Re: [Koha] Hello

[Barton Chittenden]

Welcome to the Koha community Maite. Thanks for introducing yourself!

--Barton

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Mai  wrote:

> Hi everyone, nice to meet you!
>
> I'm Maite, a librarian from Argentina. I've been interested in Koha since
> 2009 but hadn't had the chance to use it on a working environment up until
> recently.
>
> Since mid 2017 and early 2018 I've been working on a project to implement
> Koha at one of Argentina's National Atomic Energy Commission's libraries.
>
> We're running Koha 16.11 on a test server and so far have successfully
> migrated our largest databases (books and periodicals) from CDS/ISIS. Now,
> we've moved onto customisation of patrons and circulation modules to start
> testing and tailoring Koha's behavior regardingloans, notices, etc. so I'm
> very excited about this project.
>
> Anyway, I just wanted to introduce myself and say I'm really looking
> forward to learning a lot from you guys!
>
> Best regards,
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Re: [Koha] Hello from Brimbank Libraries

[Irma Birchall]

Hi Hugh,

Very exciting that Brimbank Libraries is soon going live with Koha version
16.11.

Warm welcome !!!

With kind regards,
Irma
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On 6 September 2017 at 15:54, Hugh Rundle  wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Just thought I'd introduce myself.
>
> Brimbank Libraries are going live with Koha 16.11 in November, with
> support from Catalyst IT NZ/Australia. We're a five-branch public library
> service in the outer West of Melbourne, Australia, serving  a population of
> approx. 200,000 people.
>
> Once we're over our go-live, I'm interested in helping out with
> documentation and general Koha community-building in Australia (and maybe
> even some code further down the track). We also have a list of enhancements
> we might be able to fund in future. I've been keeping an eye on Koha for a
> few years and it's exciting to finally be joining the Koha family :-)
>
>
>
> Hugh Rundle
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Re: [Koha] Hello from Brimbank Libraries

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Hugh,

welcome to the community!

Katrin


On 06.09.2017 07:54, Hugh Rundle wrote:

Hi all

Just thought I'd introduce myself.

Brimbank Libraries are going live with Koha 16.11 in November, with support 
from Catalyst IT NZ/Australia. We're a five-branch public library service in 
the outer West of Melbourne, Australia, serving  a population of approx. 
200,000 people.

Once we're over our go-live, I'm interested in helping out with documentation 
and general Koha community-building in Australia (and maybe even some code 
further down the track). We also have a list of enhancements we might be able 
to fund in future. I've been keeping an eye on Koha for a few years and it's 
exciting to finally be joining the Koha family :-)



Hugh Rundle
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Re: [Koha] Hello

[Tajoli Zeno]

Hi,

Il 18/04/2017 15:49, Brian Trippodo ha scritto:

Hi everyone!  My name is Brian and I just started working at Queens University 
of Charlotte two weeks ago.  For the past 10 ½ years
I had been working for an Innovative library using Millennium & Sierra.  I'm 
very excited about learning all about a new ILS and
making sure Koha is being utilize in the most effective manner possible.

So far, I've been listening to some webinars about the 16.11 release, looking 
at the manual, and I also found a Koha newbie wiki.
 But, I was wondering if any of you wonderful people might have some 
suggestions on other resources to help me get up to speed on
all things Koha?  Thanks in advance for any suggestions you all might have!


explore all link of ByWater Education section:
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About costumization:
https://www.myacpl.org/koha/category/koha/

in general:
http://kohageek.blogspot.it/
http://blog.l2c2.co.in/

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Re: [Koha] Hello

[Nathan Cluff]

I found my notes on my previous version of Koha, it was running
3.08.01.000.  The last time I fired up the old server, I was able to export
spine labels to PDF without the export process capitalizing everything.  On
the new server (with imported database from the old server) version
16.05.05.00 whenever I export my spine labels something in the process is
changing the capitalization.  I am not sure where to start looking for why
this is happening.

