Re: [Koha] Completeness of records for importing

2012-08-21 Thread franc
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Galen Charlton wrote: Hi, On 08/20/2012 06:12 AM, fr...@library.iisc.ernet.in wrote: Could you please have look at the sample record given below and let me know if it is complete in all aspects or if any of the obvious and essential fields are missing. The record has

[Koha] Let's Fix It Together Update

2012-08-21 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     A little while ago, I sent this message to the listserv about improving Koha's search. http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2012-July/033634.html     There's good news. Mike Rylander and Galen Charlton have encouraged us to use some of the Evergreen community's search code.

Re: [Koha] Completeness of records for importing

2012-08-21 Thread Paul
At 02:29 PM 8/21/2012 +0530, fr...@library.iisc.ernet.in wrote: [snip] Field 008 has been generated by the MarcEdit tool. Should it be substituted with 260$c using the same tool? I did look up the LoC site to have a better understanding of the field 008. It says character position 07-10 as

Re: [Koha] Note on three suspected bugs

2012-08-21 Thread Liz Rea
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Owen Leonard oleon...@myacpl.org wrote: a) Search result pages seem to disregrad settings set in System preferences. I have set defaultSortField: callnumber defaultSortOrder: ascending OPACdefaultSortField: callnumber

[Koha] Koha 3.8.4 released

2012-08-21 Thread Chris Cormack
The Koha release team are proud to announce the release of 3.8.4. This is a maintenance release, and contains a lot of useful bug fixes. You can download the release from http://download.koha-community.org packages will be available shortly at http://debian.koha-community.org Please read below

[Koha] Koha version 3.6.8 released

2012-08-21 Thread Jared Camins-Esakov
The Koha community is proud to release Koha version 3.06.08.000. This is a bugfix release, and contains a number of important fixes You can obtain Koha 3.06.08.000 from the http://download.koha-community.org site. Debian packages will be available from the http://debian.koha-community.org shortly

Re: [Koha] Completeness of records for importing

2012-08-21 Thread franc
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Paul wrote: At 02:29 PM 8/21/2012 +0530, fr...@library.iisc.ernet.in wrote: [snip] Field 008 has been generated by the MarcEdit tool. Should it be substituted with 260$c using the same tool? I did look up the LoC site to have a better understanding of the field 008. It

Re: [Koha] Completeness of records for importing

2012-08-21 Thread Savitra Sirohi
Francis, just want to share with you what we do - which is to ignore 008. We just change zebra configuration to use 260c instead of 008 where required. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:36 AM, fr...@library.iisc.ernet.in wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Paul wrote: At 02:29 PM 8/21/2012 +0530,

Re: [Koha] Completeness of records for importing

2012-08-21 Thread Fischer, Katrin
Hi Francis, I would recommend against changing the zebra configuration and mapping of fields. It will most likely cause you some problems later on like keeping your customizations on every update and making more changes as new features get build on the data in those fields. Normally you would