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Suggestions...
by Nicholas S. Rosasco 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

# From the Chris/Wolfgang exchanges: ---- > every developer including me dislikes documentation, but this gun > shoots backwards. using koha means understanding koha for people who > must operate it beyond the gui. this is a hard fact, like it or not. Noone disagrees that what you're looking for would be a good thing, but until somebody volunteers to do it and actually does it won't happen. Another hard fact. Since you seem to be quite disturbed by this state of affairs hoepfully you will be that volunteer. ---- I smell a request for both in-code and external documentation here.... If someone wants to drop coherent suggestions in my ear as to what would be handy to add at least as far as formal manual goes..., I can put 'em in my to do list behind the 'correcting-the-ugly spots in the manual for 2.0' and 'updating the FAQ' items. Nick

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RE: [Koha] History of MARC Records sought....
by E.Levine＠unido.org 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

try http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc.html Emil Levine Library and Information Science Consultant Breitenfurter Strasse 426/3 Vienna, Austria UNIDO 43-1-26060-3568 -----Original Message----- From: esharpe(a)uswest.net [mailto:esharpe@uswest.net] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 7:55 AM To: rachel(a)katipo.co.nz; koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] History of MARC Records sought.... History of MARC Records sought.... Looking for any paperwork or books or narratives from those that might have participated in the early days of MARC record development and you will make us really happy if you were in the MARC Pilot Project. This will be an interesting history section for the automation section of the website. Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC Please check our web site at http://www.smecc.org to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us. address: coury house / smecc 5802 w palmaire ave glendale az 85301

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Re: [Koha] History of MARC Records sought....
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

What I am NOT seeing though at this site is a neat little button labeled 'history' indeed lots of other good info though! Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

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Re: [Koha] Greetings from a new Koha user
by Chris Smith 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hi again, Unfortunately, I've had the opportunity to look into this further over the weekend, and I don't think I'll be using Koha. It would require substantial customization to meet my needs, and I'm no expert at Perl or the Koha source code. Instead, I put together some software over the weekend that handles the requirements I had. The biggest needs I had that Koha wasn't providing were loaning of bulk items (where I have one database entry for, say, a few hundred identical items, and members can check out whatever quantity they need) and tracking the distribution of consumable items that don't need to be returned. It also would have been a pain to remove all the due date tracking from Koha, which I also don't want. Guess I'm not close enough to a typical library. Oh well! Koha seems like a great piece of software for real libraries that deal primarily in books. :) I wish you all the best of luck. -- www.designacourse.com The Easiest Way to Train Anyone... Anywhere. Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer/Technical Trainer MindIQ Corporation

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systempreference autoBarcode
by Owen Leonard 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Does the 'autoBarcode' system preference refer to book barcodes? Can Koha be made to not generate new member barcodes on the memberentry page? Thanks, -- Owen ---- Nelsonville Public Library Koha 2.0.0-pre2-R2

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[Fwd: Re: [Koha] [Fwd: Fw: Much Assistance is Required.]]
by rachel＠katipo.co.nz 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Koha] [Fwd: Fw: Much Assistance is Required.] From: "Max Stam" <mstam(a)gsg.wa.edu.au> Date: Mon, August 25, 2003 6:41 pm To: <rachel(a)katipo.co.nz> Gidday David I have just finished downloading the Koha ILS. I downloaded Apache and MySQL (though I have Microsoft Access which is reputedly much better. So, could I use that in lieu of MySQL?) and they appear to be functioning under normal parameters (red feather and green light). MS Access is a good beginning Database. It will do fine for up to 25,000 items but after this it is seriously slow. I don't think, from what I've read, Access is supported in any way by koha. Access is propriotry software and the person who made the suggestion that it is better, is but a one eyed Microsoft fan. It's easier to program but has major limitations. (I can program Access but haven't a clue where to start on MySQL yet) You probably need to be at the DOS prompt for the setup. As for the rest of your questions, sorry, Can't help yet, I'm going to be moving down the path of installing soon, but on a Linux server. Regards Max Stam

