February 2009 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Helping public libraries automate & standardize with Koha..
by Koustubha Kale 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Hi, We have established www.granthalaya.org a union catalouge of public libraries in Konkan region Maharashtra, India. We have five libraries to start with.We aim to cover as many of the hundreds of public libraries in the region as possible. The site is on Koha 3.0. Our heartfelt thanks to the Koha community for making this possible. Through it we also aim to help public libraries in the region to automate and standardize their operations by helping them switch-to / install Koha, help them to migrate their data from other software to koha, help them convert their Indian Language catalouges into Unicode, train the staff to use koha for all library operations. Ultimately to interconnect all libraries on same platform. Please do visit www.granthalaya.org and let us have your feedback, suggestions and help. -- Regards, Koustubha Kale

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Please help: MARC error..cannot view in catalog
by wahyu prasetyo 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Dear all, I have problem with koha installed in my XP server. I am trying to add the biblio, and it work.. Save in and add item work also but when I want to view in catalog, MARC will not show up and the data will not save in catalog. Thanks. Regard. Wahyu Mencari semua teman di Yahoo! Messenger? Undang teman dari Hotmail, Gmail ke Yahoo! Messenger dengan mudah sekarang! http://id.messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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Video: searching for books with Z39.50 (khh)
by Krishnan M 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Yes, there's more! i created a video tutorial to illustrate searching for MARC records in batch mode on Z39.50 servers. We use TerryReese's MarcEdit client, ...find it all at http://krishnanm.org/khh/z3950 Please send your feedback using the contact form at khh Best regards, krishnan mani Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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Launching k's helping hand
by Krishnan M 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Hello friends, In helping a friend install Koha in a location with no Internet access whatsoever, we created some DVDs with everything to get Koha up and running. Soon, more people wanted Koha and we ended up making copies and adding some video tutorials, to make a complete self-sufficient package. Now, we want to make the whole deal available to anyone that would like to try Koha through an initiative: "k's helping hand" So, come and get your Koha discs hot off the burners! See http://krishnanm.com/khh We can ship copies to pretty much anyplace in India (and beyond?). Each set has three discs, one to install Fedora 9, another with all that Koha needs, and a third with video tutorials on it. You may optionally send us some small amount to cover shipping and media costs, but we are not good at math.... KHH is brought to you courtesy Prashant Kulkarni and krishnan mani in Pune, India More from khh in announcements after this one... regards, krishnan mani Pune, India Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/

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HOW-TO install Koha 3 on Fedora 9 (khh)
by Krishnan M 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

If you've been to http://krishnanm.com/khh, you know we are sending out DVDs with installables for Fedora 9, Koha 3, resources, video tutorials, and so on. We're also making most of the material available on the Internet. Coming up first is a HOW-TO install Koha 3 on Fedora 9 The instructions and resource files are at: http://krishnanm.org/khh/resources You probably want to see the .pdf and .txt versions of the HOW-TO first. We think this is comprehensive, but you be the judge. Enjoy, and please send your feedback using the contact form. Its taking us some time to edit and upload the videos in lengths that YouTube will accept. But, of course, you can just request the set of DVDs with everything on it, at khh Regards, krishnan mani Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/

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www.koha.org contains test pages
by Andrew Elwell 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Hi folks, can someone tidy (or update with real content...) the following pages on the koha website? (discovered using the 'site map' option in the top left hand corner) http://www.koha.org/about-koha/features/general-features/index.html http://www.koha.org/about-koha/features/general-features/forthcoming.html http://www.koha.org/about-koha/features/general-features/roadmap.html http://www.koha.org/about-koha/features/general-features/current-forthcomin… also visible with a quick google: site:www.koha.org "Lorem ipsum" Andrew

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Re: [Koha-devel] Item Type Images have various sizes
by Michael Hafen 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

