[Koha] Vote for Location of Koha Users Meeting in North America
Hello all, Two organizations have put together proposals to host a meeting of North American Koha Users. A survey has been put together to gather votes of interest in these two proposals. You can read the content of the proposals from links on the survey site and then you can vote for your preference. The poll will be closed on February 17, so make sure you vote soon! The poll: http://survey.web2learning.net/limesurvey/index.php/171389/lang-en Thanks, Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Koha Users of North America Email List
Hi Brooke and all, Once we have proposals in hand, we intend to allow voting on which proposal and dates appeal to the most people. At that point we will move the conversation to the kohana email list and extend an invitation for voting there. So make sure you sign up for the kohana email list if you'd like to vote on dates and location of a Koha North America meeting. Thanks, Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of BWS Johnson Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 11:17 AM To: Galen Charlton; Scott Kushner Cc: Koha list Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Users of North America Email List Salvete! One thing to consider is that it doesn't have to take much to host a one-day or even half-day local Koha event. If you're located in an area where there's at least one other Koha library within reasonable driving distance, all you really need to host an unconference [1] is time, a meeting room, and the desire to promote the event. Everything else, including internet access and even coffee and snacks, is optional. This can scale up. There are certainly larger geographic areas in North America where there's a high enough concentration of Koha users to support a regional event. And if somebody wants to run such an event... go for it: speak up, say what you want to do, and gather some like-minded people to help. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference Once again, my arm can be twisted to host at whatever level. Doesn't even require that much twisting, I just don't want to throw a party and have no one show. :) All I ask is that y'all let me pick dates, or let me in on the voting so that I can express whether they are inconvenient to me or no. #justsayin Cheers, Brooke ___ 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] Invitation for Meeting Host Proposals
Greetings all, A group of Koha users is planning on hosting a meeting for Koha users based in the United States and Canada. We intend to hold this meeting next year, 2014, sometime during the month of August. We would like to invite proposals from agencies and libraries in the United States to host this meeting. We envision that the meeting would span 2-3 days. Please email your proposals to me, nbl...@masslibsystem.org. Information in your proposal should include (but does not need to be limited to) the following information: 1. The location and what kind of conference facility would be offered. Confirm that the site would have internet and other technology available to enable presentations and general connectivity. 2. Dates when the meeting could occur at the proposed location. 3. Information about transportation -- the closest airports and train stations and how one could get from these places to the meeting site. 4. Lodging in the area. 5. Anything else we would need to know about the location and what makes it a great choice for this meeting. Please send your proposals to me, Nora Blake, via email, nbl...@masslibsystem.org by Wednesday, January 15, 2014. If we receive multiple proposals we will set up a method for potential attendees to vote on the preferred meeting location. Thank you, Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Koha Users of North America Email List
Greetings all, A new Koha-related email list has been created. This list will facilitate discussion for Koha users based in North America. Everyone from anywhere is invited to join this list but please know that discussion will at times related to issues more important to users in North America. Information about the email list, including instructions on joining can be found here: http://lists.bywatersolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/kohana Thank you, Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Fwd: Managing fines in a consortial environment
Hi Cab, We don't have a formal policy about this yet, but the library that collects the fine, keeps the fine without worrying about sending part of the money to another site. Lost item replacements are a different matter and that money goes to the library that owns the lost item. Overdue fines just stay at the library that collected it. Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Cab Vinton Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 6:26 AM To: Koha list Subject: [Koha] Fwd: Managing fines in a consortial environment Oof. We're part of a 3-library Koha consortium and technically each library is supposed to only deal with fines pertaining to its own items. But the Fines detail page is less than helpful when it comes to figuring out to which library fines are owed. (Staff have to look at each item individually.) Do other Koha consortia have best practices for dealing with fines when dealing with multiple libraries (vs. branches of the same library system)? What improvements would you suggest? It seems like this would be an area where consensus would be a good thing to have before submitting bug reports, feature requests, etc. FWIW, the only related bug I've found is this one -- http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9975 Thanks, Cab Vinton, Director Plaistow Public Library Plaistow, NH Southern NH Library Cooperative ___ 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] Partners in Developing NCIP for Koha
Hello all, Our consortium is looking to develop NCIP connectors for the Koha system. We have a project with a very specific and aggressive timeline in place. We intend to have this coded and fully tested by the end of July 2013 as we have an ILL system within our state that we need to begin connecting to by the beginning of September 2013. This project will be expensive and we are looking outward to see if there are other Koha users that have an immediate need for NCIP capabilities and would be interested in partnering with us on this project. In order to make the partnership productive and effective, you would really need to have a system that you want to test NCIP with and you would need to be willing to share in the full cost of the project with us. Please get in touch with me if you would like to work with us on this. Thanks, Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Citizen's Receipt Printer?
