Category: Koha

NPL have had some good success with this, Owen says it feels like a 1000% improvement in the circulations when all the opac catalog searching is being done on a slave database. I might talk to them about writing up a bit of a How-to. For big libraries it definitely is the way to go. (It has the added benefit of doing realtime back ups too).

Yay! Today I get to do some work on Koha as part of my job. Munging data to get it into the koha database. Always fun.

Horowhenua Library Trust and Koha won the Computerworld Excellence Awards,
2004. In the category of “Excellence in the Use of IT in a Not-for-Profit
Organisation” congratulations to HLT and to the many people who have worked
on Koha.

Ive shifted the subjects and additional authors back to the add biblio page
where they belong. This should make simple non-marc acquisitions behave a
lot better for the 2.2 release

Here it is
The entire library system in our
university is based on the Koha 2.0RC4 software. This is the first and
only online library system amongst the 52 Private Universities in Dhaka.
We use the KOHA Intranet module (http://koha.presidency.edu.bd) for
administration and data entry. The KOHA software is running on a system
with the following specifications:

Pentium 4 1.8GHz
512MB DDR RAM
37GB x 4 Ultra SCSI Seagate Hard Drives
Redhat Fedora Core 2 (will be migrating to Redhat Enterprise 3.0 soon)
3GB Tape backup (Nightly backup)
mysql Ver 11.18 Distrib 3.23.58, for redhat-linux-gnu
Apache/2.0.49
ReiserFS 3.5 File System

Well thanks to a suggesting from Pascal on the Koha mailing list, it got
said mailing list set up at gmane.org. Which gives an nntp interface to the
list plus nicely searchable archives.
It also give us this

I discovered last night that
these guys are using Koha for their library. Theyve done some nice
templates and it should be all on line soon.

I dropped them a note to ask if theyd add themselves to the Koha Users page
on the Wiki and they kindly did, so thats all good.

Im currently working on Koha to allow users to choose with which language (and
possibly theme) they want to interact with Koha.

UPDATED: This is in Koha now, and can be viewed on any OPAC with the settings enabled

Fixed saving copyrightdate and Subjects in simple non-marc acquisitions.
I still need to move it out from newbiblioitem to newbiblio though.
Ill get around to it im sure.

When adding an item in 2.0 using the simple acquisitions, with MARC turned
off. Items werent getting there holding branch set correctly. This should be
all fixed now