Time Nick Message 12:26 fbcit-away kados: tried submitting my two patches again. I may have a problem with sendmail so I'll check back on Monday. 15:47 kados fbcit-away: ok, sounds good 20:20 thd kados: are you there? 21:35 chris heya darla, i hear you got koha up and running? 21:36 aklibrarian I have it installed. Now I have to get to it. This is my own installation. My library has it up and going. The job is split between a great computer guy for the system and me for the library specifics. 21:36 aklibrarian I just want it on a local machine so I can play with it more. 21:36 chris *nod* 21:44 aklibrarian I didn't expect quite such a learning curve. I have a lot more respect for Dan, the guy that keeps the system running now than I did before. I had respect for him before, but it is more now. 21:44 aklibrarian I still haven't figured a good way to use the shell. 21:44 chris system admin is an underappreciated profession 21:46 aklibrarian Until it goes dead. Then everyone appreciates it. 21:47 aklibrarian Chris, did you tell me about a part of Koha that would help you integrate seperate libraries to a union? 21:50 chris hmmm i dont think so .. are you thinking to merge catalogues together? 21:51 aklibrarian Right now we have just added all the catalogs into one. 21:51 chris with the indedpendent branches features in 3.0 you can run a union catalogue with each library having its own rules/patrons 21:52 aklibrarian This means I have a really big collection of marc records. I want to pare it down 21:52 chris ahhh 21:52 chris so merging like records together ? 21:52 aklibrarian Yes 21:53 aklibrarian I feel that this will make things look better, allow for faster searching, and in general make me happier. 21:53 chris yes 21:54 chris there is a feature liblime developed for an nz library to do that .. but its pretty clunky .. there is a much better cataloguing tool on its way which will allow you to merge records 21:55 aklibrarian Any idea on the timeline? 22:01 chris ahh you want to ask the other chris that 22:01 chris northfox is the nickname he uses 22:01 aklibrarian I was right Chris. I thought I remembered it was you. You sent me a weblink that I am trying out now. I had to search the email 22:02 aklibrarian See and I was so happy I found the email. 22:02 chris that will be the clunky one :) 22:02 chris it works but its slow :) 22:02 aklibrarian Is it slow on a machine that isn't on the net. 22:03 chris its using the big form based marc editor, so its slow to render the page 22:05 aklibrarian Do you know when a better one may be out 22:07 chris you want to ask the other chris that, foxnorth 22:07 chris i think its not far away 22:08 aklibrarian Sounds good. He is logged on, but I assume away from his computer. 22:08 aklibrarian As a librarian, that is the one task that I want to do the most. Mainly because my database is probably ten times the size it needs to be compared to if the records were merged. 22:09 chris you arent alone there 22:10 chris there is so much redundant data floating around out there 22:11 aklibrarian YEP. I hate sloppy databases. 22:11 aklibrarian I wanted to do this before Thanksgiving (Three weeks) so that I had a reason to be in the big town for that week. If I was working with the systems tech, could count it as a workday. If not I will be off that whole week. 22:19 aklibrarian If I was looking for Linux based programs to help run a library do you know a good place to go. 22:21 chris oss4lib.info 22:21 chris bbiab 22:23 aklibrarian Have fun