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Koha Press Release
by Pat Eyler 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Nelsonville Public Library Chooses Open Source Aug 26, 2002 The Nelsonville Public Library will migrate its existing server to the open source Koha library system and will contribute to the further development of the Koha project. Nelsonville, OH, Aug 26, 2002 -- "We're going to move our library services onto Open Source platforms, culminating with the conversion of our existing server system to Koha." says Stephen Hedges of the Nelsonville Public Library (NPL). "We want to use the Internet to offer some cutting edge information services to our library patrons, but we realized that this would require us to have control of our automation and database software. We needed the freedom to change things, to change the code if necessary, because the types of things we want to do are not going to appear in commercial library software for years." Koha, being open source, provided the access that NPL required and the level of stability and functionality that they needed. NPL has committed to help support the development of Koha by funding some of the work on three specific projects. This support is seen as a wise investment, NPL expects to save as much money per year as they initially invest in Koha. More importantly, they will be able to offer what they consider to be "the best online services available anywhere in the world." "NPL's involvement is a real validation of our model." says Pat Eyler, Kaitiaki (manager) of the Koha project. "We've got a solid base system. As people want to add onto it, they can make a small investment to fund the work (far less than they would for a comparable closed source solution) and everyone will benefit. I hope that we'll see other libraries pitching in too." About the Nelsonville Public Library: NPL provides services to approximately 36,000 active borrowers through seven branches. Their collection includes over 250,000 items. For more information about the NPL, please see www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us About Koha: The Koha project started in 1999 in New Zealand when the Horowhenua Library Trust commissioned Katipo Communications to write a new library system for them. The system went live in 2000, and was released as Free Software during that year. Since then it has been installed in numerous libraries and has sprouted an active developer community that encompasses more than nine countries on four continents. For more information about Koha, please see www.koha.org or www.katipo.co.nz Contact: Please contact info(a)koha.org

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Problem with koha-1.2.3RC10
by Dr. Ralf Allrutz 25 Aug '02

25 Aug '02

Dear *, perhaps someone can tell me the solution: I just installed koha-1.2.3RC10 on a SuSE-8.0 -Linux-Box with the sample data. Everything seems fine so far. But when accessing OPAC having searched and now displaying the title list, I get the following message when I try to follow a title link: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster(a)allrutz-hofer.de and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. So the server error log (opac-error_log) shows: [Sun Aug 25 17:31:38 2002] [error] [client 192.168.1.254] File does not exist: /usr/local/koha/opac/htdocs/images/mouseover-mysettings.gif [Sun Aug 25 17:31:39 2002] [error] [client 192.168.1.254] attempt to invoke directory as script: /usr/local/koha/opac/cgi-bin HTML::Template->new() : Syntax error in <TMPL_*> tag at /usr/local/koha/intranet/htdocs/includes/templates/default/catalogue/detail-opac.tmpl : 67. at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/HTML/Template.pm line 2154. [Sun Aug 25 17:31:56 2002] [error] [client 192.168.1.254] Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/koha/opac/cgi-bin/detail.pl the opac-access_log shows: 192.168.1.254 - - [25/Aug/2002:17:31:56 +0200] "GET /cgi-bin/koha/detail.pl?type=opac&bib=418 HTTP/1.1" 500 628 Any hints? Many thanks in advance, Ralf

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Nearly installed... one more q.
by georgejenner＠belgacom.net 25 Aug '02

25 Aug '02

Hiya I smell it running. (I'm doing it on Windows, remember?) I can now use virtual hosts to bring up the opac and librarian pages,but when I run any script, it returns a blank screen. (For example, when I try to search the database for a book or a user, even though it is empty at the moment) The apache logs show no errors. Any idea what can cause this? I must say this is what happens in Opera. For some reason in Internet Explorer it now tries to establish an internet connection, as if it's searching for a dns that is not local. Don't know what I changed to cause this. Got irc runnig so I'll pop in one night and say hello. Right now gotta crash. Ta Geo

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cant login
by drwhat 25 Aug '02

25 Aug '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 howdy all... got koha installed.. and everthing seems to be working.. except.. when I try to logon.. I get..... You have been logged out due to inactivity. hmmm... I havent even logged on yet...get as far as the logon screen.. when I try to logon.. the above error msg keeps popping up.... :/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9aJKjvfS2mU3VHQkRAkQuAKCZu7peH1snxhH85U1TIeTu8qxHsQCfSIJb wQ5dX+jK3sD+uqSG7FSYsDY= =/gK4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Koha press opportunity
by Pat Eyler 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

