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Re: [Koha] Bar code scanners
by Stephen Hedges 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

Since this question seems to come up quite often (and there seems to be a general misconception that the ILS has to somehow "work with" scanners), I wonder if there shouldn't be some general information about barcode scanners added to the Koha webpage? Though I would hate to add one more thing to the long FAQ page. Maybe it's also time to subdivide the FAQ page into categories? Stephen Hedges Nelsonville Public Library > Hello Elizabeth, > We use a wide variety of scanners in Horowhenua > Library (New > Zealand) with Koha, from pretty cheap ones to > quite expensive ones. > They all work with an absolute minimum of setting > up. My experience > is you get what you pay for. If your issue > station is not under heavy > load, a cheap scanner will do the job fine. If > you have a busy > station, get the best you can afford - it will > work in worse light, > through plastic, read faster and be a joy > forever. > > Good luck, > Rosalie Blake > > On 25 Jun 2003, at 14:47, Elizabeth Spruill > wrote: > > > Hello...We are just beginning to explore > installing Koha as our ILS. > > (Currently we have none.) We are running a > Linux network, affiliated > > with the K12LTSP project (www.k12ltsp.org) > I'm wondering about bar > > code scanners and bar codes. Are there any > scanners that you know > > work with Koha? We want to buy the most > economical obviously, but > > want it to work, and most of them appear to be > plug and play. Any > > suggestions? Thanks... Elizabeth Spruill Rocky > Mountain School of > > Expeditionary Learning (RMSEL) Denver, CO > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list > > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >

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FRBR Display Tool
by Bigwood, David 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

The Library of Congress has a free tool available for the display of MARC records. It takes a set of records and displays them using the Functional Requirements for Bibliographical Records. Not sure if it could become a piece of Koha, but just wanted to let you know it is available and might save some work if it could be pluged in. Sincrely, David Bigwood bigwood(a)lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute Cataloging news: http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc-functional-analysis/frbrdisplay.html#intro In 2001, the Network Development and MARC Standards Office released the publication, "Displays for Multiple Versions from MARC 21 and FRBR," which outlined how the FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) model can be used to cluster bibliographic records in more meaningful displays to assist users in selecting items from bibliographic collections. It contained several hierarchical display examples of bibliographic data using the FRBR model. The FRBR Display Tool takes the work done in "Displays for Multiple Versions from MARC 21 and FRBR" one step further. It transforms the bibliographic data found in MARC record files into meaningful displays by grouping the bibliographic data into the "Work," "Expression" and "Manifestation" FRBR concepts.

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Bar code scanners
by Elizabeth Spruill 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

Hello...We are just beginning to explore installing Koha as our ILS. (Currently we have none.) We are running a Linux network, affiliated with the K12LTSP project (www.k12ltsp.org) I'm wondering about bar code scanners and bar codes. Are there any scanners that you know work with Koha? We want to buy the most economical obviously, but want it to work, and most of them appear to be plug and play. Any suggestions? Thanks... Elizabeth Spruill Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning (RMSEL) Denver, CO

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(no subject)
by Pat Eyler 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

During our 2.0 release irc meeting, we identified a mechanism for prioritizing bugs currently listed on bugs.koha.org. We've got six that we're considering 'must fix' issues. There are twenty-nine more that are 'should fix', and four that are 'might fix'. 'Must fix' bugs will be corrected before the 2.0.0 release is made. We will try to fix all 'should fix' bugs, but won't delay the relase unduly to do so. 'Might fix' bugs will be fixed if someone manages to get it done before the 2.0.0 release is made. If you have a bug that has not yet been reported, please report it soon. At some point, we're going to start putting off fixing newly reported bugs until the 2.0.1 release. If you think we've mis-prioritized a bug, please let me know which bug, how critical you think it is, and why. The following bugs have been identified as 'must-fix' bugs for the 2.0.0 release: BugId Vers Summary 253 1.9.2 Thesaurus management doesn't work 293 1.9.1 Error Issuing Book - 1 489 1.9.3 Poor file copying 503 1.9.3 Installer places z3950 scripts in /cgi-bin/z3950 505 CVS moredetail.pl/tmpl problem 510 2.0.0 need new docs integrated These are should fix for 2.0.0: 50 458 65 469 185 471 225 474 236 475 239 478 247 479 272 480 295 484 318 487 322 492 379 500 426 504 436 506 452 These are 'might fix': 98 237 316 490 (to look at a ticket, you can use this url: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=XXX where XXX is replaced with the bug id listed above.) 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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News and Release Notes has been updated
by kea-notify＠katipo.co.nz 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

News and Release Notes has been updated. The revised page is available at: http://www.koha.org/news/index.html

