January 2010 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Importing MARC Records - Missing Item Type
by Richard Forristall 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hello all - hope you had a great weekend! I've spent the better part of 2 days searching for a solution to my librarian's dilemma -- when she downloads MARC records from vendors then imports, stages and manages the records, she is having to manually enter each record's item/item type whenever she tries to checkout anything (that she hasn't yet added the item/type). I went into my troubleshoot/research mode thinking there is: 1. A standard MARC record format that all vendors use that includes the item type. 2. A standard MARC-to-Koha mapping system so the item type is automatically stored in the koha database. Being very new to library systems and Koha, I'm coming up short on answers, so I'm asking for assistance. 1. Are my above assumptions correct? If so, what, if anything do I need to do to turn on the MARC -> Koha mapping? 2. If my assumptions are wrong, what am I missing and how can I help eliminate this challenge for my librarian. Thanks in advance for taking the time out of your busy schedule to review and assist with this issue :--) Rick ------------------------------------------- Rick Forristall Programmer Analyst Goodwill of Central AZ 602.535.4078 -------------------------------------------

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Federated OPAC for Koha
by zahoor 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hello All, We have deployed Koha 3.0.2 in our university and few others universities are also using Koha in Pakistan. All those willing to collaborate with each other through some unified OPAC so that patron of one University can access catalog of all Universities in collaboration. Is it possible in Koha? Any guideline in this regard will be highly appreciated.

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by rijal.it＠gmail.com 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

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cron job for loading pictures or better option
by David Schuster 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

I have 53,000 students and a windows server in another building that I have a fileshare to. What would be the recommended way to copy those files over and load them into Koha? I have tried scp * but the problem is that it only copies what 2000 at a time and then dies. I'm a librarian looking for an easy solution without lots of programming. So here was my thought: build a cron first make the fileshare connection then issue several scp statements to copy the files over to the local server then issue the command to batch load them I have a command line utility that someone gave me to batch load pictures. I'll find someone to send it to for testing with 3.2. Next task... Thoughts? Comments - is there an easier way? manually I have copied the files over and run this command to load them I believe the utility is assuming the files are in the same directory: ./loadimages.sh - which issues perl loadimages.pl -i IDLINK.txt -l image.log from the loadimages.pl file - my(%count,$input_file,$error_file,$log_file,$sepchar,$imagedirectory); $imagedirectory = ""; -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/cron-job-for-loading-pictures-or-better-option-tp2724… Sent from the Koha - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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koha 3.0.6 soon
by LAURENT Henri-Damien 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Hi, I plan to release a 3.0.6 soon, early next week or the week after. And 3.2 will fix many things we cannot fix with this code base. Nonetheless, I plan to maintain 3.0.x as long as 3.2 is not officially released. You can already see the work in progress on 3.0.x branch of git.koha.org Translators, there are little changes from previous version. That new release would include bug fixes reserve/request.pl and more failsafe for recentacquisitions.pl . But also some enhancement such as the ability to provide a path to xslt stylesheets in sysprefs, a new systempreference to allow librarians of different branches not to see borrowers of other branch. Thanks for your efforts and feedback all. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT Release maintainer 3.0.x

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Graphics::Magick on Fedora
by Colin Campbell 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

FYI The Graphics::Magick perl module is now required for install in the community 3.2 branch hosted by biblibre. Anyone wanting to install that on Fedora will probably need the work around listed in > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527143 to get it to work. Cheers Colin -- Colin Campbell Chief Software Engineer, PTFS Europe Limited Content Management and Library Solutions +44 (0) 208 366 1295 (phone) +44 (0) 7759 633626 (mobile) colin.campbell(a)ptfs-europe.com skype: colin_campbell2 http://www.ptfs-europe.com

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Koha Offline Circulation tool
by zahoor 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Hello all, We would like to configure offline circulation on our debian installation of koha 3.0.2. Please let me know what I have to do? Our clients are running on windows but OS on server is Linux (debian). Looking to fruitful help. Thanks.

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New to Koha
by Scott Corwin 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Hi all, my name is Scott and I'm just getting started in the Koha process. I'm not a librarian nor do I have any background in the field. I'm currently testing using one of the configured appliances using version 3.00.01.005. I'll be attempting to convert our existing bibliographic database, which has no standard MARC formatting into a MARC format using MARCEdit....at least that's my plan. Thanks to all the FOSS community on this project so far looks very useful an malleable to our purposes. Scott

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Connection failed to z3950.loc.gov
by Richard Forristall 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Hi, My librarian is trying to do cataloging via z3950 server - and is getting this error: Connection failed to z3950.loc.gov (it happens with all servers). I searched Google and saw an IRC chat log that suggested trying to telnet into the server. I did that (telnet z3950.loc.gov 7090) and got this: Trying 140.147.249.38... Connected to ilsweb.loc.gov. Escape character is '^]' So it looks like I can get to the server, but I can't do it from within Koha. Has anyone else run into this problem and come up with a solution? Thanks, Rick ------------------------------------------- Rick Forristall Programmer Analyst Goodwill of Central AZ 602.535.4078 -------------------------------------------

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Koha - Searching for Lexile Range
by Richard Forristall 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Good day all! I'm new to the Koha system - we're using it for our charter high school library. We've only had it installed for about 2 months and I'm now responsible for maintenance and enhancements. In our library, we need the ability for users (high school students) to be able to search for books using a lexile number range. For example: Find all the books that have a lexile number between 100 and 200. I don't see this as an option anywhere in the advanced search so I was going to try and create the option. Here are my questions: 1. Has anyone done this yet? 2. I'm assuming there has to be something in the Zebra indexing system that allows this - being ignorant of Zebra, can anyone assist? Thanks, Rick ------------------------------------------- Rick Forristall Programmer Analyst Goodwill of Central AZ 602.535.4078 -------------------------------------------

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