Koha Community Newsletter: September 2022
Koha Community Newsletter: September 2022 
Volume 13, Issue 9
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Michael Kuhn
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Table of contents
Development
Current Koha versions
Read the respective release notes by clicking the revision number.
| Date | Revision | Notes |
| 28 September 2022 Lucas Gass |
Koha 22.05.05 stable |
15 enhancements 48 bugfixes |
| 22 August 2022 Arthur Suzuki |
Koha 21.11.11 oldstable |
12 enhancements 40 bugfixes |
| 27 September 2022 Victor Grousset |
Koha 21.05.19 | 8 bugfixes |
| 24 May 2022 Victor Grousset |
Koha 20.11.19 | 1 enhancement 5 bugfixes |
| 1 December 2021 Victor Grousset |
Koha 20.05.18 | 11 bugfixes |
| 26 April 2022 Chris Cormack |
Koha 19.11.29 | 3 bugfixes |
The Debian packages are usually available within days after the release.
Koha support for Debian 9 ends
by Mason James
Debian ended support for Debian 9 (Stretch) on 30 June 2022.
So, we recommend you upgrade any Debian 9 Koha systems to Debian 10 or 11.
Community
General notes
- Adoption, implementation and data migration: Lagos State University Library experience (Lagos State University)
- Free and open source software as free culture (University of West London)
- Funding QA and joint development (Bywater Solutions, PTFS Europe)
- Koha and open source at the King’s Fund Library (The King’s Fund)
- Koha ILS implementations at Pakistan Army HQ Central Library (Sher Afzal Khan)
- KohaCon 22 – Day 1 (koha-US)
- KohaCon 22 – Day 2 (koha-US)
- KohaCon 22 – Day 3 (koha-US)
- KohaCon 22 – Day 4 (koha-US)
- Kohala News No. 13 (Mars 2022) – the newsletter of French user group Kohala
- Poetry with Fred King #1 (koha-US)
- Poetry with Fred King #3 (koha-US)
- Poetry with Fred King #4 (koha-US)
- Saving kittens and supporting Koha (Catalyst)
- The long and winding road to open sharing in Northeast Kansas (Minges and Associates Consultants, Bywater Solutions)
New Koha libraries
China
- Asia Lutheran Seminary – 亚洲路德宗神学院 (ALS) in Hong Kong, via Lemonjar Software Media
Germany
- Gemeindebücherei Stockelsdorf via LMS Cloud
- Stadtbibliothek Rottendorf am Neckar via LMS Cloud
- Stadtbibliothek Tuttlingen via LMS Cloud
- Stadt- und Schulbibliothek Altenberg via LMS Cloud
USA
- Shrewsbury Library in Shrewsbury (VT), via Bywater Solutions
- Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn (NY), via Equinox Open Library Initiative
- Yakama Nation Library in Toppenish (WA), via Bywater Solutions
Koha tips and tricks
- Advancing into Electronic Resources Management (ERM) (PTFS Europe))
- A fine-free Koha build : how one library levelled up to be a level 20 powerhouse (North Richland Hills Library)
- Build cool and insightful visualizations with your Koha data (Montgomery County Public Libraries)
- Can a drop down menu in Koha be changed? (Bywater Solutions)
- Designing a patron empowering OPAC (Bywater Solutions)
- Designing a patron empowering OPAC (Bywater Solutions) – video presentation
- Driver’s license scanner (Coeur d’Alene Public Library)
- Evaluating and improving Koha performance (Bywater Solutions)
- FRBRizing Koha (Uintah County Library System)
- From CSV to MARC: Converting your spreadsheet into MARC records (MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Teamwork Library Consortium)
- FCV – Full cataloguing view in bibliographic or authority record (Stefano Bargioni)
- Getting involved in the Koha community (Bywater Solutions)
- Getting involved in the Koha community (Bywater Solutions) – video presentation
- How the Koha to ILL can work for your library (Bywater Solutions)
- KohaCon 22 slides and recordings (koha-US)
- KohaCon 22 wrap up! (Bywater Solutions)
- Leveling up with plugins (Bywater Solutions)
- Leveling up with plugins (Bywater Solutions) – video presentation
- Marcedit: Integrating with Koha (koha-US)
- Mysql password error (Access Denied for User ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) – No Privileges?) (Lib Power Tech)
- Patron lists and modification (Bywater Solutions)
- Patron lists and patron clubs (koha-US)
- Patron lists for cards (koha-US)
- Redesigning Coverflow (Bedford Public Library)
- Resource rewind: August 2022 (Bywater Solutions)
- Search results (Bywater Solutions)
- Using lists in Koha (Bywater Solutions)
- What are patron hold notes? (Bywater Solutions)
- What logs are turned on? (Bywater Solutions)
Support provider news
- KohaCon22 wrap-up (Bywater Solutions)
- Level up the library community with Koha via RAFLIMTS (RAFLIMTS)
- Level up the library community with Koha via RAFLIMTS (RAFLIMTS)
Upcoming events
For all upcoming IRC meetings see Next IRC meetings or the Koha Community calendar.
For any other Koha-related meeting just see the Koha Community calendar.
KohaCon 23 to be held in Helsinki, Finland
by Caroline Cyr La Rose
In the IRC General Meeting held on 7 September 2022, the proposal for KohaCon23 from the National Library of Finland was accepted unanimously by all present.
The conference will be open to in-person and online participation. The target date is August 2023, but more information will be available in the coming months.
As well as information transmitted on the mailing list, this wiki page will be updated regularly with information about the conference: https://www.kiwi.fi/display/KK/KohaCon
On behalf of the larger Koha community, I want to thank the organizers, National Library of Finland, Koha-Suomi Oy, and Nugged Team for taking this on.
Past events
For all past IRC meetings see the following links or the Koha Community calendar.
For any other Koha-related meeting just see the Koha Community calendar.
KohaCon 22 wrapup
by Barbara Johnson, koha-US President 2022
I hope everyone had a great KohaCon22 in Lawrence, Kansas and online. There were so many great presentations – you’ll find links below to the recording for each day and for the twitter feed:
Please take the conference survey – it helps us to know what went well and how we can improve in the future:
Thank you to all of our sponsors and donors for making this such an awesome conference:
ByWater Solutions, Equinox, FE Technologies, Northeast Kansas Library System, PTFS Europe, David Blakesley, Christopher Brannon, Jeff Gabel, Laurel Moran, Marie Martino, David Nind