We are considering a union catalogue with another small specialist library in a different location (170+ miles away). While it's useful for both libraries to be able to see what the other holds, most users will want to prioritize searching their local library. We are two distinct organizations, so it would be best if each library could have their own home screen, and a preference set to search for local items. What's the best way to do this with Koha? Would setting up a branch work, or would it be better to set up a different instance and somehow get them to link together for broader searches? The idea of using branches is appealing as there will be a lot of overlap between holdings, and it might be easier to link their holdings to our records instead of converting their database to MARC. They will probably both be hosted on the same (remote) server. Neither library has the budget (or the IT skills) for a complicated front end . If it's a small bit of digital magic that needs doing, we might be able to beg some help from a friendly IT wizard. One more question, will it cause any problems to add a new branch to our existing Koha setup (16.11)? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. -- Elaine Bradtke 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)
Hi Elaine Il 26/06/2017 20:37, Elaine Bradtke ha scritto:
What's the best way to do this with Koha? Would setting up a branch work, or would it be better to set up a different instance and somehow get them to link together for broader searches?
if you setup a different instance you can't do this:
and it might be easier to link their holdings to our records instead of converting their database to MARC.
As I see here [http://catalogue.efdss.org/] you are a mono branch install. You can add an other without problem then you need two new dns address. One for the new library and one for 'the general catalog'. You can mantain the present dns name [http://catalogue.efdss.org/] for your branch Read this pdf: http://www.koha.org/library/resources/Documentation/OPAC-Customization.pdf To do good result you must done same magic in apache conf files: in the different VirtualHost section you can insert different system preferences using SetEnv OVERRIDE_SYSPREF_PrefName Value
. If it's a small bit of digital magic that needs doing, we might be able to beg some help from a friendly IT wizard.
Is better that to ask him/here to read: http://www.koha.org/library/resources/Documentation/OPAC-Customization.pdf https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10325 ATTENTION: before go to production, test the setup in a TEST server. Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Zeno Tajoli /SVILUPPO PRODOTTI CINECA/ - Automazione Biblioteche Email: z.tajoli@cineca.it Fax: 051/6132198 *CINECA* Consorzio Interuniversitario - Sede operativa di Segrate (MI)
Thank you for the pointers. We have a test site for just this sort of thing. On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 1:49 AM, Tajoli Zeno <z.tajoli@cineca.it> wrote:
Hi Elaine
Il 26/06/2017 20:37, Elaine Bradtke ha scritto:
What's the best way to do this with Koha? Would setting up a branch work, or would it be better to set up a different instance and somehow get them to link together for broader searches?
if you setup a different instance you can't do this:
and it might be easier to link their holdings to our
records instead of converting their database to MARC.
As I see here [http://catalogue.efdss.org/] you are a mono branch install. You can add an other without problem then you need two new dns address. One for the new library and one for 'the general catalog'. You can mantain the present dns name [http://catalogue.efdss.org/] for your branch Read this pdf: http://www.koha.org/library/re sources/Documentation/OPAC-Customization.pdf To do good result you must done same magic in apache conf files: in the different VirtualHost section you can insert different system preferences using SetEnv OVERRIDE_SYSPREF_PrefName Value
. If it's a small bit of digital magic that needs doing, we might be able
to beg some help from a friendly IT wizard.
Is better that to ask him/here to read: http://www.koha.org/library/resources/Documentation/OPAC-Customization.pdf https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10325
ATTENTION: before go to production, test the setup in a TEST server.
Bye Zeno Tajoli
-- Zeno Tajoli /SVILUPPO PRODOTTI CINECA/ - Automazione Biblioteche Email: z.tajoli@cineca.it Fax: 051/6132198 *CINECA* Consorzio Interuniversitario - Sede operativa di Segrate (MI)
-- 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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