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July 23.05.x string freeze
by Wainui Witika-Park 19 Jul '24

19 Jul '24

Kia ora koutou, I am also freezing strings for the upcoming 23.05.13 release starting now. The release is planned for next week. Thanks heaps, Wainui Witika-Park (she/her) Rōpū kohinga Developer Catalyst.Net Limited - Expert Open Source Solutions Catalyst.Net Ltd - a Catalyst IT group company DDI: +64 4 803 2230 | www.catalyst.net.nz CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email is intended for the named recipients only. It may contain privileged, confidential or copyright information. If you are not the named recipient, any use, reliance upon, disclosure or copying of this email or its attachments is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please reply via email or call +64 4 499 2267.

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July 24.05.x string freeze
by Lucas Gass 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

Hello All, I am freezing strings for the upcoming 24.05.02 release starting now. 🥶 The release is planned for next week, happy translating! -- Lucas Gass Web Developer

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The Terrific Every-Other-Thursday Training Videos | 422
by BRANNON, CHRISTOPHER 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

We're changing things up because Koha is changing things up. We're taking a look forward at an upcoming upgrade (at least for ByWater Solutions customers) where report links have been altered a bit. You will need to update any links you have inserted in your Koha pages to specific reports if you want them to continue to work. We'll show you how to do this. It's such an exciting episode, we completely forgot how to start the show! https://youtu.be/yqpgz_-v0Mc Sincerely, Christopher Brannon koha-US Admin

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Poster: Introducing Koha
by King, Fred 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

Esteemed Koha Colleagues, I just got back from the 2024 Special Libraries Association conference, where I presented a poster on "Introducing Koha." It presents a very basic overview of Koha and some of the things it can do, aimed at libraries that might not have an ILS and are interested in getting one. If you'd like to use it or adapt it for your own purposes, you can download the PDF or PPTX at https://avengingchicken.online, under Handbooks, Manuals, Etc. Both are CC BY 4.0. Enjoy! --Fred Fred King, MSLS, AHIP Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king(a)medstar.net 202-877-6670 ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279 MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. -Stephen Hawking

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koha-US Board Meeting Minutes for July 10, 2024
by Kristi Krueger 16 Jul '24

16 Jul '24

Hello, Here's a link to the minutes from the koha-US board meeting on Wednesday, July 10, 2024- https://docs.google.com/document/d/129lMdExfnFNB8iTZpmvxXz0ByBdsncLfpkqUZ_i… koha-US meetings are open to all! Board meetings are typically held on the second Wednesday of each month at 8:30 PT / 9:30 MT / 10:30 CT / 11:30 ET. The August board meeting will be held on August 7 to accommodate the koha-US Annual Conference the following week. The next koha-US General Meeting will be on Wednesday, August 14 @ 8:45 PT / 9:45 MT / 10:45 CT / 11:45 ET (time converter <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=koha-US+February+…>) during the koha-US Annual Conference. If you have additional topics for the General Meeting agenda, please send them to secretary(a)koha-us.org. Kristi Krueger koha-US Secretary secretary(a)koha-us.org

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Koha ERM & Adjacent Functionality
by Edward Mandity 16 Jul '24

16 Jul '24

Greetings Koha users, Apologies if this message has already been posted, I'm not sure if it was successfully sent. My name is Edward Mandity, I am part of a team exploring "future systems" for our library consortium (PALNI). We've been investigating Koha functionality and I have a few questions to pose to your collective wisdom. As part of our investigation, I'm on a subgroup that is exploring the ERM aspects of ILS platforms, and am interested in learning a bit about your experience with that functionality and how it may overlap with Discovery and ILL solutions in Koha. I understand e-resource linking is limited in the platform but I'm curious to know how you address this. I'll try to be brief; my questions are the following: * How do you handle electronic resource access in Koha? Is your instance primarily devoted to discovery of print / in-house collection items? * Have you used Ebsco's API Holdings IQ option for integrating ebsco's eholdings within your instance? If so, what are your thoughts? Are there other APIs in use or ones desired for integration? * Do any of you use an external link resolver/Central Index for integration or some other ERM configuration? * What is your preferred configuration for discovery? Do you like the out-of-the box OPAC, connection to open source options like Vufind, or other 3rd party services? * Regarding Koha's OPAC, I understand it is somewhat customizable. Does e-book access configuration meet your needs? * If you use Vufind, have you experimented with reordering/prioritizing item links by provider, replacing hold/request buttons more prominently in the search results/record pages? * How have you dealt with integrating Interlibrary loan requests within your discovery layer? I appreciate any insight you may have regarding these issues. Thank you very much and have a good rest of the week. Edward Edward Mandity, MLS Director of Educational Technology & Systems Librarian Hackelmeier Memorial Library | Marian University 3200 Cold Spring Road | Indianapolis, IN 46222 317.955.6007 | emandity(a)marian.edu<mailto:emandity@marian.edu>

