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Re: [Koha-devel] Bug assignees - call for volunteers
by Bavousett, David 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

I'd be willing to take up the lead on the command-line installer components, since that's what I do a lot of. J. David Bavousett Software Engineer, Open Source & Library Systems PTFS, Inc.

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searching for phrases
by Cindy Murdock Ames 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi all, Is there a way to search for phrases in the Koha catalog, or to make Koha rank phrases higher than other search results by default? For example, if I search for "world book", in the expectation of finding World Book Encyclopedia, I get a vast number of search results (about 3,400), because the words "world" and "book" are apparently fairly common in my MARC records. I'm using 3.2 alpha with zebra, with approximately 350,000 records. There used to be a title phrase search option in the advanced search, but that doesn't seem to be there anymore. Thanks! Cindy -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cindy Murdock Ames IT Services Director Meadville Public Library | CCFLS http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org

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Question About MARC21 in koha
by Musab Alghzawi 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

*Hello all, I just wanted to know who Koha uses MARC21 exactly. I mean where is it installed in Koha, how to develop and maintain the formats of MARC21 in Koha. Thanks, Musab*

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radical mormons
by proclus＠gnu-darwin.org 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Those of you who have been following mormonism on the web for many years will probably recognize The Radical Mormon publication. This was likely the first attempt to make a web portal for latter-day saint people, and this pioneering effort helped to inspire many other sites to do likewise. Radical set itself apart as a place where devout and sincere LDS and mormons could intelligently discuss controversial doctrines in a positive light, at a time when the anti-mormon forces were very powerful on the web. The publication has been active off and on ever since that time. If you are not familiar with it, you might want to have a look at it. This site broke new ground at the time that it was started in 1999. http://proclus.tripod.com/radical/ For those who are already familiar with The Radical Mormon, you might be interested to know that the editors and contributors have recently started work on some historical information regarding the publication, which provides many links to related websites. You can have an advance look, and see as it evolves. http://proclus.tripod.com/radical/editor.html Some of you may even like to contribute something; help us fix broken links, contribute a news item, editorial, or personal story. If you were a part of the activity that spawned The Radical Mormon, you might like to submit your link for inclusion on our contributors page. Regards, proclus http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

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Integrate biometric reader and koha
by ccalle 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hello Friends Receive a great greeting. I need help, I have installed the system and need koha3.05 implement this system with the biometric reader, to authenticate users. Someone could give me an idea where to begin to integrate biometric koha. Thank you very much. Atte. Christian Jhonny Calle Jahuira

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Date::Manip - a Warning
by Colin Campbell 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Just a warning that if you install Date::Manip from CPAN you get version 6. It is a major overhaul and will not build on perls earlier than 5.10. Anyone writing code that depends on it should probably be circumspect and check Date::Manip::Changes5to6. 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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Extension of import_borrowers.pl
by Tomás 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hi everyone, I'm working on the semi-automated integration of Koha with our college student/teachers management system. Basically we're going to retreive data from that system and update patrons. The first (wrong, IMHO) thing I planned was to make my own partron_import.pl tool, and put it in our 25 koha installs. But then I realized that many could benefit from a better solution: extend the patron_import.pl script/template so it can handle URL's to retreive the data in XML or CSV. What do you think of this solution? Could it be useful for inclusion in koha if properly coded? To+ -- Aparición con vida de Jorge Julio López.

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KohaCon10 Call for Proposals
by Nicole Engard 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hello all, It's time to start coming up with ideas to present at KohaCon. Feel free to enter as many proposals as you want, https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGJjUWtHMTE2X0J0Vm5ENXlaSn… Please include valid contact information so that the program committee can contact you with further questions and/or details. Thanks a bunch, Nicole C. Engard Koha Documentation Manager KohaCon10 Program Coordinator

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feasibility of external circulation updating Koha items table availability
by Christopher Curry 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

We're implementing Aeon (a paging system that can handle requests for individual manuscript items from EAD finding aids as well as requests for mongraphs/serials) alongside Koha and we want to be able to display item availability in Koha. Since we're not using Koha's circulation system, we'll need to link Aeon and Koha so that an item checkout from Aeon sends a database UPDATE call to Koha and updates items.onloan with the desired due date (or at least, that's what I've been able to sort out by poking around). First, am I correct that updating the availability status of an item in the Koha Opac requires *only *that we update this field (items.onloan)? Second, in order to generate the SQL query, something like "UPDATE items SET onloan=2010-03-10 WHERE itemnumber=706," we'll need access to the itemnumber from within the OPAC record in order to generate the OpenURL that Aeon uses to generate requests. Is this variable available from within the opac-results.tmpl and opac-details.tmpl templates? Can someone tell me how I can call this data? On that note, does any documentation exist detailing bib/item data variables like this that can be called from within Opac templates? -- Cheers, Christopher Curry Assistant Technical Librarian / Assistant IT Officer American Philosophical Society 105 South Fifth Street Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386 Tel. (215) 599-4299 ccurry(a)amphilsoc.org <mailto:ccurry@amphilsoc.org> *For technical support, please use helpdesk(a)amphilsoc.org <mailto:helpdesk@amphilsoc.org>* Main Library number: (215)440-3400 APS website: http://www.amphilsoc.org

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Koha 3.0.5 + "Browse Shelf" issue
by Zico 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi, one of my supervisor just checked the "Browse Shelf" of 3.0.5 today and asked me about some problemetic issue. When, we go for "Browse Shelf" point, it shows some weird images there instead of showing actual book cover page. As for example: I am searching for "Computer Algorithm" book but "Browse Shelf" is showing the cover page of another book and same cover page is coming for each and every book of the shelf. I raised this issue in IRC and some of the developers told that... "it could be bug"! But, how about you? Can you please let us know if it is bug or not? If it is not bug, it will be really helpful for me if you can show me some way of solution. -- Best, Zico

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