On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, David M. Bucknell wrote:
Dear Pat,
Thank you for answering re. acquisition repots. Apparently, our library would like to have reports the last 24 hours, the last week, the month and perhaps the year. Possible?
It would be fairly easy to do. I think you've got a couple of options at this point: you can wait for them to show up (sometime after 2.0.0 is released), you could have someone on your staff write them, or you could try to entice someone to write them for you. I'd like to take a minute to talk about the last idea, because I think it's some low hanging fruit that we often overlook. Most of the time when we think about enticing someone to write code for us, we think of spending big $$$s and hiring a programmer. The free software community opens your options up though. Here are some alternatives: - Contact a local high school/community college/university and see if you can't work out a project with an instructor and student (or team of students). In fact, this doesn't just need to be a local school. There are at least three Universities hanging out on this mailing list, perhaps one of them has a student or three who'd be interested in a task like this. - See if there's a local Linux/Unix/Perl users group. Maybe you can work out a deal for meeting space/pizza (or the local equivalent)/publicity in return for some light programming work. - Talk to city, county, provincial, state, etc. governemnt or NGOs about what you're doing and why. They may have some resources to help. The city of Amparo in Brazil translated Koha into Portuguese for use in their local library, Finland is putting money into an effort to localize Koha for use there. - Look to other libraries to team up with. It may be that the very things you want are things another library wants as well. What may be an unsurmountable list for a single library could be quite doable by a group of three or five or ten. I'm sure that someone will pop up with a couple of more low cost/no cost means of 'hiring' out the work. (Hmmm, how about naming rights for PAC terminals -- naah, that's just a bit too silly.) Anyway, I think your request is valid. I know other libraries are looking for similar stuff. I don't think we'll see it until after 2.0.0 unless someone decides to put a quick package together outside the normal distribution. If anybody does do this *please* share it with the wider community so that it can be incorporated into 2.0.1. thanks, -pate
David
Quoting Pat Eyler <pate@eylerfamily.org>:
Adding an aquisition report will be trivial. The basic code for doing it is already in the rssKoha package, and would only need a template put together and date checking added (the current code lists the 15 most recent acquisitions.
-pate
Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Anne Zarinnia wrote:
Steve and David, This is a very important feature to add to Koha. It is something that librarians look for when comparing products. I missed Paul's message on this, but I'll go back and check. Anne Zarinnia
On Saturday, November 29, 2003, at 05:28 PM, baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca wrote:
Saturday, November 29, 2003 17:22 CST
Hi, David,
Good luck with going online.
Just from what other library folk have experienced in the past, it may be wise to keep at least one set of your card catalogue (I assumed that was what you meant by "on-paper", although if it is a book catalogue, that is even easier) for the first year or so as staff transition to relying on the Koha ILS.
Don't know about generating new acq reports, but as for your other question
[...]is there a way to add jacket cover photos or Web-based links relevant to a book or its author? I had asked this question earlier this year. The answer at the time was "no, not yet"
In responding, Paul indicated what would be needed to be added to do it, which was well beyond me. I can dig his answer up if you want. Otherwise, as Paul stated at the time, it was *not* a high priority for the developers, although I still think it would be a great little bell & whistle for Koha to consider adding soon.
Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA
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