Koha Library Software Community

Koha Kenya invites all its members and interested individuals to this year’s conference / workshop to be held on Saturday 18th December, 2010 at Gretsa University in Thika. The conference begins at 9.00 am and ends at 4.30 pm. Some of the issues to be tackled will include:

Authorities & Choice of Subject Headings in Koha-3.x – Mrs. Geetje Wanjohi (UoN)
MARC 21 & Use of Indicators in Koha-3.x – Tito Wawire (Library of Congress – Nairobi)
Among others.

In addition, the issue of Kenya National Bibliography and the Koha Kenya-Cat will be tackled.

If you intend to attend, please confirm by writing an email to library@gretsauniversity.ac.ke, on or before Thursday 17th December 2010.

Gretsa University – Thika, is located 3 Kms from Thika Town along Garissa road, and approx. 40 kms from Nairobi.

To get to the venue by public means:

From Nairobi use Matatu Number 237 (Thika – Makongeni), and drop-off at the main-gate of Gretsa University. (These Matatus are available opposite Naivas Supermarket, along Ronald Ngala Street)

From Thika town, use matatu for Posta-Makongein and drop-off at the Main-gate of Gretsa University or Engen filling station.

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3.2.2 Release Schedule

December 6th, 2010

3.2.2 is on track to be released on December 22, 2010, however, there is another important date between now and then which I wanted to point out.

On December 15, 2010, 3.2.2 will enter a string freeze to facilitate finalization of translation updates. After this date the only patches introducing string changes which will be pushed for 3.2.2 will be those addressing blocker bugs or security issues. All others will be pushed to 3.2.3.

Patches not introducing string changes will be pushed up to the time of the release.

As always, many thanks for all of the hard work everyone has been doing to shorten the list of bugs lately.

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KohaCon10 Slides and Videos Now Available

December 6th, 2010

The slides and recordings of the presentations at KohaCon10 are now linked on the conference web site starting at http://www.kohacon10.org.nz/2010/program/day1.html

Thanks to Kristina Hoeppner of Catalyst IT Ltd. (NZ) for all of her hard work getting the slides and videos from the conference online.

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Three days training on Koha 3.2 at UOS, Pakistan

November 28th, 2010

A three days training on Free and Open Source Software, Koha was organized by LISolutions on October 28-30, 2010 at Central Library, University of Sargodha (UOS).

It was a customized training specially designed for the library professionals of UOS. The following professionals participated in this training:

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Fazil Khan – Chief Librarian, Head of Deptt. (LIS)
Mian Muhammad Aslam – Deputy Librarian, Incharge Project (Library Automation)
Muhammad Ahmad Shah – Librarian
Mr. Nasir Ahmad – Librarian
Mr. Raja Ghulam Mustafa – Assistant Librarian
Mr. Zahid – Network Department UOS
Mr. Noor Mustafa – Lecturer
Ms. Sumera Bano – Internee
Ms. Aisha Shafi – Internee
Ms. Saima Rohi – Internee

Mr. Ata ur Rehman was the Lead Trainer and Muhammad Shafiq Rana, Coordinator (Trainings) played his role as C0-Trainer. The training was conducted in a learning environment. Participants took part in all the modules of training.

In concluding session, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Fazil distributed the certificates to participants… details here

Event Photos

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KohaCon10 Videos

November 24th, 2010

If you weren’t able to make it to KohaCon10 or you just wish you could relive the whole thing, you’ll be happy to know that the videos are all online.

A great big thank you goes out to Kristina Hoeppner for working so hard to share the conference will us all!

Visit Blip.tv to see the videos.

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December Koha General IRC Meeting

November 21st, 2010

December 8, 2010
10:00 am	to	11:00 am

The next general IRC Meeting will take place on the 8th of December at 10:00 UTC+0

The agenda as of today reads:

Update on Roadmap to 3.2

Update on Roadmap to 3.0
Update on Roadmap to 3.4
Follow-up on actions from General IRC Meeting, 10 November 2010.
Agree times of next meetings.

To add to the agenda or see the most recent updates visit the official meeting wiki page.

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