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Koha-US Conf registration, schedule, & snack/drink service
by Christopher Davis 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Dear Colleagues, I am excited about this year's Koha-US conference in Monterey, California. Thus far, around fifty participants have registered for this conference, so if you have not yet registered, please do so now at <http://goo.gl/forms/Z0udUsi7Ll>. Even if you are not yet sure whether you will be attending the conference this year, please register so that we can make sure we have enough meals, drinks/snacks, programs, etc. (it's better for us to have a few extra than not enough). Remember that registration for the conference is FREE; however, please bring $20 with you to cover the cost of the drink and snack service. WARNING: do not look at the schedule below unless you want to get excited about going to this conference: August 3rd 8am - Registration 9am - Opening Statements and discussion about Mentorship in Koha 9:30am - Keynote - Christopher Brannon and Nick Clemens: Community and the future of Koha 10:30-11 - Break 11-12 - Chris Rohde - Innovations In Our Library - Using zones to optimize staff and enhance customer service in an automated library 12 - 1:30 lunch on your own 1:30 - 2:30 Nick Clemens SQL for Koha Beginners 3-4 - Round Table discussions - Reports (Robin - Christopher Brannon) / Circulation (Nancy Keener) August 4th 9am - Opening Statements/organization business and discussion of Koha US organization 9:30 - 10:30 Christopher Davis - Issues of Open Source Software in Libraries 10:30-11am break 11-12 - Fred King - Modifying Koha For Unique Uses 12-1:30 lunch on your own 1:30-2:30 Christopher Brannon - Self-check in Koha 3-4 Round Table Discussions - Cataloging (Nancy Keener) / Acquisitions (Sandre - Chris Rohde) 6pm - Reception at Pacific Grove Public Library (transportation provided) August 5 - Hackfest 9am - Opening Statements and discussion on Koha's Future 9:30 - 10:30 - Todd Goatley and Chris Rohde - Libki’s Future and How It’s Used In One Library 10:45 - 11:30 - Joy Nelson - Bibframe/Linked Data in Koha 11:30 - 1:30 Lunch provided by Bibliotecha - discussion of RFID products during lunch 1:30 - 2:30 - Nick Clemens - Simple Bug Squashing 2:45 - 4 Breakout Groups: Guided Bug Squashing/Virtual Box setup August 6 - Hackfest 9am - Opening Statements and discussion on Developments in Koha 9:30 - 10:30 - Breakout Session 1 10:30 - 11:30 - Breakout Session 2 11:30 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 - Breakout Session 3 2:45 - 3:45 - Breakout Session 4 3:45 - 4 - Wrap up and goodbye Hackfest/Breakout session topics: SQL for Reports Tweaking Your Koha - (JQuery, CSS and HTML) More Bug Squashing Playing with Virtual Boxes So, you read the schedule anyway- exciting huh? Well, don't say that I didn't warn you ;-) See you at the conference, Christopher Davis Secretary, Koha-US cgdavis(a)uintah.utah.gov

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New Koha Manual Branch
by Nicole Engard 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Hello folks! I have branched the manual. Master is now the working version for 16.11 and there is a new 16.05 branch. Please update the translation pages accordingly. http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary Thanks Nicole