This morning, I picked up my local newspaper and saw (on the front page) that the Seattle Public Library is going top be sutting down for a week in a cost savings measure. I'm planning on contacting the writer to see about doing a follow up article highlighting Koha. If any of you are interested/willing to be interviewed (no promises, the article might not even happen) please send me your contact information by private email. Along with email address and phone number, please let me know if you're a librarian, support staff, or developer and if you're actively working with Koha, reviewing it for possible use, or just idly looking on. I'd like to be able to give the writer a sorted list of contacts. This all comes at a nice time for us, because there is a large library (seven branches and over 250,000 items) who is ready to announce their adoption of Koha. (Look for a story about it before September!) thanks, -pate Kaitiaki/manager the Koha project

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Extracting Item Record Data from a DRA System
by Larry Currie 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

We are an affiliate library of a DRA customer, and we would like to consider migrating from DRA to Koha. We have been able to extract a complete set of our MARC records, but the next step would be to extract the DRA item data to go with these records, including the DBCNs. We have been told that this item data is proprietary information, and that only vendors with experience in converting DRA systems to their own proprietary systems would be able to extract that data. Would anyone involved with Koha be able to help us extract this data? There are probably somewhere between 200,000 to 300,000 item records involved. Larry Currie -- Lawrence W. Currie User Services Librarian California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA 94118 lcurrie(a)calacademy.org (415) 750-7108 (415) 750-7106 fax http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/

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Can't locate C4/Biblio.pm error in 1.2.2
by Larry Currie 22 Aug '02

22 Aug '02

We have just upgraded from Koha version 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 but we get the above message in our koha_errorlog when we attempt to link from the main Intranet page to Acquisitions. The error is occurring at line 8 of loadmodules.pl. Also there is an error "Premature end of script headers: /data/koha/apache-koha/cgi-bin/koha/loadmodules.pl. Can anyone help us diagnose the problem? Larry Currie -- Lawrence W. Currie User Services Librarian California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA 94118 lcurrie(a)calacademy.org (415) 750-7108 (415) 750-7106 fax http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/

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RE: [Koha] MARC Communications Format Records
by Bigwood, David 20 Aug '02

20 Aug '02

Larry, The MARC standard does not limit the 001 field to digits. If Koha is doing so it should be changed. The letters should be acceptable. I looked at the records using Showmarc )download for free at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/TLC/catalog.html ) and they look fine. The MARC Perl module could help if you need to change the control numbners for other reasons. However, I don't think changeing to suit the software is the way yo go. Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood(a)lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute Cataloging news: http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: Larry Currie [mailto:lcurrie@CalAcademy.Org] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 5:50 PM To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] MARC Communications Format Records Pasted below and also in an attachment to this message are 3 bibliographic records in MARC communications format. We have about 100,000 more just like these 3 that we would like to load into Koha. If you look closely, you will also see a "database control number" in the form of 3 letters followed by a dash and 4 digits right after the stream of numbers at the beginning of each record. It looks like we will have to convert this alphanumeric value into an integer in order to use it as the biblionumber in Koha. Can anyone suggest how we might load these records and convert the database control number? Larry Currie California Academy of Sciences 00952cam 2200229Ia 4500001001300000008004100013005001700054010001300071040001300084041001100097 0900019001080490058001271000021001852450276002062600048004823000065005305000 01700595500003600612650001700648700002700665700003000692AAA-0002 831007m19831998gw abf 00010 eng d19840308194018.0 o09993282 aCAWcCAW0 aengger aQK495.O64bL83 a[folio]CAWFv1-20, 20alLI84-066, LI84-124, LI.85.03910aLuer, Carlyle A.10aThesaurus Masdevalliarum :beine Monographie der Gattung Masdevallia = A monograph of the genus Masdevallia /cvon C.A. Luer ; èUbersetzung ins Deutsche von W. Kèoniger ; Aquarelle von Anne Marie Trechslin ; Herausgeber und Mitarbeiter W. Kèoniger, B. Wèurstle, R. Jenny.0 aMèunchen :bVerlag H. Kèoniger,c1983-1998. a20 v. in 21 :bill., maps (some col., some folded) ;c42 cm. aCover title. aVol. <20a> also by W. Kèoniger. 0aMasdevallia.10aTrechslin, Anne Marie.10aKèoniger, W.q(Willibald) 01003cam 2200229Ia 4500001001300000008004100013005001700054010001300071040001300084090002200097 0490032001191000047001512450226001982600036004243000026004605000043004865330 05300529590006900582650004700651650003700698650003800735AAA-0003 831007r19291797xx rc 00010 eng d19831007174953.0 o09993429 aCAWcCAW aQH70.F7bC3 1797x a[Geol]CAWI[copy2]c2l2468410aCalonne, Charles Alexandre de,d1734-1802.10aMuseum Calonnianum :bspecification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history /ccollected by M. De Calonne in France ... exhibiting at Saville House ... previous to the sale thereof.0 aLondon :b[s.n.],cMay 1, 1797. aviii, 84 p. ;c22 cm. aOn last page: "End of the first part." aPhotocopy.eTwo pages on each leaf ; 22 x 25 cm. aCopy 1 positive photocopy dated 1930, c. 2. negative dated 1929. 0aNatural historyxCatalogs and collections. 0aNatural history museumszFrance. 0aShellsxCatalogs and collections. 00946cam 2200265 i 4500001001300000008004100013005001700054010002700071040002300098020004400121 0430021001650500023001860820013002090490039002221000023002612450125002842600 0510040930000350046050400300049560000420052565000280056765100300059565000390 0625650001600664AAA-0004 760810s1976 meua b 00010 eng 19831007195035.0 a 76008090 o02401554 aDLCcDLCdOCLdCAW a0870271687 :c$12.50.a0870271679bpbk. an-us---ar------0 aQB36.P63bW54 1976 a919.8aB aCAWAlgift:Robert C. Miller:12sp8310aWillard, Berton C.00aRussell W. Porter, arctic explorer, artist, telescope maker /cby Berton C. Willard ; with a pref. by David O. Woodbury.0 aFreeport, Me. :bBond Wheelwright Co.,cc1976. axiii, 274 p. :bill. ;c24 cm. aBibliography: p. 269-274.10aPorter, Russell Williams,d1871-1949. 0aAstronomersxBiography. 0aPolar regionsxBiography. 0aArtistszUnited StatesxBiography. 0aTelescopes. -- Lawrence W. Currie User Services Librarian California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA 94118 lcurrie(a)calacademy.org (415) 750-7108 (415) 750-7106 fax http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/

