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Koha 22.11.11 released!
by Blenkinsop, Matthew 07 Nov '23

07 Nov '23

Hi all, We are proud to announce the release of the 22.11.11 version for Koha! Release notes can be found at https://koha-community.org/koha-22-11-11-released/ Keep an eye out for the updated packages, they will be available at https://download.koha-community.org Matt Blenkinsop Junior Software Engineer PTFS Europe [image: Phone icon] M: +44 7311382399 | T: +44 1483 378728 ext. 1020 [image: Email icon] matt.blenkinsop(a)ptfs-europe.com [image: Link icon] www.ptfs-europe.com [image: Click to open Twitter] [image: Click to open YouTube] <https://www.youtube.com/@PTFSEurope> [image: Click to open PTFS Europe webpage]

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Question on MARC Frameworks and Staging/Importing records
by Bruns, Anke 06 Nov '23

06 Nov '23

Hi, as I inadvertently imported some batches of records with the standard framework instead of the library's configured one, I think about how this can be corrected without having to repeat the imports. Can one a) recognize and b) batch change the MARC framework with which records have been imported via the WWW interface? Thanks in advance and best regards, Anke -- Anke Bruns M.A. (LIS) Arbeitsgruppe "Anwendungs- und Informationssysteme" E-Mail: anke.bruns(a)gwdg.de ------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Burckhardtweg 4, 37077 Göttingen, URL: https://gwdg.de Support: Tel.: +49 551 39-30000, URL: https://gwdg.de/support Sekretariat: Tel.: +49 551 39-30001, E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen, Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 ------------------------------------------------- Zertifiziert nach ISO 9001 und ISO 27001 -------------------------------------------------

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November Koha-US Circulation Special Interest Group ("CircSIG")
by Lauren Denny 05 Nov '23

05 Nov '23

Hi everyone, Join us for the next Koha-US Circulation meeting this Thursday, November 9 at 8 PT / 9 MT / 10 CT / 11 ET / 15 UTC You don't have to be a member of Koha-US to join us, we're hoping you'll come! Bring topics on anything to do with patrons, circulation, notices, OPAC, etc. Here is the link to the Zoom meeting and https://us02web.zoom.us/j/962703559?pwd=SjJWcW9CRDJvMy8ycVIyTzIzOUdSUT09 Can't make it? No worries--it will be recorded and available on the Koha-US YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/kohaUS/playlists (See the Circulation Special Interest Group's playlist for past circulation topics!) Feel free to send me any questions or topics for discussion ahead of time! Lauren Denny

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Wrong person listed in 245$c statement of responsibility after import
by Aida Djikic 04 Nov '23

04 Nov '23

Hello all, What could I be doing wrong when it comes to my attempt to import theses and dissertations into Koha via MarcEdit? They were exported from an old program not really meant for libraries and have been saved as an Excel file. Some of these records would be treated as items in Koha, but in that program they were duplicates distinguished by additional designation added to the call numbers. After some early issues I thought I had worked them out, and have focused on cleaning up the data since so I can continue importing it. However, recently I noticed that the persons listed in 245$c statement of responsibility do not correspond to the person that should be there (the author of the thesis). I am wondering where I could have made a mistake in the import process that could have resulted in such an error. These are the fields I ultimately decided to use in Excel, with the help of Fred and Lauren (names in the example redacted for privacy): 003$0 Control number identifier BA-SaSST 040$c Transcribing agency BA-SaSST 041$a Language eng 080$a UDC 004.65 080$x UDC aux (043.2) 100$a Author Surname, Name 245$a Title Software application for accounting and quantity management of goods : 245$b Remainder of title undergraduate thesis / 245$c Statement of responsibility, etc. Name Surname 264$a Place of publication Sarajevo 264$b Publisher N. Surname 264$c Year of publication 2008 300$a Physical description (pages) [ ], [ ] pages 300$b Physical description (illustr. etc.) ill. ; 300$c Physical description (dimensions) 30 cm. 500$a General note Includes an abstract. 502$a Dissertation note Computer Science major with Economics minor 502$b Degree type Undergraduate degree 502$c Degree granting institution [dgg] University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology 502$d Year degree granted 2008 504$a Bibliographical and other notes Includes bibliography and other notes. 526$a Study program information Undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Economics 563$a Binding Perfect paperback 700$a Thesis advisor [name] Surname, Name 700$e Thesis advisor [relator term] Thesis advisor 546$a Language English 650$a Subject added entry Computer science 653$a Index term - uncontrolled Economics 942$c Koha Item type TH 952$a Home library LBRM21 952$b Current library LBRM21 952$1 Lost 0 952$8 Collection code BSc_CS-ECON 952$c Location THESES 952$i Inventory number T0013/2008 952$o Full call number 004.65(043.2) SUR Sof 952$t copy number 1 952$p Barcode SSSTKL0000001 952$y Item TH Should I only import records at first, then add items from within Koha? In addition to the above issue, I have also noticed that the import doesn't result in a record + an item in cases where I have two or more copies of a thesis but it imports them as separate records. How can I make sure to import multiple copies as items? I was thinking about asking this at the next cataloging SIG but I am not certain I would make it. Thank you in advance! -- Regards, Aida

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support newer Linux version
by ReindeR Rustema 04 Nov '23

04 Nov '23

Hello, New to the list and not yet a user of Koha. The IT-person who will install it says that it runs on old Linux-versions he does not have anymore. Indeed, when I check the specs and compare that with Wikipedia I see that both the mentioned Debian and Ubuntu-versions are not new. It is an implicit compliment to the stability of those and I can understand that you don't want to force an OS upgrade to the current user base. But for new users it is an extra hurdle. Can I expect to see this hurdle disappear soon or should I look for alternatives for Koha? — met vriendelijke groet, ReindeR Rustema

