Re: [Koha] Pacific Northwest (North America) Regional meeting
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 Doodle poll with possible dates that fit my schedule. Note that Doodle will not let me choose whole days for the Schedule Event function, so I chose the start day time for the poll. http://www.doodle.com/s4gw83sdgaz27cdt This event will be open to anyone who wants to visit Portland. I figure Thursday Friday for unconference then Saturday for touring. I can arrange the Columbia River Gorge, or Washington/Oregon beaches. Or, we could arrange a Willamette Valley vineyard tour. Lenora StreamNet Regional Librarian Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Pacific Northwest (North America) Regional meeting
OK, great, thanks for the info. I'll pretend that Lenora's conference offer is a valid proxy for KUDOS 2012, and ask the director to send a couple of us. Greg -- There is no KUDOS 2012 conference being planned. I am guessing no one has a problem if you want to call this KUDOS 2012. The only think you need to take into consideration if you do this is that KUDOS does not yet have 501c3 status. This means that KUDOS itself cannot handle money. However, when we did KUDOS2011, we ran the conference using donations from sponsors. 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 glaw...@rhcl.org wrote: I wasn't sure if there was separate planning for an official KUDOS 2012, or if this was intended to be it. We need to plan for any Koha events for planning purposes. Greg - If there is enough help to organize, we can turn the meeting into Kudos 2012. I wasn't really thinking that big. Lenora From: G. Laws glaw...@rhcl.org To: KOHA koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Date: 4/20/2012 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] Pacific Northwest (North America) Regional meeting 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 Doodle poll with possible dates that fit my schedule. Note that Doodle will not let me choose whole days for the Schedule Event function, so I chose the start day time for the poll. http://www.doodle.com/s4gw83sdgaz27cdt This event will be open to anyone who wants to visit Portland. I figure Thursday Friday for unconference then Saturday for touring. I can arrange the Columbia River Gorge, or Washington/Oregon beaches. Or, we could arrange a Willamette Valley vineyard tour. Lenora StreamNet Regional Librarian Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Vicki Teal Lovely Helping our 53 member libraries provide the best possible service to the public. ILS Project Manager South Central Library System Madison, WI v...@scls.lib.wi.us (608)242-4713 ILS Help Desk (608)242-4720 Twitter: vickiteal Blog: http://scls.typepad.com/link2koha/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Pacific Northwest (North America) Regional meeting
Lenora: Don't know how to ask this diplomatically, but have you considered a suggested donation for snacks/amenities or incidentals? I personally think that would be fair. Greg If there is enough help to organize, we can turn the meeting into Kudos 2012. I wasn't really thinking that big. Lenora From: G. Laws glaw...@rhcl.org To: KOHA koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Date: 4/20/2012 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] Pacific Northwest (North America) Regional meeting 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 Doodle poll with possible dates that fit my schedule. Note that Doodle will not let me choose whole days for the Schedule Event function, so I chose the start day time for the poll. http://www.doodle.com/s4gw83sdgaz27cdt This event will be open to anyone who wants to visit Portland. I figure Thursday Friday for unconference then Saturday for touring. I can arrange the Columbia River Gorge, or Washington/Oregon beaches. Or, we could arrange a Willamette Valley vineyard tour. Lenora StreamNet Regional Librarian Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Koha HTTPS
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 latter creates a secure, end-to-end connection. -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Ping KUDOS
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 Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] rebuild zebra prob
Ian: Thanks for suggestions. 1. Did a lather, rinse, repeat this morning using what I know should be correct--PERL5LIB set to /home/koha/kohaclone, etc. I think the problem was I didn't have KOHA_CONF exported correctly. So that got me past all the error messages, and rebuild_zebra gives the appearance of running, but doesn't index anything: $ ./rebuild_zebra.pl -a -b -z -v Zebra configuration information Zebra biblio directory = /home/koha/koha-dev/var/lib/zebradb/biblios Zebra authorities directory = /home/koha/koha-dev/var/lib/zebradb/authorities Koha directory = /home/koha/kohaclone BIBLIONUMBER in : 999$c BIBLIOITEMNUMBER in : 999$d exporting authority Records exported: 0 Records exported: 0 REINDEXING zebra exporting biblio Records exported: 0 Records exported: 0 REINDEXING zebra CLEANING -- This, of course, results in no book data being returned