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Koha on Windows
by Martin Kinyua 20 Aug '02

20 Aug '02

Has anyone successfully run Koha on windows. Please let me know Martin-Kenya

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MARC Communications Format Records
by Larry Currie 20 Aug '02

20 Aug '02

Pasted below and also in an attachment to this message are 3 bibliographic records in MARC communications format. We have about 100,000 more just like these 3 that we would like to load into Koha. If you look closely, you will also see a "database control number" in the form of 3 letters followed by a dash and 4 digits right after the stream of numbers at the beginning of each record. It looks like we will have to convert this alphanumeric value into an integer in order to use it as the biblionumber in Koha. Can anyone suggest how we might load these records and convert the database control number? Larry Currie California Academy of Sciences 00952cam 2200229Ia 4500001001300000008004100013005001700054010001300071040001300084041001100097090001900108049005800127100002100185245027600206260004800482300006500530500001700595500003600612650001700648700002700665700003000692AAA-0002 831007m19831998gw abf 00010 eng d19840308194018.0 o09993282 aCAWcCAW0 aengger aQK495.O64bL83 a[folio]CAWFv1-20, 20alLI84-066, LI84-124, LI.85.03910aLuer, Carlyle A.10aThesaurus Masdevalliarum :beine Monographie der Gattung Masdevallia = A monograph of the genus Masdevallia /cvon C.A. Luer ; èUbersetzung ins Deutsche von W. Kèoniger ; Aquarelle von Anne Marie Trechslin ; Herausgeber und Mitarbeiter W. Kèoniger, B. Wèurstle, R. Jenny.0 aMèunchen :bVerlag H. Kèoniger,c1983-1998. a20 v. in 21 :bill., maps (some col., some folded) ;c42 cm. aCover title. aVol. <20a> also by W. Kèoniger. 0aMasdevallia.10aTrechslin, Anne Marie.10aKèoniger, W.q(Willibald) 01003cam 2200229Ia 4500001001300000008004100013005001700054010001300071040001300084090002200097049003200119100004700151245022600198260003600424300002600460500004300486533005300529590006900582650004700651650003700698650003800735AAA-0003 831007r19291797xx rc 00010 eng d19831007174953.0 o09993429 aCAWcCAW aQH70.F7bC3 1797x a[Geol]CAWI[copy2]c2l2468410aCalonne, Charles Alexandre de,d1734-1802.10aMuseum Calonnianum :bspecification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history /ccollected by M. De Calonne in France ... exhibiting at Saville House ... previous to the sale thereof.0 aLondon :b[s.n.],cMay 1, 1797. aviii, 84 p. ;c22 cm. aOn last page: "End of the first part." aPhotocopy.eTwo pages on each leaf ; 22 x 25 cm. aCopy 1 positive photocopy dated 1930, c. 2. negative dated 1929. 0aNatural historyxCatalogs and collections. 0aNatural history museumszFrance. 0aShellsxCatalogs and collections. 00946cam 2200265 i 4500001001300000008004100013005001700054010002700071040002300098020004400121043002100165050002300186082001300209049003900222100002300261245012500284260005100409300003500460504003000495600004200525650002800567651003000595650003900625650001600664AAA-0004 760810s1976 meua b 00010 eng 19831007195035.0 a 76008090 o02401554 aDLCcDLCdOCLdCAW a0870271687 :c$12.50.a0870271679bpbk. an-us---ar------0 aQB36.P63bW54 1976 a919.8aB aCAWAlgift:Robert C. Miller:12sp8310aWillard, Berton C.00aRussell W. Porter, arctic explorer, artist, telescope maker /cby Berton C. Willard ; with a pref. by David O. Woodbury.0 aFreeport, Me. :bBond Wheelwright Co.,cc1976. axiii, 274 p. :bill. ;c24 cm. aBibliography: p. 269-274.10aPorter, Russell Williams,d1871-1949. 