Koha Community Newsletter: January 2019
January 2019
Volume 10, Issue 1
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 18.11.02 Released
by Martin Renvoize
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.11.02.
This is a maintenance release and contains 4 enhancements, 20 bugfixes.
Koha 18.05.08 Released
by Jesse Maseto
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.05.08.
Koha 18.05.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release. It includes 23 bugfixes.
Koha 17.11.14 Released
by Fridolin Somers
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.14
Koha 17.11.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 14 bugfixes.
Community
Community Gossip
Larry Baerveldt tries a Chromebook for system administration and shares his experience in the following articles:- A SysAdmin’s Journey into Chrome OS
- A SysAdmin’s Journey into Chrome OS – Part 2
- A SysAdmin’s Journey into Chrome OS – Part 3
New Koha Libraries
Koha Tips and Tricks
Vimal Kumar shows you how to use Google Analytics with Koha.
Alex Buckley covers the following topics
in his latest Koha Tips and Tricks article:
- Is it possible to alter the ‘material type’ of a bibliographic record?
- Can the information displayed in search result pages and book detail pages in the Koha OPAC and staff client be customized?
- Why is there a ‘No cover image available’ box appearing in OPAC search results and can it be hidden?
- We have upgraded to Koha 18.05 and the styling is broken, how do we fix this?
Support Provider News
- ByWater Solutions announces Koha Integration with Recorded Books.
- ByWater Solutions Names Joy Nelson President of Koha Division
Upcoming Events
February General IRC Meeting
The February General IRC meeting will be 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 will be held the 5th at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
Pakistan: Two-Day National Workshop on Koha Operational and Administrative Skills
The Pakistan Library Association (PLA) is the Registered National Representative Body of the Librarians in Pakistan since March 1957. PLA is responsible to look after the interest of the professional librarians and to work for the development and improvement of libraries both in formal and informal sectors of education and research. In 2015, PLA has started the Koha Implementation Program (PLA’s KIP) and implemented the Koha-ILS in 20 institutions of Pakistan at free of cost.
In 2018, PLA noted that the community required a comprehensive training that’s may strengthen them on the operational & administrative skills of this greatest innovation in an effective manner and to make them a Koha Expert Librarian (we call them a Koha Dinosaur) as most of the past pieces of training were based on how to install it and an overviews of the basic features. Therefore, the Pakistan Library Association (PLA) Sindh branch has conducted a two-day National workshop on Koha-ILS operational & administrative skills in partnership with Affinity Library and Commecs College, Karachi as on January 26-27, 2019.
It was the first advanced level, hands-on workshop that’s explored all the operational and administrative aspects of the Koha-ILS including, the installation, module management, and effective use of tools and administration, along with allied technologies such as MARC21, RDA, Responsive Interface Design, SQL Reports, jQuery, and with lots of readymade scripts, templates and tips.
Prof. Dr. Syed Farhat Hussain (Professor Department of Library & Information Science, University of Karachi and President Pakistan Library Association) distributed the certificates among the participants with Cdr. (Retd) Tanveer Ahmed, TI (Guest of Honor), Anil Zafar (Organizer), and Furrukh Hussain Zai (Key Resource Person).
Workshop photographs are available at this link http://bit.ly/kdwsp
January General IRC Meeting
The January General IRC meeting was held the 9th at 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
January Developers IRC Meeting
The January Developers IRC meeting was held the 16th at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Editor, Koha Community Newsletter