Koha Community Newsletter: March 2016
Koha Community Newsletter 
March 2016
Volume 7, Issue 3
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 3.22.5 Released
by Julian Maurice
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.22.5. Koha 3.22.5 is a security release.
It includes 1 security fix and 63 bugfixes.
The full release notes are available at
koha-3-22-5 Release Notes
Koha 3.20.10 Released
by Frédéric Demians
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 3.20.10. This is a
maintenance release and contains 37 bugfixes.
As always you can download the release from:
http://download.koha-community.org
Stay tuned for Debian/Ubuntu package availability.
Community
New Koha Libraries
- Black Hills Library Consortium, SD (USA) via ByWater Solutions
- Nunavut Public Library Services, Nunavut (CA) via ByWater Solutions
Community Gossip
Chris Cormack has put together a list of his conference presentations.
How To
Rocio Jordan shows you how to use task lists in MarcEdit to automate edits.
Jessie Zairo covers the new features and enhancements in Koha 3.22 in the following webinars:
- Circulation and Patrons.
- OPAC and Public Services.
- Cataloging, Acquisitions, and Serials.
- Tools, Reports, and Administration.
Ed Veal explains new item type management features in Koha 3.22.
Find out more about bib level item types from Barton Chittenden.
Upcoming Events
KohaCon16 Information
Have you registered for KohaCon16 yet?
- Where?
- Thessaloniki, Greece
- When?
- May 30th to June 4th 2016
More information can be found at http://kohacon2016.lib.auth.gr/
April General IRC Meeting
The April general IRC meeting will be held on the 6th at 10:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
April Development IRC Meeting
The April Development IRC meeting will be held on the 13th at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
BIBFRAME Conference
by Joy Nelson
The Koha Gruppo Italiano hosted a conference on March 15-16, 2016 titled “Beyond MARC: A discussion about Koha, MarcEdit and BIBFRAME”.
Program speakers included:
- Joy Nelson, Director of Migrations, ByWater Solutions
- Terry Reese, Digital Initiatives, Ohio State University
- Eric Lease Morgan, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Notre Dame University
The concepts of Web 3.0 (Semantic Web), Linked Data and BIBFRAME were explored and how these new ways of describing our library data have the potential to revolutionize how we view and maintain our collections. Semantic Web and Linked Data is a way for us to expose our library data (MARC) on the web and connect our data to other related pieces of information in our collection and even other collections. Utilizing BIBFRAME (or another linked data ontology) we can more accurately describe the implicit and sometimes hidden data within our MARC records. It is a radical change to the way in which we think about ‘cataloging’ and is more accurately described as ‘catalinking’!
Global Bug Squashing Day
Global Bug Squashing Day (GBSD) was Thursday, March 24th 2016.
More information, notes and bugs can be found here.
March General IRC Meeting
The March General IRC meeting was held on the 9th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
March 1st Development IRC Meeting
The first March Development IRC meeting was held on the 1st at 15:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
March 22nd Development IRC Meeting
The second March Development IRC meeting was held on the 22nd at 19:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Editor, Koha Community Newsletter