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Other marcformats - danmarc2
by Árni Loftsson 20 May '03

20 May '03

Hi. I am testing out Koha but I can't test on real data because it only has marc21 and unimarc. Here in denmark we use the danmarc2 marcformat which has some varations to the other 2. For example ISBN is field 021 in danmarc2 and 020 in marc21. If I want koha to understand danmarc2 what would it take. Is there some kind of definitiontable I can go to and edit or do I have to make changes in databasestructure etc. Árni Loftsson Librarian/Systemadministrator Skanderborg Public Library Denmark

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Problems with Subject Searching
by Timothy R. Butler 20 May '03

20 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just finished setting up KOHA, and I have a problem. Whenever I tried to search by subject using the OPAC interface (not the intranet one, it works fine), the search just eventually times out. It works fine using other search terms, and as I said, it works fine doing the same type of search in the intranet section. Any ideas? Thanks, Tim - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks www.uninet.info ==================== <tbutler(a)uninet.info> ==================== | Christian Portal: | Have you not learned great lessons | | www.faithtree.com | from those who braced themselves | | GNU/Linux News: | against you and disputed the | | www.ofb.biz | passage with you? --Walt Whitman | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+xt4pK37Cns9gJ0gRAoRiAJsGqRk8bnURsyJTtXbvClvxVrX8vACePEpr aXLw2o0F+QAOiAOvVzdqGcE= =qDLY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Questions from a new user
by Lucia Phillip 20 May '03

20 May '03

I am a librarian with the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago. With help from Rob Weir I was able to install Koha on a WindowsXP although I would very much like to use Linux in the future but at the moment I am completely unfamiliar with it. I am very excited over the possiblilities that it offers to libraries with limited resources although it compares very favourably with many integrated library management systems. I would like to implement it in one of the smaller libraries in our system but I am trying to understand it fully. Many of our libraries have MARC databases in the CDS/ISIS or the Windows version Winisis application. My main concern was being able to import records from their present system to Koha. I have been successful in exporting their records as an ISO file and importing them into Koha. With version 1.2.3 the importationit works well as with 1.9.2. However, in 1.9.2 the MARC worksheet displays only the 000s,100s and 200s. Is this one of the bugs to be corrected or is their a later version that I should install. Also, I could not find the option to create a record using a simple worksheet in version 1.9.2. Which version should I try a test run with? Lucia Phillip Systems Librarian National Library and Information System Authority

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Taking the plunge - Melbourne, Vic (AU)
by Luke Ottrey 20 May '03

20 May '03

Good Afternoon All, After months of planning and discussions, a State Primary School I work for here in Melbourne, Australia, has decided to take the plunge and install Koha. Implementation Period: Starting work 19-June Koha Version: The latest stable version as at this date. I will keep you all updated with the status of the implementation and let you know if I come across any issues in the implementation. For commercial and privacy reasons, I don't wish to name the school on the list at this stage - but if anybody is interested or would like some more information - please don't hesitate to contact me directly. Also - (shameless plug) I can now offer extremely market-competitive Internet access plans (from dial up through to corporate-grade connections with Service Level Agreements) and Internet services (domain names, hosting....). Whilst the launch date is estimated currently late June, I am provisioning for current clients and friends before this date. If list members are interested, please contact me. Thanks to the development team for their tireless work on the project - if I had more time between work and Uni, I would love to help out - but at this stage things are extremely busy and its just not possible. Thanks & Best Regards, Luke Ottrey --------------------------------------- Luke Ottrey, Purple Lion luke(a)purplelion.net www.purplelion.net Ph: 0408 675 648, Fax: +61 3 9886 7349 --------------------------------------- Purple Internet - a Purple Lion product Quality, affordable Internet access. Public Launch Date: Late June, 2003 ---------------------------------------

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librarians wanted for interface "testing"
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 19 May '03

19 May '03

Hi all I'm doing some work on the interface for the new version of Koha, and am currently making up "screen shots" to show how it could work. Over the next week I'd really like to be able to ask a few people to look and help me understand particular sections of the interface - and probably not the sexy bits I'm afraid :-) So if you are a librarian - ie a potential (or actual user) of the system, and would be willing to have me fire of questions about how things should work, and critique the results etc, then I would love to hear from you. Cheers Rachel_____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org

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Borrower categories admin
by Owen Leonard 16 May '03

16 May '03

I'm curious about some of the settings in Borrower Categories administration (/cgi-bin/koha/admin/categorie.pl). - Is Enrollment period a value in years? - How is Fine Type used? And Bulk? How about Overdue Notice Required? - Isn't there a 'maximum number of reserves' setting? Is this not linked to patron category? Thanks, Owen ---- Nelsonville Public Library Koha 1.9.2

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RE: Koha in schools
by Pat Eyler 15 May '03