Hello all, Does anyone out there use a Citizen's receipt printer successfully with Koha? If you do, would you be able to share instructions on how you configured it to work? Thank you, Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Classroom Checkouts
Hi Lori, We tuck the year of graduation into the sort2 field and the current classroom teacher into the sort1 field. Our elementary librarians like having the school teacher in there because the kiddies tend to come to the library by class. A student template for patron records would be nice! I use a program called Great Barcode Generator to create the scannable barcode images. Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls From: loria...@gmail.com [mailto:loria...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 5:59 PM To: Nora Blake Cc: Koha list; Ruth Bavousett Subject: Re: [Koha] Classroom Checkouts I'm sure we can come up with a better solution! Let's continue to flesh this out Do these students have only one teacher to worry about each year? Or are there several teachers that need to be associated with each student? Would it help to add a field indicating their (expected) graduating year? Maybe to make some batch changes for example? What's the name of the program that you use to generate the scannable barcodes. I'm copying this to a ByWater miracle worker...Ruth Bavousett, in case she has brilliant ideas to make this easier for everyone! Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.commailto:lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow optimization, and materials handling =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Nora Blake nbl...@masslibsystem.orgmailto:nbl...@masslibsystem.org wrote: Hi Lori, We don't do this exactly. Instead we create these checkout sheets for each grade of the elementary school. We store the grade level information in the sort 1 field, write a report to export the patron name, grade level and barcode number, run the spreadsheet through another program (not open source) that creates a scannable barcode image for each patron. We then import the barcode images one by one into a word document where we group them by grade so that the librarians have a scan sheet for each grade. Not easy at all! We've tried convincing the staff at our elementary schools that they can just look the students up by name, but they're convince it takes too long and they just simple NEED to have these scan sheets (which systems like Winnebago created for them very easily). If anyone can come up with a better solution, I would worship you forever. Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123tel:508-357-2121%20x123 866-627-7228tel:866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.orgmailto:nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nzmailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nzmailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:46 PM To: Koha list Subject: [Koha] Classroom Checkouts Anyone ever heard of Classroom Checkouts? Evidently it is a feature of Follett in which a patron record get labelled as a teacher and this allows that teacher to be somehow related to his or her students. The idea is that when the students are going to the library, the library staff can easily generate a list of barcodes associated with that teacher (in lieu of library cards I guess). Anyone heard of such a thing or have a way to accomplish something similar in Koha? Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869tel:%28707%29%20763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.commailto:lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.commailto:lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow optimization, and materials handling =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nzmailto: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] Classroom Checkouts
Hi Lori, We don't do this exactly. Instead we create these checkout sheets for each grade of the elementary school. We store the grade level information in the sort 1 field, write a report to export the patron name, grade level and barcode number, run the spreadsheet through another program (not open source) that creates a scannable barcode image for each patron. We then import the barcode images one by one into a word document where we group them by grade so that the librarians have a scan sheet for each grade. Not easy at all! We've tried convincing the staff at our elementary schools that they can just look the students up by name, but they're convince it takes too long and they just simple NEED to have these scan sheets (which systems like Winnebago created for them very easily). If anyone can come up with a better solution, I would worship you forever. Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:46 PM To: Koha list Subject: [Koha] Classroom Checkouts Anyone ever heard of Classroom Checkouts? Evidently it is a feature of Follett in which a patron record get labelled as a teacher and this allows that teacher to be somehow related to his or her students. The idea is that when the students are going to the library, the library staff can easily generate a list of barcodes associated with that teacher (in lieu of library cards I guess). Anyone heard of such a thing or have a way to accomplish something similar in Koha? Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow optimization, and materials handling =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ___ 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] Best practice for registering pupils in a school library?