from the DB. OK, so now what should I try? Is this relevant? http://koha-community.org/faq/double-ups-search-results-clear-index-start-again/ -or this? http://manual.koha-community.org/3.2/en/resetzebra.html Greg - On 04/11/2012 03:22 AM, Ian Bays wrote: Hi Greg, This should be the right PERL5LIB: echo $PERL5LIB /home/koha/kohaclone What does the end of the output from: perl -v give? It should be like this: %ENV: PERL5LIB=/home/koha/kohaclone @INC: /home/koha/kohaclone /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 It will end up being something obvious. Would you need to: export PERL5LIB before using it? Good luck. Ian On 11/04/2012 00:15, G. Laws wrote: 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--compilation aborted at ./rebuild_zebra.pl line 6. INFO: running master on debian... $ ls -l /home/koha/kohaclone/C4/Context.pm -rw-r--r-- 1 koha koha 33348 Apr 10 14:28 Context.pm tried... $echo $PERL5LIB /home/koha/kohaclone ...and $ echo $PERL5LIB /usr/koha/kohaclone/C4 ...and even attempted a non-standard symlink... # ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/Context.pm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Apr 10 18:00 Context.pm - /usr/lib/perl5/Template/Context.pm ...no joy... Help? -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] KUDOS 2012
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 everyone the best fun ever in the world. However, life goes on, and I am are now working on next year's budget, which for us runs from 1 July - 30 June. I am preparing line items for conferences my team would like to attend, and that would include KUDOS 2012. Is there any further discussion, noting some emails on the subject already, we could have about KUDOS 2012 that would facilitate my budget input? Hold it at all? Where? When? Is there an EG or regional meeting we could collaborate with? I guess I can't ask the questions without volunteering something. 1. OK, look, we could hold it here at Rolling Hill, but St. Joseph isn't the most exciting place in the world; I can't imagine attendance would be that good. 2. August? 3. I could volunteer to be Sergeant at Arms where ever it's held. 4. I could do a presentation/demo of either RaCHeL, our inhouse development of a children's playstation, or LibPAC*, our public access computer system. 5. If I do end up attending, either the library proper, or me personally, will donate $100 USD towards bagels and cool-aid. 6. Riverwalk in San Antonio? Chena Hot Springs**, Alaska? Denver? Douglas County, Co? New Orleans? (are there any Koha libraries in any of these places?) -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 *probably to be renamed **http://www.chenahotsprings.com #bit of a stretch, maybe ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] KUDOS 2012
Us host KohaCon13? In St. Joseph, Missouri? After New Zealand, India and Scotland? Tell you what, let's all get together in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 1 to June 30 for KohaCon 2013. Nothing in the KohaCon charter says it has to be held near a Koha library, right? I can get there in mid-May and make all the arrangements, and stay till mid-July for cleanup. Greg -- On 04/09/2012 03:52 PM, Joann Ransom wrote: Hi Greg, One option you could consider is to put in a bid to host KohaCon13. I too cannot afford to go to KohaCon12 because it is in the same 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 glaw...@rhcl.org mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org wrote: 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 everyone the best fun ever in the world. However, life goes on, and I am are now working on next year's budget, which for us runs from 1 July - 30 June. I am preparing line items for conferences my team would like to attend, and that would include KUDOS 2012. Is there any further discussion, noting some emails on the subject already, we could have about KUDOS 2012 that would facilitate my budget input? Hold it at all? Where? When? Is there an EG or regional meeting we could collaborate with? I guess I can't ask the questions without volunteering something. 1. OK, look, we could hold it here at Rolling Hill, but St. Joseph isn't the most exciting place in the world; I can't imagine attendance would be that good. 2. August? 3. I could volunteer to be Sergeant at Arms where ever it's held. 4. I could do a presentation/demo of either RaCHeL, our inhouse development of a children's playstation, or LibPAC*, our public access computer system. 5. If I do end up attending, either the library proper, or me personally, will donate $100 USD towards bagels and cool-aid. 6. Riverwalk in San Antonio? Chena Hot Springs**, Alaska? Denver? Douglas County, Co? New Orleans? (are there any Koha libraries in any of these places?) -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 tel:816-232-5479 *probably to be renamed **http://www.chenahotsprings.com #bit of a stretch, maybe ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Joann Ransom RLIANZA Head of Libraries, Horowhenua Library Trust. -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Regional Koha 2012 in Pacific Northwest?
