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Setting DueDates and Sending OverDue Notices
by Jesse Lambertson 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello everyone, We are working in a koha set up (3.20 on debian 7 - package install on local server). Our notifications are edited to send, most of them are going out etc. But the system is sending NO Overdue notices for some reason, Let me summarize what I have set up in case this is helpful to anyone. In Administration > Circulation & Fine Rules, we have set the circulation polices, renewal permissions per patron types etc. In Patron Category Admin, we have set Overdue notices to YES. In that same Category, we have the set circulation unit in days (30) which seems like it SHOULD trigger overdue notices at the appointed time - it is not. *Why might this be*? Also, regarding the set up of Hard Due Dates: *Do these have to be set to trigger OverDue notices if the other circulation rules are set*? https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Hard_Due_Dates_Circ_Rule_RFC I am not finding the language here as clear as I think it could be for me. We are currently sending notices for Advance Notice, Item Due and Holds Available. But OverDue notices are not going out. I might have incorrectly set up the triggers defined here http://translate.koha-community.org/manual/3.20/en/html-desktop/#noticetrig… because I have delays set for advance notice and items due and one Overdue notice. But it SEEMS the advance notice would need a different delay trigger than overdue because one is before the item is due and one is after. The Cronjob is running to check them, the messaging queue is being checked every 15 minutes according to the logs, but they are still not being sent. *What is it I am missing here*? *Is this a trigger set-up issue, a hard due date issue or something deeper*? Thank you for any advice. Jesse. -- Jesse A Lambertson Librarian <http://www.sqcc.org/>عالم الانجازات ينحاز دوماً مع المتفائلين

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Re: [Koha] Marcedit on Linux
by Sher Afzal 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Could you shear that what kind of problem you face wile trying to installed marcedit? Whaich falver of Linux you using? For installation of marcedit on Linux it is very important to that you have the Mono framework installed.Did you installed the Mono framework? Following Vedio will aslo help you in this regards. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N65IHRiRby8 You can joined this community for koha related problems. https://www.facebook.com/groups/965873873493081/ Sher Afzal Khan Chief Librarian HEC Approved Trainer for Open Source Software Koha & Dspace Country Ambassador DSpace Software Mortensen Center Associate USA 2015 Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Monisa Aslam <monisaaslam(a)hotmail.com> Date: 01/02/2016 10:25 PM (GMT+05:00) To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Marcedit on Linux Hello everyone. Can anyone guide me step by step that how to install marcedit on Linux. Either through wine or mono. I tried but it's not working Monisa Aslam Sent from my Samsung device _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH [and digital materials]
by David Cook 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi Joel, Thanks for your email. I think I’ve sorted things out with Flo, but I wanted to come back to your email, which I’m going to cross-post to the developer listserv as well. I originally started working on an OAI-PMH harvester to create an automatic import of records from DSpace into Koha, so that Koha could show electronic resources in the catalogue. While having good item types, frameworks, and templates are good, I found the main problem to be the metadata quality. Dublin Core doesn’t translate very well to MARC. Although now that I’m re-reading your email… are you talking about making MARC records in Koha and then using DSpace’s OAI-PMH harvester to import metadata from Koha? Then attaching digital materials in DSpace while using Koha to maintain the metadata? That could be interesting… I agree that Koha needs to evolve to have better support for digital materials. However, I’m not sure what you mean by “a first-class framework for URL-only item types” though. Could you elaborate on that? Better integration into systems like DSpace may be achieved using their evolving REST APIs, although again I’m not sure what you mean by “a user might end up checking-out some digital content stored there [DSpace? Koha?] (a record is created in the issues table) that doesn’t need to check back in”. Why would you need to check out digital content in DSpace? In my experience, content is either open to the public or limited to logged in users (as part of licensing/rights restrictions). Are you thinking of something more like hosting your own ebooks in DSpace and complying with concurrent user restrictions? That could be interesting as well, although I think the majority of that work would be done in DSpace with Koha just hooking into a DSpace API to determine if there are any “available” copies for the material that they found in the Koha catalogue. I admit I’m not super familiar with ebook DRM either, so I’m not certain how much intervention would be required for expiring “on loan” DRM protected library ebooks. Personally, I find most of our Koha client libraries are interested in allowing their users to find “only electronic resources” and to provide seamless access to third-party sites like EBSCO, Proquest, and other publishers that host the actual content. EBSCO have been putting work into that with the Koha-EDS plugin, although I’d like to see more done in that area, although that’s actually more a matter of digital material publishers providing authentication and API options. If they provide the hooks, we can provide the services. I’m curious to hear your thoughts. If you have ideas for things you’d like to see, feel free to share them. If you have a budget for sponsoring development, feel free to mention that as well. It’s actually quite an exciting time to be working on Koha as large organizations like EBSCO and the National Library of Sweden are sponsoring developments in areas like OAI-PMH harvesting (which I’m working on now), moving to ElasticSearch for search and retrieval, a new REST API, etc. Even if you don’t have the money yourself, you might propose ideas on the koha-devel listserv and see if anyone is interested in sponsoring that work. Cheers, David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 From: Coehoorn, Joel [mailto:jcoehoorn@york.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2016 10:25 AM To: David Cook <dcook(a)prosentient.com.au> Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz; flo.pouyenne(a)gmail.com Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH It sounds like she's talking about using a program that acts kind of like a web search crawler, similar to how Googlebot operates, to push information into Koha. If that's the case, I don't think Koha would be a good solution for this right now, though you might get something working via a z39.50 connection. It may be that she's asking if Koha can store and serve/circulate harvested digital content directly. Again, I don't believe Koha in it's current form would be good at this. Koha does not currently provide any place to store binary files for circulation. It may also be that she's asking if she can use Koha as a front end into something like DSpace <http://www.dspace.org/> or Greenstone <http://www.greenstone.org/> . If that's the case, I believe Koha can do this right now, but the setup is not yet easy or straightforward. In a nutshell, you would want to enter marc records for each item in the repository, just like you do for current materials, but you would want to use item types and a custom framework so that the material is presented well. I would welcome improvements in Koha to support any of those scenarios. Ultimately, I think Koha needs to evolve to have better support for digital materials. At a minimum, this means a first-class framework for URL-only item types along with first-class integration into systems like DSpace, where a user might end up checking-out some digital content stored there (a record is created in the issues table) that doesn't need to check back in. As distasteful as it may be, this probably needs to also include some kind of copyright enforcement mechanism, to allow libraries to easily comply with external licensing requirements. <http://www.york.edu/Portals/0/Images/Logo/YorkCollegeLogoSmall.jpg> Joel Coehoorn Director of Information Technology 402.363.5603 jcoehoorn(a)york.edu <mailto:jcoehoorn@york.edu> The mission of York College is to transform lives through Christ-centered education and to equip students for lifelong service to God, family, and society On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:04 PM, David Cook <dcook(a)prosentient.com.au <mailto:dcook@prosentient.com.au> > wrote: Hi Florence, I'm afraid that I don't understand your question. What do you mean by "Can Koha be used to manage a digital library"? Are you asking if Koha can show metadata records from a digital library? Or are you asking if Koha can add/update/delete records in a digital library? Or both? Or something else? I'm currently working on an OAI-PMH harvester for Koha, but the sole intent at the moment is to harvest metadata records from other systems and import them into Koha. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > -----Original Message----- > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:08:31 +0000 (UTC) > From: Florence <flo.pouyenne(a)gmail.com <mailto:flo.pouyenne@gmail.com> > > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz <mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH > Message-ID: <loom.20160126T160510-456(a)post.gmane.org <mailto:loom.20160126T160510-456@post.gmane.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello, > > Can Koha be used to manage a digital library ? With a OAI-PMH harvester ? > > > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz <mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Koha Search Indexes
by Nicole Engard 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello all, I updated this page in the manual http://manual.koha-community.org/3.24/en/kohasearchindexes.html because there were many indexes not listed in there. Would index experts please take a look to make sure I caught all of the indexes? Thanks a ton! Nicole

