[Koha] Using Koha for school textbook loan scheme

2019-06-11 Thread doheochai
Hi - I am the IT coordinator in a school in Ireland (by coordinator it doesn't mean that I know anything about IT). Our school intends to implement a school textbook loan scheme in order to reduce the cost of providing school textbooks for parents. I search for information but the only thing I c

Re: [Koha] Using Koha for school textbook loan scheme

2019-06-11 Thread Owen Leonard
> Simple question - I hope - is it possible to use Koha in this way? Yes. I think what you describe is typical for library operation except for the duration of the loan, and Koha can handle that just fine. Koha makes it possible for you to create custom reports (see examples here: https://wiki.koh

Re: [Koha] Using Koha for school textbook loan scheme

2019-06-11 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
Yes. This is fairly standard stuff. Here in India we often have semester long loan of a fixed number of books for students coming from economically backward strata. Books thus lent usually use a custom item type typically called as Book Bank (and therefore with an item type code of BBK). These stud

Re: [Koha] Cannot find records created in KoHa

2019-06-11 Thread Lichtsteiner Patric (lici)
Hi Michael, No, I still do not find anything. From the output I understand that something goes wrong while building the index? Patric > On 7 Jun 2019, at 09:37, Michael Kuhn wrote: > > Hi Patric > > > > > exporting biblio > > > > 1..error retrievi

Re: [Koha] Cannot find records created in KoHa

2019-06-11 Thread Michael Kuhn
Hi Patric Since I don't know how you tried to rebuild your index: In one of your earlier e-mails I saw this - it is NOT a good idea to rebuild your index as user "root" (or doing most anything on a Linux machine, for various reasons, among them permission problems and missing environments):

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Awards location?

2019-06-11 Thread Hernandez, Heather
Hi, Jesse-- I would hesitate to put a 650 in a record for the award that an item won, since that item wouldn't be *about* the award--if I wanted a 6XX field for an award, I'd be tempted to use a 655 instead. Our collection is very different, being a special/museum library, but we're having good l

Re: [Koha] (no subject)

2019-06-11 Thread Hector Gonzalez
> On Jun 5, 2019, at 11:02 PM, Charles Kelley wrote: > > $ sudo koha-remove mylibrary > >The report was > > ERROR 1133 (28000) at line 1: Can’t find any matching row in the user table > >Any other suggestions? > I recently had to do this again for an upgrade, and found this exact er

[Koha] Events and Program tracking

2019-06-11 Thread Chad Roseburg
Hello ~ Just curious as to what other libraries in the Koha community are using for events and program tracking, reservations ...etc. Anything, in particular, you like about it? Does it integrate with your website and Koha? Thanks! -- Chad Roseburg Assoc. Director / IT Automation Dept. North C

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Events and Program tracking

2019-06-11 Thread Edward Veal
Chad, Right now we are using the built in calendar and event features with Civics Plus the CMS that the city has us using for our website. It is not perfect but it does the job. We have an internal database that we are building for tracking the specifics and statistics for our programing. But

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Events and Program tracking

2019-06-11 Thread David Kuhn
Hi Chad, We use LibCal, which works pretty good, although we do have some specific needs that it was not designed for. We have integrated it into our web site using LibCal's APIs. We have not integrated it with Koha. David David Kuhn Technology Servic

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Events and Program tracking

2019-06-11 Thread Chad Roseburg
Thank you -- we are also looking at Intercept. On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 11:47 AM Edward Veal wrote: > Chad, > > > > Right now we are using the built in calendar and event features with > Civics Plus the CMS that the city has us using for our website. It is not > perfect but it does the job. > > >

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Events and Program tracking

2019-06-11 Thread Chad Roseburg
Does it have mandatory fields in the event setup forms so that reporting is consistent? Chad On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:58 PM David Kuhn wrote: > Hi Chad, > > We use LibCal, which works pretty good, although we do have some specific > needs that it was not designed for. We have integrated it in

Re: [Koha] How to koha OPAC New Arrivals Books Display (Koha CoverFlow plugin)

2019-06-11 Thread Alvaro Cornejo
Hi I tried to install coverflow following this tutorials but was unable to make it run. After saving the coverflow config and going out of pluging page, on returning to the plugin page it does not show the plugin. If I do upload it again, it uploads and shows the config I entered on my previous i