Time  Nick      Message
13:32 rch       paul: yes, i agree with the 'expected' language for serials
13:32 rch       will make other changes as requested,
13:32 rch       and get the sysprefs in updatedatabase
13:33 paul      great, thanks.
13:34 owen      Hi rch and paul
13:35 paul_away (going to see my bank ;-) )
13:37 rch       hi owen
13:37 owen      rch, are you getting any inquiries as a result of the meeting Tues?
13:38 rch       no, not yet
13:38 rch       though i did see a post on open-ils list suggesting interest in evergreen
13:39 owen      I think Evergreen will get some attention because of the need for consortium support
13:39 owen      Have you worked with Evergreen at all yourself?
13:40 rch       only preliminarily
13:40 rch       it's not too hard to get the system running, but
13:41 rch       putting any data in is not so straightforward
13:41 owen      I wondered if Stephen's difficulty in getting it to work was typical
13:41 rch       definitely.
13:41 rch       it takes a lot of effort just to get all the services running and talking to each other
13:42 owen      Have you been working on specific functionality in Koha to address the needs of consortiums?
13:43 rch       i've read the ncip docs, and have a pretty good idea of how to implement
13:43 rch       i'd like to make that top priority, but so much to do... :)
13:44 owen      Yeah... Hopefully NCIP can get some $$ thrown at it if we get some more libraries on board.
13:44 owen      It's funny--even some librarians at NPL have this idea that we really need NCIP even though we don't really need it for our resource-sharing system.
13:47 rch       so how do you participate in MORE?
13:53 owen      We have our server open to z39.50 requests, but we don't let patrons place requests themselves
13:53 owen      If we wanted patrons to be able to log in to MORE directly and place requests we'd need NCIP support
13:54 owen      That's just a policy decision on our part, though. We didn't want to deal with the number of requests that might result if patrons had direct access.
13:54 owen      ...just another one of those barriers to service we erect ;)
14:55 rch       anyone know if there's a problem in rel_2_2 if you repeat 090 field?
14:56 rch       koha will always assume first 090c holds biblionumber ?
15:53 paul      rch : not at all. I have some libraries where biblionumber is in 001
15:53 paul      you can put biblionumber & bibliotiemnumber where you want
16:30 rch       hi toins
16:30 rch       how's opencataloger coming?
19:24 owen      rch, you around?
19:57 owen      Hi cm
20:04 cm        hi.
20:04 cm        did you get to try out that patch for the expiry date i made?
20:23 owen      Sorry... disappeared for a while. No, I haven't.
20:26 cm        it seems to be working here, although i don't know if the cause of the problem is the same for both of us.
20:27 owen      cm, I'm curious--where are you in the migration process?
20:27 cm        i think some of our patrons were imported without an expiry date.
20:27 cm        we are almost ready.  Koha Day is May 21!
20:27 cm        training is beginning next week....fortunately, someone else has volunteered to do it.
20:28 owen      Hopefully your staff won't need that much training. I think most of the search/circ stuff is pretty straightforwad
20:29 cm        yeah, it is.  but our staff has been using a dos-based circ for the last 12 years or so, so it's going to be quite a shock for some.
20:30 cm        a couple have never used a mouse!
20:30 owen      I was about to ask :)
20:30 cm        :)
20:31 cm        i have a question...what exactly is 'withdrawn' for?
20:31 cm        for temporarily pulling something out of circulation?
20:32 owen      No idea. Presumably one of the original Koha libraries wanted that status, but we've never used it
20:32 cm        i was wondering.  :)
20:32 cm        i suppose we could hide it in our template to avoid confusion.
20:33 owen      we did a lot of that in our first couple of Koha versions, but it was a pain to keep up with minor changes at upgrade time
20:34 cm        yeah, we've been finding that out already.
20:34 cm        have a good night!
20:34 owen      Thanks, you too
20:41 chris     yep withdrawn is for pulling things out of circulation, 1 step before deleting them entirely
20:47 cm        i see.  thanks chris.
21:11 chris     damn, just sent a mail to the list with no subject
21:11 chris     more coffee needed
22:24 atz       withdrawn: the step before "burning"
22:32 chris     :)
22:32 chris     selling usually