Nathan Cluff

System Administrator

Arizona State University

School of Earth and Space Exploration

P.O. Box 6004

Tempe, Arizona  85281
P: 480-727-2149 | C: 480-593-2502

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Nathan Cluff  wrote:

> Hello Koha community,
>
> I am a system administrator at Arizona State University and have inherited
> a Koha database.  I have been wanting to dabble in Koha for a while so now
> I am jumping into a full live database.  The original setup was running
> Koha 3.x (sorry I don't have the original version readily available) but I
> am updating hardware and software for the library and in doing so we are
> now using Koha 16.05.
>
> Now the reason for the posting, everything appears to have imported
> properly into the new build but one problem I am having is when exporting
> spine labels to PDF it capitalizes everything.  When I view the item
> record, go through the quick spine label creator or export to csv the
> capitalization is correct.  I have not been able to find where to change
> this.
>
> Thank you
>
> Nathan Cluff
>
> System Administrator
>
> Arizona State University
>
> School of Earth and Space Exploration
>
> P.O. Box 6004
>
> Tempe, Arizona  85281
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Re: [Koha] Hello

[Christopher Davis]

Nathan,

Welcome to the Koha Community :-)

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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Nathan Cluff  wrote:
> Hello Koha community,
>
> I am a system administrator at Arizona State University and have inherited
> a Koha database.  I have been wanting to dabble in Koha for a while so now
> I am jumping into a full live database.  The original setup was running
> Koha 3.x (sorry I don't have the original version readily available) but I
> am updating hardware and software for the library and in doing so we are
> now using Koha 16.05.
>
> Now the reason for the posting, everything appears to have imported
> properly into the new build but one problem I am having is when exporting
> spine labels to PDF it capitalizes everything.  When I view the item
> record, go through the quick spine label creator or export to csv the
> capitalization is correct.  I have not been able to find where to change
> this.
>
> Thank you
>
> Nathan Cluff
>
> System Administrator
>
> Arizona State University
>
> School of Earth and Space Exploration
>
> P.O. Box 6004
>
> Tempe, Arizona  85281
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Re: [Koha] hello

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Welcome! And good luck with the cataloging. I hope Z39.50 is working for 
you--cataloging a library from scratch can be a long, long task.

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Hello,

My name is Vasiliki, I am a librarian from Greece and I am new to Koha. I
have recently configured Koha to the best of my abilities and I am
cataloging my library's collection from scratch. I have joined this mail
list to contact fellow Koha users and to get answers to my many questions.

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Re: [Koha] hello

[BASIRU ADETOMIWA]

Welcome Vasiliki, greetings from Nigeria.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:09 PM, vikram zadgaonkar <
vikramczadgaon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey! Welcome to community.
>
> Vikram Zadgaonkar
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Vasiliki Mela  wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > My name is Vasiliki, I am a librarian from Greece and I am new to Koha. I
> > have recently configured Koha to the best of my abilities and I am
> > cataloging my library's collection from scratch. I have joined this mail
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> questions.
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Re: [Koha] hello

[vikram zadgaonkar]

Hey! Welcome to community.

Vikram Zadgaonkar

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Vasiliki Mela  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My name is Vasiliki, I am a librarian from Greece and I am new to Koha. I
> have recently configured Koha to the best of my abilities and I am
> cataloging my library's collection from scratch. I have joined this mail
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>
> Best regards,
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Re: [Koha] hello

[Joy Nelson]

Welcome Vasiliki!

-joy

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Vasiliki Mela  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My name is Vasiliki, I am a librarian from Greece and I am new to Koha. I
> have recently configured Koha to the best of my abilities and I am
> cataloging my library's collection from scratch. I have joined this mail
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Re: [Koha] Hello from Vermont

[Joy Nelson]

Have at it!  I do most of my manipulations with perl scripts, so I
understand what you are talking about.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Mark Alexander  wrote:

> Excerpts from Joy Nelson's message of 2016-08-29 09:25:05 -0500:
> > If you don't have MarcEdit, I would suggest getting a copy.
>
> I did look at that briefly.  It looks like a decent tool, but I was a
> bit put off by the Mono requirement.  Plus I wasn't sure it was
> capable of doing the regexp matching / mass modification / consistency
> checking stuff I'm doing in my own Ruby scripts.
>
> As an example, I've written some code to figure out the Koha item type
> from various fields in our MARC records.  I'm learning that our
> records are not consistent by any means.  Sometimes a DVD is marked as
> such in 245$h (with wildly varying strings), sometimes in 347$b
> (again, with lots of variants), and sometimes in 852$h.  It was pretty
> simple to write some code to check for these various fields and do the
> right thing.
>
> I realize that this approach might look crazy, but I'm a Unix guy
> from way back in the 80s, and old habits die hard :-) .
>



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Re: [Koha] Hello from Vermont

[Mark Alexander]

Excerpts from Joy Nelson's message of 2016-08-29 09:25:05 -0500:
> If you don't have MarcEdit, I would suggest getting a copy.