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Having problem using UNIMARC in Z39.50 target
by Andy Boze 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Hi, all. I'm wondering whether anyone else is using a UNIMARC Z39.50 target and having a similar problem. We're running Koha 3.22.04.000. I've set up a target for Bibliothèque nationale de France using the following settings. Hostname: z3950.bnf.fr Port: 2211 Database: TOUT-UTF8 Userid: Z3950 Password: Z3950_BNF Syntax: UNIMARC Encoding: utf8 Record type: Bibliographic I got the configuration information from <http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/recuperation_donnees_bnf_boite_outils/a…>. In the Koha cataloging module, I can retrieve records from BnF via Z39.50, but Koha doesn't display the results correctly. Most of the columns are blank. The author column contains data from the 100 field. In UNIMARC the 100 field contains general processing data, not the author. It appears to me that even though the target is configured as UNIMARC, Koha is trying to display the results as MARC21. Is this a bug in Koha, or is there something else I need to do? I get the same results when I try the ByWater Solutions demo system. BTW, here's a copy of my YAZ session. Z> open tcp:z3950.bnf.fr:2211 /TOUT-UTF8 Connecting...OK. Sent initrequest. Connection accepted by v3 target. ID : DBV-OSI II UNIX API Name : Frontal Z3950 BnF Version: Version 1.0 Options: search present delSet scan namedResultSets Z> find @attr 1=4 history Sent searchRequest. Received SearchResponse. Search was a success. Number of hits: 15583, setno 1 records returned: 0 Z> format UNIMARC Z> show 3 Sent presentRequest (3+1). Records: 1 Record type: Unimarc 00493nam 22000733n 450 100 $a s 1873u y0fre 50 200 1 $a The History of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, including a brie f narrative of all the most important events which have occurred in Europe since the fall of Napoleon I until the overthrow of the Second Empire and the death o f Napoleon III, by John S. C. Abbott... with illustrations 700 | $a Abbott $b John Stevens Cabot $f 1805-1877 $4 070 801 0 $a FR $b FR-751131015 $c s 1873 $g AFNOR nextResultSetPosition = 4 -- Andy Boze, Associate Librarian University of Notre Dame 208A Hesburgh Library (574) 631-8708

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Introducing "Mana" (central DB project)
by Paul Poulain 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Some months ago I sent an email to koha-devel, to announce that BibLibre was planning to work on a new project, dedicated to sharing informations between Koha (https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SharingDatasBetweenKohas_rfc) I'm proud an happy to give you feedback about this project: things are moving quickly & nicely. * *Morgane*, our intern -alex_a being the tutor) is doing a great job (you can congratulate her on #koha ;-) ) * we've named this project "*Mana*". It's a Maori word (once again :D), easy to pronounce & write. http://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?&keywords=mana : "*(verb)* to be legal, effectual, binding, authoritative, valid." I'll ask for mana.koha-community.org DNS entry soon ! * as announced by Morgane, we're using the same framework as for HEA for the server side. The code is available on our git: http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/koha-mana (will be pushed later on git.koha-community.org) The DB is here, some webservice are already here & working. * The koha-side is being worked, below are some screen shots. * we changed some things compared to my initial RFC. Everything is on trello, splitted into cards (https://trello.com/b/BslL6i9p/mana-biblibre trello not public, claire, the owner is not here today, we'll change the status in a day or 2.) Note that there can be some French on trello, even if Morgane avoid it. We plan to have MANA working at the end of august, at least for subscriptions (pattern & numbering) sharing. Maybe also for SQL reports & vendors. Some screen shots & features descriptions: in subscription management, you can now *share* a subscription pattern, by sending it to Mana: When you click on "share", after validation, you get a *feedback*: Anyone can then retrieve the numbering pattern & frequency calculation when creating a subscription (work being done this week). After the 1st screen of subscription creation, Koha will automatically query mana and check if there is some data available: The librarian will then be able to see what is available and get it locally in one click. Every time a librarian "get it locally", a counter will be incremented on Mana. Thus, if more than 1 frequency/pattern is submitted for a given title, the librarians should be able to see which one is "preferred" by other librarians. Additional features: * we will create a script that will help populate Mana from a CSV. We will probably issue a RFF ("Request For File" ;-) ) later. Our idea is that we want to launch Mana with many data already available. * comment. Any librarian will be able to add a comment to a shared data, as well as marking it as "obsolete". * a syspref will be added to deactivate Mana (will be ON by default) Feel free to ask for more informations, I would be happy to answer ! -- Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries

