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Re: [Koha] Re: [Koha-devel] FAQ
by Tonnesen Steve 01 Nov '01

01 Nov '01

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 COURYHOUSE(a)aol.com wrote: > the url does not seem to work..... > > http://192.168.5.2/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbookslccn.pl Darn. Used my internal IP there by mistake. Use: http://142.28.224.14/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbookslccn.pl instead.

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Re: [Koha-devel] FAQ
by Tonnesen Steve 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Nicholas Stephen Rosasco wrote: > On this note, esp. if we still have z39.50 importing still "under > construction", would it be possible to build some sort of form for > entering info on existing books (rather than going through the > purchase/acquire process). The small-libraries people are rather > concerned at the concept of having to face teaching people how to > by-hand-enter into the DB via mysql the cataloging data.... a web form for > this would be exceedingly useful for them (and shouldn't be too hard to > add, I would hope). I may have missed such a form if Koha has one since > the link to acquisition wasn't behaving itself last time I visited. > > If the z39.50 thing is working, that would be ideal, but it needs to be > configurable (as to which z39.50 server you use) :) I played with z39.50 before the summer. The perl library I was using worked fine for connecting to the library of Canada via z39.50, but I couldn't get it to return straight MARC data. It would only return a textual version of the data, which is all but impossible to parse. I might play with it again sometime. If anybody has any experience working with any z39.50 perl library, I'd be glad of a hand... On the simple acquisitions process, I do have an answer. Check out: http://142.28.224.14/ and click on the acquisitions link. This is not a production library server, so feel free to enter data to test it out. You can also try out my first attempt at a MARC record importer by following the "Marc Importing Tool" link from the Acquisitions page. I'm not overly happy with this. It's difficult to squeeze the data available from a MARC record to fit in the default Koha databases. The alternative solution that I'm working on (albeit slowly) is to add full MARC record support to Koha. Having said that. I do have librarians using both of these tools currently and they seem happy with them. This acquisitions module is currently available in the Debian package I'm working on, and is in CVS, but might not have been in the latest official release of Koha. Steve.

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How to unsubscribe?
by Richard Snow 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

I don't have the time I thought I would have to do amything with this software. How to unsubscribe?

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Re: [Koha] Re: [Koha-devel] FAQ
by Tonnesen Steve 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 COURYHOUSE(a)aol.com wrote: > Can it be set up to use the lc catalog #? I assume you mean can it use the LCCN instead of ISBN as the first number entered? Certainly. Try: http://192.168.5.2/cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbookslccn.pl Note that I've modified the database to add a field for LCCN, but the default Koha scripts like the catalogue scripts still don't display the LCCN. This would take about 10 minutes to rectify, though. Steve.

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by eric＠stream.net.ph 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

i got an error when accessing the reports and creating new member. erro generating reports: error logs displays " premature end of stats.pl error in creating new members: error logs displays, premature end of newmember.pl how do we solve this. thanks _______________________________________________________________________________ This E-Mail was sent with MailMax/WEB. http://www.smartmax.com

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Re: [Koha] barcode scanners?
by FWFR 16 Oct '01

16 Oct '01

Hello, I've been testing Koha in a clean room with Metrologic scanners. MS9540 and its earlier MS900 brother. These scanners do not require drivers, they scan and convert by themselves. The scanner is physically connected between the keyboard and pc. The Metrologic scanners are expensive, because they perform the scan conversion within themselves and require no drivers on the PC side. This simplifies setup. Also, you can program them with their instruction book using barcodes. <http://www.metrologic.com/corporate/products/pos/MS9500.htm> <http://www.metrologic.com/corporate/products/pos/MS900.htm> Did try the CUECAT which was available free from Radio Shack in the USA, but that device was unreliable. Frederick Friedman-Romell Twinsburg Public Library, Twinsburg, OH. USA till 2001-10-28 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. USA after 2001-10-29 ak398(a)safr.org > hi all, > > I want to buy a couple of "barcode scanners" for the library. I saw koha > is accepting 9 column alphanumeric barcodes both for books and > patrons. I wonder what kind of barcode scanners are using in the > libraries using KOHA. Could you please list me industry standards or > properties of this barcode scanners. I will order barcode scanners > according to these information. > > thanks and best regards > Zeki Celikbas > Librarian > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Istanbul Technical University e:mailto:celikbas@itu.edu.tr > Faculty of Aero. & Astro. w:http://www2.itu.edu.tr/~celikbas > 80626 Maslak Istanbul Turkey t:(212)2853108 f: (212)2853139 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > Yah! Its trite and stupid, but isn't that what a sig for?