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ANNOUNCE: Koha perl dependency RPMs for Red Hat 9
by Paul Gear 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Apologies for the cross-posting, but i'm not sure where is the best place to send this info: I've created a number of RPMs that provide the perl dependencies necessary to install Koha on Red Hat Linux 9 (and probably 8.0) as well. A brief description can be found at: http://paulgear.webhop.net/linux/#Koha and the RPMs themselves are at: http://paulgear.webhop.net/linux/RPMS/noarch/ and http://paulgear.webhop.net/linux/SRPMS/ I'd really appreciate it if one of the developers could mirror these to sourceforge.net so i don't overrun my 1 Gb monthly quota. :-) I've checked the packages visually, but have done no testing apart from installing them on my machine. Surprisingly, Koha still seems to work. ;-) The RPM spec files have all been hacked in a rather cookie-cutter-like manner from Red Hat's perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-28.src.rpm. I'm interested to know whether they work for others. Hope this helps some people with their Koha installation. Watch this space: i might even manage an RPM package for Koha itself. <g> Paul http://paulgear.webhop.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+87nC0yv0OWRYqWwRArJOAJ9oQnjABtX93w5Lk5UH6LHPFiZ9zwCfR+A1 Kdf1qDozxX5KoZRTdAmD1xk= =N6D6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Koha] Where do you get you cataloguing info from?
by baljkas＠mb.sympatico.ca 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 23:40 CDT Hi, Max! Anne is certainly correct in pointing out those sources. You really shouldn't have any problem downloading MARC records from LC. All the tools are there, as Anne pointed out. If you need an editing function, get the MARCEdit and MARCMaker/ MARCBreaker utilities (available for free) from the LC site, and you'll be off and running. They really do work quite well, and afford batch processing, too. If you need any help with them, just let me know and I'll be glad to help. As for free records, for anything American definitely try LC first. For children's and juvenile literature, you are likely to get those 520 (summary) and 650 (subject) fields. (If you want to add uncontrolled -- i.e. non-thesaurus based -- terms specific to your local collection, you can always code a 650 with indicator 1 blank, indicator 2 7, the term in subfield a and the word 'local' in subfield 2.) Two other good sources available are: AMICUS - The National Library of Canada's free union catalogue service, which one can sign up for (don't worry: it is free and they don't seem ever to bother anyone with mail of any kind) via the login page at URL <http://amicus.nlc-bnc.ca/aaweb/aalogine.htm> MAPLIN Global - so far (going on 6 years) a free parallel search CGI tool that will allow one to search for MARC records in up to 8 (more realistic times-results with 4 or fewer) libraries at once, offered by the Province of Manitoba (Canada) Public Library Services Branch. The URL is <http://maplin.gov.mb.ca/cgi-bin/dir.multi.cgi> For children's level materials, you might find (under Public) that North Toronto and WPL are good; you'll also be able to search your own National Library at the same time. When downloading, either choose a mnemonic name or number the files but remember to specify the file extension as .mar or something other than .cgi (which tends to throw most ILS) I can't imagine a school library having as much free cash as Anne seems to think is lying around. Before migration a few years back, one school division in my home city had to pay over $100,000 CDN for retrospective conversion of its union catalogue (ca. 20 schools), which isn't really that cheap when you consider that each school's library team still had to fine-tune (read: re-edit) all the records again anyway. If your librarian finds downloading and re-editing too much a burden, try soliciting for parent and adult volunteers and train apt students to download records for editing. If you leave specific enough instructions, the better volunteers may be able to do a good part of the editing even (and there's always the MARCEdit program's script function to make global changes fast, and you can create a simple template that can even be edited with WordPad so you don't endanger the good data you do have with too many untrained hands adding to the catalogue). The last school library I worked at converted its entire collection (ca. 7,000 records) in less than 18 months using volunteers supervised by a then-0.40 time librarian. Not bad and it didn't cost anything except the people's willing time. On a separate note ... I don't know if it's just me, but Koha doesn't seem to mind different file extensions for MARC records whereas other systems I've worked with fairly freak if a file doesn't have the system specific designation. If you're having trouble importing MARC records from any source, try saving a file with a different file extension (.mar, .mrc, .mrk, get creative) and that might do the trick. Just a thought. Good luck with the MARC stuff, Max. In no time at all, you'll find it annoyingly familiar. ;-) Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas Koha neophyte Winnipeg MB CANADA

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new Koha mailing list
by Pat Eyler 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

We've just created a new mailing list to support the Brazilian effort to create a Portuguese translation of Koha. If you're interested in helping out, or just interested in seeing how things go, please subscribe to the mailing list by sending email to: koha-subscribe(a)br.koha.org and following the directions in the response you receive. -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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[Koha-devel] 2.0 release meeting
by Pat Eyler 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

Hello everyone, With a 2.0.0 release rapidly approaching, and a bunch of bugs needing to be found, reported, prioritized, and fixed, we're going to institute a weekly irc meeting to help handle the load. We'll meet every Wednesday at 1900 UTC in the #koha channel at irc.katipo.co.nz -- Anyone is welcome to attend, please bring your bug reports. If you can't make it this week (short notice, I know), please drop in to any of the meetings you can make. (Here are a couple of conversions follow) UTC France Seattle New Zealand Wed 19:00 Wed 21:00 Wed 12:00 Thu 07:00 (Please feel free to translate and/or forward this message to other mailing lists as appropriate.) -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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/koha-devel

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More on MARC records
by Anne Zarinnia 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

Re: access to supply of MARC records. The school library community uses LM_Net - the school library network (prolific, be warned) and posted the following page to provide sources of MARC records and directions for their use: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free_MARC_Records/message/53 For those with no library background, these may need editing: 1) Your location, shelving classification etc 2) Subject headings appropriate to your needs and master list 3) Quick addition of summary and other notes to enhance subject access beyond the minimalist LC headings. There are editors. The Library of Congress page has conversion utilities on the page given earlier (http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html) If you have a whole library to do, it is worth paying for access to a commercial source. Cheers, Anne E. Anne Zarinnia, Associate Professor zarinnie(a)uww.edu Dept. Educational Foundations 262 472-1463 Univ. Wisconsin-Whitewater 262 472-1380 (secretary)

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