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how to make work of cronjobs ?
by SATISH 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Hi, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Koha version -16.5.01 (upgraded from 3.16.00) OS: Ubuntu - 14.04 server edition (upgraded from 12.04) Install method - Packages Postfix - working successfully. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am not sure how to set up and make necessary modifications in cronjobs and need your help. Our library works from 9:30 am to 5.30 pm on week days and 9:30-1:30 pm on every saturday. (Desktop machine) as server, will be shutdown in the evening everyday until library receives a dedicated server machine. preliminary set up: 1. In System preferences >EnhancedMessagingPreferences > is set to Allow. 2. Each patron, is enabled to get check in, checkout, overdue notices. 3. # crotab -e, shows, all lines are commented. 4. Is it required to run even for packages install method ? or is it already setup? # ENVIRONMENT: PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml (http://kohaworkshop.pbworks.com/w/page/7060237/koha%20cronjobs) 5. /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs shows - crontab.example and it has all the required instructions. 6. currently, after setting up postfix, overdue message, advance due notice, check in, check out , new registration notice all are working,. but I wanted to properly setup timings as per our library's open and closing hours. Should "crontab.example" file be renamed ? or copied to crontab ? or how to use this file ? Kindly share your best practices? with thanks Satish MV Librarian Govt. Engineering College, Hassan Karnataka.

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Re: [Koha] Round the World Koha Tour
by Furrukh Hussain Zai 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Hi Joann, Wow! What a Koha's World Tour! I wish you all the very best and hope that you may add Pakistan, when you visit next. Koha is one of the fastest growing integrated library systems of Pakistan. Have a safe and purposeful journey :) Furrukh Hussain Zai Manager Library Systems Habib University, Karachi. & Co-Chair Technical Services and Copyright Committee Pakistan Library Association (Sindh Branch).

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Round the World Koha Tour
by Joann Ransom 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

I have been overwhelmed by the generosity of the global Koha community and in the space of less than a week we have ourselves a Koha World Tour! The draft itinerary can be seen online here: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/665664/Round-the-World-Koha-Tour/ While it does circumnavigate the world it misses out on huge chunks which will have to wait for another time. I can't, in all conscience, take more than 3 months away from the workforce and will have to get a real job at some point! I have shown the local hosts or contacts for each leg in case people would like to help or host. I will have 3 topics that I would love to talk about: 1. The Origins of Koha: why we developed it, why Koha, how it has developed and why it is so jolly special; 2. The Koha Community: this is why its so special :) Will talk about how the community works and how to get the best out of belonging; 3. Te Takere: transforming a c1960s library service into a thriving community centre. As leader of this fantastic project it has been a career changing gig and one which has required a whole new approach. With visitor counts rising from 18k a month to over 40k and reported youth crime down 60% after the first year of opening we were doing something right. Once I have firmed up a few more leads and checked the feasibility of this from a booking flights point of view I'll post a firm itinerary. Many thanks - and I can't wait to meet you! -- Joann Ransom RLIANZA Chief Executive Te Horowhenua Trust.

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new to koha - option to check out
by jbrown 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

I am wondering if there is an option in the OPAC for a user to check out a book instead of putting it "on hold" Thank you. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/new-to-koha-option-to-check-out-tp5895155… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Patron import problem 3.22
by Elaine Bradtke 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

We routinely import patron records (derived from our membership database) and overwrite the old ones in order to update expiration dates, addresses, etc. I recently ran this process through our test site (running 3.22.06) and it failed. The error message I got back was the records were not imported because the userid was already in use or missing. I had chosen 'overwrite matching records' Oddly, the import process worked fine in the production site running 3.22.07 Is there a system preference I should check in the test site? Maybe this is related to Bug 15840 - Import borrowers tool explodes if userid already exists We match on cardnumber, Is this the same as the userid? We don't have a column in our csv file called userid. -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)

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Koha downgrade after update?
by anjoze 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

I had Koha version 3.18. After upgrading I have version 16.05.01 Is there more than one version of koha or did I do it wrong? Thanks ----- Koha version: 3.08.04 - - José Anjos -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-downgrade-after-update-tp5895098.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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