[Koha-devel] Koha Community Newsletter: July 2018

2018-08-01 Thread Koha Newsletter
The Koha Community Newsletter for July 2018 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-july-2018/ Many thanks to the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's newsletter. Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. PS: please excuse the delay

Re: [Koha-devel] Batch cleanup to the catalog

2018-08-01 Thread Cab Vinton
Many thanks, Michael. Any changes would definitely be a cataloger-driven process. Fwiw, we're looking mainly at extraneous OCLC-related fields in the 9XX's. But there are also 2 to 3 dozen additional fields that are obsolete or otherwise not part of standard MARC 21 format. I'd be surprised if m

Re: [Koha-devel] Batch cleanup to the catalog

2018-08-01 Thread Michael Hafen
Since you have the CataloguingLog turned off, you should see a net gain in the size of the database, both in Koha and in Zebra/Solr. Though you probably won't notice the difference in Koha since the tables are InnoDB, which doesn't reduce file size in most cases. In the frontend you probably won't

[Koha-devel] Batch cleanup to the catalog

2018-08-01 Thread Cab Vinton
Hi, All -- Koha's Batch Record Modification (BRM) tool makes it very easy to make large-scale changes to the catalog. And we know that many catalogers like to have their records just so :-) Is there a cost in overhead, however, to making such changes? For example, if a catalog of 150,000 records