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Official Koha Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 9: September 2010
by Nicole Engard 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

The newsletter can be read online (with live links) here: http://koha-community.org/koha-newsletter-volume-1issue-9-september-2010 and subscribed to via RSS here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KohaNewsletter Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 1, Issue 9: September 2010 Table of Contents * Koha in Libraries o NHUSD Live on Koha 3 o Nîmes public libraries now live with Koha * Koha Tips & Tricks o Advanced Search Link on Cataloging Screen o Spine Label Customizations * Koha Events o Thank you to our sponsors! o 6 Weeks ’til KohaCon – Are you registered? o Powhiri at Kawiu Marae Koha in Libraries NHUSD Live on Koha 3 by Chris Hobbs New Haven Unified School District (NHUSD) in Union City, California, has completed its migration to Koha 3. NHUSD relied on the stellar support available from the Koha community as well as internal resources to successfully migrate nearly 200,000 items to Koha for 13 schools. NHUSD serves nearly 13,000 K-12 students and their families in the San Francisco Bay area. Inquiries about the project may be made to the Director of Technology at NHUSD, Chris Hobbs (chobbs(a)nhusd.k12.ca.us) Nîmes public libraries now live with Koha by Paul Poulain BibLibre announce that at the beginning of July, Nîmes Public Libraries successfully migrated from Loris to Koha and are now live. “We are very happy with Koha. We used a lot of free software for technical purposes, but it’s the first time we move to a free software for the libraries” said Niels Lor, IT Project Manager at Nîmes. “Nîmes perfectly understand that Free Software is also a matter of sharing, that’s why they are sponsoring many improvements. Some of them are already written, and will be integrated in koha 3.4, some are still underway” said Paul Poulain, BibLibre CEO. Read more… Koha Tips & Tricks Advanced Search Link on Cataloging Screen by Fridolyn Somers Q : Is it possible to put the advanced search link in the opening cataloging screen? A : Use this code in “intranetuserjs” system preference : $(document).ready(function() { $(“li$gt;form#searchform”).parent().after(“$lt;li$gt;$lt;a href=’/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl’$gt;Advanced Search$lt;/a$gt;$lt;/li$gt;”); }); It adds a link to advanced search right after the simple search textbox. Spine Label Customizations by David Schuster You can adjust the font/etc.. with the new quick spine labeler! I wanted BOLD and LARGE on my 1×1 Dymo spine. hmmm headers, footers and 10 labels came out… time to investigate… So this is what I had to do. 1. I had to go into Firefox and make a couple of modifications 2. File page Setup 3. margins&header/Footer tab and change all 4 to 0.0 4. set the header footer drop down options to blank. (Thanks to INCOLSA for these tips) Then in the SpineLabelFormat system preference I put the following. <itemcallnumber><copynumber> After I saved it BAM! a bold spine label on my Dymo 1×1 label… Way cool – thanks Chris N for this feature. Now I’m working on how I can get that on the item level screen after we add the item! ENHANCEMENT! I had to tweak some of my settings but it works! Koha Events Thank you to our sponsors! by Nicole C. Engard With KohaCon right around the corner, it is time to give recognition to our amazing sponsors. * Biblibre * Butte Public Library * Bywater Solutions * Calyx * Catalyst IT * Equinox * Horowhenua District Council * Horowhenua Library Trust * KohaAloha * Libriotech * The Library * Xercode Without these sponsors KohaCon would not only not be free, but not be possible! Join me in thanking them all for their generosity and dedication to Koha and open source. 6 Weeks ’til KohaCon – Are you registered? by Russell Garlick KohaCon10 starts on October 25th in Wellington, New Zealand. We have an exciting line up of speakers on a range of topics related to Koha and Open Source and Open Standards in libraries. See our programme for details. KohaCon10 is a free conference (that is right it will cost nothing for you to attend), but you still need to register to reserve your place. Registrations from the international Koha community have been very strong. Over half of all available spaces are already taken. If you have been holding off on the premise that you will have plenty of time to do this later, then please register now. Please do not rely on there being free spaces on the day. Registration is quick and easy via the website. http://www.kohacon10.org.nz/2010/registration/ We look forward to seeing you in Wellington. Powhiri at Kawiu Marae by Joann Ransom Koha Conference attendees are invited to Levin on the 28th October for a very special event. The Library Trust is honoured that Muaupoko, the tangata whenua or people of the land, are hosting us at Kawiu Marae following the Mayoral reception in Council chambers. This is a first for the Library Trust and the purpose of this post is to encourage Conference attendees to join us for what will be a very special evening. We will be welcomed onto the Marae in a traditional manner. This will include the karanga where we are called on the Marae, a wero or taiaha challenge (to see if we come in peace), the laying down of koha, speeches, waiata (songs) a hakari or meal and kapa haka entertainment (singing, poi, haka). Information about the various components of the powhiri and what to expect can be found here. Read more… Newsletter edited by Nicole C. Engard, Koha Documentation Manager. Please send future story ideas to nengard(a)gmail.com

