[Koha] Leaking records

[Mohamed Amin]

Hi Tarek
     I think we faced this problem when you were at the NTI, and we avoided 
it, but I can't remember what the other circumsatnces were.
are you uploading these records using MARC format.. ?
what I can remember is this problem happens while importing a MARC record 
and this MARC record has some similsrities to another record which is 
uploaded to the system before. when the system detects these similarties it 
add the new item as a copy of an existed biblio record and it does not add 
the biblio record itself.

I will check the problem and see what I did exactly to solve it and email 
you back

Mohamed Amin
Senior Network Administrator
National Training Institute
Cairo, Egypt



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Tarek Mehrem" <tarek.mehrem at guc.edu.eg>
To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Subject: [Koha] Leaking records
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:01:46 +0200

Hi, I'm a librarian, and I've been using KOHA for more than 6 months. I
think it is a great system, but recently I noticed 2 problems:
1-       Some times I discover that there are leaks in the circulation
and members modules, meaning that some times when a student is returning
a book I discover that it was not registered in the system although I'm
sure I did, not only me but also my colleague.
2-       If me and my colleague are entering records at the same time,
the system puts my barcode number for my colleague's book.

Is the reason that the system only handles one person per module?
By the way we are using the old version of KOHA

Tarek Mehrem
Academic Support/ Library
Sector IV
tarek.mehrem at guc.edu.eg <mailto:tarek.mehrem at guc.edu.eg>

German University in Cairo
The German University in Cairo - GUC
New Cairo City - Main Entrance Al Tagamoa Al Khames
Egypt
Tel:  +20-2-7589990-8, Fax: +20-2-7589991
www.guc.edu.eg <http://www.guc.edu.eg/>

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