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October 2019 koha-US meeting dates
by Jason Robb 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

*koha-US meetings are open to any and all.* *Board Meeting -* When: Wednesday, October 2nd at 10:30 am CDT (time converter <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=koha-US+board+mee…> ) Where: https://kslib.zoom.us/j/450230564 Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b_g6LQ8xHslSbYve5PTPIF5nd_PK6-N6H2Or7eG… *Board meetings* focus on business-related matters and topics that would otherwise slow down general meetings. *General Meeting* - When: Wednesday, October 9th at 10:30 am CDT (time converter <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=koha-US+general+m…> ) Where: https://kslib.zoom.us/j/110290143 *General meetings* put an emphasis on Koha -- bugs, issues, development ideas, workflows -- bring your problems and questions so we can discuss! These meetings also include major organizational decisions and reports from various committees. Meetings are held via Zoom video conferencing. A microphone and camera are recommended but not required. Zoom is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux on desktops and Android and iOS on mobile devices. For help getting started, visit: *https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697 <https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697>* If you have topics for discussion at either meeting, please send them to secretary(a)koha-us.org. Jason Robb koha-US secretary secretary(a)koha-us.org

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Library Summary / Stats - Report Page - Help
by SATISH 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

Dear All, I have a suggestion or expectation in koha regarding library summary. a default page dedicated to "library summary" which is in-built in koha (may be inside reports) and gives: 1. No.of Non Repetitive Titles (which means records) : 0000 2. No. of books (items): 0000 3. No. of books issued / checked out (as on date): 0000 4. No. of Active Patrons Cards: 0000 5. No. of De-activated/ Expired Patrons Cards: 0000 6. Total Expenditure on Books: 0000 (in respective currencies) "Example: http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/ | Number of publications in the repository: 44108" Instead of running separate sql queries which are commonly needed, repetitive in requirements as a "*ready reference*", could be displayed in a single summary page or "about library", and this should not be created manually, and could be generated from the script itself. This also helps during library inspection committee visits, auditing takes place, whenever reporting is required for the stake holders, etc.. If this facility is already available, kindly let me know, how to achieve this. Otherwise, kindly consider this as a suggestion. With thanks Satish MV Librarain Govt. Engineering College, Hassan. Karnataka. www.gechassan.ac.in --

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Re: [Koha] Plugin Error
by SATISH 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

Hi, With Lubuntu 16.04 LTS + Koha 18.11.05 + MySQL + Installation by Package Method Still I am not able to upload plugins to Koha Throws the same error: *--* *Cannot unpack file to the plugins directory.Please verify that the Apache user can write to the plugins directory.* -- I tried permission with all possible names suggested in the reply ( like, www-data, koha-instance, root) , but no success. Can you please help me get this fixed? With thanks. Satish MV Librarian Govt. Engineering College, Hassan Karnataka

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German community library project needs help
by Wildnisschule Waldkauz 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

Hey there, i found out about koha several days ago and i am really impressed and would love to use it. Unfortunately i am not IT expert enough to do it by myself and i do not have a linux server yet. I would love to have some support the system up for a special case. I live in a network of villages that has close ties and we share a lot of things with one another. I wanted to create an online tool so private people in these villages can put their books in a database and offer them to be borought. It would be a decentralized library where you can browse the whole catalogue consisting of the books people insert in the database plus section for the place in which household this book can be found. It would be awesome if books can be put in the database by isbn number. I do have my own webpsace for several webpages and my question is if there is anybody who would help me with that? I would appreciate it that very much. Greetings from nothern germany Bastian Barucker -- Wildnisschule Waldkauz - Natur verbindet! Bastian Barucker www.wildnisschule-waldkauz.de info(a)wildnisschule-waldkauz.de Feldstraße 1 17440 Lassan OT Pulow

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Re: [Koha] German community library project needs help
by Bob Elgie 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

> > Hi Bastien, > Greetings from Ontario! You say that you're not an IT expert and that you do not have a linux server. I suggest that you have a look at LibraryThing's TinyCat <https://www.librarycat.org/>, a product that is aimed at small libraries. Because it is browser-based, no additional hardware is necessary and the technical management is minimal. In your situation as you describe it, building a bibliographic database in Koha could be challenging. Because LibraryThing already has amassed a large database and also has the facilities to import from many other databases, data entry in your distributed situation would, I expect, be more manageable. It's an interesting project you have in mind. Best wishes! Bob Elgie Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 16:52:41 +0200 > From: Wildnisschule Waldkauz <info(a)wildnisschule-waldkauz.de> > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: [Koha] German community library project needs help > > Hey there, i found out about koha several days ago and i am really > impressed and would love to use it. Unfortunately i am not IT expert > enough to do it by myself and i do not have a linux server yet. I would > love to have some support the system up for a special case. > > I live in a network of villages that has close ties and we share a lot > of things with one another. I wanted to create an online tool so private > people in these villages can put their books in a database and offer > them to be borought. It would be a decentralized library where you can > browse the whole catalogue consisting of the books people insert in the > database plus section for the place in which household this book can be > found. It would be awesome if books can be put in the database by isbn > number. > > I do have my own webpsace for several webpages and my question is if > there is anybody who would help me with that? I would appreciate it that > very much. > > Greetings from nothern germany > > German community library project needs help Barucker > > -- > Wildnisschule Waldkauz - Natur verbindet! > > Bastian Barucker > > www.wildnisschule-waldkauz.de > info(a)wildnisschule-waldkauz.de > > Feldstraße 1 > 17440 Lassan OT Pulow > > >

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Koha Newsletter: September 2019
by Koha Newsletter 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