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Re: [Koha] Request
by Sher Afzal 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Dear Mr Tahir Jan I am very much delighted to see that you people's planning to shift you're library on "koha".Please contact me i will help in this regard. I have already an experience of WINISIS data migration in to MARAC format. Regards Sher Afzal Khan Chief Librarian Bahria University Pakistan Approved Trainer of Higher Education Commission County Ambassador DSpace Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: "Mr. Tahir Jan, Asstt Librarian, Central Library Jan" <tahirjan(a)upesh.edu.pk> Date: 01/02/2016 9:13 AM (GMT+05:00) To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Request Dear Colleague: How can we import WINISIS data into Koha. Is there anyone to help me and import this data into koha. Thanks *Tahir Jan* Assistant Librarian Digital Library Coordinator Central Library University of Peshawar,Khyber PakhtunKhwa Pakistan *Cell # 0333-9148972* *Land Line# 091-9216483* *www.digitallibrary.edu.pk/peshuni.html * _______________________________________________ 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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Request
by Mr. Tahir Jan, Asstt Librarian, Central Library Jan 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Dear Colleague: How can we import WINISIS data into Koha. Is there anyone to help me and import this data into koha. Thanks *Tahir Jan* Assistant Librarian Digital Library Coordinator Central Library University of Peshawar,Khyber PakhtunKhwa Pakistan *Cell # 0333-9148972* *Land Line# 091-9216483* *www.digitallibrary.edu.pk/peshuni.html *

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Package for 3.20.8 now available
by Galen Charlton 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Hi, The package for 3.20.8 is now available from the Koha APT repository debian.koha-community.org. As always, instructions for installing from the packages can be found at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcharlt(a)gmail.com

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Maintenance on wiki and debian.koha-community.org - 30 Jan./13:00 UTC
by Galen Charlton 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Hi, On Saturday, 30 January 2016, I will be performing operating system maintenance on the server that hosts the following sites: wiki.koha-community.org debian.koha-community.org perldoc.koha-community.org The maintenance will start at 13:00 UTC and is expected to last two hours. During that period, the sites in question will be intermittently unavailable, with the wiki taking the brunt of the downtime. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc(a)esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org