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Upgrade failure
by Daniel Owens 16 Jul '24

16 Jul '24

I was upgrading my packages on Ubuntu this morning and the upgrade failed. The step that failed was: Upgrade to 23.12.00.044 [14:48:14]: Bug 36120 - Add pickup location to bookings Added column 'bookings.pickup_library_id' Set existing bookings pickup location to item homebranch ERROR - {UNKNOWN}: DBI Exception: DBD::mysql::db do failed: Cannot change column 'pickup_library_id': used in a foreign key constraint 'bookings_ibfk_4' at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Installer.pm line 741 The first step in the upgrade was to 23.12.00.000, if that's helpful. I am not sure exactly which version I started from but will probably be downgrading to oldstable until I can resolve this. Any suggestions for resolving this? Daniel

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Enquiry
by Himanshu Aggarwal 15 Jul '24

15 Jul '24

Is it necessary to clean staged MARC records -- Assistant Librarian, Confucius Institute Scholar 13-14, R.D. National College, Bandra (W.)

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Out of memory when Koha starts due to opac-search.pl and 500.pl
by Mike Lake 13 Jul '24

13 Jul '24

Hi all I'm having serious problems with my Koha instance. It serves the OPAC for the Australian Speleological Federation. We are currently on Koha 23.11 on a Debian 10.13. The system has been running fine for ages. I was getting errors from the OOM killer: oom_reaper: reaped process 1554 (opac-search.pl), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB opac-search.pl invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x6200ca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE), nodemask=(null), order=0, oom_score_adj=0 opac-search.pl cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 So I shutdown Koha (took a while as I was out of memory) systemctl stop koha-common.service Rebooted the machine and when i bought Koha up: systemctl start koha-common.service Now I'm still getting 96 processes & errors taking all CPU and memory: 3620 R /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-imageviewer.pl 3622 R /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/errors/500.pl 3624 R /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/errors/500.pl 3625 D /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-search.pl 3627 R /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/errors/500.pl 3629 D /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-search.pl 3630 R /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/errors/500.pl 3633 D /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/errors/500.pl Actually its 96 x opac-search.pl + 57 x 500.pl A reboot does not help. Every time I start Koha those processes appear and take all cores and memory. I do see that the MariaDB is down. "Failed to start MariaDB 10.3.39 database server." Attempts to start it: systemctl start mariadb.service give that error probably because I'm out of memory does to the 100 perl processes running. A "systemctl stop koha-common.service" does not stop or end those opac-search.pl or 500.pl processes. The /var/log/koha/opac/opac-error.log says: [cgi:error] [pid 6911] [client 124.243.148.74:47310] End of script output before headers: 500.pl [cgi:error] [pid 6959] [client 190.92.216.104:41580] End of script output before headers: opac-search.pl Something is borked :-( Help most welcome. -- Mike Sys Admin Australian Speleological Federation

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Call for news - Newsletter July 2024
by Koha Newsletter 13 Jul '24

13 Jul '24

Hi I'm collecting news for the July 2024 Koha Community Newsletter. Please send anything noteworthy to: kohanews (at) gmail (dot) com News criteria: * News items can be of any length. * Images are fine. * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. Text format criteria: * Just structured plain text, or * HTML text to include tables or similar For events: * Consider adding your event to the Koha Community calendar at https://koha-community.org/calendar/ Thank you! Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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