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KOHA questions
by Brad 27 Sep '01

27 Sep '01

Hello all, I have a few questions I thought I'd throw out there. I am the system administrator for a very large public library system that is not happy with its current material management system. We have been quietly looking around for alternatives, getting some preliminary information. Many of the technical people here are open-source advocates, which led us to take a look at KOHA. On the KOHA website, it says that the software is for small to medium-sized libraries. What would you say is the upper limit in this in terms of number of branches and records? Is this limit simply a result of the user interface or of the underlying structure? What if I threw out the ballpark figure of around 300 branch libraries and around 15 million records? I always had the impression that MySQL was very scalable. A few people here are concerned about the concurrency issues that are present in MySQL. The last thing we want is records being edited by two (or more) users at one time and getting strange results. Has MySQL made advances in this realm lately? Do any of you have experience with this? Otherwise, we really like the simple layout of the whole system. Clearly, before we could even start to think about implementing KOHA, we would have to commit large amounts of resources to developing it more. As good as it is right now, there is some functionality that we absolutely need (such as Z39.50 support, very in-depth transaction reports, inter-library loans reports, etc, etc, etc...). This idea of getting into real and dirty software development excites some of our people, while it frightens others. Thanks to everyone in advance for reading this and I look forward to the responses. Kind regards, Brad

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Debian package
by Tonnesen Steve 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

Is there anybody out there running Debian who is interested in testing my packaged install? And could anybody running RedHat or some other distribution tell me where apache's httpd.conf file is stored in your distribution? Beware that this is early testing. This is not ready for a production system yet. Steve.

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APT repository for Koha package
by Tonnesen Steve 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

I've set up an apt repository for my koha package at: deb http://mail.cmsd.bc.ca/debian local main apt-get update apt-get install koha You've just gotta like Debian. :) Steve.

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Debian Package
by Tonnesen Steve 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

Been quiet lately. On the list anyway. I've now got 8 libraries using Koha. It's definitely time for me to start developing that Debian package that I talked about. I've now learned how to use DebConf for the configuration questions. The unfortunate side effect of this will be to make it _more_ difficult to build the rpm packages that everyone will doubtless clamor for, but it shouldn't be too hard to work around when it comes to that. Just won't be as pretty as with Debian. :) I'm now at the point of needing a "starting point" database population. I remember from my first efforts at installing Koha that the database dump that came with the tarball was missing a few things, like accounts info, branches, etc. that left Koha unusable. I guess I'll just have to ask these questions during the installation process. Alternatively, I could just have a "dummy" branch installed by default. If the user actually has multiple branches, they will use the new web-based branch editor that will be added to Koha at some point. :) Another tricky part is going to be configuring Apache. For Debian, the config files shouldn't be difficult to find, they'll be either /etc/apache/* or /etc/apache-ssl/*. Don't know about RedHat. Will deal with that when the Debian package is done, I guess. I don't really want the Koha install script to start messing around with configuring network interfaces, so it will most likely require that the user set up two aliases for Koha, including DNS lookups, and then enter these values into the configuration questions. I can then modify the apache config files appropriately and reload apache. This message is just intended to announce my intentions, and to let the list members know that I'm still around. :) Steve Tonnesen tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca Coast Mountains School District Hazelton, BC, CANADA

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