15 May '03

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Kym Buchanan wrote: > Pat- > Hi Kym, I'm opening this up to the wider koha user community. Perhaps some of them can give you some anecdotal information about how they're doing the things listed below. (Everyone else, Kym is researching the use of Open Source/Free Software in (public) schools. The information his group finds is then made freely available to schools through their website -- he just made a great presentation at a local Linux Fest.) > I spoke with Derek yesterday and he had many good things to say about > Koha. Great! It's always good to get positive feedback (even second hand). > > I still can't get www.koha.org to load, so I have a few questions about > features. I'm really suprised that you can't get to www.koha.org ... > How well does Koha support: > > Patron photos? One library put together a circ interface for Koha that included patron photos. It was *very* cool because it brought two nice bits together: RFID for scanning books (like 15 at a time) and a very visual interface (driven by touch screens) for the librarians. I'm hoping they move forward with Koha so that we can get the code moved back into the mainline distro. > > Inter library communication? This is a bigger question than I can answer. Do you mean Inter Library Loan between systems, loans/searches/etc. between branches in a system (or schools in a district), or communication between people in different libraries? > > Patron Web access to the catalog? > This is our primary interface to the catalog. > Patron Web access to patron records? Patrons have controllable access to their own records. > > A reserve/hold system? Yes, reserves/holds are supported. > > Automated emails about holds or overdue materials? > These are easy to generate. In fact, a Koha user just offered up his form letter tamplate (and supporting code) to generate enumerated overdue reminders. > Generating reading lists or pull lists (so that a teacher might request a > cart with a few dozen books specific to a class project)? > This is pretty easy to support using the virtual bookshelves feature. thanks, -pate > Thanks. >

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Codabar barcode number/image generator
by Ben Ostrowsky 15 May '03

15 May '03

Hi folks -- In response to a question on perl4lib, I whipped up a barcode generator that will make 1-30 barcodes at a time, given the 5-digit prefix and what follows it. http://bernie.tblc.org/~ostrowb/barcodes.html It uses Codabar, which is what we're using at our Dynix library. If any particular symbology would be especially helpful, let me know and I'm sure I can make that available. Would this be useful as a part of Koha's staff functions? Obviously you'd have to do something to get these onto labels, but you could at least insert the images into a word-processor document with a label template... If it's useful, I'd recommend adding some sanity checks to drawbarcode.pl like the ones in makebarcodes.pl -- a referer check, at the very least. And I should probably have an option to calculate the next barcode just by scanning in the last barcode. Ben

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RE: [Koha] Koha and RSS
by Árni Loftsson 15 May '03

15 May '03

Great idea. What I would like to see was a service where the Patrons could go in and define their interest. Books by a certain author or about some subject for example programming. That could be a part a personalized portal to the library's OPAC where you could see your loans, the book you reserved etc. That way patrons could keep at track of any new books which matches their interest or they could see which books by their favorite author were recently returned. List of most reserved is also very usefull that way you can easily buy extra copies when needed. Árni Loftsson Libarian/systemadministrator Skanderborg Public Library Denmark > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Pat Eyler [SMTP:pate@eylerfamily.org] > Sendt: 15. maj 2003 01:10 > Til: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz; koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Emne: [Koha] Koha and RSS > > A couple of us have been playing around with creating RSS feeds from Koha. > We've come up with an engine which makes this pretty simple, and will be > releasing it shortly (separately from Koha proper until after Koha 2.0.0 > comes out). > > Before we do release it, I wanted to get a bit of feedback on the idea in > general. If you're impatient, you can go look at > http://www.kohalabs.com/rss/ for screenshots and links. > > ===What is it: > RSS is a method for publishing small chunks of data. The first example > was a list of the 15 most recently acquired items in the database > (probably nice for the avid reader/fan), a different version could be > written to show recently acquired DVDs, CDs, videos, etc.. Another > example shows the 15 items seen least recently by the system (perhaps > they've been lost or misfiled). I'm sure that there are other potential > uses for both library patrons and for library staff. > > Nobody wants to see the raw RSS data, but there are a number of tools > (called 'aggragators') which can be used to display the information in a > useful way. (The screenshots linked to above show an aggregator called > evolution.) > > ===What kind of feedback do I want: > Well, something other than 'it sucks' or 'c00l d00d!'. I'd like to know > if you think this might be useful. Are there other kinds of data you'd > like to see in this format? Are there things you'd like to provide to > your patrons like this? > > thanks, > -pate > > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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book number format
by T & J Kotula 15 May '03

15 May '03

Just an easy question. It seems that members' numbers are prefixed with the letter V. What is the prefix for book numbers? Better still what are all prefixes used by Koha? I'm just about ready to order bar codes for all of our 7000 books and want to make sure I'll get the right ones. I'm assuming that the number format and the checksum formula for members and books are the same. Thanks tomasz kotula.

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