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 Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] KUDOS 2012
Oh no, I took your comments as you intended, I think. So KohaCon13 in USA, you are suggesting? New OrleansSan AntonioMiami...San Fransisco Greg --- On 04/09/2012 04:39 PM, Joann Ransom wrote: Hi Greg, I wasn't trying to be bitchy my friend - 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 glaw...@rhcl.org mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org wrote: Us host KohaCon13? In St. Joseph, Missouri? After New Zealand, India and Scotland? Tell you what, let's all get together in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 1 to June 30 for KohaCon 2013. Nothing in the KohaCon charter says it has to be held near a Koha library, right? I can get there in mid-May and make all the arrangements, and stay till mid-July for cleanup. Greg -- On 04/09/2012 03:52 PM, Joann Ransom wrote: Hi Greg, One option you could consider is to put in a bid to host KohaCon13. I too cannot afford to go to KohaCon12 because it is in the same 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 glaw...@rhcl.org mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org wrote: 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 everyone the best fun ever in the world. However, life goes on, and I am are now working on next year's budget, which for us runs from 1 July - 30 June. I am preparing line items for conferences my team would like to attend, and that would include KUDOS 2012. Is there any further discussion, noting some emails on the subject already, we could have about KUDOS 2012 that would facilitate my budget input? Hold it at all? Where? When? Is there an EG or regional meeting we could collaborate with? I guess I can't ask the questions without volunteering something. 1. OK, look, we could hold it here at Rolling Hill, but St. Joseph isn't the most exciting place in the world; I can't imagine attendance would be that good. 2. August? 3. I could volunteer to be Sergeant at Arms where ever it's held. 4. I could do a presentation/demo of either RaCHeL, our inhouse development of a children's playstation, or LibPAC*, our public access computer system. 5. If I do end up attending, either the library proper, or me personally, will donate $100 USD towards bagels and cool-aid. 6. Riverwalk in San Antonio? Chena Hot Springs**, Alaska? Denver? Douglas County, Co? New Orleans? (are there any Koha libraries in any of these places?) -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 tel:816-232-5479 tel:816-232-5479 tel:816-232-5479 *probably to be renamed **http://www.chenahotsprings.com #bit of a stretch, maybe ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Joann Ransom RLIANZA Head of Libraries, Horowhenua Library Trust. -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 tel:816-232-5479 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Joann Ransom RLIANZA Head of Libraries, Horowhenua Library Trust. -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] KUDOS 2012
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 glaw...@rhcl.org wrote: Oh no, I took your comments as you intended, I think. So KohaCon13 in USA, you are suggesting? New OrleansSan AntonioMiami...San Fransisco Big cities are expensive, how about Lawrence Kansas .. home of NEKLS Chris PS Volunteering unsuspecting people is my thing ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Computers in Libraries
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 wrote: Computers in Libraries ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] KohaCon
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 closest to the conference? Comely Bank - Stockbridge East Lothian Edinburgh Edinburgh Airport Leith Midlothian New Town Old Town West End West Lothian The University is on the South Side beside the Old Town. The New Town is walkable (up hill) or a short busride away. Both Stockbridge and Leith are a short bus ride or a longer walk away (I've commuted to the University from both) East/West/Mid Lothian are all out of town, so probably best to avoid for visitors. Edinburgh airport is also just out of town and on the worst commuting route into central Edinburgh. Edinburgh is fairly well served with buses and taxis but the central area (Old New towns) is compact and you can walk to most places you may want to visit without difficulty. Cheers Colin ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] KohaCon
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 On 03/08/2012 03:34 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: On 9 March 2012 10:20, Olugbenga Adara gbengaad...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, What kind of impact - positive or negative? I am due to arrive London on the 4th and possible going to Edinburgh on the 5th. Also what pointers can we have to budget hotels? Hi Olugbenga Great that you are going to Kohacon I hope to see you there. I am about to start researching hotels and travel myself so I will let you know what I find out. Chris ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Mystery system slowdown
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 happening (seems to be fixed for now) I will probably just drop .cn at the firewall. Greg -- On 03/07/2012 10:36 AM, dsch...@tx.rr.com wrote: I had something similar happen in November and the robot.txt resolved it for me at that time. -- David Schuster Library Technology Coordinator Plano ISD Paul Poulain paul.poul...@biblibre.com wrote: Le 29/02/2012 01:00, Agnes Rivers-Moore a écrit : Dear friends That is problem #1 Here is problem #2 We have also noticed that opac-search.pl and mysqld is causing heavy loading. Since a few days/week, we (BibLibre) face the same problem, on various Koha : on our hosting server (20+ libraries), some of our libraries that have their own server, small or large. After investigating a lot, we think it's because something happened with web crawler : we suddenly have *a lot* of queries coming from googlebot, bingbot and baidu (the chinese search engine). Plus some dark-net bots that try to exploit some security holes that are fixed (like reading /etc/password with a ../../../../../etc/password), but in case this Koha is not uptodate that could work. How did we fix that ? quick fix = drop packet at firewall level. We will have to investigate for a more long-term fix (not sure a robot.txt will be enough, but not sure it won't too) -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] printing non-receipt-size docs via firefox - how?
