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Buy Koha Stuff
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 17 Oct '02

17 Oct '02

Hi all, http://www.cafeshops.com/koha/ I was having a bit of fun yesterday designing a t-shirt for Chris and Steve etc to wear at their various conferences, and remembered cafepress.com does online stores. So in a fit of enthusiasm I whipped up some designs, and picked some products and we're in business. There is currently no markup on the stuff as I wanted to see how it went, so get in now while the gettings cheap :-) 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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Let's get Koha into the questionnaire results (fwd)
by Pat Eyler 17 Oct '02

17 Oct '02

Ben Ostrowsky forwarded this to me, I think it would be great if we could get as many koha responses to Pamela as possible. (I've removed the attached rtf, so you'll need to answer in plain text -- if you *need* the rtf, let me know and I'll send you a copy.) Public Libraries will need to act quickly to respond to this, your deadline in Oct 21 of this year. The rest of you have a bit longer, due dates start hitting in Jan 2003. Thanks in advance for taking this on. I'm sending a copy to the koha-translate list as well. Hopefully, we can get some of the non-english users of Koha to resond as well (Time will be really tight for them.) Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cibbarelli(a)aol.com To: ostrowb(a)tblc.org Subject: Re: ILS Marketplace survey questions? Date: 17 Oct 2002 12:21:33 -0400 Thanks Ben, I appreciate your help. The survey follows in plain text and is also attached as an RTF file. Cordially, Pamela User-Satisfaction Survey of Library Automation Software Computers in Libraries plans a series of articles providing User-Ratings of library automation software. The series will be called, "ILS Marketplace: CIL's Quarterly Series on Library Automation Markets" Pamela Cibbarelli will be compiling the surveys and writing the articles. You are invited to participate in the survey. Rate the library automation package you are now using on the following scale: Note: If you are using more than one automation package, please submit a separate response for each software package. 10 - exceeds expectations 5 - average 9 - excellent 4 - below average 8 - very good 3 - poor 7 - good 2 - very poor 6 - above average 1 - crying for attention x - no opportunity to evaluate Rate each of the following: ___ Acquisitions ___ Authority control ___ Cataloging ___ Circulation ___ Cross database searching ___ Customer support ___ Documentation ___ E-mail notification ___ Holds management ___ I & R files ___ Interface to OCLC ___ Interfaces to book vendors ___ Interfaces to serials distributors ___ Inventory ___ Kids PAC ___ Local history files ___ Media booking ___ OPAC with Web interface ___ OPAC without Web interface ___ Overall satisfaction ___ Patron authentication ___ Pre-packaged reports ___ Reliability (crashes, lost data, etc.) ___ Report creation ___ Reserve desk ___ Routing list management ___ Serials ___ Telephone notification ___ Interfaces to internet resources and internet based commercial databases Type of Library: (select one) Public Academic School Special Other (please specify)____ Your name ________________________ Library name __________________________ Online catalog software used: (Please provide vendor and product name) ________________________________________________________________________ Version now in use: __________________ Operating system: ____________________ Size of your collection: ______- titles ______- volumes Number of libraries and branch libraries served by this installation: _________ All responses are to be sent directly to Cibbarelli's. 419 Main Street #82, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 909-736-5676 909-736-5609, fax cibbarelli(a)aol.com Public libraries - due October 21, 2002 Special libraries - due Jan 10, 2003 School libraries - due Mar 10, 2003 Academic libraries - due Aug 10, 2003 PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THE LISTSERV. SEND RESPONSES TO cibbarelli(a)aol.com

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Re: bulk import
by Derek Dresser 17 Oct '02