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[Fwd: Fw: (Back-up E-Mail) Much Assistance is Required.]
by rachel＠katipo.co.nz 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fw: (Back-up E-Mail) Much Assistance is Required. From: "Nicholas Rosasco" <nsr_koha(a)hotmail.com> Date: Mon, August 25, 2003 11:13 am To: <info(a)koha.org> ----- Original Message ----- From: David Litwin To: nsr_koha(a)hotmail.com Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:29 PM Subject: (Back-up E-Mail) Much Assistance is Required. Pre Scriptum (As opposed to Post Scriptum): I am aware that I attempted to send this E-Mail before. However, I do not thin kthat my E-Mail service was functioning porperly and am re-sending it to make certain that you have received the letter. I do appologise if this causes un-due problems, et cetera. I thank you for your Co-Operation. To whom it may concern: I have just finished downloading the Koha ILS. I downloaded Apache and MySQL (though I have Microsoft Access which is reputedly much better. So, could I use that in lieu of MySQL?) and they appear to be functioning under normal parameters (red feather and green light). My OS is Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro. I have read and re-read your instructions to set up a database on MySQL. It says to enter (for example) mysqladmin -uroot -ppassword . It makes no mention of where to do this, though, and I am not sure if I should be replacing the -uroot and -ppassword with -ucharles -pmango as in my Root is charles and the password is mango. I don't even know if I should be doing that at all, or if I should hit the enter button afterwards. In short, I am rather confused and require much assistance, indeed. However, I also realize that you are busy-bodies and that you may or may not have time to show me how to do this step by step (or, at least elaborate on the instruction that you gave (which, I must say, appear to be very good, if only I knew the very basics, which I do not.).). Before I sent this E-Mail, I had attempted both an IRC dialogue and to subscribe to your mailing list, but, I received an odd message: Not called from accepted referrer . Subsequently, I resorted to this. I indeed look forward to your reply. Sincerely, a hopeful David Litwin.

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History of MARC Records sought.... Looking for any paperwork or books or narra
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

History of MARC Records sought.... Looking for any paperwork or books or narratives from those that might have participated in the early days of MARC record development and you will make us really happy if you were in the MARC Pilot Project. This will be an interesting history section for the automation section of the website. Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC Please check our web site at <A HREF="http://www.smecc.org/">http://www.smecc.org</A> to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us. address: coury house / smecc 5802 w palmaire ave glendale az 85301

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KOHA 1.2.3
by Heather Waite 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Hello, if someone could shed some light on the retrieval side of Koha, boolean operators etc. as mentioned below that would be great. I'm interested in knowing if Koha 1.2.3. has boolean operators or a search system by subject that is known to anyone. I have found that AND is the only operator that can be used to group subjects etc. Can anyone shed some light on this. I am only working voluntarily so haven't had a chance to go very far with this to date. Also, in Dewey classification, the Class and Subclass. How are people getting on with periodicals when there may be letters and numbers in the subclass. We can only use numbers/letters pertaining to each division respectively. We have struck a few problems, potentially bugs, but overall very happy with Koha and are hoping to upgrade to KOHA 2. whenever it is released. Does anyone know when Koha version 2 will be released. Thankyou Heather (Student librarian)

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Suggestions...
by Nicholas S. Rosasco 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

# From the Chris/Wolfgang exchanges: ---- > every developer including me dislikes documentation, but this gun > shoots backwards. using koha means understanding koha for people who > must operate it beyond the gui. this is a hard fact, like it or not. Noone disagrees that what you're looking for would be a good thing, but until somebody volunteers to do it and actually does it won't happen. Another hard fact. Since you seem to be quite disturbed by this state of affairs hoepfully you will be that volunteer. ---- I smell a request for both in-code and external documentation here.... If someone wants to drop coherent suggestions in my ear as to what would be handy to add at least as far as formal manual goes..., I can put 'em in my to do list behind the 'correcting-the-ugly spots in the manual for 2.0' and 'updating the FAQ' items. Nick

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