I did look at that briefly.  It looks like a decent tool, but I was a
bit put off by the Mono requirement.  Plus I wasn't sure it was
capable of doing the regexp matching / mass modification / consistency
checking stuff I'm doing in my own Ruby scripts.

As an example, I've written some code to figure out the Koha item type
from various fields in our MARC records.  I'm learning that our
records are not consistent by any means.  Sometimes a DVD is marked as
such in 245$h (with wildly varying strings), sometimes in 347$b
(again, with lots of variants), and sometimes in 852$h.  It was pretty
simple to write some code to check for these various fields and do the
right thing.

I realize that this approach might look crazy, but I'm a Unix guy
from way back in the 80s, and old habits die hard :-) . 
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Re: [Koha] Hello from Vermont

[catalog]

around with it.  I've exported our
catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump.  Now I'm
figuring out what I need to do to import these records and correctly
set things like the item call number and item type.  I may ask some
questions later if I get stuck.

--Mark


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Salvete!



> So to see what it would take for us to build our own Koha installation
> from scratch, I installed 16.05 (using git) in an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual
> machine and have started to play around with it.  I've exported our
> catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump.  Now I'm
> figuring out what I need to do to import these records and correctly
> set things like the item call number and item type.  I may ask some
> questions later if I get stuck.


    Please ask away! 


    You'll want to sit down with your Librarian at this stage and see how they 
want stuff set up. It's much better to try it, refine it, then do it again if 
needs be then set stuff up only to find out that they want it totally 
different. VM is a nice way to go for that, since you can exploderate your less 
than desireable outcomes at a tiny penalty.


    Reading the cataloguing bit of the manual may help, or it may induce nausea.

http://translate.koha-community.org/manual/master/en/html-desktop/#cataloging

Cheers,
Brooke


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Welcome Mark! 
I worked on some mandarin data in the past. Let me know if you have any 
questions

-Joy

Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 28, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Mark Alexander  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a retired software geek, now living in a small town in Vermont
> after many years in Silicon Valley.  I've been using Linux on my own
> computers for 20 years, and have hacked on everything from microkernels
> in assembly language to web apps in Ruby on Rails.
> 
> I also spent a year in NZ as a child and still consider it as my first
> home, and miss it very much, though I've not been back since.  It's
> cool to see such great open source software originating from my old
> homeland.
> 
> Our town library currently uses proprietary software from Mandarin,
> but I've been investigating what it would take to convert to Koha.
> Many libraries here in Vermont are in a consortium that is using Koha
> hosted by a commercial vendor.  But the consortium is closed to
> new members.
> 
> So to see what it would take for us to build our own Koha installation
> from scratch, I installed 16.05 (using git) in an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual
> machine and have started to play around with it.  I've exported our
> catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump.  Now I'm
> figuring out what I need to do to import these records and correctly
> set things like the item call number and item type.  I may ask some
> questions later if I get stuck.
> 
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Re: [Koha] Hello from Vermont

[King, Fred]

Welcome to Koha! One of the reasons I was able to convince my employers to 
switch to Koha was that I presented them with a demo that consisted of a 
fully-functional system. Sounds like you're on your way. As for tweaking it, I 
agree with Brooke--set up a virtual system (or several--one barebones, one 
that's configured for your library, one with data, etc.) and keep playing 
around until it's perfect.

And feel free to ask questions. Someone here usually knows the answer.

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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2016 6:22 PM
To: koha
Subject: [Koha] Hello from Vermont

Hi all,

I'm a retired software geek, now living in a small town in Vermont
after many years in Silicon Valley.  I've been using Linux on my own
computers for 20 years, and have hacked on everything from microkernels
in assembly language to web apps in Ruby on Rails.

I also spent a year in NZ as a child and still consider it as my first
home, and miss it very much, though I've not been back since.  It's
cool to see such great open source software originating from my old
homeland.

Our town library currently uses proprietary software from Mandarin,
but I've been investigating what it would take to convert to Koha.
Many libraries here in Vermont are in a consortium that is using Koha
hosted by a commercial vendor.  But the consortium is closed to
new members.

So to see what it would take for us to build our own Koha installation
from scratch, I installed 16.05 (using git) in an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual
machine and have started to play around with it.  I've exported our
catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump.  Now I'm
figuring out what I need to do to import these records and correctly
set things like the item call number and item type.  I may ask some
questions later if I get stuck.