The Koha Community Newsletter for September 2019 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-september-2019/ Many thanks to the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's newsletter. Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Slides now available: Koha on a Raspberry Pi 4
by King, Fred 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

Esteemed Colleagues, I've annotated the slides from my koha-US conference presentation on Koha for a Raspberry Pi 4. You can find the PDF at: http://avengingchicken.online/misc/installing_koha_on_raspberry-pi-4.pdf Or you can go to avengingchicken.online and scroll down to Handbooks, Manuals, etc. Feedback welcome! No photo album yet, but soon, I hope. Fred King, AHIP Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king(a)medstar.net<mailto:fred.king@medstar.net> 202-877-6670 ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279 MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead. --Caitlin Moran ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MedStar Health is a not-for-profit, integrated healthcare delivery system, the largest in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region. Nationally recognized for clinical quality in heart, orthopaedics, cancer and GI. IMPORTANT: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is private, confidential, or protected by attorney-client or other privilege. If you received this e-mail in error, please delete it from your system without copying it and notify sender by reply e-mail, so that our records can be corrected... Thank you. Help conserve valuable resources - only print this email if necessary.

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Superlibrarian cannot override non-renewables
by cjf 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Our superlibrarians cannot override items listed as non-renewable. We have set the following preferences: AllowRenewalLimitOverride: Allow RestrictionBlockRenewing: Allow Koha: 18.11 I thought i've read something about an initial setup being incorrectly installed as a solution, but i now can't find the post. Thank you -- Sent from: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-general-f3047918.html

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Re: [Koha] How to make the Koha/Zebra search ignore hyphens?
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Hi Katrin, I actually did create a transliterate rule which was able to convert the input from "Sinti-Swing" to "SintiSwing Sinti Swing" which created "sintiswing", "sinti", and "swing" as tokens. However, I think the ICU chain file gets used for both indexing and searching, so while it would work for indexing, it wouldn't work for searching, as you'd get hits for irrelevant results. The only other thing I can think of is perhaps modifying biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl to send the input data twice. Once with the hyphen and once without the hyphen. That would be hugely laborious though I think. (I just noticed we have a chopPunctuation template in biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl which I don't think actually gets used.) I did notice something interesting today when I was looking at ICU: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis. Observe the following: Line break: |Parlez-|vous |français ?| Word break: |Parlez|-|vous| |français| |?| At the moment, we use line break in ICU. I suppose there isn't a huge difference between the two. But I thought it was interesting. I hadn't really thought about it before. It feels like there should be a way of having "Mont-Royal" be indexed as "MontRoyal" as well as "Mont" and "Royal". Currently, they're indexed as "Mont" and "Royal", retrieving relevant "Mont-Royal" only records would require using an exact match phrase search to require the proximity of "Mont Royal" in order to get a hit. It would be nice for "Mont-Royal" to retrieve "MontRoyal" while "Royal" would retrieve indexed "Royal" records. I wonder what Lucene-based search engines like Solr and Elasticsearch do there... David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595 -----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:55:07 +0200 From: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83(a)web.de> To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] How to make the Koha/Zebra search ignore hyphens? Message-ID: <e3aab35e-5260-7091-c37f-c0cdd16c41ba(a)web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hi Michael, we looked into this ages ago and it didn't seem possible to achieve both - treating hyphen (-) as a space and not a space at the same time. Maybe we missed something - If there is a solution, I'd be interested in a how-to! :) Katrin

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Re: [Koha] How to make the Koha/Zebra search ignore hyphens?
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Hi Michael, That's really interesting. I assume that you're using ICU indexing? You could update "phrases-icu.xml" and "words-icu.xml" to strip out hyphens. You would need to re-index all your records afterwards though. I haven't actually tested that particular change, but just taking a little look with both ICU and CHR and it looks like hyphens are used to tokenize. Currently, when you search "Tee-Ei", you're actually searching for "Tee" and "Ei". If you're using ICU, you could add a transform rule before the tokenize rule to remove the hyphen. This would prevent it from tokenizing and then "Tee-Ei" and "Teeei" should retrieve the same records. Beware also that this is a universal change. You might want to check to see if there are hyphens that shouldn't be removed. If so, you may need to make a more complex rule to try to just capture the desired cases. If you're using CHR, you can take a look at word-phrase-utf.chr and remove - from the "Breaking characters" section. You may or may not also need to map it. I'm less familiar with CHR indexing. Anyway, I hope that helps. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595 -----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 22:46:15 +0200 From: To: "Koha : access" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] How to make the Koha/Zebra search ignore hyphens? Message-ID: <5b63f3b4-76c1-c1f8-f35a-6a33e3b0afa5(a)adminkuhn.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hi We have found that, at least in German, there are words or combinations of words that can be written in different ways, and both are correct and are meaning the same, e. g. * Ultraschallmessgerät = Ultraschall-Messgerät * Sintiswing = Sinti-Swing * Teeei = Tee-Ei * Haftpflichtversicherungsgesellschaft = Haftpflicht-Versicherungsgesellschaft This is a general concept in German, so it makes no sense to add a "used for/see from:" in the authority data. Anyway, such words can exist everywhere in the bibliographic record, not only in fields linked to authority fields. Now the question: is there a way how to teach Koha (or Zebra) to look for the second term also when the first term is searched, and vice versa? Or shorter: Just to ignore the hyphens? Using the standard configuration Koha will not find the second term if the first one is searched, and vice bversa. We would appreciate any hint or tip! Best wishes: Michael -- Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. Fachausweis Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E mik(a)adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ------------------------------ End of Koha Digest, Vol 167, Issue 15 *************************************

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