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National Koha Conclave - Bangalore - 17th & 18th February 2016
by Amit Gupta 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

Hi All, Informatics is pleased to present National Koha Conclave - a two day event on Koha and Indian Libraries scheduled on 17th and 18th February 2016 at Bangalore. The event will be inaugurated by Mr. Chris Cormack (New Zealand). Chris will also be presenting an advance level half-a-day workshop on Koha during this two day event. The event will witness several eminent speakers from the Indian Library landscape and Koha experts through plenaries, panel discussions, case studies and future development needs and opportunities on Koha. The event will be attended by existing and prospective users of Koha. The highlights of the event are: a) Koha, the Road Ahead: A global view from Chris Cormack. b) Development/Customization challenges. c) Wish List by Participating Koha Users - Review Discussion. d) Successful Koha implementations - Case Studies. e) Advance Workshop on Koha (150 minutes). f) Koha on Cloud - Panel Discussion. g) Koha as a Collaborative Platform for Indian Libraries - Panel Discussion. Please mark your calendar and block your dates for this event - National Koha Conclave and register your participation at the link: www.informaticsglobal.com/kohameet Since limited seats are available, please rush your registration. -- Regards, Amit Gupta Informatics Publishing Ltd., Bangalore

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Htaccess file and Koha Staff Client Login (Port 8080)
by Craig Butosi 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

Hi all, Has anyone on this list secured their Port 8080 Koha staff client with .htaccess? If so, may I ask under what directory you actually stored the file on your server? I'm thinking of adding an extra layer of security to my staff client, but need some preliminary info first about using .htaccess / .htpasswd. Many thanks! Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons.) LIBRARY SERVICES MANAGER the royal conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning 273 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON M5S 1W2 416.408.2824 x338 www.rcmusic.ca<http://www.rcmusic.ca/> Note: This email message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the individual to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the recipient of this email is not the intended recipient (or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient), you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying or other use of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by return email and delete this message and attachments from your system, thank you.

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changing date format
by Mary W. Maina 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

Hi all, i need to change the date format in the system from mm/dd/yyy to dd/mm/yyy but this is the system preferences are set with the warning "PreferenceValue dateformat *(modified)* Format dates like . * Note: Do not change this preference on a production server with overdue items that are accruing fines. Doing so will result in duplicate fines! * so please some help here,how do i ensure this does not happen *?* Kind Regards, Mary

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Re: [Koha] mysqldump (koha-dump)
by Paul A 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

At 03:47 PM 1/7/2016 +0000, Barry Cannon wrote: >Hello, > I am curious how many people use the koha-dump script to dump > their Koha database? I am particularly interested to know how people are > dealing with larger databases where mysqldump causes table locking. We looked into this (not sure what your definition of "larger database" is -- our dumps are around 670 Megs) and decided to go the hardware route using solid state drives for both the db and the backups. End result, we have less than 4 seconds "downtime" for a daily cron-job which (so far, touch wood) has not given rise to any complaints. Note that we "clean" the db before dumping, specifically sessions (with the spiders we seem to get >100,000 / 24 hours despite blocking Baidu at the firewall) and imports (our cataloguers can get very busy) -- the mail, logs (we retain only 10 days) and zebraqueue appear to be less substantial -- which saves between 50 and 100 Megs. Best -- Paul >I would typically suggest using the '--single-transaction' option but I >notice there is still one table, pending_offline_operations, that isn't >using InnoDB as it's storage engine. Best practice is to use 'lock-tables' >in this instance (mysqldump locks by default) but with a larger database >this can cause a non responsive interface for the duration of the backup. >We have sites where the one system is used by users in different time >zones, this causes a headache as "out-of-hours" doesn't exist. > >LVM snapshots would be useful but prove tricky when using hosting providers. > >Any suggestions would be welcome! > >Regards >Barry Cannon >Interleaf Technology >http://www.interleaf.ie >Tel: +35312865855 >Email: bc(a)interleaf.ie >Skype: bar.cannon >_______________________________________________ >Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>

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Question about Item Type listings in Facets of search results
by Jesse Lambertson 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Hello everyone, I am experiencing some slightly odd behaviour regarding search results. I am getting a list of results with two IDENTICAL listings in the facets under item-type. Say, for instance, I am searching in Arabic for the term شعر (which is "poetry", or poems). I get back a number of results and on the left is a list of item-types. All my resources in poetry in Arabic are books. So, I get two different facet break downs for a search result of 61. 1. BOOK (60 results) & 2. BOOK (1 result) All have the correct item type coded at the bib-level in 942 as BOOK and all the items have the correct authorized vale for item type at the item-level as BOOK. What might be causing this strange split and two different item-type-facets which should be identical? At first, I thought it might have something to do with the fact that that one had a genre/form heading in the record but those around it in the search did not. But, no, plenty others in the result list have genre/form headings added too. Thoughts, suggestions? Thank you, Jesse -- Jesse A Lambertson Librarian Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center <http://www.sqcc.org/> jlambertson(a)sqcc.org عالم الانجازات ينحاز دوماً مع المتفائلين

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mysqldump (koha-dump)
by Barry Cannon 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Hello, I am curious how many people use the koha-dump script to dump their Koha database? I am particularly interested to know how people are dealing with larger databases where mysqldump causes table locking. I would typically suggest using the '--single-transaction' option but I notice there is still one table, pending_offline_operations, that isn't using InnoDB as it's storage engine. Best practice is to use 'lock-tables' in this instance (mysqldump locks by default) but with a larger database this can cause a non responsive interface for the duration of the backup. We have sites where the one system is used by users in different time zones, this causes a headache as "out-of-hours" doesn't exist. LVM snapshots would be useful but prove tricky when using hosting providers. Any suggestions would be welcome! Regards Barry Cannon Interleaf Technology http://www.interleaf.ie Tel: +35312865855 Email: bc(a)interleaf.ie Skype: bar.cannon

