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Recipe to install Ubuntu and Koha on a PC
by Alex Shepherd 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Hi Team, I’m about to assist a remote library to install Koha on a new PC and I’m just wondering what is the current known good recipe for installing Ubuntu and Koha. Can anyone suggest supported versions of Ubuntu and Koha that should install and run cleanly? I’ve tried several times to install Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 and Koha 18.11 onto a VM but appear to have run into issues with Perl libraries, that weren’t obvious to solve. TIA Regards Alex Shepherd p: +64-7-829 4441 m: +64-21-777764 e: kiwi64ajs(a)gmail.com

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Koha Community Newsletter: February 2019
by Koha Newsletter 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

Sorry for the delays on the news! Ran into some technical difficulties with Wordpress. Special thanks to Liz for the technical help! The Koha Community Newsletter for February 2019 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-february-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 Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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KohaCon19 Update
by Charles Quain 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Dear Koha Community On behalf of the organising group, I am sending another update on the preparations for KohaCon19. The website for the conference is here: https://www.interleaf.ie/kohacon19/ We are getting registrations every day and proposals for talks and workshops. Every talk and workshop proposal is being published as they are received. You can review the list at this link: https://www.interleaf.ie/kohacon-schedule/ Information will also be tweeted as proposals are received using the hashtag #kohacon19 We have received 23 proposals for talks and workshops by now and a few more are pending, so the schedule is filling up quite quickly. If you would like to present, please submit your ideas soon. We are also launching our sponsorship drive this week.The donations page is here https://www.interleaf.ie/kohacon-donate/ All donations to the conference will be acknowledged as described on the sponsorship page. Any contribution, however small, will be gratefully received. Regards <http://www.interleaf.ie/> *Charles S. Quain* Managing Director csq(a)interleaf.ie +353-1-286-5855 +353-87-978-5911 A98 YD30 www.interleaf.ie <http://www.interleaf.ie/products-services/Library-Applications/Scooter> <http://www.interleaf.ie/products-services/Library-Applications/Koha> <http://www.interleaf.ie/products-services/PC-Reservation-and-Print-Manageme…> We are hosting <https://www.interleaf.ie/kohacon19/> in Dublin in May 2019. (Click on the logo for more details) #kohacon19

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Library email on loan
by Peter Lau 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

I would like to change the auto-email sent out upon issue of a library loan. I would like to know how to do it. Dear Yun LimLau The following items have been checked out: Title: IBM SPSS for intermediate statistics Author: Leech, Nancy L Accession Number: AE00002526 Due date: 2019-01-23 23:59 Regards, Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education Library Thanks & regards, *Peter Lau* Librarian Tel: (852) 3977 9868 | Email: Peter.Lau(a)yccece.edu.hk | Fax: (852) 23384320 [image: https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1wiYZQsqhNTJZjyNbLJx-6ODZyoYE…] 2 Tin Wan Hill Road, Tin Wan, Aberdeen *YCCECE, Here We Grow Our Future | *www.yccece.edu.hk

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3M self-check disallow return of certain types of loans
by Peter Lau 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

I would like to know how to set up the Koha so that the 3M self-check will disallow return of Closed Collection and laptop computers etc. in order to ensure that these loans are returned to the Circulation Counter. Thanks & regards, *Peter Lau* Librarian Tel: (852) 3977 9868 | Email: Peter.Lau(a)yccece.edu.hk | Fax: (852) 23384320 [image: https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1wiYZQsqhNTJZjyNbLJx-6ODZyoYE…] 2 Tin Wan Hill Road, Tin Wan, Aberdeen *YCCECE, Here We Grow Our Future | *www.yccece.edu.hk

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Floating/Non-Floating hybrid
by Chad Roseburg 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Wondering what ways libraries are using to balance requests with having a great "walk-in" collection. We have been rewarding the organized folks who put in requests but paying less attention to our walk-in patrons and are considering ways in which to balance this. One way might be to have "hot items" locally owned and non-floating. Non-requestable is another way. A combo plate? How have you balanced the quality of your library's collections with your request traffic? We have 30 branches and float our collections. Thank you! Chad -- Chad Roseburg Assoc. Director / IT Automation Dept. North Central Regional Library

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Barcode Troubles
by abrazier＠buttepubliclibrary.info 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

Hello all, Newbie here. Decided to reach out to the community regarding something happening here at our library in Butte, Montana. We've been using version 18.11 with little to no issue for a month or more but something recently happened. While editing items that are being added to our collection, when we click in the field (p - Piece designation (barcode)) which we have always had set to (autoBarcode: generated in the form 1, 2, 3) we are no longer getting the barcode we expect to see. We suspect it is now going back to barcodes that once belonged to items that are now deleted (because, that earlier barcode is now available). This doesn't work for us and we are trying to determine how to tell Koha that we'd like to start at barcode# X. So that we can move forward with X+1, X+2, etc. Any ideas would be helpful and appreciated. Thank-you, Allen Brazier

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Updating Koha
by Nwachi, God'swill 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

Good day distinguish professionals. Please I want to ask if updating koha frequently to new available version is compulsory. For example we are using 18.5 version, are we lacking behind and do we need to update up to the current version. Must that be regularly done? Look forward for your feedback .Thanks Nwachi God'swill e-Librarian; Anchor University.

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I've got a report that's bending my brain...
by Barton Chittenden 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

One of the kinds of reports that we get asked for periodically is 'Items that were owned by the library within a date range' -- essentially, the library want to know if the accession date is before the end of the date range, and the deletion date (if there is any) is after the beginning of the date range. The trouble is, I'm going to need to pull bibliographic data there as well, so I'm going to be looking at biblio and deletedbiblio as well. There's enough data that using unions is too slow, so I'm looking at coalesce statements. I'm just not sure how to make that all work together.

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Fwd: Problem in adding barcode and call number to items
by Tanzeem M.B 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

With Thanks & Regards Mr. Tanzeem M B +91 9446705956 Thiruvananthapuram ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Tanzeem M.B <tanzeem.mb(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 14:26 Subject: Problem in adding barcode and call number to items To: Vimal Kumar <vimal0212(a)gmail.com> I have recently migrated an old KOHA system to KOHA 3.2 using KOHA Live DVD. I used Marc Export/Import Method. But the barcode and full call number data are not exported correctly. When I tried to add the barcode manually, it is found as not saved when I search for the record again. Only in the Edit Record field I could see the barcode fields, but which actually have to be seen in the Edit Items. Please advise. Can you provide phone number to call. With Thanks & Regards Mr. Tanzeem M B +91 9446705956 Thiruvananthapuram

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