I'm back

Okay, after a lengthy hiatus on other projects, I'm back working on Koha
for a bit.

I have two libraries now that are nearing completion of the data entry
stage and will be wanting to start circulating.

To facilitate this in my situation, I am populating the borrowers database
with the accounts the school already uses for accessing school file
servers, email and authenticating proxy servers.  I've also created a new
table called borrowergroups where I list the groups that borrowers are in
in our account administration system (ie Grade 6/7, Kindergarten, etc.) so
that the librarians can print out overdue lists for each teacher's class.

I also have a session with the district's Librarian association where I
think I'm going to get grilled about Koha.  They had made a decision to
use a program called Alexandria universally throughout the district.  The
problem is that not all schools can come up with the funds to actually use
Alexandria.  That's where I came into the picture with Koha.  Wish me
luck.

Steve Tonnesen
Coast Mountains School District

Re: I'm back

hi

> I have two libraries now that are nearing completion of the data entry
> stage and will be wanting to start circulating.

Woo how exciting.  When you have it up and running can we make a link to 
them from the Koha webpages?

> I also have a session with the district's Librarian association where I
> think I'm going to get grilled about Koha.  They had made a decision to
> use a program called Alexandria universally throughout the district.  The
> problem is that not all schools can come up with the funds to actually use
> Alexandria.  That's where I came into the picture with Koha.  Wish me
> luck.

Good Luck!  Let us know how you get on 

Cheers
Rachel
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Re: I'm back

> Woo how exciting.  When you have it up and running can we make a link to 
> them from the Koha webpages?
> 
> > I also have a session with the district's Librarian association where I
> > think I'm going to get grilled about Koha.  They had made a decision to
> > use a program called Alexandria universally throughout the district.  The
> > problem is that not all schools can come up with the funds to actually use
> > Alexandria.  That's where I came into the picture with Koha.  Wish me
> > luck.

Cool.  Is this Alexandria capable of letting users search 
to search other libraries (ie, not in the database that is 
local)? 
The web(and therefore net) frontend is a real selling point.

Nick
...hunting for his PERL books to help implement some ideas, 
maybe.

Re: I'm back

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tonnesen Steve" <tonnesen@...>
To: "Koha Open Source Library System" <koha@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:02 AM
Subject: [Koha] I'm back

>
> Okay, after a lengthy hiatus on other projects, I'm back working on Koha
> for a bit.

Hi,
Are there any serious thought among the developers of Koha to include
support for internationalization?
I tried a little bit to fiddle around with gettext() function but didn't
succede. I thing that the problem has to be dealt with on a larger scale,
because gettext() will not take care of the html files. Also, for a
non-programmer it is quite difficult to insert gettext string into perl
script next to the HTML formatting strings.

Could anyone start a directory ./i18 and start providing scripts with
localization issues?
Currency stuff in Koha does not take into account europian money. Could that
be defined by the user?

Benedykt

PS. Sorry to say but I have never managed to cleanly install Koha so far.

 
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new biblio record

Re: new biblio record

On Wed, 9 May 2001, mustafa wrote:

> I think this is a very nice job.  I reviewed your programme, however I
> couldn't find any solution for the problem in recording biblios.  I
> would like to be informed about wether it is possible to record journal
> or book etc. data without any supplier admittance. On the other hand, is
> there any form or programme to provide direct data access to the
> database?  I would be pleased if you let me know about it. 

I created an interface for entering biblios without supplier information
for my school libraries which need to enter data for their existing
collection.

The database is a MySQL database and can be accessed directly with SQL
commands using the mysql command line client.  There are also some gui
interfaces to the database, which I've never used.

Steve.

Hello from the Museum's Library In Arizona!

Re: Hello from the Museum's Library In Arizona!

>Wondering though how we get the information from LC into the database to be
>accessed by the software!

I'm not actually using Koha yet, but my understanding is:

The records would typically be typed by hand, although you could probably 
write some Perl scripts to import existing records.  If you have MARC 
records, you could use MARC.pm to do this.

>Is this MARC  record?

Koha does not currently use the MARC format.

Ben

Re[2]: Hello from the Museum's Library In Arizona!

What record format is used?--is the data easily transferred to and from
"commercial" library databases?

Ernie Mannering
Director, Technology & Information Services
School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes)
Voice   1.250.567.2284      Fax 1.250.567.4639      Web http://www.sd91.bc.ca

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Subject:    Re: [Koha] Hello from the Museum's Library In Arizona!
Author: "Ben Ostrowsky" <ostrowb@...>
Date:       5/22/2001 5:19 AM

>Wondering though how we get the information from LC into the database to be
>accessed by the software!

I'm not actually using Koha yet, but my understanding is:

The records would typically be typed by hand, although you could probably 
write some Perl scripts to import existing records.  If you have MARC 
records, you could use MARC.pm to do this.

>Is this MARC  record?

Koha does not currently use the MARC format.

Ben

Re: Hello from the Museum's Library In Arizona!