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Can Koha be configured for the following variable circulation rules?
by Raymund Delahunty 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Environment: Six libraries at constituent colleges each with identical circulation rules. Maximum loans apply by user category (books and DVDs mainly). Maximum loans by user category apply university wide (so 15 items per undergraduate) and using system preference circcontrol as "the library the member is from" this works fine. Users are free to borrow from multiple libraries, up to the overall maximum loans count of 15. Our "Learning Zone" is a separate library in Koha- it loans only IT kit and is open 24 hours a day, often with only security staff (no library staff). New self-issue laptop loan units have been installed. Requirement: Configure Koha Circulation to allow users to borrow a laptop and other kit from the learning Zone, via self service as an ADDITIONAL entitlement, so users whose account is maxed out with books and audio equipment can still borrow a laptop via self-service kit. Progress to date: Not a lot. I have been unable to get this working, despite extensive testing. Initially I tried separate library circulation rules for Learning Zone and had the other 6 libraries as All Libraries, and my changes to circcontrol to "library the user is logged into" saw the laptops borrowable, but the 15 items became 15 per library, increasing the max-loans from 15 to 90 (6 times the 15 per college).That didn't make me too popular- but it did take some months for the problem to be noticed. I have re-imposed the circcontrol setting to "the library the member is from" to ensure sensible loans maxima, but now maxed out users can't borrow a laptop. There are no users registered at the Learning Zone as all users have a "home college" which is the library they are registered at. With the changes to circcontrol undone in our LIVE system I can continue to test out ideas in our TEST one before rolling them out to the live environment. In October my testing on **one** library plus the Learning Zone in TEST showed the desired functionality was perfect so I rolled it out to LIVE. I did not test multiple libraries and I should have. Any suggestions as to how I can set Koha up to offer what I have been asked to provide would be most appreciated. Ray Delahunty University of the Arts London Koha 16.05 https://libsearch.arts.ac.uk This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and/or its attachments you must not take any action based upon them and you must not copy or show them to anyone. Please send the email back to us and immediately and permanently delete it and its attachments. Where this email is unrelated to the business of University of the Arts London or of any of its group companies the opinions expressed in it are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of University of the Arts London (or the relevant group company). Where the sender's signature indicates that the email is sent on behalf of UAL Short Courses Limited the following also applies: UAL Short Courses Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 02361261. Registered Office: University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY

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Koha 3.22.17 release
by Julian Maurice 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.22.17. This is a maintenance release and contains several bugfixes. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-3-22-17-release/

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Converting to Koha 16.05 - some issues
by Sir_Charles82 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hello, as asked here before, we moved from Book2DB to Koha which was quite a quest as Book2DB is saving all information data set-based. So in every catalogued book there is also the signature saved. So I rebuid the exported *.csv-file to match MARCMaker as to make an *mrk and *mrc-file. I've tried to do my best to re-route all MARC-fields to the given scheme. text file is saved as ANSI. <http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/file/n5922009/Koha_Upgrade_Textdatei_aus_…> <http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/file/n5922009/Koha_Buecherliste_mrk.jpg> Although it seems to have worked so far, I have some troubles also. The search results look as following <http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/file/n5922009/Koha_Ergebnisliste.jpg> I'm not sure if this should look like this Also there were problems for the proper display of mutation signs. Not to mention that I have to move the signatures out of the 500 category to form single issues. Perhaps someone can look over the whole thing and I can tell me, if I have transformed it right or if I should re-import the database with other settings? Currently I have Koha 16.05 installed. I'm running OMV 2.0.21 (i.e Debian Wheezy) and the new Koha build isn't installing. If anyone want to look into it for yourself: http://koha.enne.at Searching without logging in is possible. I'm thankful for any assistance. With kind regards Martin -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Converting-to-Koha-16-05-some-issues-tp59… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Mandarin conversion scripts
by Mark Alexander 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

Over the past few months, I have written some scripts to convert Mandarin catalog and patron data into formats suitable for importing into Koha. I have placed these scripts on github, in case there are any other Mandarin users who are also going through the conversion process: https://github.com/bloovis/marc

