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| Time | Nick | Message |
|---|---|---|
| 12:38 | FrankW | Folks, I'm interested to know if Koha supports Z39.50 as a server (ie. others able to search the collection in Koha). |
| 12:38 | paul | wait a mn (/me on phone) |
| 12:42 | hdl | FrankW: Yes. |
| 12:42 | for Title isbn and author research. | |
| 12:42 | (version 2.2.5) | |
| 12:43 | FrankW | hdl: Ah excellent! |
| 12:43 | But not based on title, or other fields? | |
| 12:44 | I know relatively little about Z39.50, but I was informed by the librarian that I am hoping to help that it is used for inter-library searches within the county. | |
| 12:44 | hdl | <FrankW> But not based on title, or other fields? <------what do you mean ? |
| 12:45 | when you are searching a catalogue, you often provide some field to search in. | |
| 12:45 | FrankW | hdl: Perhaps my question doesn't make sense because I don't understand Z39.50 well. |
| 12:46 | Garr ... I see you already mentioned titles. | |
| 12:46 | Please ignore my followup question. | |
| 12:47 | hdl | FrankW: version 2.2.7 implied a change in Z3950 module. |
| 12:47 | So some things should certainly have to be modified for z3950 server to work. | |
| 12:48 | FrankW | Does this mean that 2.2.7 is less functional with regard to Z3950? Or more? |
| 12:48 | (compared to the 2.2.5 you mentioned earlier) | |
| 12:50 | hdl | Z3950 server is quite rarely used. |
| 12:50 | (among our customers.) | |
| 12:51 | FrankW | So perhaps I should consider this aspect still fairly experimental or rough around the edges? |
| 12:51 | hdl | And when we changed z3950 client not to rely on module Event any longer, we did not upgraded server. |
| 12:51 | FrankW: Not at all. It works. | |
| 12:52 | with 2.2.5 and is used in production for some of our customers. | |
| 12:53 | but time to upgrade to 227 hasnot come yet for those. | |
| 12:54 | FrankW | Ah, ok. |
| 12:54 | My next question, if I may, relates to bar codes. | |
| 12:55 | Is there any special bar code reader interfacing needed in Koha, or is this completely distinct? | |
| 12:55 | Not knowing anything about barcode readers, I had at first assumed there was some need for specific bar code reader drivers or something. | |
| 12:56 | But now I am getting the impression the barcode readers just spit out text (almost as if it had come from a keyboard) and Koha needs no special device support for them. Is that right? | |
| 13:08 | hdl | FrankW: No special device needed. (special perl module though) |
| 13:09 | But it is more convenient when you use wedge barcode reader. | |
| 13:10 | some perl modules are needed only to generate barcodes. | |
| 13:11 | wedge barcode reader are quite a pain to configure sometimes. But there seems to be always a solution. | |
| 13:12 | (barcodes norms are a pain in the neck. There are plenty of them and your reader has to be taught which norm to be aware of) | |
| 13:13 | FrankW | I'm looking at helping my local village library upgrade, by the way. They are still running some sort of DOS software from the late 80's or so. |
| 13:21 | I am a reasonably competent linux and open source developer, though no perl nor library guru. | |
| 13:28 | hdl | (i read the logs and you told so) |
| 13:49 | FrankW | Thank you very much for your help hdl! |
| 13:50 | hdl | your welcom |
| 01:05 | mason | |
| 01:18 | waylon | okay.. yahoo. defense of koha sent. |
| 01:18 | 1 week since i sent the request for quote to Access IT Software, for their system... no response. | |
| 01:48 | does anyone know what happened to the search bar i developed, for the opac? |
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