0aAstronomersxBiography. 0aPolar regionsxBiography. 0aArtistszUnited StatesxBiography. 0aTelescopes. -- Lawrence W. Currie User Services Librarian California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA 94118 lcurrie(a)calacademy.org (415) 750-7108 (415) 750-7106 fax http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/ 00952cam 2200229Ia 4500001001300000008004100013005001700054010001300071040001300084041001100097090001900108049005800127100002100185245027600206260004800482300006500530500001700595500003600612650001700648700002700665700003000692AAA-0002 831007m19831998gw abf 00010 eng d19840308194018.0 o09993282 aCAWcCAW0 aengger aQK495.O64bL83 a[folio]CAWFv1-20, 20alLI84-066, LI84-124, LI.85.03910aLuer, Carlyle A.10aThesaurus Masdevalliarum :beine Monographie der Gattung Masdevallia = A monograph of the genus Masdevallia /cvon C.A. Luer ; èUbersetzung ins Deutsche von W. Kèoniger ; Aquarelle von Anne Marie Trechslin ; Herausgeber und Mitarbeiter W. Kèoniger, B. Wèurstle, R. Jenny.0 aMèunchen :bVerlag H. Kèoniger,c1983-1998. a20 v. in 21 :bill., maps (some col., some folded) ;c42 cm. aCover title. aVol. <20a> also by W. Kèoniger. 0aMasdevallia.10aTrechslin, Anne Marie.10aKèoniger, W.q(Willibald) 01003cam 2200229Ia 4500001001300000008004100013005001700054010001300071040001300084090002200097049003200119100004700151245022600198260003600424300002600460500004300486533005300529590006900582650004700651650003700698650003800735AAA-0003 831007r19291797xx rc 00010 eng d19831007174953.0 o09993429 aCAWcCAW aQH70.F7bC3 1797x a[Geol]CAWI[copy2]c2l2468410aCalonne, Charles Alexandre de,d1734-1802.10aMuseum Calonnianum :bspecification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history /ccollected by M. De Calonne in France ... exhibiting at Saville House ... previous to the sale thereof.0 aLondon :b[s.n.],cMay 1, 1797. aviii, 84 p. ;c22 cm. aOn last page: "End of the first part." aPhotocopy.eTwo pages on each leaf ; 22 x 25 cm. aCopy 1 positive photocopy dated 1930, c. 2. negative dated 1929. 0aNatural historyxCatalogs and collections. 0aNatural history museumszFrance. 0aShellsxCatalogs and collections. 00946cam 2200265 i 4500001001300000008004100013005001700054010002700071040002300098020004400121043002100165050002300186082001300209049003900222100002300261245012500284260005100409300003500460504003000495600004200525650002800567651003000595650003900625650001600664AAA-0004 760810s1976 meua b 00010 eng 19831007195035.0 a 76008090 o02401554 aDLCcDLCdOCLdCAW a0870271687 :c$12.50.a0870271679bpbk. an-us---ar------0 aQB36.P63bW54 1976 a919.8aB aCAWAlgift:Robert C. Miller:12sp8310aWillard, Berton C.00aRussell W. Porter, arctic explorer, artist, telescope maker /cby Berton C. Willard ; with a pref. by David O. Woodbury.0 aFreeport, Me. :bBond Wheelwright Co.,cc1976. axiii, 274 p. :bill. ;c24 cm. aBibliography: p. 269-274.10aPorter, Russell Williams,d1871-1949. 0aAstronomersxBiography. 0aPolar regionsxBiography. 0aArtistszUnited StatesxBiography. 0aTelescopes.

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