[Koha] Greetings and a couple of newbie questions

[King, Fred]

Greetings Manos,

Sorry to be unclear--what I should have said is that all the items uploaded, and when I look at an individual bib record, all the items, complete with barcodes, are there. It's only on the search results screen displaying multiple titles (if I search "surgery" for example--we have lots of titles that come up) that I get the "unavailable" message.

--Fred

Fred King
Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
fred.king at medstar.net
202-877-6221


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From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Manos PETRIDIS
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 12:38 PM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Greetings and a couple of newbie questions

Greetings Fred,

As a fellow koha user trying to understand the problem, I felt that I needed
a clarification on what you described: When you loaded your bibliographic
records, did you load item information as well? 
Test: When you look-up a title, say #364, look at its details (
/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/detail.pl?biblionumber=364 in my system ) then
select edit > edit items (
/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/additem.pl?biblionumber=364 in my system). Do any
items/copies exist for this title?

Regards,
Manos PETRIDIS

-----Original Message-----
From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of King, Fred
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 5:46 PM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: [Koha] Greetings and a couple of newbie questions

Hello everybody,

...and greetings from the US. I'm Fred King, medical librarian and general
computer geek at MedStar Washington Hospital, in Washington, DC.

Last Friday, I finally got the go-ahead to install Koha in my library. We're
a teaching hospital, and the library serves mostly medical residents, staff
doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff. Our collection has maybe 5000
bibs and 25,000 items, soon to become much, much smaller when we move down
the hall to space about half of what we have now. We circulate maybe 100
items per month; most of the information our users need is in journals. I
looked into Koha at great length a few years ago, but we stuck with our old
system until now. We're cancelling our contract with the old system (and
saving $10,000 US per year by doing it), and we hope to have Koha up and
running by mid-June. Yes, five weeks from now.

In order to show my director what could be done, I installed a working
version of Koha 3.10 on a spare computer, using Vimal Kumar's Koha Live DVD,
which I think is running Xubuntu 12.04. That's probably the way I'll install
Koha on our production server, too. I configured the system, uploaded our
bibs, item, and patron data, and everything's running beautifully.

Well, almost beautifully.

I'm still stuck on two problems. First, when I search on a keyword in the
OPAC, the list of items comes up with each item showing "Availability: No
copies available. Checked out (1)." In the Global System Preferences | OPAC
page I have the OPACXSLTDetailsDisplay  and OPACXSLTResultsDisplay
stylesheets set at Default.

I looked through the list archive and it looks like I need to run
fix_onloan.pl. However, when I tried to run it, I got an error message
"Couldn't find C4/filename.pm in @INC. I moved that file into a directory in
@INC, but got another "couldn't find" message. I could keep moving files,
but there must be an easier way. Can anyone tell me how? Or if that's not
the problem, could anyone tell me how to fix the availability problem?

Second, when I display a single item in the OPAC, the item type displays
correctly (with icon, even) in the item description, but under Holdings,
where Koha displays Item Type, Location, Call Number, Status, Due Date, and
Barcode, there's a blank spot under Holdings. I've looked through the manual
and tried different item mappings, but nothing I've tried works. Where is
that field getting its information?

I should add that I'm pretty much self-taught with computers, and although I
can build a PC from parts, design a web page, and slowly find my way around
a Linux system, there are some odd gaps in my knowledge. So if I ask
something that everybody knows, it's probably because I haven't run across
it yet.

Cheers,

Fred King
Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king at medstar.net
202-877-6221



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