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Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 123, Issue 5
by Mohammad Rasheed 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Happy New Year and Good Morning to All My name is Mohammad Rasheed, working as a Senior Librarian in Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia. I would like to inform me that we are going to move to Koha from Lybsys.net. I need some help and support from you experts. Please any one who can help me, how to add new arrivals in opac-mainuserblock.. Thanks in advance Mohammad Rasheed _ _______________________________________ From: Koha [koha-bounces(a)lists.katipo.co.nz] on behalf of koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz [koha-request(a)lists.katipo.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 2:00 AM To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Koha Digest, Vol 123, Issue 5 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. Hello & first question (Margaret Irons) 2. Re: Batch patron deletion/anonymization issue page: Restricted dropdown menu (Jonathan Druart) 3. January Koha NA (Christopher Davis) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:44:03 +0000 From: Margaret Irons <margaret(a)celt.dias.ie> To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Hello & first question Message-ID: <568BAC83.8090309(a)celt.dias.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hello Happy new year to all. Just want to introduce myself. We are a research library in Dublin Ireland and we migrated from Heritage to Koha just before Christmas. So it's all still very new. First question - all our journals have come across into the cataloging module and we want to move them to the serials module (is module the right word?). Anyone know how this can be done? Thank you Margaret -- Margaret Irons Librarian School of Celtic Studies Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 10 Burlington Road Dublin 4 +353 1 6140182 www.celt.dias.ie/library @SCSLIbrary ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:46:44 +0000 From: Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart(a)bugs.koha-community.org> To: "koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Batch patron deletion/anonymization issue page: Restricted dropdown menu Message-ID: <CAJzKNY7ZF6GhWpBsujiTmno3sTj=KyABmdTPmOR6nab4shsVJw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Patch attached on bug 15398. 2015-12-18 8:50 GMT+00:00 Charlotte Stock <charlotte(a)bu-london.co.uk>: > The dropdown menu for "whose patron category is" does not display the full set of patron types; annoyingly, it is the 'student' category that I need to select! In case the menu is limited to a specific number of lines, I then deleted a disused category in the hope that it would allow the 'student' category to be displayed but this has not happened. I have checked each patron category and there is no branch limitation. Can anyone suggest why this dropdown menu does not supply all patron categories, and what the workaround solution will be? > > Thanks > Charlotte > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This email message has been delivered safely and archived online by Mimecast. > For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:09:19 -0700 From: Christopher Davis <cgdavis(a)uintah.utah.gov> To: Koha <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>, partners <partners(a)bywatersolutions.com>, KohaNA <kohana(a)bywatersolutions.com> Subject: [Koha] January Koha NA Message-ID: <CACFiFkaTdQq+NdeQUG1cVYDbbtSaGwYSuxHOfnUq51wL3RZwwQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Happy New Year, I would like to invite you to the next web meeting of Koha North America held on Wednesday, January 13th, 2016 at 11:00 am Central Time. You can join this meeting at that time by visiting <https://kslib.zoom.us/j/657929919>. VOTING: Koha NA is changing its name! Please vote on your choice by responding to the survey found at <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T6YLW8J>. Koha NA will also be discussing its bylaws, which will be modeled after the document found at <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Ws2171_iTKY3JlSjNVNmppMkU/view?usp=shari…>. Have an idea to be discussed at this meeting? Please email your suggested agenda item(s) to <cgdavis(a)uintah.utah.gov>. Sincerely, Christopher Davis Secretary, Koha NA P.S. This meeting will take the form of a multi-party video-chat; however, you do not need to have a web cam to participate. ------------------------------ 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 5 ************************************

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acquisition purchase orders by email
by Paul Pandian 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hi, The email is working fine in circulation module. However, I do not seem to find the way about sending acquistion purchase orders by email through koha. Can some one please help With kind regards, Pandian ----- M.Paul Pandian

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Custom Header
by Chrispin Simasiku Sitali 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Happy New Year. I would like to place a custom header to the opac. I am using Ubun tu 14.04 LTS and Koha 3.22.01 and installed it using this method: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages My new year would be meaningful if someone pointed me in the right direction Thank you -- Charles Lwanga College of Education, P. O. Box 660193, Monze, ZAMBIA. Mobile: +26 0979 869471 +26 0966 869471 SKYPE: Libsitali

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introuduce myself
by Kamlesh Vyas 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hello Sir/Madam: Happy new year to all. I am Mr Kamlesh Vyas, working as LIbrary Assistant at small socio-economic research institution at Ahmedabad, Gujarat State, India for more than 30 years now. Our library going to change our Library Software from Libsys to Koha is underway and doing this self with librarian and computer technical staff. Recently, I attended two workshop on Koha at Aurangabad and other at Kuttikanam (kerala) and get details for every module with Dr Tripathy, Dr. Vinod Mishra (both at NIT ROURKELA, ORISSA) and Mr Vimal Kumar at MGU at Kottayam (Kerala). All this persons are in touch and consulting with our problem solution. Still we are in primary level of koha and not migrate the data, but preparing the software for settings of the library requirement. If any problem create I will write soon and any new thing like to change I must write to all. Again my thanks to include in mailing list of koha. *Kamlesh vyas * *Library Assistant * *Gujarat Institute of Development Research* *Gota, Ahmedabad 380 060, INDIA * *WWW. gidr.ac.in <http://gidr.ac.in> *

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