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Re: [Koha] Update stable version
by Vimal Kumar V. 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

Dear Ghosh Sir, Following method will work if your Koha version is older than current old stable version: To change present koha release to old stable, Open Koha sources list in any text editor like vi, leafpad, gedit. *gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list* Find which koha release mentioned. Delete the existing line and add following line, *echo deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha <http://debian.koha-community.org/koha> oldstable main*Add the key in gpg.asc to your APT trusted keys *wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc <http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc> | sudo apt-key add -* Update software sources *apt-get update* *apt-get upgrade* Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Technical Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in http://moovandan.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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Koha Networking issues
by Ken K 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

Hello, I'm a librarian in a public library and we recently installed koha in the library server via a virtual machine using Oracle Virtual-Box and assigned it a pubic IP, to enable worldwide access of the opac. However, there has been a lot of Internet fluctuations in the library which has been inconveniencing the circulation of books making the library staffs to make use of offline circulation in the busy library. I was asking whether there is a way to enable private IP inside the organization local network to be used as a fallback network when the Internet is lost. Kindly assist

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Update stable version
by Bhaskar Ghosh 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

Users, how to update or install koha stable version in ubuntu 12.04? thanks

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update koha stable version
by Bhaskar Ghosh 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

Users, how to update or install koha stable version in ubuntu 12.04? thanks

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Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting
by Christopher Davis 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Greetings all, The Koha North America User’s Group would like to invite agencies and libraries located within the United States to host its third annual meeting held in early August, 2016. This meeting offers participants two days of instructional sessions and presentations, followed by a two day hackfest. Host expectations: -Handling meeting registration fee(s) -Sign contract(s) to secure an appropriate venue for this meeting, including refreshments, WiFi, video projectors, tables & chairs, etc. Please submit your proposals for this important meeting by filling out the form found at: < https://docs.google.com/forms/d/174fDHlU53V5IH2tz2-si3TrBTMKbl2gtMufpH9a9_d…>. Information in your proposal should include (but does not need to be limited to) the following information: 1. The location and what kind of conference facility would be offered. Confirm that the site would have internet and other technology available to enable presentations and general connectivity. 2. Dates when the meeting could occur at the proposed location. 3. Information about transportation -- the closest airports and train stations and how one could get from these places to the meeting site. 4. Lodging in the area. 5. Anything else we would need to know about the location and what makes it a great choice for this meeting. Please submit your proposals by Friday,December 4th, 2015. If we receive multiple proposals we will set up a method for potential attendees to vote on the preferred meeting location. Please send your related questions/comments to rhastings at nekls dot org

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Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting
by Paul A 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

At 08:19 PM 11/19/2015 +0000, BWS Johnson wrote: >Salvete! > > The Koha North America Userâs Group would like to invite agencies and > > libraries located within the United States to host its third annual meeting > > held in early August, 2016. This meeting offers participants two days of > > instructional sessions and presentations, followed by a two day hackfest. > At risk of beating a dead horse, I am once again disappointed that > this body has taken up the mantle of "North America". There are plenty of > Libraries, Organisations, and Agencies within North America that do not > fit your group's stringent United States centric viewpoint. I am also > continually saddened that this body will only consider meeting in early > August. It is further too bad that you all charge fees for your meeting. > The three of these problems in combination send a strong repeated message > that inclusivity is not an aim of your organisation, whether that be a > valid conclusion to draw or no. I do so hope that at some point in > future, this group might reconsider any or all of those matters. In 1812, the "Americans" (17 States) thought they could just march into Canada and take over. As Tom Lehrer used to sing: "they've hardly bothered us since then..." Best -- Paul

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OPAC not allowed to put a hold if a book is still a shelf
by Tim Koop 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Does anybody know if it is possible to not allow a patron on the OPAC site to put a hold on a book if there is still a book on a shelf? And a similar question, what if someone does that? What if someone logs in to the OPAC and puts a hold a book that is not taken out? Does the librarian get an email saying to go quickly snatch that book? Or is the next person who tries to take this book out not allowed to? We would prefer to not even allow this case. We want to just disallow it. Thanks -- Tim

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Editor forcing Default fields into other frameworks
by Elaine Bradtke 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

I don't know if this is a new quirk, or I just haven't noticed it before. I was looking at a bibliogrpahic record that was in the wrong framework (Default, when it should have been Serials). I switched the view to Serials framework and it looked fine. Then I opened the record for editing. It switched back to the Default framework, and added some fields we don't use in serials. One of these is marked as required. I changed the framework back to serials, and tried to save it, but the required field from the Default framework (blank because there is no information to go in this field for Serials) caused it to throw up an error message and it would not save. I can't delete the field either. This means I can't change the framework associated with the record. Testing it with other items -Editing any record that is in the Default framework will force (empty) Default framework fields into the record even after you change the framework. There is no information in these fields in the original record. If the field is mandatory in Default it will become mandatory in the new framework, even if it doesn't actually exist in that framework. Any thoughts? Should I file a bug? I am (only just) restraining myself from turning off the mandatory status of the field in the Default framework, only because we're not supposed to edit it. -- 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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Best way to catalog serials
by Nombre 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

Hello all. I'm starting to catalog some serials we have, some of it are discontinued, by the moment I'm making a bibliographic record and one item record for each issue of the serial we have. Now, I'm not sure if this is the best way and if is better to have a bibliographic record for each issue. How do you catalog this kind of serials? Regards and thanks in advanced

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Repost: Call for KohaCon17 hosting proposals
by MJ Ray 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

I'm reposting this because it was missent using the Reply button to http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/How-to-get-dynamic-IP-for-my-koha-server-… - please use New Message if it's not a Reply, else the robots can't find the kittens and they get hurt! from: ★ Thomas Dukleth <kohalist(a)agogme.com> date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:24:00 -0000 Anyone who would like to host KohaCon17 (international Koha conference to be held in 2017) should add some brief information about their proposal to the proposals summary table in the page on the Koha Wiki which I have prepared following the model used for previous KohaCons, http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon17_Proposals . Please link your summary proposal to a more detailed proposal preferably in a new page on the Koha wiki or alternately hosted on your own webserver. If you have submitted a proposal for hosting KohaCon in the past but had not been selected, please submit a new proposal if you are interested in hosting KohaCon17. Do not be discouraged that some other proposal had been selected over yours in some previous year. People from the Philippenes had again submitted a KohaCon proposal before the general KohaCon17 page was created and I have now moved that merely tabular form content which had used the form of the general KohaCon proposals page to the newly created general KohaCon17 Proposals page. Such persistence of pursuing a KohaCon proposal should be encouraged. [In the interest of promoting regional diversity in Koha, we have sometimes considered rules against selecting KohaCon proposals from the same region successively in case the most populous regions might come to excessively dominate voting for selecting a proposal, but in practise such rules may not have yet been necessary.] Anyone should be free to add additional relevant information to proposal information in the wiki, such as links and information for local hotel or other accommodations, attractions, etc. We want whatever information may be helpful for linking to a community wide ballot for selecting a particular proposal. As with all wiki content, it should be easy enough to edit by examining the form in which pre-existing content has been entered, when editing to add your own content. If you want more information about MediaWiki tables, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables . Thomas Dukleth Agogme 109 E 9th Street, 3D New York, NY 10003 USA http://www.agogme.com +1 212-674-3783 -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

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