Re: [Koha] tagging in koha

2011-05-24 Thread G. Laws
I don't think you can tag from the staff interface. We've talked about doing some tagging enhancements; so maybe this will be a good discussion topic. However, you clearly have a separate problem with tagging from the OPAC that needs to be resolved. You have to enable tagging in the staff interfac

Re: [Koha] tagging in koha

2011-05-24 Thread G. Laws
ck with the LibraryThing for Libraries function? > My institution is thinking about getting it to fix this tagging issue. > If anyone is currently using it, I'd be curious to know whether or not > it allows you to find the tags in a catalog search. > > Caitlin M > > 2011

Re: [Koha] tagging in koha

2011-05-24 Thread G. Laws
Maybe a tag should be a keyword search option in advanced search? Greg - On 05/24/2011 03:28 PM, G. Laws wrote: > We are considering, to be a bit more specific, funding improvements to > the tagging feature, and would happily welcome participative > assistanc

Re: [Koha] tagging in koha

2011-05-24 Thread G. Laws
n you're logged in as a patron, and > looking at your own list? > Also, reiterating what I asked before- has anyone tried the > LibraryThing for Libraries tagging option? That might be the best way > to go, though it does have a price. > > CM > > 2011/5/24 G. Laws m

Re: [Koha] overdue notices

2011-06-02 Thread G. Laws
Do your mail logs show anything? Are you using sendmail or postfix or something else? Greg -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 - On 06/02/2011 12:55 PM, Caitlin McGurk wrote: > Hey Koha- > > For some reason our system

Re: [Koha] Guidance

2011-06-07 Thread G. Laws
Hi Tim, and welcome to the Koha community. In a slightly different order than your questions below: 1. Yes, I would recommend Koha 3.4, and it's completely appropriate for a small school library. Version 3.2 is still supported, but 3.4 is much improved and it's pointless to start with an older ve

Re: [Koha] Virtual Koha

2011-06-08 Thread G. Laws
We have a test Koha server here that's partly like you describe. Our base metal is a Sun Fire X4100 server running Solaris 10 and VirtualBox, then we installed Koha on Debian in a VM. All that was fairly easy to setup, but I think one of the things with a distributable VM is keeping it up-to-date.

Re: [Koha] Koha and Computer Management Systems

2011-07-19 Thread G. Laws
Userful (userful.com) also works with koha using the SIP interface. If you have any specific questions let me know. Kyle was working on a completely new version of libki, but I haven't checked on the status of that project recently. --- On 07/19/2011 08:39 AM, Melissa

Re: [Koha] Koha installation on Debian/Ubuntu

2011-08-17 Thread G. Laws
You need to add user "koha" to the /etc/sudoers file. Greg -- On 08/17/2011 05:55 AM, Deepak Bhatia wrote: Hi Dibyendra, When I run the command below in Ubuntu 11, I get a screen which then hangs. *$ *sudo users-admin Can I run the commands logged in as root ...?

Re: [Koha] Computer Management System and Koha

2011-09-01 Thread G. Laws
This is a middle-front-burner issue for us, so I'll just jump right in here. First of all, "for Koha" probably isn't quite the words we want to use. There are a number of systems that work fine with Koha right now, including Userful which we use, PC-Cop and Envisionware, et al. These are exter

Re: [Koha] Server hardware questions

2011-09-09 Thread G. Laws
On 09/09/2011 04:30 AM, Mirko wrote: > We will get a new server for our Koha-installation. I was wondering, > how important some things might be. I don't want to know what is > essential to run Koha but what would be beneficial if available and > what does not matter at all. > > Our installation no

Re: [Koha] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust re: Koha

2011-11-22 Thread G. Laws
I think it might be interesting to raise this issue with the free press. Some coverage of the issue in the right places, especially if it might go viral, could be very powerful. If there is a good writer familiar with the NZ issues involved that could write up some bullet points/talking points and

[Koha] Koha System Administrators Special Interest Section

2011-12-19 Thread G. Laws
As Koha continues to grow in popularity it seems reasonable to assume there may be a corresponding increase in the number of Koha system administrators, specifically separate from developers. At some point if there is interest in starting a mailing list or a wiki section for system administrators m

Re: [Koha] KUDOS

2012-02-01 Thread G. Laws
One or two or three of us here at RHCL would certainly be interesting in attending if there is a conference. Greg -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 On 02/01/2012 12:21 PM, Liz Rea wrote: > KUDOS has been very quie

[Koha] Servers for US Public Libraries

2012-02-16 Thread G. Laws
http://home.techsoup.org/Stock/Pages/Product.aspx?id=HW-46674&cat=TechSoup%20Global%20Catalog&category= Many libraries are currently facing funding chalenges; Techsoup (techsoup.org) sometimes has servers available to organizations at fair prices. Although currently out-of-stock, the above server

Re: [Koha] printing non-receipt-size docs via firefox - how?

