Koha Community Newsletter: June 2014
Koha Community Newsletter 
June 2014
Volume 5, Issue 6
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 3.16.1 Released
by Galen Charlton
The Koha community is pleased to announce the release of version 3.16.1 of the Koha library automation system.
Koha 3.16.1 is a bugfix release. Due to some of the critical bugs that are fixed in this release, users of Koha 3.16.0 are advised to upgrade as soon as possible.
Koha 3.16.1 can be downloaded from download.koha-community.org, and Debian packages of Koha 3.16.1 will be available shortly.
Koha 3.14.7 Released
by Fridolin Somers
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.14.8.
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 3.12.13 Released
by Kyle Hall
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.12.13.
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.
Patches
This section highlights upcoming features as well as bugs needing attention.
Bug 11577: Automatic renewal feature
Submitted by Holger Meissner:
The feature enables staff to schedule automatic renewals in two different ways. They may use a checkbox on the checkout page to automatically renew any particular issue. Alternatively automatic renewal can be based on circulation policy. Those issues scheduled for automatic renewal are blocked for manual renewal. Instead they will be renewed by a cronjob, until no more renewals are allowed or a hold is placed.
Community
New Koha Libraries
- UW Medicine Templeton Radiology Library, Seattle, WA (USA) via ByWater Solutions
- Appomattox County Libraries, Appomattox, VA (USA) via ByWater Solutions
- Anderson Associates Consulting Engineers Inc., Edmonton, Alberta (CA) via ByWater Solutions
Community Gossip
Joann Ransom posted an update on the NZ Koha Trademark.
The Loyola Library from Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana in Mexico upgraded from Koha 3.4 to 3.14 and has implemented the bootstrap theme to redesign their OPAC and support mobile devices. Check out their new OPAC.
How to
Vimal Kumar shows you how to Cancel / close patron library membership
Nicole Engard has some great tips this month.
In his Did you know blog series this month, Pierre Vandekerckhove covers the following topics:
- Add or remove borrowers’ titles
- Send an email to a patron when creating is account
- Attach file to a borrower record
Support Provider News
Check out this great example of the Open Source model at work in this article from ByWater Solutions.
Upcoming Events
KohaCon 2014
KohaCon 2014 will be held in Córdoba, Argentina, October 2014.
For the schedule and registration details see the
KohaCon page.
North American Koha Users Group
The North American Koha Users Group will be held in Wenatchee, WA, August 2014.
For the schedule and other info see the
North American Koha Users Group page.
Register here
Submit presentations here
Topics to be covered in round table discussions and presentations:
- Custom SQL reports
- Testing bugs
- Workflow with git
- Upcoming features – demos
- Future of Koha – elasticsearch, plack …other improvements.
- Overview of Bootstrap in OPAC
July General IRC Meeting
The July general IRC meeting will be held on July 9th at 22 UTC and July 10th at 15 UTC.
The agenda and other information are here
2nd July Development IRC Meeting
The 2nd July development IRC meeting will be held on July 23rd at 15 UTC.
The agenda and other information are here
Past Events
Koha Symposium in Grenoble France
Kohala is a french association which the aim is to promote Koha ILS and the open-source tools diffusion. Each year, we organise a symposium to offer a demonstration of Koha and to permit to Koha’s users to share their experiences. The last symposium took place the 2 and 3 of June, at Grenoble. These two days are related in this infographic.
Koha Implementation in libraries – The IIM Ahemdabad
Vikram Sarabhai Library experience
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Informatics Publishing Ltd,
Bangalore held a joint workshop on advanced
implementation and customization on Koha by academic libraries.
The workshop titled “ Koha Implementation in libraries – The IIM Ahemdabad
Vikram Sarabhai Library experience” covered the following topics:
- Implementing advanced functionalities of Koha in academic library
- Customizing Koha to suit IIM Ahemdabad Library
- New features developed on Koha for IIM Ahemdabad Library
- New release of Koha version 3.16
- The Informatics version of new release Koha
- Case studies from Koha user
- Migration of data from other LMS to Koha
The workshop was held on July 01, 2014 at Vikram Sarabhai Library,
India Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
June General IRC Meeting
The June general IRC meeting was held on June 3rd and June 4th.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
1st July Development IRC Meeting
The 1st July development IRC meeting was held on July 2nd.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Editor, Koha Community Newsletter