The use of koha for LIS512
Introduction
As an integral part of the course, we are using the koha open source
integrated library system. When you want to find out more about it,
make sure you do not use the web site koha.org. Use
http://koha-community.org
instead.
koha has two interfaces, a staff interface and patron interface. It
would cost the university nothing to create two domains, one for
each interface. My request to get two domain names to run koha on
has been denied by LIU's information technology department.
Therefore it is difficult for me to install both staff and patron
interfaces. As a result, only the staff interface is available.
Access
If you want to look at the mySQL database table that koha uses, go
to
wotan's
phpmyadmin. Use the user name “lis512” with the password
“512lis”. At the next screen, follow the right-hand side link to “koha”.
When you are fininshed, plesae press the exit button at the top right.
Installation
In the first quiz, you submit two parameters. First, there is your
secret word. It is used for grade delivery. It is also used as the
password for your login into koha. Second, there is the library
short name. This is a code that is used as the identifier of your
branch, and as the login to koha.
At the beginning of our use of koha, I ran an
installation script. This creates two
things for each of you.
-
It creates a branch in the library for you. All your records
will be for book “physically” located at that branch. The identifier
for the branch is the identifier that you have submitted at the
first quiz. The name of the branch is your name.
-
It creates a staff user for you in the library for you. The login
for the user is your branch code. The password for your user is
your secret word. The last name, first name, and initials data are
read by the script using the name data that appears on the
my.liu.edu. Your user account has a restrictive set of
permissions. The permissions allow you to create and change
cataloging records, and to view the catalog. Note that you can
also change the records in branches that are not your own. Please
do not do that. If you want to have more permissions ask me.