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Bugzilla change - adding regression as a keyword
by Galen Charlton 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi, At Chris Nighswonger's request, I've set up a way to mark a bug as a regression. Specifically, I've defined a bugzilla keyword, "regression". This has the effect of adding a keyword field on the bug entry form and the bug search form. Please see bug 4867 for an example. There are a couple other ways we could choose to mark bugs as regressions, e.g., by defining a new severity or priority. Feedback welcome. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcharlt(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] 3.4 RFCs - Acquisitions, Serials and SDI
by Chris Cormack 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

On 14 September 2010 21:38, savitra sirohi <savitra.sirohi(a)osslabs.biz> wrote: > Henri, yes it is tricky, but here is our current plan: > > Acquisitions - currency, discounts, charges [SEPT] Regarding the discounts, did you see Robin made a note, we have already done some work on discounts, very similar to your proposal, the patch is attached to the bug. So hopefully that will save some effort :) > Serials - binding loose issues [SEPT] > Analytical Records/Article Indexing [OCT] > Acquisitions - Approvals [NOV] > Acquisitions - Payments [NOV] > SDI [DEC] > Integrating Subscriptions with Acquistions [JAN] > These all look good, in parallel we will be working on the template toolkit work. Plus the other RFC. I hope to push up a wip branch with the template toolkit work in the near future so there isn't too much double up. Chris

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Where discuss RFCs ?
by Zeno Tajoli 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi to all, I write this mail to koha and koha-devel mailing lists because this topic is quit wide. So where do you think we need to discuss RFC? An example is this RFC: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Analytic_Record_support The original post is from Bywater Then in the "talk" section there is a replay of Savitra Sirohi. I want to add my considerations also (a user asked us a develop about analytics on unimarc). But where ? In the main section of the wiki page ? In the "Talk" section ? On the mailing lists ? Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci qaunto tra AT con @)

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perl installation on centos
by rohith purushotham 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hi, Im trying to run Koha's perl installer on centos when i run this command- perl Makefile.PL .. i get the following msg... [root@koha ~]# perl Makefile.PL Can't open perl script "Makefile.PL": No such file or directory [root@koha ~]# I believe the solution to this is running the above command on -chmod... but could anyone please help me with how to run the -chmod for perl installation???? -Ro

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Amazon API Changes
by Nicole Engard 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Hi all, Got this today - do we need to make any changes to Koha code to accommodate this? ----------- Dear Product Advertising API Developer, On November 8, 2010 the Reviews response group of the Product Advertising API will no longer return customer reviews content and instead will return a link to customer reviews content hosted on Amazon.com. You will be able to display customer reviews on your site using that link. Please refer to the Product Advertising API Developer guide found here for more details. The Reviews response group will continue to function as before until November 8 and the new link to customer reviews is available to you now through the Product Advertising API as well. Thank you for advertising products for sale on Amazon.com. Sincerely, The Product Advertising API Team

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September Newsletter: Call for Articles
by Nicole Engard 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

It's that time again, the next newsletter will be published in 8 days. I need any and all announcements/tips/tricks/news/koha events sent to me by the 13th of September if I'm to get the newsletter out on time. Articles should be short and if you have a lot to say then send along a link to the full article. Remember you don't have to write a whole lot, just a short 2 liner is A-OK! Thanks in advance, Nicole C. Engard

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Another tutorial request - generating public ssh keys
by Nicole Engard 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hi all, To access the manual people need to generate public ssh keys - I used to have this documented somewhere, but can't find it. I'm wondering if someone could write up a tutorial for the wiki on how to generate a public ssh key for the various different operating systems that people might be using? Thanks in advance! Nicole

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Customizing Cataloging Screen
by charl＠prograbiz.com 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Is it possible to put the advanced search link in the opening cataloging screen? (Currently only the basic "Cataloging search" is available) Thank you!

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Signing off on Patches
by Nicole Engard 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Is there a tutorial on how to sign off on someone's patch on the wiki or elsewhere? If not, can someone write one since this is the new process we want to try and follow for all 3.4 patches? Thanks a bunch! Nicole

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