--Mark
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Re: [Koha] Hello from Vermont

[Joy Nelson]

Hi Mark,
If you don't have MarcEdit, I would suggest getting a copy.  It is a free
download.  It has a built in marc-8 to utf-8 converter.  It also has a lot
of other tools for manipulating your records.  I would suggest creating the
item tags (and moving data around) prior to importing the marc into Koha.
You'll be able to view your data and the item information prior to
importing. That is how I prefer to work with the data.

Thanks,
Joy

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Mark Alexander  wrote:

> Excerpts from Joy Nelson's message of 2016-08-28 18:23:32 -0500:
> > I worked on some mandarin data in the past. Let me know if you have any
> questions
>
> Thanks, all, for the kind welcome and advice!
>
> Right now I'm working on a couple of things:
>
> 1. To set the item call number on import, I think I can use the Koha
> cataloging preference "itemcallnumber".  It looks like setting
> it to "852khi" would work for our Mandarin records.
>
> 2. To set the item type, I think I can use the MARC field 245$h, which
> in our Mandarin installation contains things like "[sound recording]",
> "[videorecording]", etc.  It looks like the MARC Modification
> Templates, with their regular expressions, have enough power this
> without my having to write a converter.  (I've already written a
> MARC-8 to UTF-8 converter in Ruby, so writing another converter
> wouldn't be too hard, but it'd be nice for our librarian to be able to
> do imports on her Windows box.)
>
> I should stop fretting and just go ahead and try this out :-) .
>



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Re: [Koha] Hello from Vermont

[Mark Alexander]

Excerpts from Joy Nelson's message of 2016-08-28 18:23:32 -0500:
> I worked on some mandarin data in the past. Let me know if you have any 
> questions

Thanks, all, for the kind welcome and advice!

Right now I'm working on a couple of things:

1. To set the item call number on import, I think I can use the Koha
cataloging preference "itemcallnumber".  It looks like setting
it to "852khi" would work for our Mandarin records.

2. To set the item type, I think I can use the MARC field 245$h, which
in our Mandarin installation contains things like "[sound recording]",
"[videorecording]", etc.  It looks like the MARC Modification
Templates, with their regular expressions, have enough power this
without my having to write a converter.  (I've already written a
MARC-8 to UTF-8 converter in Ruby, so writing another converter
wouldn't be too hard, but it'd be nice for our librarian to be able to
do imports on her Windows box.)

I should stop fretting and just go ahead and try this out :-) .
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Re: [Koha] Hello from Vermont

[Bob Birchall]

HI Mark,
Welcome to the Koha community.

I've heard that git installs are not recommended as the production 
environment (though fine of course for your current exploration). The 
recommended method to install Koha in production environments is from 
Debian packages.  There is info on the wiki: 
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian


Again welcome.  Koha is awesome.  I hope it works out for your library.

Regards,
Bob Birchall
Calyx

On 29/08/16 08:21, Mark Alexander wrote:

Hi all,

I'm a retired software geek, now living in a small town in Vermont
after many years in Silicon Valley.  I've been using Linux on my own
computers for 20 years, and have hacked on everything from microkernels
in assembly language to web apps in Ruby on Rails.

I also spent a year in NZ as a child and still consider it as my first
home, and miss it very much, though I've not been back since.  It's
cool to see such great open source software originating from my old
homeland.

Our town library currently uses proprietary software from Mandarin,
but I've been investigating what it would take to convert to Koha.
Many libraries here in Vermont are in a consortium that is using Koha
hosted by a commercial vendor.  But the consortium is closed to
new members.

So to see what it would take for us to build our own Koha installation
from scratch, I installed 16.05 (using git) in an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual
machine and have started to play around with it.  I've exported our
catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump.  Now I'm
figuring out what I need to do to import these records and correctly
set things like the item call number and item type.  I may ask some
questions later if I get stuck.