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 Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 On 02/17/2012 01:35 PM, Adams, Jason wrote: Ever since we've installed Koha with Epson receipt printers and Dymo label writers attached (and various other standard networked printers), we've had difficulties printing anything else but receipts via Mozilla Firefox (i.e. web pages, database docs, print-screens, and even Koha holds reports). It seems that our Firefox settings to print Koha receipts overrides almost anything else we do through Firefox, affecting the size of our printouts (e.g. we'll get a receipt-sized column of a full 8.5x11 printout). Even selecting a different paper size or another printer doesn't help - we still get the 2.5 column on a full piece of paper. Sound familiar? PDFs seem to print fine as do Word and Publisher documents. This has been such a problem for us that we've had to limit our non-Koha printouts to just two or three computers out of the 12 or more PCs we own; thus, often forcing us to email ourselves links, documents, print screens, etc. just so we can switch computers and print them from a different computer. Anyone know of any quick fixes, shortcut keys, and/or Firefox add-ons that could help us? Thanks in advance! Jason Adams, L.A. II Northwest Reno Library ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] KUDOS
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 quiet of late - I suspect that there may not be a conference this year. I say go ahead and plan. They can plan around you. :) Liz Rea l...@nekls.org On Feb 1, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Hal Bright wrote: Has anyone heard if there will be a KUDOS conference this year. I am trying to organize a sharing meeting for CT (and vicinity) KOHA users and do not want to conflict. Harold Bright Director of Information Services Farmington Libraries - 6 Monteith Drive Farmington, CT 06032 - hbri...@farmingtonlibraries.orgmailto:hbri...@farmingtonlibraries.org W 860-673-6791 x 204 - F 860-675-7148 http://www.farmingtonlibraries.org ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Koha System Administrators Special Interest Section
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 maybe we should discuss it. The following email discussing updates in Debian that I received on a different mailing list is one example of information that might be of interest to such a group. Greg On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Richard Allen rsa...@gmail.com mailto:rsa...@gmail.com wrote: Trying to upgrade an older debian squeeze install, aptitude tries very hard 'resolving dependencies', eats 3+ gigs of ram, the machine fills swap and thrashes until I kill it. Anyone else run into this issue? I'm rather curious if it would've died earlier with a 32-bit kernel. Richard, Have you tried the upgrade with apt-get? It's (again) the recommended package manager for Debian (as opposed to aptitude in Lenny)[1]: Note Although the |aptitude| command comes with rich features such as its enhanced package resolver, this complexity has caused (or may still causes) some regressions such as Bug #411123 http://bugs.debian.org/411123, Bug #514930 http://bugs.debian.org/514930, and Bug #570377 http://bugs.debian.org/570377. In case of doubt, please use the |apt-get| and |apt-cache| commands over the |aptitude|command. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal -- Chris -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 x2303 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Computer Management System and Koha
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 external programs that work with Koha through the SIP interface. I don't think logical design would suggest a pc reservation module be incorporated in Koha itself. However, there are a couple of now apparently abandoned open-source pc reservation projects. I should perhaps emphasize apparently, since the status isn't entirely clear and I can't get in contact with the authors. There is Jesse Weaver's Powerline, written in Python, and Kyle Hall's Libki. Code for both is available, and we've tried Libki quite a bit. It was our feeling that Libki v1 was an excellent start, but needed some additional features. Kyle was going to do a complete re-write of the system, but that has apparently not been done. If you want to give Libki a try, you will probably need to look at our git repo where we did a couple of fixes. The local university where I graduated is looking for php projects for their Jr-Sr level programming classes, and 1 project for a grad student. I met with the faculty advisers just yesterday, and submitted two projects to them. One was a Koha VM project suggested by sekjal (Ian Walls). The second was, in fact, a computer reservation system à la Libki and Powerline. They will consider these two projects with others they have and decide within a week on which they will work. If they chose either or both, then I intend to work closely with them on the specs and functionality. If the undergrads take the reservation system, then it will be a two semester project, the first for doing the design and project planning and specs, the second semester the students and project pass to a second class and instructor for coding. Whether either of these