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Big Koha Migration of Turkey
by مسعود محمد الشريف 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

I support Barton's idea; the Koha Migration of Turkey story needs to be promoted to become the success story of Koha community worldwide. I wish we can have a 1 to 2 pages brochure about the story to use for marketing Koha. Thank you Turkey. Thank you Koha community. Massoud AkShareef. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 30, 2016, at 2:00 AM, koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz wrote: > > Send Koha mailing list submissions to > koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > You can reach the person managing the list at > koha-owner(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Koha digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Big Koha Migration of Turkey (Joann Ransom) > 2. Re: Koha Plugin System (Kyle Hall) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:25:32 +0000 > From: Joann Ransom <JoannR(a)tetakere.org.nz> > To: Barton Chittenden <barton(a)bywatersolutions.com>, Jesse Lambertson > <jlambertson(a)sqcc.org> > Cc: koha <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [Koha] Big Koha Migration of Turkey > Message-ID: <seqkqalv7685g2m7qpgmenrd.1454095527521(a)email.android.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > HI Mengu > > This is a wonderful Koha story! > > May I just check that you have made the code of all the enhancements you made to the Koha source code available to the Koha community under the terms of the licence? > > Kind regards > > Jo. > > > > > > > > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Barton Chittenden <barton(a)bywatersolutions.com> > Date: 30/01/2016 2:24 am (GMT+12:00) > To: Jesse Lambertson <jlambertson(a)sqcc.org> > Cc: koha <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [Koha] Big Koha Migration of Turkey > > I think this is a notable event, and should be added to the Wikipedia > article on Koha. >> On Jan 29, 2016 8:17 AM, "Jesse Lambertson" <jlambertson(a)sqcc.org> wrote: >> >> What a great project. >> >> Thank you for sharing. >> >> Jesse >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Mengu Yazicioglu <mengu(a)devinim.com.tr> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm glad to share that we successfully migrated old 2.x Koha to new one, >>> 3.20. >>> I should also say that this a quite derived version of 3.20, we have >> added >>> many new features, >>> new modules and changed a lot of codes for the use of public libraries so >>> we may call this Koha >>> version as Koha -- Devinim. >>> >>> We've migrated 1.220.000 active users, 13.700.000 items with active 900 >>> libraries of 1126 public libraries all cities of >>> Turkey. >>> We use 14 servers for all production and 4 servers for test environment. >>> We use MariaDB and Galera Cluster with 4 nodes, 8 apache servers and 1 >>> zebra server. >>> We plan to cluster zebra server in the future, it cannot perform very >> well >>> for this kind of huge installation. >>> >>> During migration, we also cleaned some dirty data, this was also a big >>> issue for 13m items. >>> We've done many tests before going live. >>> >>> OPAC page is http://koha.ekutuphane.gov.tr >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> // >>> /Mengü YAZICIOĞLU >>> DEVİNİM Software Consultancy >>> / >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >>> Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >>> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> >> >> >> -- >> Jesse A Lambertson >> Librarian >> Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center <http://www.sqcc.org/> >> Ph: (202)-677-3967 Ext. 104 >> jlambertson(a)sqcc.org >> عالم الانجازات ينحاز دوماً مع المتفائلين >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > ##################################################################################### > This e-mail message and any attached files may contain confidential information, and > may be subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, > please delete. Unless formally stated, this e-mail and any attachments do not > necessarily reflect the views of the the The Horowhenua Trust. > > The Horowhenua Trust takes extensive precautions with the aim of detecting and removing any > virus or defects from its e-mail system but accepts no liability for loss or damage > should this e-mail not be virus or defect free or should there be any errors in > transmission. > > ##################################################################################### > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 14:30:13 -0500 > From: Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall(a)gmail.com> > To: "Bortel, Gary" <gary.bortel(a)sos.wa.gov> > Cc: "koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Plugin System > Message-ID: > <CACpVHfwhhDhOEcionG+a0Kz-obnE6qD8QnZM94gJXgCBF7rd6g(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Glad to help! > > Kyle > > http://www.kylehall.info > ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com ) > Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) > Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) > Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com ) > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Bortel, Gary <gary.bortel(a)sos.wa.gov> > wrote: > >> Perfect, Kyle! >> >> Thanks for adding the updates to the instructions at >> https://github.com/bywatersolutions/koha-plugin-coverflow >> >> >> gcb >> ______________________ >> >> From: Kyle Hall [mailto:kyle.m.hall@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 3:17 AM >> To: Bortel, Gary <gary.bortel(a)sos.wa.gov> >> Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Plugin System >> >> Add this as well: >> >> <Directory /var/lib/koha/library1/plugins> >> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks >> AllowOverride None >> Require all granted >> </Directory> >> >> http://www.kylehall.info >> ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com ) >> Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) >> Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) >> Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com ) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >> Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > ------------------------------ > > 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 123, Issue 39 > *************************************

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Koha Community Newsletter: January 2016
by kohanews 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Fellow Koha users: The Koha Community Newsletter for January 2016 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-january-2016/ 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. Thanks! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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