Koha Community Newsletter: February 2014
Koha Community Newsletter
February 2014
Volume 5, Issue 2
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg and Joanne Dillon, Koha Community Newsletter Editors.
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Table of Contents
- Development
- Community
- Upcoming Events
- Past Events
Development
Koha 3.14.4 Released
by Fridolin Somers
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.14.4.
This is a maintenance release and contains some enhancements and several bugfixes.
As always you can download the release from Koha Downloads.
See the full release notes and changelog here.
Koha 3.12.11 Released
by Tomas Cohen Arazi
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.12.11.
This is a maintenance release and contains security fixes, enhancements and several bugfixes.
As always you can download the release from Koha Downloads.
See the full release notes and changelog here.
Community
New Koha Libraries
Community Gossip
Pierre Vandekerckhove explains how to customize the navigation on Koha’s OPAC and modify the favicon in Koha’s OPAC.
Melissa Lefebvre shares some tips for tweaking your opac with the help of Firefox plugins.
Nicole Engard introduces Koha 3.14’s course reserves functionality in this video tutorial.
Marshall Breeding has released the results of his annual International Survey of Library Automation.
Vimal Kumar demonstrates how to change the default ports in Koha to allow for additional web sites and applications. He goes over changing the default times that various scheduled tasks [AKA cronjobs] run in Koha in this post.
Mary Russell discusses use cases for hiding items in the OPAC and how to do this in Koha.
Support Provider News
ByWater Solutions and The Donohue Group, Inc. partner to bring advanced cataloging module to Koha. Read the press release here.
Upcoming Events
March General IRC Meeting
The March general IRC meeting will be held on March 5th 2014 at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda and other information are here.
Koha Hackfest in Marseille
The 3rd HackFest Koha will take place in the BibLibre office in Marseille from March 10 to 14.
4th Annual Italian Koha Meeting
by Romana Franziska Wallner
The Koha Gruppo Italiano would like to announce the upcoming 4th Koha Italian Annual Meeting on March 13th, 2014 in Milan during the National Conference, “Le Stelline”. While here we will discuss the last version of Koha ILS, and the introduction of ElasticSearch for Koha.
Presentations will be done by Stefano Bargioni, Deputy Director of the Library of the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, new Italian Koha users, and sponsor organizations within the realm of open-source software.
More detailed information can be found here:
http://kohagruppoitaliano.moonfruit.com/download/i/mark_dl/u/4012402918/4606532808/4th%20meeting.pdf
Past Events
February General IRC Meeting
The February general IRC meeting was held on February 5th 2014.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.