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Koha catalogue search not working
by i.pratt＠zigzagee.com 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hi, I have attempted to perform a koha-rebuild zebra -f -a -b -v $Instance in order to solve a search not working problem. The result is shown below. The search still doesn't work but I am not sure if this is an indexing issue or is related to an issue I have seen on the MARC bibliographic framework test following a bit of trawling through the Koha issue list when I found my problem to be very similar to this one: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-reindex-with-Zebra-doesn-t-work-td56… I also experience the same MARC test errors. Unfortunately that thread seems to recommend a reinstallation which I would prefer to avoid since I am pretty sure the UNIMARC flavour was chosen throughout my original installation. Regards, Ian

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2017 Koha-US conference details
by Christopher Davis 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Dear Colleagues, As you may already know, the Coeur d'Alene Public Library (Idaho, USA) was voted as the host of the 2017 Koha-US Conference. In planning your visit to Coeur d'Alene this year, please see the updates which were just posted to the conference webpage found at <http://koha-us.net/index.php/2017_Koha-US_Conference>. Interested in presenting at this conference? Stay tuned for the call for proposals. Cordially, Christopher Davis Secretary, Koha-US cgdavis(a)uintah.utah.gov

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Fwd: No results with the advanced search
by vanda koha 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: vanda koha <vandakoha(a)gmail.com> Date: 2017-02-09 10:58 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [Koha] No results with the advanced search To: Chris Cormack <chrisc(a)catalyst.net.nz> Hi Chris, I was informed by my computer colleagues that the installation was done via packages. And Zebra seems to be running fine... The strange thing is that when we use itemsearch we get the results: the records appear just fine. But the advanced search isn't working at all. Vanda 2017-02-08 19:32 GMT+00:00 Chris Cormack <chrisc(a)catalyst.net.nz>: > > > On 09/02/17 02:39, vanda koha wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I'm working in a small library and we have installed koha version > 16.11.03, > > but we are having some problems with the search. > > We only recover information when we use the itemsearch. Whenever we use > the > > advanced search we get no results at all, regardless the term we use > > (title, author, subject, keyword, etc). > > The message we get is this: No results found > > > > No results match your search for 'ti,wrdl: manual' in Biblioteca catalog. > > > > What are we doing wrong? Can anyone please help us? > > How did you install Koha, via the packages or via the tarball? > > It sounds like zebra either isn't running, or you haven't indexed your > collection. How to do this depends on how you installed Koha though > > Chris > > > > > Many thanks in advance, > > > > Vanda > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > >

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How to set up SRU Server on Koha
by Dalton Fury 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Hi, One of our patrons are going to develop an app for our library. He asked me to provide him with an API. He wants to search for books, and then get item information. After googling around, I think that SRU might do the job. I read through koha-conf.xml and koha-conf-site.xml.in and I understand that I am to uncomment a few lines. Specifically I uncommented comments starting from line 86 and 161 in koha-conf.xml and 81 and 150 in koha-conf-site.xml.in Which port should I use? Where do I set that? Shouldn't I also set apache to listen on that port? What am I supposed to do next? Regards, Dalton

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koha ldap with Microsoft Active Directory
by amaher＠alzad.ae 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Hi all , i try to integerate koha Ldap with Microsoft Active Directory we create new CN Group in AD for koha including test users as members and new CN user to use it for integeration like that user (CN=KOHA LDAP,CN=Users,DC=localhost,DC=local) DN KOHA LDAP Group (CN=KOHA LDAP Group,CN=Users,DC=localhost,DC=local this includes 2 users as members in this group we got this error " The wrong password was supplied or the SASL credentials could not be processed "

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Call for news: February 2017 Newsletter
by kohanews 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

I'm collecting news for the February newsletter. Send anything noteworthy to: k o h a news AT gmail dot com News criteria: --------------------------- ** For events **: - Please include dates for past events. If I can't find dates I may not add it. - Announcements for future events with dates T.B.A. are fine ...Eg., Kohacon - For past events -- **** one month back is the cut-off ****. * News items can be of any length. * Images are fine * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. If you are working on an interesting project or development related to Koha, please let me know and I'll include it in the development section. -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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