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GDPR Policy, Pages feature, and 22.05 vs. 22.11
by David Liddle 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

Greetings all! Our consortium, which has libraries and patrons subject to the EU's GDPR, has published a new privacy policy that was created and tested with the new Pages feature in Koha 22.11 (on our development server) and then copied to the old Pages/CMS modification in Koha 22.05 (on our production server). On each: - The system preference "PrivacyPolicyURL" was set to the full URL for a page hosted by the same server, "opac-page.pl?page_id=xx" (22.11) or "...pages.pl?p=privacy_full" (22.05). - The system preference "GDPR_Policy" was set to "enforced". We observed something interesting: - On 22.11, the consent page and policy link worked as intended. A patron who had not yet consented to the policy was presented with the consent page, and clicking the policy link opened the policy page in a new tab. - On 22.05, the consent page and policy link did NOT work as intended. The patron was presented with the consent page as expected, but the policy link opened a new tab that loaded the consent page again. After reviewing the situation for a while, I formed the following hypotheses: - Koha 22.11 is NOT actually behaving as designed, because having GDPR_Policy set to "enforced" should cause access to all content served by Koha to be blocked until the patron has consented to the privacy policy. However, access to content served by the new Pages function is NOT blocked. - Koha 22.05 is actually behaving as designed, because access to all content served by Koha is indeed being blocked. The "workaround" for Koha 22.05 is straightforward: - I copied the HTML content of the relevant page, formatting included, to an HTML file served directly by Apache and not by its Koha processes, which means that it is not subject to blocking. - Any other location not served through Koha should also work. Questions and Thoughts: - Can folks out there in the Koha community confirm the respective behavior in Koha 22.05 and Koha 22.11? - Can someone among the development crew clarify the designed behavior and state whether or not a bug exists? - The advantage of creating the privacy policy in the new Pages feature is that it allows for translations, which is somewhat important to our multilingual consortium. - Given the above, could an exception to blocking due to the enforcement of GDPR_Policy be created for a page that would be marked somehow as being associated with the policy? Thank you all for reading, and special thanks in advance to those who give input! Regards, David Liddle System Administrator david.liddle(a)wycliff.de (but not for this list) Wycliff e.V., https://wycliff.de Seminar für Sprache und Kultur, https://spracheundkultur.org Internationales Tagungszentrum Karimu, https://karimu.de

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null values
by Paulo Neto 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

Hello, I am able to solve the problem (thanks to Kaitrin) but i am not able to prevent it, how can i prevent "holding branch" getting null values at item table, i think this is happing to every new items created in the koha database. I am not a librarian myself, does this have to do how our librarian coleagues are creating the items, am i missing any configuration set up parameter? +----------------+---------+---------------+------------+ | itemcallnumber | barcode | holdingbranch | homebranch | +----------------+---------+---------------+------------+ | 9349/M | 9349/M | NULL | BACOSTA | | 23623/M | 23623/M | NULL | BACOSTA | | 23624/M | 23624/M | NULL | BACOSTA | | 23625/M | 23625/M | NULL | BACOSTA | | 23626/M | 23626/M | NULL | BACOSTA | | 23627/M | 23627/M | NULL | BACOSTA | | 23628/M | 23628/M | NULL | BACOSTA | | 23629/M | 23629/M | NULL | BACOSTA | | 23630/M | 23630/M | NULL | BACOSTA | | 23631/M | 23631/M | NULL | BACOSTA | +----------------+---------+---------------+------------+ Best regards, Paulo Neto DSIGA / DPGI Tel. (+351) 21 844 2228 http://www.dgadr.gov.pt

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Poll for dates of online Koha Documentation workshops
by Charillon, Aude 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

Hello, Online Koha Documentation workshops are (almost) back! Philip Orr (Documentation team + LMS Cloud, Germany) and I are organising the 2023-24 Winter series. We would like to hold one event before the end of the year and one in January. The aims are: * for new Documenters to learn to edit the Manual from scratch and / or get help; * for experienced Documenters to have time set aside to document, ask questions and chat with others; * to get more people to edit the Koha Manual - so it becomes more exhaustive and more useful for everyone in the community! So far we have thought the workshops as informal drop-ins. What we do and how we organise ourselves on the day (e.g., split rooms) will depend on who turns up. To provide you with a chance to take part in these events, we would like to know what dates and times would work best for you. Please let us know by filling in this poll by 13th November: https://framadate.org/kohadocworkshops23 I am aware none of the proposed times are particularly convenient for people in Oceania. If you are in that area and wanted to take part, please leave a comment on the poll with an indication of your timezone so we may take it into account for a future series of workshops. As usual, please contact me if you have any comments or questions! Thanks, Aude [aude_c on Koha IRC] Documentation Manager for the 23.11 cycle Aude Charillon Customer Services Consultant PTFS Europe aude.charillon(a)ptfs-europe.com

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Internai server error
by Toni Afandi 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

Dear all, Our koha storage suddenly jumped from 60% to 96% in 7 minutes and it caused an internal server error. So we can't access our Koha. We did not add anything at that time. We used 160 GB storage. and koha 23.05. Can anyone help us? Thank you. *Toni Afandi* *Librarian* *STT SAAT* *(Southeast Asia Bible Seminary)* Jl. Bukit Hermon No 1, Tidar Atas Malang, Jawa Timur 65151 Indonesia www.seabs.ac.id

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Roles for 24.05 are open
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

A new cycle is about to start. It is time for you all to put your names for the next release. Here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_24.05 Best regards -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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