are picked up by the university or not, this is important enough that while I have a tech assistant with the expertise we may try to hack something ourselves, but it must be harder than it seems at first, so we may need some dev assistance. Again, that depends on me being able to find/retain a tech good at coding. If anybody else wants to start a project we'll be glad to help with coding or testing. I would like to encourage a public discussion on this subject. I'm going to cut-paste part of the doc I gave to the school yesterday since it has lots of good links. The formatting got stripped but it's still readable. -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 -paste-- Libraries and schools need a public access control system. Public access controls permit individuals to login to and use computers based on a number of controls. Typical characteristics and features of a public access control system: Policies enforce: 1. Time restrictions Time maybe limited to a certain number of minutes/hours per day, for example, 60 minutes. The time needs to be a system configuration on the server/staff interface. --need to be able to set max number of sessions while still enforcing the max total minutes --staff need the option to manually override and extend time --need to reset at end of day --need popup warnings at configurable times before end of session notifying user their time is about to expire. 2. Authentication The user must authenticate, typically via account ID and password, that they are an authorized user. This is frequently done by querying a database using the SIP interface. There should also be a local user database for guest users who are temporary or do not have a database entry. This feature is obviously controlled by staff. For legal accountability reasons, there should also be a free-text field for staff to enter credentials, like name and driver's license details. 3. Print controls When a user prints from an application (web browser, text editor, etc), there should be a popup which calculates the price of the print job, based on policies assigned to printers which are also configured in the system, and requires the user to click-through the popup, accepting the charges. 4. Prohibit changes to the operating system; 5. Miscellaneous Policies also enforce end-of-day shutdown times. This requires the creation of buildings (or better, areas or sections). If a facility closes, for example, at 8:00pm, and a user logs on at 7:15pm, the system must only allocate enough time to the session up to the closing time. Most systems will have a real closing time, but have a forced logoff time configurable for a certain number of minutes before closing. I am aware of two systems available under open licenses that can be used for examples, Libki and Powerline. Libki The sites below list his original version only,
Re: [Koha] Koha and Computer Management Systems
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 Parker wrote: Good Morning All, My system is looking into computer management systems for our library. We need one that interfaces with KOHA. Currently we have been looking at cybrarian and libki, but are there any others that you recommend that are work well AND interfaces with KOHA? Thanks for your help in this search Melissa Parker SEKLS ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Virtual Koha
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. Koha is a rapidly developing ILS, and a VM project would require some frequent attention. Several months ago I think we also had Koha on Debian in a VBox VM, on top of a Debian host. OpenSuse, one of my go-to distros, actually has a good build service if someone was inclined to use that. https://build.opensuse.org/ We're kinda busy with a couple of project here so I probably couldn't devote a lot of time to such a project at the moment, but I think it would be a good project and well worth doing. Greg On 06/08/2011 08:28 AM, Tim Bateson wrote: Hi Everyone, Is anyone looking at creating a virtualised version of Koha so that people could download a Virtual Machine based on Open Virtualisation Format Archive (OVA). I tend to use Virtualbox for testing VMs and have had to create a few Debian based VMs recently. What should be included? ie pre create a library, items, groups, patrons etc or just have a base install of 3.4 with nothing configured ? Would it be of any interest or help to do this? All the best, Tim ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 x2303 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Guidance