17 Oct '02

Quoting David Bucknell <david(a)members.iteachnet.org>: > Quoting Derek Dresser <Derek.Dresser(a)gouldacademy.org>: > Dear Derek, > > Thanks for sending this info to the list. I'm in the same place you were. > Is > this bulkmarkimport.pl run from the command line or via the Web? David, I was unsuccessful trying to import our USMARC records (approx 8000) through the web interface. Maybe someone can comment on whether that is supposed to work like that or not. I used the bulkimport.pl script from the command line. There were a couple of hoops I had to jump through to make it work. Here goes.... When I first tried to run it on the command line, it complained that the modules it was looking for were not found in @INC. To fix that, I added the following line to the top of the script. use lib '/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/'; you'll need to use whatever directory the C4 directory was installed in. Try locate /C4/ to find the right directory. after that, I simply ran it like ./bulkmarcimport MICROLIF.001 MICROLIF.001 is the name of the stuff that I exported from Winnebago in USMARC format. It took close to a half hour to import all 8000 records. HTH, Derek > > > > Hi, > > With a little more digging around, I found the bulkmarkimport.pl script. > > > That worked fine. I imported ~8000 books. Very cool. I was previously > > trying to do it through the acquisitions part on koha. > > > > Thanks again, > > Derek > > > > > > -- > > Derek Dresser > > Gould Academy > > Bethel, ME 04217 > > (207)824-7700 > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list > > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > > -- > http://www.iteachnet.org > http://members.iteachnet.org/webzine - International Education Daily > http://opensourceschools.org - Open Source Schools Journal > http://schoolforge.net - Schoolforge Coalition for Open Educational > Resources > > > ------------------------------------------------ > http://members.iteachnet.org/ > http://www.opensourceschools.org/ > > -- Derek Dresser Gould Academy Bethel, ME 04217 (207)824-7700 ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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importing MARC records
by Derek Dresser 16 Oct '02

16 Oct '02

Hello, I am in the process of prototyping Koha for our school. I have Koha up and running and am attempting to import some records from our OLD Winnebago card catalog. Winnebago exports in a MicroLIF format which is supposed to be the same as USMARC. If I attempt to import the records from a file, it appears to upload the file, and the set name appears on the import page, but when I click on the name to "select a set of MARC records" I get to a page that says "select a record to import from gould_library" but there are no records listed. I pasted a small piece of the MicroLIF/USMARC file below. Should I be able to import this with the MARC import tool? 00623pam 2200181 a 4500001001300000008004100013020001500054050002100069082001400090100003500104245008600139260006600225300002600291504006500317650003000382852002300412961000600435 85023778 851129s1986 nyu b 00010 eng a00250034020 aAZ221b.A35 19860 a001.221910aAdler, Mortimer Jerome,d1902-12aA guidebook to learning :bfor a lifelong pursuit of wisdom /cMortimer J. 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(some col.) ;c29 cm. 0aUnderstanding computers aBibliography: p. 123-125. aIncludes index. 0aProgramming languages (Electronic computers)20aTime-Life Books.1 h005.133 C739p10016WLt600653 C475mp10023 -- Derek Dresser Gould Academy Bethel, ME 04217 (207)824-7700 ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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1.3.1 released
by Pat Eyler 15 Oct '02

15 Oct '02

BE CAREFUL : THIS IS AN ALPHA VERSION OF KOHA. DON'T USE IT ON PRODUCTION, ONLY FOR TESTING PURPOSES. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED ! Look for a 1.2.x serie if you want a stable version ! WHAT'S NEW With this version, comes the 1st part of the visible MARC stuff : * in the parameter screen of koha : you now have 2 links to manage MARC structure. This version is released with MARC21 english structure. French UNIMARC will come soon in CVS. Koha fields must be "mapped" to MARC fields in order to insure proper conversion of the DB. - The first tool is used to define MARC fields and subfield, the corresponding "tab" where the field is shown and the koha field mapping. - The second tools helps mapping, by presenting koha fields and their corresopnding MARC tag/subfield * in search of a biblio : if acquisitions=simple in systempref table, the biblios are shown in MARC format. INSTALLATION : installer.pl works fine for a fresh installation. Upgrading should work fine too. be sure to launch updater, fill_usmarc and updatedb2marc scripts. updatedb2marc migrates 30 biblios/seconds, so be patient if you plan to migrate a big DB ! KNOWN BUGS : * Acquisition system for "systempref.acquisition = simple" is still broken. will be corrected in 1.3.2. * Tabs are named 0xx to 9xx, but this is a "bug" : tabs should be named "0" to "9", as any MARC tag may appear in any tab, as defined in MARC tag structure parameter table. Paul Poulain Pat Eyler 1.4 release manager kaitiaki/manager the Koha project the Koha project

