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Next general IRC meeting
by Galen Charlton 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hi, The next general meeting is scheduled for 9 April 2014. As an experiment, we've agreed to hold it in two parts, the first at 15:00 UTC and the second at 21:00 UTC. The purpose of the experiment is to try to attain broader participation in the general meeting, which in practice has not been achieved by the practice of rotating the meeting time on a strict schedule. One overall agenda would apply to both parts of the meeting, although I would anticipate that discussion during the first part may influence the agenda of the second part. Folks who give regular updates (e.g., the release maintainers and the KohaCon organizers) can choose to attend both parts or just one part, though it may be advisable to prepare a brief written update beforehand. I personally plan to attend both parts. One issue, of course, will be making decisions. If an issue to vote on is known in advance of the meeting, we could consider experimenting with a decision process (e.g., as MJ Ray had suggested, Crowd Wise) during the two parts of the meeting. Otherwise, I think we'll need to plan on following up with a vote via email in cases where it is not clear that participants in both parts of the meeting have achieved the same consensus. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation 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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Reminder: General IRC meeting is 5 March 2014 at 19:00 UTC
by Owen Leonard 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

This is a reminder that the next general IRC meeting is 5 March 2014 at 19:00 UTC (in about 4 hours as of this writing) Koha community members are encouraged to attend. To find out what time the meeting is in your time zone go to: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+IRC+General+M… Please add any items that you have to the agenda at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_5_March_2014 Information about IRC - if you are new to IRC see http://koha-community.org/get-involved/irc/ and http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Started-with-IRC-%28Internet-Relay-Chat%29 -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org

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Overdue notices and Koha 3.14.3
by Steven Nickerson 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hello again everyone, After a recent upgrade from 3.02.02 to 3.14.03 (package install on Debian) I didn't realize it but the email functions (overdues, holds, etc). were turned off. When I re-enabled email today with "koha-enable-email" messages started flowing again, but the overdue notices seem to have the following line of text ABOVE the "Dear <Firstname> <Lastname>" in the actual emails. title;name;surname;address1;address2;zipcode;city;country;email;itemcount;it emsinfo;due_date;issue_date Anyone else experiencing this or have any ideas where it might be coming from? Thanks in advance! Steve

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Vendor number in serials records
by Elaine Bradtke 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

We have over 200 active serial subscriptions, and 195 different vendors (ah, the joys of an esoteric collection). The vendor information has been successfully converted and uploaded to our test site. This in turn generated vendor numbers, which have been extracted so we know which serial should link to what vendor number. It would be a simple thing to add these vendor numbers to the serials records during the conversion process prior to upload. But, unless I'm missing something, this number doesn't go into the MARC record. If it does, what field (MARC 21)? Where would the vendor number need to go in order to add the vendor number to the incoming serials records? Another table in the database? I hope this is doable, otherwise my colleague who deals with the serials is going to have a tedious job manually linking them. -- 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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Multiple staff logins necessary for circulation
by Ashish Shukla 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Dear Sir, Sorry to bring a question to the list, but we're facing a problem in KOHA under circulation report and I need some advice and help. We are a small academic library with about 8 library assistants.We have created separate staff-type patron login records for them, so they are using staff login ID & password, on behalf of login ID and password they are doing circulation but we are not find out one staff login ID how many books or serials are transactions. Then it occurred to staff member that with a busy circulation desk many people use the circulation station throughout the day. In this connection: we are request to you, please kindly provide help to me, how can trace out multiple staff login ID circulation reports. your earlier response in this regard will be highly appreciated. *With Regards,* *Ashish Kumar 9717864664*

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Koha Community Newsletter: February 2014
by Koha Newsletter 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Fellow Koha users: The Koha Community Newsletter for February 2014 is here: http://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-february-2014/<http://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-january-2014/> We hope to improve the the development section in the next newsletter. Stay tuned. Thanks!