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 version, do the work to configure it, then decide, probably quite quickly, to upgrade to 3.4. 2. Z39.50 commonly uses port 210, TCP, but apparently UDP is part of the spec. Here's a quick link I found: http://www.speedguide.net/port.php?port=210 It's actually interesting to watch Wireshark while the computer is doing a Z39.50 search--you'll see the TCP connections. 3. Koha vs Liblime Koha (Harley) . That's a political decision, but clearly the Koha community promotes what we see as the real Koha, the best source of information for which is: http://koha-community.org Only a couple of people on the IRC chat or the Koha mailing list will be able to help you much with the Liblime version; we are enthusiastic supporters of community Koha. I think it's relatively safe to say that Koha is under much more active development by a wider group of people than Liblime's ILS. Don't be misled by the version numbers for each; they are not comparative. 4. I don't know much about using Active Directory with Koha, but someone else might respond to that. If not, wait a while and ask again; I know some work has been done with LDAP as recently as v3.2 to address some issues. 5. Your questions are welcome! If you don't mind, would you care to share the name of your school and/or your location in the UK? We all like to know where Koha is being used. :) Greg - On 06/07/2011 09:30 AM, Tim Bateson wrote: Hi All, I am a new Koha user, looking to get Koha 3.4 installed and integrated with Active Directory for client access for a UK secondary school. I have got Koha 3.4 installed and running on a Debian squeeze server. Is version 3.4 the best version to use for a new install in a relatively small school library? We are behind a managed firewall so asked for relevant z39.50 ports to be opened. Can anyone confirm if z39.50 uses udp or tcp (or both)? I am also a little confused by whether I should have used the Koha community or Liblime versions. I chose the community version as I am trying to promote the use of open source in our school. Can anyone point me to what the differences are between the community and Liblime versions? In relation to LDAP integration for Active Directory is there any documentation for how this can be done for version 3.4 I have found some threads on the mailing list, but not found a definitive source for how to do this. Sorry for all the questions :) Tim ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] overdue notices
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 is not sending out overdue notices to our patrons. Holds and checkins/outs work fine. But no overdue notices have ever been sent or received. As far as I can tell, the settings in tools are all correct. Any ideas? CM -- Caitlin McGurk /Librarian The Schulz Library The Center for Cartoon Studies http://www.cartoonstudies.org mcg...@cartoonstudies.org mailto:mcg...@cartoonstudies.org/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] tagging in koha
When you have moderation turned on a staff person has to review and approve/reject the tags, so that's one place they are visible from the staff interface. That's also one of the features we want to improve. Right now there is no mechanism for editing the tags that someone posts. We want to have them editable to remove, as one example, profanity from an otherwise acceptable tag string, or to correct good, but gregariously misspelled, tags. If you go to the OPAC tag cloud, of course, you can see the tags listed and select a tag to see what it's been applied to, but that's not really like a search term. Greg On 05/24/2011 03:41 PM, Caitlin McGurk wrote: Seems like that could be the best option, Greg. Though generally I equate tags with keywords and would think they should be searchable one in the same. Is the only way to see tags when 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 glaw...@rhcl.org mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org 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 assistance in this regard with any interested parties. If you are interested we can discuss it with ByWater Solutions, with which we have been talking about enhancements, or via direct email. Greg On 05/24/2011 03:08 PM, Caitlin McGurk wrote: Interesting- fixed the OPAC configuration, so thanks for that. I'm also finding that although you can tag an item, you still can't search for that tag and get any results. Seems silly to me that tagging would be worth anything in Koha at all if that's the case. Maybe I'm just not understanding the feature, but I would think that implementing tags *should* be there to make searching more robust. Has anyone had much luck 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 2011/5/24 G. Laws glaw...@rhcl.org mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org 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 interface. In the OPAC configuration there are several settings, like tagsenabled and tagsmoderated, etc. Check those. Of interest, however, I now see that the text for tagsenabled says it enables both patrons and staff to tag, so I don't know what's with that. -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 x2303 tel:816-232-5479%20x2303 - On 05/24/2011 01:48 PM, Caitlin McGurk wrote: Hey all, How does Tagging work in Koha? Can it be done through the administrative end? I can't find a section for it, other than from the patron side. When I try to add tags to certain books as a patron, they do not save and the item does not appear when a search is done for that tag after. Suggestions? CM -- Caitlin McGurk /Librarian The Schulz Library The Center for Cartoon Studies http://www.cartoonstudies.org mcg...@cartoonstudies.org mailto:mcg...@cartoonstudies.org/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Caitlin McGurk /Librarian The Schulz Library The Center for Cartoon Studies http://www.cartoonstudies.org mcg...@cartoonstudies.org mailto:mcg...@cartoonstudies.org/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http
