Monday, July 16, 2007

KOHA Assignment

I have finished my KOHA Assignment (see list of 15 books below in blue), although only the first 3 books show on the virtual shelves. I did the first three books and then came back to the assignment later, and no books since then have shown on my virtual shelves (most of them were done by July 9th). I thought it was because they were duplicates (as I mentioned in a previous post), but I have checked quite a few of them in the KOHA catalog, and they aren't duplicates (for those just added, the catalog reports ''no items returned" after checking both through ISBN# and title), except for one title I accidentally entered twice. (I tried to delete my duplicate, and although the record deleted, the duplicate title remains when I run my subject search, "Good and Evil"). By the way, after I started to check for duplicates, I did reject a few books that were already in KOHA's catalog, which means that I must have been searching the catalog correctly.

When I run a search on the virtual shelves, my entire list of 15 shows, with 12 labeled as "not reservable". I had asked on the discussion board about this, and one person told me that this meant they were duplicates; a second person told me that this did not matter, because our professor did not tell us the books had to be reservable. I tried to contact the professor by e-mail, but he did not reply. Therefore, I am not sure what the problem or the solution is.

In any case, I am not getting my webpage assignments done because of the time I have devoted to the KOHA assignment, so, having reached an impasse, I have declared this done. Here is my list of books, and their ISBNs:

"Anatomy of Evil", by Anshen, Rugh Nanda: 0918825156

"Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy", by Davis, Stephen T., ed. : 0804205175

"An Essay on the Origin of Evil", by King, William: 082401782X

"Evil: A Reader", by T&T Clark: 0567089754

"Evil: A Historical and Theological Perspective", by Schwarz, Hans: 0788099108

"Evil and Suffering", by Neusner, Jacob, ed. 0829812849

"Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy", by Neiman, Susan: 0691096082

"Facing Evil: Light at the Core of Darkness", by Woodruff, Paul & Wilmer, Harry, eds. 0812690788

"Freud, Women, and Morality: The Psychology of Good and Evil", by Sagan, Eli. 0465025706

"Imagining Evil", by Horne, Brian. 0232521611

"The Power of God: Readings on Omnipotence and Evil", by ed. Linwood Urban & Douglas Walker, 0195022017 (This is the one I myself duplicated - I put it in twice accidentally).

"Powers of Good and Evil: Moralities, Commodities, and Popular Belief": 1571819924

"Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation", by Bernstein, Richard J. 0745629547

"The Trouble with Evil: Social Control at the Edge of Morality", by Lemert, Edwin McCarthy. 0791432432

"Wickedness", by Midgely, Mary. 0415255511

I rather enjoyed this assignment until I could not resolve my problem. If anyone has the answer, please let me know. I noticed that there were a few other students who had very books on their virtual shelves, although many students had more than 15 books on their virtual shelves.

There were also a lot of recent electronic resources or e-books in the Library of Congress Catalog on this subject. There were also a lot of foreign language books, especially in German, on this subject. This was a very broad subject, as you should be able to gather from the diverse focus of the books listed above - some theological, some philosophical, some social, etc.

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