--Mark
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Re: [Koha] Hello from Vermont

[Joy Nelson]

Welcome Mark! 
I worked on some mandarin data in the past. Let me know if you have any 
questions

-Joy

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> On Aug 28, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Mark Alexander  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a retired software geek, now living in a small town in Vermont
> after many years in Silicon Valley.  I've been using Linux on my own
> computers for 20 years, and have hacked on everything from microkernels
> in assembly language to web apps in Ruby on Rails.
> 
> I also spent a year in NZ as a child and still consider it as my first
> home, and miss it very much, though I've not been back since.  It's
> cool to see such great open source software originating from my old
> homeland.
> 
> Our town library currently uses proprietary software from Mandarin,
> but I've been investigating what it would take to convert to Koha.
> Many libraries here in Vermont are in a consortium that is using Koha
> hosted by a commercial vendor.  But the consortium is closed to
> new members.
> 
> So to see what it would take for us to build our own Koha installation
> from scratch, I installed 16.05 (using git) in an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual
> machine and have started to play around with it.  I've exported our
> catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump.  Now I'm
> figuring out what I need to do to import these records and correctly
> set things like the item call number and item type.  I may ask some
> questions later if I get stuck.
> 
> --Mark
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Re: [Koha] Hello from Vermont

[BWS Johnson]

Salvete!



> So to see what it would take for us to build our own Koha installation
> from scratch, I installed 16.05 (using git) in an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual
> machine and have started to play around with it.  I've exported our
> catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump.  Now I'm
> figuring out what I need to do to import these records and correctly
> set things like the item call number and item type.  I may ask some
> questions later if I get stuck.


 Please ask away! 


 You'll want to sit down with your Librarian at this stage and see how they 
want stuff set up. It's much better to try it, refine it, then do it again if 
needs be then set stuff up only to find out that they want it totally 
different. VM is a nice way to go for that, since you can exploderate your less 
than desireable outcomes at a tiny penalty.


 Reading the cataloguing bit of the manual may help, or it may induce 
nausea.

http://translate.koha-community.org/manual/master/en/html-desktop/#cataloging

Cheers,
Brooke
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Re: [Koha] Hello & first question

[Bob Birchall]

Welcome to the Koha community, Margaret.

You won't want to 'move' your journals from the catalogue - they'll need 
to be there for searching and reference.  The serials module refers to 
records already in the catalogue and is used to keep track of 
serials-related actions (like receiving the current issue, or 
maintaining a routing list).  The manual has a chapter on this:

http://translate.koha-community.org/manual/3.20/en/html-desktop/#serials
and an implementation guide:
http://translate.koha-community.org/manual/3.20/en/html-desktop/#impserials

I hope this is helpful.
Bob Birchall
Calyx



On 05/01/16 22:44, Margaret Irons wrote:

Hello

Happy new year to all.

Just want to introduce myself.

We are a research library in Dublin Ireland and we migrated from 
Heritage to Koha just before Christmas. So it's all still very new.


First question - all our journals have come across into the cataloging 
module and we want to move them to the serials module (is module the 
right word?). Anyone know how this can be done?



Thank you

Margaret






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Re: [Koha] Hello

[Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel]

Tim,
you are welcome!!

For any question you have, this is the right list.
Also you could get answers on IRC (
http://koha-community.org/get-involved/irc/)

And finally, you could consider contacting some of the companies that
provides Koha support,
(in usa http://koha-community.org/support/paid-support/country/#usa)

Best regards,
Bernardo
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Tim Skeers wrote:

> Recently I subscribed to the list, and the welcome message suggested a
> short post introducing myself so I thought I would do that. I hope I am
> using the right address!
>
> I am a cataloger at Iowa Library Services, the agency formerly (and sort
> of still) known as the State Library of Iowa. We are a division under the
> State Department of Education. The new name reflects a reorganization that
> brought a formerly separate, statewide commission of regional library
> service areas and us together into the same agency. We run a depository
> program for State of Iowa government publications and my main job is to
> catalog them. It is mostly original cataloging but some copy cataloging as
> well. I also handle anything else that turns up needing original cataloging
> and I do some work with retrospective projects in the State Law Library
> collections.
>
> The reason for joining the list is that we are in the process of
> transitioning our catalog from Sirsi/Dynix Horizon to Koha. We have been
> learning quite a bit but there is a lot yet to learn and a lot of work
> ahead of us for a successful conversion. I have some questions right now
> that I am thinking of posting to the list but plan to peruse the archives a
> little more first to see if I can find some of what I need there.
>
> Koha seems very cool so far and we are looking forward to being in the
> community, even with all the work it will take to get there!
>
> Best,
>
> Tim
>
>
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Re: [Koha] Hello

[Chris Nighswonger]

