Koha Community Newsletter: December 2014

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December 2014

Volume 5, Issue 12
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg and Joanne Dillon, Koha Community Newsletter Editors.

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Table of Contents

Development

Koha 3.18.2 Released

by Chris Cormack
The Koha release team are proud to announce the release of Koha 3.18.2 this is a maintenance release but contains one security fix.

Everyone running 3.18.x is strongly recommended to upgraded.

Koha can be downloaded from Koha Downloads.

Full release notes can be found here.

Koha 3.16.6 Released

by Mason James
Koha 3.16.6 is a security and bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 security and 3 bugfixes.

Everyone running 3.16.x is strongly recommended to upgraded.

Koha can be downloaded from Koha Downloads.

Full release notes can be found here.

Koha 3.14.12 Released

by Fridolin Somers
Koha 3.14.12 bugfix/maintenance release.

Koha can be downloaded from Koha Downloads.

Full release notes can be found here.

Patches

This section highlights upcoming features as well as bugs needing attention.

The Catalyst Open Source Academy is in session so tag your “favorite” Koha bugs as academy in bugzilla so they can find and squash them.

From Chris’ post on the developer’s mailing list.

Community

New Koha Libraries

Community Gossip

Chris Cormack goes over the number of koha libraries, code commits and other interesting facts
from 2014.

Let Nicole Engard show you the speedier checkout module in 3.16.

Nathan Carulla covers a few of the developments coming up in Koha.

Ed Veal discusses how enabling sounds in Koha can give your staff greater feedback while using the new checkout interface.

Brendan Gallagher proposes the creation of a fund-raising organization for Koha.

Support Provider News

Amy Kearns joins ByWater Solutions as Support Specialist. Read the announcement.

Josh Barron joins ByWater Solutions for Eastern US Sales. Read the announcement.

Koha News from Ireland: EDI and New Libraries

by Charles S. Quain

In Ireland, Interleaf Technology has had a busy year.

We have added 12 sites to our client base (5 Academic and Special libraries and 7 schools) bringing us to supporting a total of 81 libraries using Koha in Ireland. There are already 2 more installations planned for January next.

We also implemented EDI in our Koha installation in Belfast Metropolitan College. They converted from Sirsi Dynix Horizon. Shibboleth Single Signon and EDI were key factors to their choosing Koha. The EDI implementation makes Belfast Met the first Koha library in Ireland, and one of the first anywhere, to use EDI.

Upcoming Events

Hackfest in Marseille

by Paul Poulain
It’s a pleasure to announce/confirm that the 2015 hackfest in Marseille will take place in March, 2nd-6th.

It should be a great hackfest, with our RM Tomas, our QA Manager Katrin, 2 or 3 ppl from ByWater, 2 from PTFS-Europe, the BibLibre team, and hopefully a lot of others. ( including you ? )

If you want to join us, just send me an email (I’ll add you to a gdoc that gives details about location, hotel, public transportation,…)

Past Events

Koha Conference in Kraków

by Aneta Januszko-Szakiel

We are pleased to inform you that the 3rd Cracow Conference of Scientific Libraries titled ‘Koha – open source tool to support the library’ was held on 27-28 November 2014. This edition of the Conference was the last part of the project of two Cracow scientific libraries – The Library of Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University and The Library of Cracow University of Technology. The project was funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland and its aim was adaptation and implementation of ILS Koha in Cracow scientific libraries. Review of this project, especially the presentation of the work done, and willingness to development cooperation between Polish libraries was the main aims of the conference.

Presentation: Adapting Koha for use as a Local Authors Catalog

by Fred King

In October, Fred King presented a poster on “Adapting Koha for use as a Local Authors Catalog” at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter meeting of the Medical Librarians Association in Alexandria, Virginia. A PDF copy of the poster (N.B.: it’s only one megabyte, but measures 3×4 feet) can be downloaded from http://www.philobiblios.net/koha; scroll to the bottom of the page for the link.

December General IRC Meeting

The December general IRC meeting was held on the 19th.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Presentation: Adapting Koha for use as a Local Authors Catalog

by Fred King

In October, Fred King presented a poster on “Adapting Koha for use as a Local Authors Catalog” at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter meeting of the Medical Librarians Association in Alexandria, Virginia. A PDF copy of the poster (N.B.: it’s only one megabyte, but measures 3×4 feet) can be downloaded from http://www.philobiblios.net/koha; scroll to the bottom of the page for the link.

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