[Koha] Greetings and a couple of newbie questions

Tue May 7 18:50:49 NZST 2013

Hello King Fred,

Vimal Kumars Live DVD is a great way to test Koha, even use it in
production. But I would encourage you to install koha from packages and
using Debian Squeeze. Please see
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.x_on_Debian_Squeeze I hope it
helps you.

On 6 May 2013 16:46, King, Fred <Fred.King at medstar.net> wrote:

> 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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