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serials module
by Regula Sebastiao 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

hi all thomas and i being librarians working with other systems than koha, but having a personal interest in the open source project, sat together this autumn and we discussed what features should go into a serials module. we posted our thoughts on the wiki http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=KohaSerialsModule i think it would be a great if that feature coul figure in an enlarged koha as soon as possible :-) for any further questions please don't hesitate to contact one of us cheers from switzerland regula and thomas ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html

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Re: [Koha] Koha development work
by Owen Leonard 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

> Since we're bandying about our desires for new Koha features, this seems > like a good time and place to ask for ideas of what you would like to see > added to (or changed in) Koha in the future. Hoo boy! I'll start: I'd like to see a 'shopping cart'-like system for the OPAC: add individual search results to your 'cart', and when you're done you can review the list, email it, or print it out in various formats (like bibliographic-citation or full MARC). -- Owen ---- Nelsonville Public Library

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RE: [Koha] Koha development work
by Owen Leonard 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

> > we have an > > IRC channel if you'd like to talk to the > > developers directly. > > > More information on the IRC channel, please? Indeed! I always have to do a Google search when I lose the address. I'm not sure if it's posted somewhere prominent. Here it is: irc://irc.katipo.co.nz:6667 And here's the address of the IRC logs: http://www.haz.cmsd.bc.ca/cgi-bin/kohalog.pl ...which isn't working for me at the moment, but is probably just down temporarily. IRC can be a great way to get a question answered *if* you can catch the right people :) With some developers in New Zealand, and some in Europe, it can be hard for someone in the U.S. to catch them during working hours. -- Owen

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koha-2.0.0RC1 bugs
by Davoodifar, H. Sam (EDU-E&Y) 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Hi everyone, In koha-2.0.0RC1, though I added only one supplier in the acquisitions it shows as four entries...; Trying to delete them, but...no way....; Also, I ordered and received a book --"The Family as educator"-- and started to edit its bibliographic information...; but for some reason, when clicked on 'Add Biblio' suddenly the title was moved to 'Miscellaneous information' and publication date became title...! The same happened to another book --"HTML the Complete Reference"-- again title was replaced by date...; Now if you do a quick keyword search in the Catalogue http://koha.merlin.mb.ca it shows publication date as 'Title'....! Suggestions please. Thanks, __Sam

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RSS feeds of the mailing list
by Jonathan Ah Kit 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Kia ora I thought I might check in with the list on this one, in case some people here might find it useful. For some time now -- since October 2002, I think -- I've had my server quietly compile an RSS feed of this mailing list each week. > http://greta.electric.gen.nz/~ahkitj/xml/koha@lists.katipo.co.nz%20%28by%20… > http://tinyurl.com/2s4mo This one's by date. > http://greta.electric.gen.nz/~ahkitj/xml/koha@lists.katipo.co.nz%20%28by%20… > http://tinyurl.com/39o48 This one's by thread. If you haven't come acesss RSS/RDF files before, there's more info at http://www.syndic8.com/ -- possible uses for RSS are at http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder/ (a Windows program that doesn't even need a web browser to read the links, IIRC) and http://www.ihug.co.nz/ (see the news headlines). Currently I've only set them to be updated weekly on Sundays as I did intend it as a private experiment with a script I adapted, but if people find it useful, I don't see a problem with upping the refreshes to something more useful, like daily. (I also need to get around to releasing the mods I made to that script, which scrapes the postings at the list archive.) I'm not actually a librarian, but Koha sounds like a good project. Keep up the work, people... Regards Jonathan -- Jonathan Ah Kit - Lower Hutt - New Zealand jonathan(a)ah-kit.dropbear.id.au - http://www.ah-kit.dropbear.id.au/ ahkitj(a)paradise.net.nz - ICQ#9747234 - http://www.electric.gen.nz/ Away message: Looking for adhesive tape, not Alibrandi.

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Re: [Koha] Z39.50client wont give up searching
by baljkas＠mb.sympatico.ca 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 17:35 CST Hi, Edward, About your message, 2 points > [snip] (The only Z39.50 server I have is the default Library of > Congress one). [snip] You might also want to try registering for free Z39.50 access via the National Library of Canada's Amicus service. As many of the same books are published simultaneously in Canada and the U.S., you will find many good MARC21-compliant records in our national database, too. Plus, sometimes, it can be a little easier to access, and there is the possibility of batching records for download. Find out more at URL <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/7/2/g2-400-e.html> . You will want to use the Amicus registered service; don't worry - it won't cost you anything, is usually set up in under 24 hours and they'll never bother you with anything more than a very occasional new services/upgrade/planned downtime notice. Regarding your question > [snip] Is there a way to tell the client to give up searching for > something if it isn't found after X amount of attempts? IIRC it isn't a number of attempts but an amount of time setting you can choose. I've used a parallel search tool provided by our provincial library services branch and when it can't find things we often get a time-out type message (the time limit on trying is preset for all external users). Perhaps someone else on the list will know how to define this to help you stop the daemon from continuing ad absurdum. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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RE: [Koha] Koha development work
by Mohamed Amin 25 Dec '03

