LISolutions and Pakistan Librarian Welfare Organization (PLWO) Jointly organizing “National Training on Total Library Solution (TLS)” [What is TLS?]

Title: National Training on Total Library Solution (TLS)
Date: Saturday-Sunday July 9-10, 2011
Venue: Computer Lab, Hailey College of Commerce, University of the Punjab, Lahore
Organizers: LISolutions and Pakistan Librarian Welfare Organization (PLWO)
Partners: PULISAA and Hailey College of Commerce

Training Team:

• Dr. Muhammad Ramzan (Chief Librarian, LUMS)
• Mr. Ata ur Rehman (ata.rehman@gmail.com)
• Mr. M. Shafiq Rana (cyberarianpk@gmail.com)

Total Library Solution (TLS) is a suite of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) used for library operations.  Some of them are as under:

• Koha ILS (3.4.x)
• DSpace
• GSDL
• Joomla
• WordPress
• OHS

Further details can be found here or http://lisolutions.org/tls-training-registration/

KUDOS (Koha Users and Developers of Open Source) will be holding a conference in Madison, Wisconsin, USA on May 2 and 3, 2011. From the announcement and call for volunteers sent by Vicki Teal Lovely:

Put May 2 and 3, 2011 on your calendars for the KUDOS conference to be held in Madison, Wisconsin at the UW Madison Pyle Center. More information on transportation and housing will be coming soon. This will be a conference for and by users of Koha in collaboration with vendors that support or interact with Koha. We are hopeful that this conference will be a low cost/no cost option with the help of sponsorships from vendors and libraries.

We are looking for volunteers to serve on the planning and program committees. If you are interested in helping out, please let me know. We need to get to work on this right away!

Please not that this is NOT going to be a KohaCon and at this time no Hackfest is being organized.

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.

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.

This is a 3 day program, covering the key modules and functions in Koha. At the end of program, participants are required to demonstrate their skills on the various modules. Participants who complete 70% of the exercises successfully are awarded a Koha skills certificate.

The next set of workshops are scheduled as follows:

• Mumbai: 26th to 28th November, 2010
• Bangalore: 10th to 12th December, 2010

http://www.osslabs.biz/koha/training-certification

This is a 3 day program, covering the key modules and functions in Koha. At the end of program, participants are required to demonstrate their skills on the various modules. Participants who complete 70% of the exercises successfully are awarded a Koha skills certificate.

Venue and dates are:

• Mumbai: 26th to 28th November, 2010
• Bangalore: 10th to 12th December, 2010

Please visit this page for more information:

http://www.osslabs.biz/koha/training-certification

The November Monthly Koha IRC Meeting has been scheduled for the 10th of November. All times are in UTC+0.

Agenda (at the time of this posting)

1. Update on Roadmap to 3.2
2. Update on Roadmap to 3.0
3. Update on Roadmap to 3.4
4. Follow-up on actions from General IRC Meeting, 6 October 2010.
5. Agree times of next meetings.

More information and updated agenda can be found on the wiki.

For all who are interested the following monthly IRC meetings on #koha will be held this week:

Handover Meeting 04 May 2010 @ 1900 UTC

Community Meeting 05 May 2010 @1900 UTC

Please review the meeting agendas by selecting the links above. You may also click on the meeting date to convert to your timezone. If you are unfamiliar with or do not have access to an irc client on your computer, you may use the web based Mibbit client by clicking here. Please use the ‘/nick’ command to change your nick to something meaningful. (ie. /nick jdoe)

I just thought you all might want to know about some upcoming Koha Classes I’m teaching as webinars. Not all of the below are free of cost, but that hasn’t stopped people from attending in the past.

• Fri May 28 10am – 12pm Lyrasis – Koha Circulation and Patron Management
• Tue Jun 8 10am – 11am Lyrasis – Intro to Koha
• Thu Jul 8 10am – 12pm Lyrasis – Koha Technical Services Management
• Tue Jul 13 10am – 12pm NEFLIN – Koha Circulation and Patron Management
• Tue Aug 10 10am – 12pm NEFLIN – Koha Technical Services Management
• Wed Aug 18 10am – 12pm Lyrasis -Koha Advanced Functions
• Tue Sep 7 10am – 12pm NEFLIN – Koha Advanced Functions
• Thu Sep 9 10am – 12pm Lyrasis – Koha Circulation and Patron Management
• Thu Oct 7 10am – 12pm Lyrasis – Koha Technical Services Management
• Thu Nov 18 10am – 12pm Lyrasis – Koha Advanced Functions

All times are in Eastern Standard Time.