Koha Community Newsletter: February 2019
Koha Community Newsletter 
February 2019
Volume 10, Issue 2
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor
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Table of Contents
- Development
- Community
- Upcoming Events
- Past Events
Development
Koha 18.11.03 Released
by Martin Renvoize
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.11.03.
This is a maintenance release and contains 4 enhancements, 20 bugfixes.
Koha 18.05.09 Released
by Jesse Maseto
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.05.09.
Koha 18.05.09 is a bugfix/maintenance release. It includes 3 enhancements, 62 bugfixes.
Koha 17.11.15 Released
by Fridolin Somers
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.15
Koha 17.11.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 1 enhancements, 27 bugfixes.
Community
KohaCon19 Update
From Charles Quain Listserv post
Dear Koha Community
On behalf of the organizing group, I am sending another update on the
preparations for KohaCon19.
The website for the conference is here: https://www.interleaf.ie/kohacon19/
We are getting registrations every day and proposals for talks and
workshops.
Every talk and workshop proposal is being published as they are received.
You can review the list at this link:
Information will also be tweeted as proposals are received using the
hashtag #kohacon19
We have received 23 proposals for talks and workshops by now and a few more
are pending, so the schedule is filling up quite quickly.
If you would like to present, please submit your ideas soon.
We are also launching our sponsorship drive this week. The donations page is
here
All donations to the conference will be acknowledged as described on the
sponsorship page. Any contribution, however small, will be gratefully
received.
Koha in Cyprus
by Barbara Aristidou
The Cyprus KOHA community is happy to announce that different libraries in the private and public sector have been developing and propagating the use of KOHA as their main ILS system.
KOHA was approved and chosen as the main ILS system, by the Ministry of Education with the support and guidance of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) Library, to be used for the School Union Catalogue.
All the school libraries will be hosted under one installation and will be functioning as separate entities. In addition, KOHA is adopted by the Cyprus Library (National) in the framework of upgrading its services.
The Cyprus KOHA administration team is comprised of:
George Veranis, Senior Developer in Library Systems
Barbara Aristidou, Librarian, Cyprus University of Technology
Pani Skitini, Librarian, Cyprus Ministry of Education
Community Gossip
Horowhenua Libraries celebrate 20 years of Koha with website update.
New Koha Libraries
- The Central Library of Institute of Engineering & Technology Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India have switched to Koha in February 2019. The Library migrated to Koha on its own without any assistance from any vendor.
- The Chautauqua Cattaraugus Library System (USA) via Bywater Solutions
- The Pueblo City County Library District (USA) via Bywater Solutions
- Ottumwa Public Library (USA) via Bywater Solutions
- The Cedar Park Public Library (USA) via Bywater Solutions
- The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) (USA) via Bywater Solutions
Koha Tips and Tricks
Let Vimal Kumar take you through the following tricks in Koha:
- Show nothing when cover images are not found
- Display of Amazon cover images
- Enable IntranetCatalogSearchPulldown menu
- Manage collections using Authorized values
Kelley McElligot has some new tutorials for you:
- Creating Graphs in the Reporting Module
- Emailing Receipts in Koha
- Using the Label Plugin in Koha Part 2
Andrew Fuerste-Henry demonstrates methods for Reporting on Deleted Records.
Donna Bachowski talks about Lowest Priority Holds.
Upcoming Events
March General IRC Meeting
The March General IRC meeting will be held the 6th at 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
March Development IRC Meeting
The March Development IRC meeting will be held the 13th at 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
April Documentation IRC Meeting
The April Documentation IRC meeting will be held the 4th at 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
French Koha User Group, KohaLa, one-day conference
by Sonia Bouis
On the 24th of January, kohaLa has organised a Koha a one-day conference the at the French national library and information science school. There were around 50 attendees.
This day focused on :
- a new library using Coral (INSA de Lyon)
- How to help libraries to enrich their catalog with a Persistent IDentifier as a beginning towards the web data
- Highlight on integration of Koha results and patron account information in a library portal (with Drupal and Bokeh)
- The best of the Portland Kohacon in half an hour
- The new functionalities of 18.11 Koha version
February General IRC Meeting
The February General IRC meeting was held the 13th at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
February Documentation IRC Meeting
The February Documentation IRC meeting was held the 5th at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Editor, Koha Community Newsletter