Hi Again Marcus, I forgot to address the piece about deleting the student records in batches. That's an issue that makes the staff at our school libraries twitch since they feel a strong need to make the records for graduated students go away as soon as possible. We sponsored development to allow for searching on portions of a patron file, creating a list of records based on criteria (like the presence of '2009' in the sort1 field) and then doing something to the list of patron records in a batch. Unfortunately for us, we sponsored this development when we were customers of LibLime and the resulting code is not very viable for use with Koha. Now that we have switched away from LibLime and are using the community-coded and sponsored version of Koha we will almost definitely look at a similar development project. Nothing like paying for something twice! If anyone is interested in partnering with us on a development project for maintaining patron records in batches, please get in touch with me. We'd love to share! Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Magnus Enger Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:12 PM To: Koha list Subject: [Koha] Best practice for registering pupils in a school library? Dear Community, Here comes a non-technical question! I have some customers who are school libraries, and I'm wonder what is the best way to register pupils as patrons. I'm thinking sometimes it will be interesting to be able to group them by the year they are in (1. year, 2. year etc), and sometimes it will be interesting to group them by the class they are in (in Norway these will typically be called 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B etc). I'm also thinking that during summer it will be useful to batch delete all the pupils who left at the end of the spring semester. And of course, every summer all the pupils who have not left will have to be shifted up one class. So maybe it's better to avoid the classes alltogether and use the year they enrolled for something? One of the libraries in question has created patron categories based on class, so they have patron types called 1A, 1B etc - I'm not sure what they plan to do when everyone gets shifted up one class at the end of the spring semester... ;-) So again: How are y'all registering pupils in Koha? Best regards, Magnus Enger libriotech.no ___ 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] Text Messaging of Notices
Hello all, MassCat is looking at doing some development to Koha to allow for text messaging of notices without the need for a third party vendor to manage the messaging. ByWater is currently working up specifications for this project. It looks like the cost will be in the $5,000-$6,000 range. Anyone interested in working with us on this and sharing the cost? If you are, please let me know. Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Help with report - again!
Hi Lisa, I think you should replace biblioitems.publicationyear with biblio.copyrightdate to get the date of publication. Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 413-665-9898 x123 800-282-7755 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Peel Lisa Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 10:10 AM To: 'Liz Rea' Cc: 'koha@lists.katipo.co.nz' Subject: Re: [Koha] Help with report - again! Hi Liz Thanks for the quick reply but there is still no data in the publication year column is this something we have done wrong when cataloguing? There is definitely data in the 260c field in the majority of our records. Regards Lisa From: Liz Rea [mailto:l...@nekls.org] Sent: 02 June 2011 16:03 To: Peel Lisa Cc: koha list Subject: Re: [Koha] Help with report - again! On Jun 2, 2011, at 8:45 AM, Peel Lisa wrote: Hello I need to create a list which will give me details of all the items at one library including the year of publication. Have tried adding publication year to the guided search but no data appears in the column. Apologies for making such a basic request but I have been asked for the report to be done urgently! Any help appreciated Regards Lisa image001.jpg LISA PEEL, PGDip, MA. Librarian César Ritz Colleges Switzerland 1897 Le Bouveret - Switzerland Tel: +41 24 482 82 82 Fax: +41 24 482 82 80 E-mail: lisa.p...@ritz.edu mailto:hortense.ho...@ritz.edu http://www.ritz.edu http://www.ritz.edu/ - http://www.culinaryarts.ch http://www.culinaryarts.ch/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha SELECT items.itemcallnumber, items.barcode, biblio.author, biblio.title, biblioitems.publicationyear FROM items JOIN biblio USING (biblionumber) join biblioitems USING (biblionumber) WHERE items.homebranch='yourbranch' limit 15 ORDER BY items.itemcallnumber asc notes: Paste this into the reports Create from SQL section, and run from there. you'll want to put in your branch code for 'yourbranch' Set the limit to something above the maximum number of records you expect. Hope this helps! Liz Rea l...@nekls.org image001.jpg___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
