Re: [Koha] Koha Community Newsletter: July 2015

2015-08-17 Thread Magnus Enger
Hi! On 13 August 2015 at 18:34, kohanews wrote: > I see your point -- I had two thoughts: > > 1. I can put the deadline for news submissions back to the 25th or 26th. > This will give me time to compile everything and get it out by the 28th + or > -. So August's newsletter will be released at th

Re: [Koha] follow up on: transfers to receive- home/holding branch issues

2015-08-17 Thread Barton Chittenden
I ran across a similar issue and left a report on the wiki to help find issues with differing cases in codes: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SQL_Reports_Library#Codes_differ_in_case I think that I used a similar technique to fix the offending codes. --Barton On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:12 PM

Re: [Koha] Re-catalogue a library

2015-08-17 Thread Bob Birchall
On 18/08/15 09:43, clint.deckard wrote: I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library. At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there? Thank you, Clint. Hi Clint

Re: [Koha] Re-catalogue a library

2015-08-17 Thread Jerwyn
Likewise with Riley, if you already have an a existing data and you would want to re-catalog them for some reasons I would suggest to use marcedit. 1. Export the data 2. Extract the ISBN 3. Harvest the data through z39.50 using marcedit. 4. Delete the new callnumber and combine the old one since

Re: [Koha] Re-catalogue a library

2015-08-17 Thread Riley Childs
When you say re-cataloguing do you mean that there are records in place from an old system? If so that can be accomplished with some scriptingotherwise read on: We just finished up something like this a year ago and I will say organization is important! It is also important to make sure you

[Koha] Re-catalogue a library

2015-08-17 Thread clint.deckard
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library. At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there? Thank you, Clint. -- Clint Deckard 136 Tukituki Road Ashley Clinton

Re: [Koha] follow up on: transfers to receive- home/holding branch issues

2015-08-17 Thread Paul A
Disclaimer: untested; we are not a lending library so cannot double check all possible repercussions. However, if you are convinced that your problem is limited to / caused by case sensitivity of 'homebranch' and 'holdingbranch' in your *items* records, the easy solution is to edit MySql: my

Re: [Koha] follow up on: transfers to receive- home/holding branch issues

2015-08-17 Thread Elaine Bradtke
We had a similar problem with collection codes. In the end I exported the records, ran a batch edit in MarcEdit (or a text editor) and then imported the records to overwrite the old ones. It is always safer to do this in a test instance of the catalogue first, if you have one. Though as edits go,

[Koha] Ping Kyle Hall

2015-08-17 Thread King, Fred
Hi Kyle, Could you please contact me off list? I'm trying to set up CoverFlow and either I've found some errors or I missed something vital. Happy Monday to all, --Fred Fred King Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.k...@medstar.net 202-877-6221 ORCID -0001-5266-0279

Re: [Koha] receiving serials

2015-08-17 Thread Nicole Engard
I'm not sure there is a way to do this in Koha's serials at this time. Nicole On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Koriann Workman wrote: > No it is one issues that they have combined with another so it has two > dates and two numbers like Aug. 17/24 v. 301 numbers 7 & 8. > > > > *From:* Nicole En

[Koha] follow up on: transfers to receive- home/holding branch issues

2015-08-17 Thread Amy Schuler
Hello again, thanks to Michael, Katrin and Robin for helping out a few weeks ago with my holding branch/home branch issues. I went through the exercises you all recommended, and as you might have guessed I found that for some (not all) items I have a bad homebranch and holdingbranch: Cary. The "

Re: [Koha] Global Bug Squashing Day - September 3 2015!

2015-08-17 Thread BOUIS Sonia
Hi, At Lyon 3 University, we sometimes organize Testing Days with other French Librarians. I think that it could be interesting to associate this event to a GBSD. Unfortunately, September 3d is in the middle of the start of the new university year and it will be difficult to plan a testing day