[Koha] Circulation History of a given item

2012-07-17 Thread amutsikiwa
Hi I have a site running Koha. Our circulation staff are making errors of stamping the wrong date on date slips, misleading the patrons. I would want to have a query that accepts the barcode of a book and displays the last five or so circulation history of a given item, displaying the staff m

Re: [Koha] Circulation History of a given item

2012-07-17 Thread MJ Ray
"amutsikiwa" > I have a site running Koha. Our circulation staff are making errors of > stamping the wrong date on date slips, misleading the patrons. I would want > to have a query that accepts the barcode of a book and displays the last > five or so circulation history of a given item, display

Re: [Koha] Has anyone created a FAQ for the OPAC?

2012-07-17 Thread Nicole Engard
If anyone has this type of document I'd gladly integrate it in to the manual with proper credit given to the author. If not, then I can start one with all of your help - send me the most frequently asked questions and answers (if you know the answers) and I'll write it up. Nicole On Tue, Jul 17,

[Koha] Sandbox improved

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Poulain
Hello Koha users & developers, Irma & Bob, from Calyx sent me a file with some MARC21 records. I just added them on the MARC21 database you can load in sandboxes. So if you choose database 1 (MARC21) when setting up your sandbox, you will have 101 biblios and 130+ items. For more informations: ht

[Koha] RLIN

2012-07-17 Thread Paul
I can't find anything in the documentation about RLIN, nor can I find it in the sql schema, so am looking for some assistance, please. First (enquiring mind) what does the abbreviation stand for? Secondly, if I understand correctly, it is used for indexing authority entries, but how can it be

Re: [Koha] RLIN

2012-07-17 Thread Nicole Engard
Paul, There is no more RLIN (although I now the references are still there in the frameworks). In 2006 RLIN was merged with OCLC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Libraries_Group Nicole On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Paul wrote: > I can't find anything in the documentation about RLIN, n

Re: [Koha] Has anyone created a FAQ for the OPAC?

2012-07-17 Thread Hal Bright
http://www.farmingtonlibraries.org/usingthecatalog.html I swiped this off of Henry Bankhead at Los Gatos and modified it for our library. Hal Harold Bright Director of Information Services Farmington Libraries - 6 Monteith Drive Farmington, CT 06032 - hbri...@farmingtonlibraries.org W 860-673-6

Re: [Koha] RLIN

2012-07-17 Thread Paul
At 09:45 AM 7/17/2012 -0400, Nicole Engard wrote: Paul, There is no more RLIN (although I now the references are still there in the frameworks). In 2006 RLIN was merged with OCLC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Libraries_Group Thanks Nicole. Good background (shame that our budget doesn

Re: [Koha] RLIN

2012-07-17 Thread Jared Camins-Esakov
Paul, Thanks Nicole. Good background (shame that our budget doesn't permit full > membership of WorldCat) but I'm still looking for the technical background > for ease of cataloguing. Am I correct in summarizing: > > - the "RLIN" is not searchable, per se, and its appearance in the > GUI

[Koha] "location" after search incorrect

2012-07-17 Thread Shelley & Kurt Kemperman
Our server went down and has been replaced. Data appears to be mostly intact. When I search, I get the list of results, but the location column will say "No items available" (not sure if this is exact wording) for most results, even though they are checked in. The occasional result will

Re: [Koha] expressions of interest for Koha sip enhancement

2012-07-17 Thread Petrus van Bork
Dear Chris inter alia: We wrote a start/stop script two months ago for SIP but stopped final development as it was interrupted by high-priority activities. Currently, we have the complete script but it has not passed testing (ie does not yet work right) and

Re: [Koha] expressions of interest for Koha sip enhancement

2012-07-17 Thread Owen Leonard
> Currently, we have the complete script but it has > not passed testing (ie does not yet work right) and we will be getting back > to that in late July/early Aug. Hope this helps. It would help if the work in progress were posted to a public git repo. Then anyone who was interested could contribu

Re: [Koha] Request to list as paid supporter

2012-07-17 Thread Liz Rea
This request has been completed. Liz Rea On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Anthony Mao wrote: > Hi, > > I am Chinese Translator at Taiwan. There was a company listed as paid > supporter at Taiwan. It was removed for some reason. Could you > kindly list my organization as paid supporter at Taiwa

Re: [Koha] Has anyone created a FAQ for the OPAC?

2012-07-17 Thread Liz Rea
It's not a FAQ, but we do have a section on "patron training" at http://www.nexpresslibrary.org/training/patron-training/ It includes such things as bookmarks for common tasks, and handouts for patrons. Might be useful for you. :) Liz Rea On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Cathi Wiggins wrote:

[Koha] Newbie

2012-07-17 Thread Tony Morton
Hi Just a note to introduce myself. I am the Senior Librarian at Waimate District Library (South Canterbury New Zealand). We have just gone live with Koha. I am still very much a newbie and I am looking forward to when I can say that I know what I am doing. Regards Tony Morton Senior Librarian W

Re: [Koha] Newbie

2012-07-17 Thread Heather_Hernandez
Hi, Tony and everyone! I'm glad you introduced yourself--I'll introduce myself, too! Mose of my details are below--I'm a fellow newbie, who also hopes someday to be able to state with conviction that I know what I'm doing with some areas of Koha! We've been live for almost exactly one month: htt

Re: [Koha] Newbie

2012-07-17 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! > Just a note to introduce myself. I am the Senior Librarian at Waimate > District > Library (South Canterbury New Zealand). We have just gone live with Koha. I > am > still very much a newbie and I am looking forward to when I can say that I > know > what I am doing.     Welcome t

Re: [Koha] Rebuild-zebra stops working very often...

2012-07-17 Thread Sonia P .
Hello I just realised that I have never thank you all for your help. We are still working on it. We still have that same problem... The nozebra parameter is set on "use". We have updated Koha, and it hasn't changed anything. When we run zebra-rebuild, we can see some very minor errors (with r