HI,
Have had a question about overdues and fines in Koha, and thought you may
all be interested in the answer.
QUESTION - Does koha have functionality to automatically record overdues
$$ and other penalties and print o/d notices?
Yep it does - the library fills in a schedule matching itemtype and borrower
type to a loan length and a fine amount as part of the setup, and then Koha
calculates the fines based on that. Librarians can write of fines if they need
too.
for a demo see
http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/moremember.pl?bornum=11250
Fines owing comes up when you're issuing a book, and it won't let you issue
if the borrower owes more than $5.
You could change that amount if you wanted to.
It doesn't automaticaly prints over due notices right now, although it collects
them, and we have been doing work with talking technologies to get the
overdue notices going to the auto phone system - so we have a text file that
is output at the moment, but it could easily be output to the printer rather
than the phone system.
Hope that's what you need to know
Cheers
Rachel
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Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications
WEBMISTRESS ph 025 300 825 or +64 04 389 1285
mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 7039, Wellington
http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand
Hi all. I'd add an extra point - we developed Koha on the Katipo
development server, which is a Pentium II 233 with 256Mb of RAM, that does
a bunch of other stuff as well (hosts ~60 other websites, runs mail, usual
ISP type stuff), and it works fine on that.
Sizing is likely to be dependant largely upon how many concurrent users
you're going to have, and how heavily they're going to be using the system
- for only a couple of users, you could easily get away with a Pentium
with 64-96Mb RAM, with > 50 users you would probably want to go to a
bigger box, with plenty of RAM. It's also relatively modular, so that you
can run the web server, telnet clients and database on different machines,
if you need to. In a real sense, it's just a standard dynamic website
with a database backend, so a lot of the material on the 'net about sizing
servers with apache and mysql is probably applicable here as well.
I should also add that the config below supports about 30 concurrent
clients - about 7 opacs, and the rest staff machines and circulation.
Cheers
Si
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote:
> hi Sue - I hope you don't mind, but I forward your questions and reply to the
> mailing list so everyone could see the answers - I'm sure it's what everyone
> wants to know :-)
>
> > .... just about 'everything'
> > but for a start....
>
> > What hardware is required to run it?
>
> Horowhenua have 2 linux boxes that comprise Koha.
>
> One is an AMDK6/500 with 256 Mb of Ram and 2 x 15GB hard drive - it runs
> the OPACs and Issue and Returns machines which at horowhenua are
> dumb diskless 486's, so this machine is running lots of copies of Netscape
> and telnet. Cost was approx $2000 (without screen or keyboard). This
> machine is also the HLT server for staff to use - so it has all the usual mail
> and home directories etc, and it functions as a dial in server for the
> branches - so there are a couple of modems in it for them to use.
>
> The second machine is running the actual database, and webserver - it is
> an Athlon 650, 256 MB Ram, 2x 15GB hard drive - running MYSQl and
> Apache. Cost was Approx $2100 (without screen or keyboard). The double
> hard drives are so that the main disk can be mirrored nightly for backup.
>
> The actual database is only about 80mb on disk, (15 GB were cheep that
> week :-)
>
> If all your clients are "real" PC's that have enough ram etc to run interent
> explorer you don't actually need to have the first machine. However if you
> have a lot of old gear, then spending $2000 in an extra server is probably
> cheeper than buying a lot of new pc's for the public to use.
>
> The Hardware at the "client" end, ranges from some very old 486 machines
> that function as terminals through to Pentium and higher PC's.
>
> > How many branches does Horowhenua have?
>
> Main library in Levin and 2 staffed branches in Foxton and shannon, and one
> in tokamaru that I don't think has paid staff.
>
> > I'd like to see the acquisitions / cataloguing module....
>
> Hmm - something odd was going on there but is all fixed now -
> http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/
>
> We have taken out peoples last names and addresses - for privacy - so if
> you're doing member searches unfortunatly you can only go on first names.
>
> Hope that's enough to be going on with.
>
> Cheers
> Rachel
>
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>
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> http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand
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Katipo Communications +64 25 300 825
hi Sue - I hope you don't mind, but I forward your questions and reply to the
mailing list so everyone could see the answers - I'm sure it's what everyone
wants to know :-)
> .... just about 'everything'
> but for a start....
> What hardware is required to run it?
Horowhenua have 2 linux boxes that comprise Koha.
One is an AMDK6/500 with 256 Mb of Ram and 2 x 15GB hard drive - it runs
the OPACs and Issue and Returns machines which at horowhenua are
dumb diskless 486's, so this machine is running lots of copies of Netscape
and telnet. Cost was approx $2000 (without screen or keyboard). This
machine is also the HLT server for staff to use - so it has all the usual mail
and home directories etc, and it functions as a dial in server for the
branches - so there are a couple of modems in it for them to use.
The second machine is running the actual database, and webserver - it is
an Athlon 650, 256 MB Ram, 2x 15GB hard drive - running MYSQl and
Apache. Cost was Approx $2100 (without screen or keyboard). The double
hard drives are so that the main disk can be mirrored nightly for backup.
The actual database is only about 80mb on disk, (15 GB were cheep that
week :-)
If all your clients are "real" PC's that have enough ram etc to run interent
explorer you don't actually need to have the first machine. However if you
have a lot of old gear, then spending $2000 in an extra server is probably
cheeper than buying a lot of new pc's for the public to use.
The Hardware at the "client" end, ranges from some very old 486 machines
that function as terminals through to Pentium and higher PC's.
> How many branches does Horowhenua have?
Main library in Levin and 2 staffed branches in Foxton and shannon, and one
in tokamaru that I don't think has paid staff.
> I'd like to see the acquisitions / cataloguing module....
Hmm - something odd was going on there but is all fixed now -
http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/
We have taken out peoples last names and addresses - for privacy - so if
you're doing member searches unfortunatly you can only go on first names.
Hope that's enough to be going on with.
Cheers
Rachel
_____________________________________________________________
Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications
WEBMISTRESS ph 025 300 825 or +64 04 389 1285
mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 7039, Wellington
http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand