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Re: [Koha] [LIS-Forum] E-resource management with Koha - Implemented at UoM
by Ishwar Goudar 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Dear Professionals, I appreciate Mr. V.K. Mishra*s suggestion of ERM using Koha. Yes, we can use Koha for giving access to E-books, with full texts being available at Publishers´ or local server. We at University of Mysore have implemented this idea 3 years back itself and have provided access to full texts of > 18,000 books of four publishers put together viz. Springer, T & F, Wiley and CRC Press. Please search UoM Library OPAC available at http://libcatmysore-koha.informindia.co.in/ Each e-book is accessioned satisfying the audit requirements by using 4 letter prefix different for different publishers, say EBSP..... for Springer. This technique facilitates us to display all Springer book at one go by searching barcode in Advanced search. The main advantage of using LMS like Koha for this application is that one can search all e-books of all publishers including the OA books archived on local server. On the other hand if we depend only on publishers site, we will have to search for books on the subjects of our interest through as many servers as number of publishers, unless we license the access through Aggregators like e-brary. We have given access to full texts only through LAN of the Varsity including WiFi. But any body can reach Contents page of book of his/her choice. Full text access could be extended through remote access using interface like OCLC´s Ezproxy. Koha´s feature of displaying cover page makes this much more user friendly. All publishers are bound to make available the MARC records and the same could be part of our OPAC. Providing full text access to E-books is only a part of ERM. Koha is not a full pledged ERM System like ExLibris´s ALMA or EBSCO´s ERM. A combination of ILS and ERMS will make an ideal system to manage both Print and E-Resources including all house keeping activities and workflows. One day or the other we will have to adopt new system. But definitely KOHA is a wonderful OA-ILS system with many attractive features, which we can adopt easily by all school libraries to public libraries to university libraries, irrespective number of holdings. - - - - - - - - Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Ex. Visiting Professor and Library Adviser Mysore University Library University of Mysore Manasagangotri, MYSORE - 570 006 Ex Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore E-mail: goudarishwar(a)gmail.com On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Vinod Kumar Mishra <vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > Now a days many big libraries are purchasing e-books in their library collections but few neither integrate it with their Library management software nor provide appropriate methods to access the same. Therefore my suggestion is such libraries may use Koha LMS which is wonderful software for automation purpose and making catalogue of such reading materials. > > Since, vendors/Publishers already provide the Marc/Excel record of purchased e-books so it could be directly imported into the Koha without much effort and investment. My live DVD > http://sourceforge.net/projects/vkmkoha/files/ of Koha can be used for installation and i feel that it could be done by library staffs only. if you wish to do the above please feel free to contact and I ensure you to assist from remote place to make the job easy. > > You may also attend our workshop for the above and to learn Koha LMS: > > http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/images/bpcl/workshop/ > > Thanking You. > > > With regards, > Vinod Kumar Mishra, > Assistant Librarian, > (Library In-Charge) > Biju Patnaik Central Library, > NIT Rourkela, > Mob:91+9439420860 > 91+6612462103 (O) > email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com > : mishravk79(a)gmail.com > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > >

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Guarantor Address overwrites patrons Address
by jbarker 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Is there a way to stop the Guarantor Address from overwriting the Patron address? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Guarantor-Address-overwrites-patrons-Addr… Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Another documentation question: suggest_status
by Nicole Engard 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

I just found the suggest_status authorized value and this enhancement: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10519 I added a value to suggest_status but I don't see it on master as an option to apply to a suggestion or as a filter on the left. Can someone tell me what this authorized value is supposed to to? Is it supposed to allow you to apply different statuses to purchase suggestions? and if so, how? and also if you do how does that effect the emails that are sent out to patrons when the status changes on a suggestion? Thanks in advance, Nicole

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AllowOfflineCirculation question
by Nicole Engard 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Documentation question: If I have AllowOfflineCirculation set to allow, then when I go offline what URL do I go to to circulate? Or is it the regular URL I always used for check in / check out? Thanks Nicole

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