrem@guc.edu.eg> German University in Cairo The German University in Cairo - GUC New Cairo City - Main Entrance Al Tagamoa Al Khames Egypt Tel: +20-2-7589990-8, Fax: +20-2-7589991 www.guc.edu.eg <http://www.guc.edu.eg/>

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Extending Koha for Movies
by Frank Weis 04 May '04

04 May '04

Hi all, we would like to extend KOHA in order to add DVD's and VHS tapes to our library. We would need to enter some movie specific stuff that is present in KOHA's MARC structure (info about actors, in MARC field 511). Where would I want to start looking in order to allow this info to be entered in KOHA (acuisition dialogues). How would I handle repeatable fields in KOHA? Thanks a lot in advance for any hints, Frank

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