Koha Community Newsletter: February 2019

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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

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.

Read the full release notes

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.

Read the full release notes

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.

Read the full release notes

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:

KohaCon Schedule


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

Koha Tips and Tricks

Let Vimal Kumar take you through the following tricks in Koha:

Kelley McElligot has some new tutorials for you:

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.

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