I see. It would be good to find out how many libraries use the liblime-kids set. I don't think that's really necessary though. The complaints I'm getting from my librarians involve the bridge set. The padding is perfect for the npl set, but not for the bridge set. The images interfere with the location because the padding is not enough to accommodate the image. And it doesn't look good. As nice as it would be to be able to accommodate different sizes of icons, such flexibility is not always the best way to go. In this case we have to consider the use of space in the item cell of the search results table. As I see it the other options are to increase the padding to make room for the larger icons, or have the padding be variable based on the which icon is used for the item type. Increasing the padding would leave excess space around the smaller icons. Having the padding be variable would not be a trivial programming feat in my opinion. Also the item information cells would be a little less uniform in appearance. I'm prepared to increase the padding uniformly to make space for the bridge set. On the other hand I'm not using the liblime-kids set. So it's a small increase. This doesn't seem like the best possible solution to me though. I'm correcting a symptom of the larger problem that the template doesn't know how big the icon is going to be. I would prefer to either have one size of icon or have the item type icons tell the template how much space they need. I'll admit that it is nice to have the larger icons for the kids ( to this end one of my librarians has asked me to increase the font size on the opac ). So, in my opinion, it would be best to have variable padding with the icons. I just don't look forward to trying to code that. I think the best way would be to have it statically set. That way we would save the time it takes to parse the image to find it's width. On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:14 -0500, Galen Charlton wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Michael Hafen <mdhafen(a)tech.washk12.org> wrote: > > I think it would be best to standardize on a size for these images, so > > that the css can be set once and look right. > > I would prefer that we accommodate different sizes for the icons > rather than settle for just one "standard" size. I'm not sure how > many libraries are using the liblime-kids set, but the icons in it are > larger than npl or bridge to support a common design pattern for > childrens' OPACs. > > Regards, > > Galen -- Michael Hafen Systems Analyst and Programmer Washington County School District Utah, USA for Koha checkout http://koha-dev.washk12.org or git://koha-dev.washk12.org/koha

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How to search by item type
by Rafael Antonio 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Dear all, I have an item type 'PE' but when I do a search at database ECONOS I receive the following message: No results match your search for 'kw,wrdl: bol%' with limit(s): 'mc-itype :PE' in *ECONOS* . Where is the problem. Must I fill any column with item type? Thanks, Rafael

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Koha at GNUNIFY'09
by Krishnan M 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

GNUNIFY'09 is on the 13th and 14th of February at Pune See http://gnunify.in/ Prashant Kulkarni and myself are hosting a session on Koha, at least on the 13th, and perhaps even on the 14th, when we expect a large audience from academic world. Be there! Also, watch this space for some more announcements tonight... regards, krishnan mani Pune, India Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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RFC: Multiple hold requests (revisited)
by Stephen G. Edwards 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

I am a new developer working on some 3.2 items for the Howard County Library. I'm trying to tackle an RFC that was published a while ago. It specifies the ability to request holds on multiple items at one time. I have just updated the wiki with new details: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2:rfc32_place_hold_mu… After studying the code a while, I think I have a handle on an approach. I wanted to give the community the opportunity to offer warnings, advice, or ridicule, as warranted. As the wiki implies, these are the things I thought I would need to change to implement the biggest piece, which is to allow multiple holds from the search results page: 1. Add a "Place Hold" button to the search results page. I did this in my sandbox by tweaking "opac-results.tmpl" and "basket.js" (trying to mirror the flow of the "Save" button's functionality). Use this to pass the list of checked biblio numbers to the "opac-reserve.pl" script. 2. Redesign the "opac-reserve.tmpl" template to allow for a list of biblio items, rather than just one. For each biblio, allow the selection of "next available" or "particular item" (if allowed). 3. Update "opac-reserve.pl" to handle multiple biblio numbers and the new template. Is there any reason I shouldn't proceed (carefully) along these lines? I've also noticed what appear to be some irregularities in the behavior of this feature as it is currently implemented in 3.2. I don't know if it is due to the code or my lack of understanding. First, when selecting a "Place Hold" link on the results page, the "opac-reserve.pl" script appears to get called twice on the server with the same arguments. I understand that several round trips are made through the same script to implement the overall flow, but I cannot figure out why just one click causes it to be called twice. The second call appears to be redundant, unless I'm missing something. Also, the end of the "opac-reserve.tmpl" template has a section that appears to be dead code. It is guarded by a check for the "item_types_selected" template variable, but I can't find anyplace that this could be set. The second official trip through the perl script results in a redirect to "opac-user.pl", so the "opac- reserve.tmpl" never even gets used more than once during the flow (at least as far as I can see). Any thoughts on all this are appreciated. -Steve --- Stephen Edwards Alloy Computing, LLC sedwards(a)alloycomputing.com

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