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(Fwd) Library catalogue software on Macs
by Rosalie Blake 15 Oct '02

15 Oct '02

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: 15 Oct 02 11:57:56 +1300 From: Louise Alliston <louise.alliston(a)ecd.govt.nz> Subject: Library catalogue software on Macs To: NZ libs <nz-libs(a)vuw.ac.nz> Send reply to: Louise Alliston <louise.alliston(a)ecd.govt.nz> Kia ora koutou, I'm keen to hear from anyone whose organisation has a library catalogue running on Apple Macs. We currently have an inhouse catalogue built on Filemaker software, but are interested in commercially available packages that would be compatible with our system. If you have any experience of such software, it would be useful to know the name of the software, the type of library it is in, whether you would recommend the software (giving pros and cons), what support is available from the software developers, and other relevant info. Many thanks, Naku noa, na Louise Alliston Louise Alliston Team Leader (Information Services) Early Childhood Development PO Box 9951 Te Aro Wellington New Zealand. ph. (04) 381 9834. louise.alliston(a)ecd.govt.nz -------------- This message has come via the NZ-Libs email discussion list. To unsubscribe, send to listar(a)vuw.ac.nz the message text "unsubscribe nz-libs". More details at http://www.vuw.ac.nz/ssbubl/currawar/nzlibs.html -------------- ------- End of forwarded message -------

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Re: koha software
by Rosalie Blake 15 Oct '02

15 Oct '02

Hello Shamama, Yes, you can download Koha, and it is free. Go to: www.koha.org and read all about it. WHile Koha is very user friendly to use, it is not easy to install. Unless you have quite a lot of experience in IT, and especially in Linux operating system and Perl programme, you would be well advised to seek help from someone in your neighbourhood who has such expertise. There are a number of other libraries in India which have inquired about Koha, and the staff there also might be able to help you. I have sent a copy of my reply to the koha list (see the webpage above for how to join this list). Good luck with it. Rosalie Blake Horowhenua LIbrary Trust On 14 Oct 2002, at 13:00, shamama aiyubi wrote: > Dear Rosalie > > hellow! > > i was surfing the net for the library software i have > come across the software called Koha library > managment. i want to know how can we get this software > whether it is available for download. as your library > is using it how user friendly it is. Please help in > geting these information so that i can also use it for > my library . Mine is small library caters to the user > in limited subject area. > > earliset reply will be appreciated > > regards, > > shamama > > ______________________________________________________________________ > __ Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, Yahoo! TV. > visit http://in.tv.yahoo.com

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US users?
by Harry H. Dresser, Jr. 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

Hello, We are considering adopting Koha as our library software. Our librarian would like very much to speak with a librarian, or two, in the US who is using the application. Are there lists of users posted somewhere, or would some current users be willing to take such a call? Many thanks, Dutch Dresser Harry H. Dresser, Jr., Ed.D. Associate Head of School, CIO Gould Academy Bethel, Maine 04217 (207)824-7700 ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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data conversion/early Winnebago
by Harry H. Dresser, Jr. 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

We are using an OLD version of Winnebago software (DOS 7.0). It will export data in USMARC format (MicroLIF). Will this exportation be easily entered into the database serving Koha? Has anyone done Winnebago/Koha conversion? Thanks, Dutch Dresser Harry H. Dresser, Jr., Ed.D. Associate Head of School, CIO Gould Academy Bethel, Maine 04217 (207)824-7700 ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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more questions about Koha
by Pat Eyler 11 Oct '02

11 Oct '02

Another 16 questions have been added to the wiki. Please feel free to take a look at http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=QuestionsPosed and try your hand at answering them. -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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