Koha Community Newsletter: November 2019

Koha Community Newsletter
November 2019

Volume 10, Issue 11
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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Development
- MARC::Transform
Community
Upcoming Events
Past Events

Development

MARC::Transform

by Stéphane Delaune
I am the developer of MARC::Transform which is a Perl module to transform a MARC record using a YAML configuration file ( https://metacpan.org/pod/MARC::Transform ).

I realized a Koha plugin to test and edit MARC::Transform’s YAML configuration on Koha MARC records (biblios or authorities).

YAML can be edited in the plugin page or be loaded from a file (which can be on the user station or on the server, its content is then editable via the plugin).

This should help the users who use it regularly to, for example, modify the files of records to transform before their import.

MARC:Transform git repo

Community

Community Gossip

Invitation for Libraries using Koha to participate in the 2018 Library Automation Perceptions survey

New Koha Libraries

Koha Tips and Tricks

Kelly McElligott and Jessie Zairo have added some great new tutorials to their Monday Minutes series:

Kelly McElligot created the following tutorials for you:

Support Provider News

From PTFS Europe – we are helping The Kings Fund celebrate 10 years of using Koha on 3 December by hosting an event with them at their Information Centre. Invitation with details of the event. Our Managing Director, Jonathan Field will be doing a keynote presentation about working as a support company with open source software, growing as a virtual company over the ten years The King’s Fund have been using Koha and the health and environmental benefits of our virtual working model.
From Equinox – All invited: #ChatOpenS – Nov. 13, 12-1pm EDT. Last chat we discussed open source documentation (here’s the link to the chat in Twitter Moments)

Upcoming Events

3rd International Conference “Pakistan KohaCon2020”

by Sher Afzal Khan
The conference will be held at “Lahore Medical and Dental College” Lahore from April 16,17 & 18 2020.

The Conference will provide an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia, industry, and the public sector may come together to share research and practical experiences. The conference will serve as a forum to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer, no matter which form of FLOSS is being pursued.

A number of renowned world-class plenary speakers, established Keynote speakers, prominent invited speakers and fresh contributors will present their papers. A variety of poster presentations workshops and special sessions would also be organized for the interest of the participants.

Progress in Open Source Technologies is always linked to the progress and welfare of human civilization. Future advances in multiple disciplines of science, humanities, and engineering depend critically on the availability of superior materials. The aim of the Open Source Technologies is to promote quality research and real-world impact in an atmosphere of true international cooperation between scientists, engineers, and institutions by bringing together the world-class researchers, International Communities and industry heads to discuss the latest developments and innovations in the fields of Open Source Technologies

We are looking forward to seeing you at Kohacon Pakistan-2020 in Pakistan.

Website:www.2020.kohapakistan.org

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