25 Dec '03

hi all What about adding the facility to export MARC records from Koha, one thing else may be making Koha to act as a Z3950 server, so systems like Koha can integrate with each others and exchange records automaticaly. Mohamed Amin Network Administrator National Training Institute Egypt >Since we're bandying about our desires for new Koha features, this seems >like a good time and place to ask for ideas of what you would like to see >added to (or changed in) Koha in the future. Ideally, I'd like to see >ideas submitted one per email, with a brief explanation. Replies to that >email to clarify, amend, support, or criticise (politely please) feature >requests are also welcome. > >thanks, >-pate > >Pat Eyler >Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin >the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek >http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org > >_______________________________________________ >Koha mailing list >Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Migration Branch Wish
by Joshua Ferraro 25 Dec '03

25 Dec '03

One idea I recently had would be to have a migration branch in CVS where folks can post/work-on migration scripts. It might ease the migration process for some libraries--especially if they are migrating from the same system that a Koha library did. Joshua

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Koha development work
by Pat Eyler 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Since we're bandying about our desires for new Koha features, this seems like a good time and place to ask for ideas of what you would like to see added to (or changed in) Koha in the future. Ideally, I'd like to see ideas submitted one per email, with a brief explanation. Replies to that email to clarify, amend, support, or criticise (politely please) feature requests are also welcome. thanks, -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org

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Re: [Koha] Going completely on-line with Koha
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

you said: "unhelpful "we're not using koha" reply to a survey, cc'd to the developers (to annoy them?" Our reply: I believe we hit reply all on the mail page... whatever addresses were in there of course were cc'ed! Why did we reply to the survey we were not using it (yet)? Please study it... We, as well as others that exist in the academic, scientific and technical community use the library of congress numbers rather than Dewey to catalog our books in. Let us digress back into history further ... this was a feature that had been requested ages ago, most probably before you came on board and had slipped though the cracks. Both the LC and Dewey information is present in the MARC record, and at the expense of sounding harsh, if you do not know what a library of congress cataloging number is, and you are doing programming work on this project, perhaps you should study up on it a bit. You mentioned.... "links to other projects" I believe what you are referring to was he DYNIX Link... If you are not familiar with DYNIX you need to be. It is a very expensive product with many interesting features. If you carefully read the message that included the DYNIX link it was to offer a look at the other part of the world you are personally attempting to involve yourself in. Only by examining all of the product offerings that are out there will you understand what the state of the art is. This state of the art is what others that are looking at library automation systems look at also. As I had previously stated.... it is always a goal to meet or exceed what exists already... and HEY!( yep this one was a shout) if you don;t study it you will continue along in a direction that you think is reality but the rest of the world is examining he entire picture, not just what you are working on... Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC On 2003-12-23 02:04:53 +0000 ed sharpe <esharpe(a)uswest.net> wrote: > perhaps we could also hope that there are some programmers on this > project > for purely altruistic reasons and not trying to milk $$ from each > line of > code.... sometimes things need to get done just for the pure reason > they > need to get done.... I am quite uphappy about this email. I may as well write that "we could also hope that there are some librarians who work for purely altruistic reasons and not trying to milk $$ from each collection". We all know that programmers need money to live, just like librarians, so why be so hostile to the idea? Library free software interests me. There are some libraries which are real assets to their communities and could benefit from it, but I have no grant funding any more. I have to make money to live and koha-based projects are part of that. There is a lot of koha work that I do for free, including things that "need to get done" but no-one will pay for. I cannot afford to help everyone for free, so I pick a few things at a time which look like fun, good ideas and worthwhile. I hope that someone appreciates it, even if you don't. The paid work is on top of that, extra to the time that I would spend on koha anyway. If we've no paid work on koha, that time gets filled with other paid work because it has to be. Payment brings extra programmer time to koha. (Don't worry about my email writing: I type very quickly.) Those priorities are determined by what the payer wants, so if your idea doesn't get worked on for free and it's important to you, consider trying it commercially. Maybe smecc can't afford to do that. I can't find details about staff or funding on its web site. Off the top of my head, I can't recall what they contributed or offered to koha. A quick search for smecc on the lists gives the LoC request many times, including some BLOCK CAPS SHOUTING, links to other projects, and an unhelpful "we're not using koha" reply to a survey, cc'd to the developers (to annoy them?). I think people wanting free help need to be more open about their institution and reasons, and nicer to potential helpers. I suspect it will be the same with any of Pat's suggested groups. No-one donates to people who offend them, even a charity. > (remember folks to make it print out the library of congress catalog > number > instead of the Dewey number it is just one field you are dealing > with! ) I don't know/remember what's required for this. I probably won't do it unless I need it, because I've other things to do and it now makes me think of this unhappy exchange. I think you should reconsider your methods of motivating people. Maybe you can find out what has to be done and record it on bug report 498. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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