Please always use the mailing list as you will have access to a larger
pool of resources there.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:26 AM, afanasie mihailov
 wrote:
> I have a error with label barcode printing in koha 3.2.5, after I save
> a pdf file, and I open this file I give this "There was an error
> opening this document. The file is demaged could not repaired", when I
> export another title whitout utf-8 characters to printing label
> barcode all is well.
>

Here is the error embedded in the pdf you attached:

%PDF-1.4
%âãÏÓ
4 0 
obj<>endobj
5 0 
obj<>endobj
6 0 
obj<>endobj
Software error:
Wide character in compress at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/PDF/Reuse.pm line 819


For help, please send mail to the webmaster (mailto:webmaster@biblioteca";>webmaster@biblioteca), giving
this error message
and the time and date of the error.



This is due to the well-known utf-8 issues one encounters when
encoding text in pdf format. This is pretty much a "won't fix" bug in
Koha. I recently submitted a fix which will cure most errors of this
nature, but will *not* cure the actual unicode problems. You will need
to upgrade to the latest 3.2.x or 3.4.x release to get the fix.

Kind Regards,
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Re: [Koha] Hello to all!

[Walker Blackwell]

> 
> The problems reported here are from people who didn't use the INSTALL file
> that comes with Koha. So I recommend using that, in this case (ubuntu) the
> INSTALL.ubuntu or INSTALL.ubuntu.lucid.
> 

I used the INSTALL.ubuntu file from the git source. Worked well!

All the best,
Walker


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Re: [Koha] Hello to all!

[Chris Cormack]

On 28 Apr 2011 05:07, "Tomas Cohen Arazi"  wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Kurt Bodling 
wrote:
> > Walker,
> >
> > Since it sounds like some others have had trouble (for various reasons)
either upgrading or installing in Ubuntu, could you follow-up with some
specifics regarding just what kind of set up you had before, and what you
did to install with zero problems -- as a guide to those following in your
footsteps.
>
> People are reporting problems using debian packages, stock install
> following INSTALL.ubuntu.lucid included in the source works like a
> charm here.

Id be amazed if someone managed to install 3.4.0 from packages, since a
package for it doesn't exist yet. So no I dont think its that :)

The problems reported here are from people who didn't use the INSTALL file
that comes with Koha. So I recommend using that, in this case (ubuntu) the
INSTALL.ubuntu or INSTALL.ubuntu.lucid.

And of course download.koha-community.org is where you should grab the
tarball from. Basically if it hasnt come from a .koha-community.org site
(either git or download) its not really Koha, thats where all official
releases are from, accept no imitations :)

Chris
>
> Regards
> To+
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Re: [Koha] Hello to all!

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Kurt Bodling  wrote:
> Walker,
>
> Since it sounds like some others have had trouble (for various reasons) 
> either upgrading or installing in Ubuntu, could you follow-up with some 
> specifics regarding just what kind of set up you had before, and what you did 
> to install with zero problems -- as a guide to those following in your 
> footsteps.

People are reporting problems using debian packages, stock install
following INSTALL.ubuntu.lucid included in the source works like a
charm here.

Regards
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Re: [Koha] Hello to all!

[Kurt Bodling]

Walker,

Since it sounds like some others have had trouble (for various reasons) either 
upgrading or installing in Ubuntu, could you follow-up with some specifics 
regarding just what kind of set up you had before, and what you did to install 
with zero problems -- as a guide to those following in your footsteps.

That is, were you upgrading? From which version of Koha?  Where did you get 
your 3.4 from? Did you follow any particular set of instructions? Which? And so 
on.

Thanks (from an Ubuntu user at home, but not work)

Kurt A. Bodling


> -Original Message-
> From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-
> boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Walker Blackwell
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 12:54 PM
> To: Koha listserv
> Subject: [Koha] Hello to all!
> 
> Hey everyone. I'd just like to introduce myself. I'm a lab tech at
> University of Vermont and started getting interested in Koha as an
> equipment cage management solution around v2. It just works way better
> than anything else I've tried!
> 
> Anyway, congrats to all those hard workers who got 3.4 out! I installed
> it last night on Ubuntu 10.04 with zero problems.
> 
> One question, has anyone got Koha to work with Shibboleth? Many
> institutions (like mine) are sheathing their LDAP authentication behind
> a Shibboleth layer. I found a few notes about it on a Koha 4 ideas page
> on the internet but nothing else so far.
> 
> All the best!
> Walker Blackwell
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