2012-02-17 Thread G. Laws
This is apparently standard behavior--"just the way it is", or at least that's our experience too. One fix is to run a separate instance of Firefox using a different profile (run> firefox -ProfileManager), or install and use Chrome for your non-Koha web browsing. -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Con

Re: [Koha] Mystery system slowdown

2012-03-07 Thread G. Laws
This has happened to us several times now. Once I recall was the Baidu web crawler, but also other .cn crawlers. It also happened to us a couple of years ago when we were still on Unicorn. ByWater's support has fixed it with robot.txt and by blocking some ports (TNX!). Frankly, if it keeps happenin

Re: [Koha] KohaCon

2012-03-08 Thread G. Laws
Doing hotel research... For anyone familiar with the city, which of the following would be closest to the conference? Comely Bank - Stockbridge East Lothian Edinburgh Edinburgh Airport Leith Midlothian New Town Old Town West End West Lothian Thanks, Greg

Re: [Koha] KohaCon

2012-03-09 Thread G. Laws
Thanks Colin! Greg --- On 03/09/2012 06:58 AM, Colin Campbell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 03:46:45PM -0600, G. Laws wrote: >> Doing hotel research... >> >> For anyone familiar with the city, which of the following would be >>

Re: [Koha] Computers in Libraries

2012-03-15 Thread G. Laws
I might have been inclined to go, but it coincides exactly with the MOREnet Spring Connections conference, and I'm presenting there this year. -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 -- On 03/15/2012 12:31 AM, Stacy Pober wrot

Re: [Koha] KUDOS 2012

2012-04-09 Thread G. Laws
We have just been shot down. Due to lack of budgeting for KohaCon 2012 in our current fiscal year, our requests here at Rolling Hills Library to attend have been disapproved. I understand fully that the community is busily preparing to attend the conference in Scotland, and I sincerely wish everyo

Re: [Koha] KUDOS 2012

2012-04-09 Thread G. Laws
> financial year as KohaCon11 for us. Depending on when your financial > year runs KohaCon13 might be in the right financial period for you. > > Cheers Jo. > > On 10 April 2012 04:14, G. Laws <mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org>> wrote: > > We have just been shot down. &g

Re: [Koha] Regional Koha 2012 in Pacific Northwest?

2012-04-09 Thread G. Laws
We accept. Greg = On 04/09/2012 04:43 PM, Lenora Oftedahl wrote: > I'm willing to host, unless someone else wants to volunteer? Could be an > un-conference kind of thing? > > Lenora > StreamNet Regional Librarian > Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission > -- Greg Lawson Roll

Re: [Koha] KUDOS 2012

2012-04-09 Thread G. Laws
end - it was a 'seriously please > consider KohaCon13 in USA" suggestion :) > > Cheers Jo. > > PS I imagine a small town USA experience would be pretty unique > actually :) > > On 10 April 2012 09:07, G. Laws <mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org>> wrote: > >

Re: [Koha] KUDOS 2012

2012-04-09 Thread G. Laws
Oh, I like it. Chris volunteering Liz's services! So I guess she'll have the BBQ and beverages too, huh? Anything light and imported will be fine with me. Bottles please. Greg - On 04/09/2012 05:07 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: > On 10 April 2012 10:02, G. Laws wrote

[Koha] rebuild zebra prob

2012-04-10 Thread G. Laws
PROB: $ ./rebuild_zebra.pl -a -b -z Can't locate C4/Context.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./rebuild_zebra.pl line 6. BEGIN failed--c

Re: [Koha] rebuild zebra prob

2012-04-11 Thread G. Laws
lib/perl/5.10.1 > /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 > /usr/lib/perl5 > /usr/share/perl5 > /usr/lib/perl/5.10 > /usr/share/perl/5.10 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl > > It will end up being something obvious. Would you need to: > expor

[Koha] Ping KUDOS

2012-04-12 Thread G. Laws
1. What does KUDOS stand for (the breakout of the acronym, if it is)? I presume Koha Users and Developers xxx xxx? 2. Is the Google group still active? https://groups.google.com/group/kudos-koha/ 3. Is the KUDOS site still intended to be active? http://kudos.koha-community.org/ -- Greg La

[Koha] Koha HTTPS

2012-04-17 Thread G. Laws
Is it common practice to enable https* by default on Koha servers? Any arguments for or against? *by creating an Apache config file that includes the SSL cert. As an example, you can connect to Google either by http://google.com or by https://google.com, because Google has enabled this. The latt

Re: [Koha] Pacific Northwest (North America) Regional meeting

2012-04-20 Thread G. Laws
So just for the record, this is being proposed as "KUDOS 2012", correct? Greg Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 - > Hearing no other bids for hosting, I'm willing to pull together a meeting > here in Portland. > > Here's a

Re: [Koha] Pacific Northwest (North America) Regional meeting

2012-04-20 Thread G. Laws
really thinking that big. > > Lenora > >>>> > From: "G. Laws" > To: "KOHA" > Date: 4/20/2012 8:46 AM > Subject: Re: [Koha] Pacific Northwest (North America) Regional meeting > > So just for the record, this is being

Re: [Koha] Pacific Northwest (North America) Regional meeting

2012-04-20 Thread G. Laws
ponsors. All you need is an institution that will volunteer to handle > taking donations and paying for any expenses. > > David Schuster can jump in about the status of KUDOS as a non-profit org. > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:17 AM, G. Laws wrote: > >> I wasn't sure

Re: [Koha] Pacific Northwest (North America) Regional meeting

2012-04-20 Thread G. Laws
s > 2012. I wasn't really thinking that big. > > Lenora > >>>> > From: "G. Laws" > To: "KOHA" > Date: 4/20/2012 8:46 AM > Subject: Re: [Koha] Pacific Northwest (North America) Regional meeting > > So just for