KohaCon13: Tips for Training Libraries on Koha
Nicole, our very own ByWater trainer has been training libraries for 10 years and training libraries on Koha for 7 years. She gave a presentation at KohaCon13 on training libraries on Koha. Libraries...
View ArticleKohaCon13: What is after MARC???
A major bit of fun at Kohacon is learning what the great minds in Koha are thinking about. I sat in on a session where the topic related to non Marc Cataloging. Galen Charlton talked about plans he is...
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KohaCon13: Koha and Plugins
What are plugins? These are additions to Koha that will perform new ‘tricks’ to Koha that are not included in general functionality or functionality specific to our library. Plugins can also run...
View ArticleKohaCon13: Get involved in the Koha Community!
Paul Poulain from Biblibre spoke this morning at KohaCon13 about how the Koha community is organized and how it works. First, who makes up the community? Anyone!!! If you do something you are part...
View ArticleKohaCon13: Koha + DSpace
David Cook, a Canadian librarian talked about harvesting of records from DSpace into Koha at KohaCon13. He originally worked with a custom PHP and perl scripts to pull from DSpace database directly....
View ArticleKohaCon13: Funding Koha code cleanup
Brendan Gallagher led a discussion about the underlying code in Koha and the work that needs to be done to improve Koha at KohaCon13. Chris Cormack led off the discussion about the difficulty in...
View ArticleKohaCon13: Koha as a Citation Manager
Fred King from Medstar Washington Hospital discussed how he uses Koha for journal citations at KohaCon13. When his old system was teetering on the brink, he installed Koha and migrated his data. The...
View ArticleArchitecture and Libraries
When my children were in elementary school and I was in my ‘pre-librarian’ days, I volunteered in the school library once a week. I remember the librarian talking about the vacations she took with her...
View ArticlePatron Usernames in Koha 3.12
“Koha is assigning a default username and password when I add a new patron. What is the password?” If you’ve had the same question, you are not alone! I have been seeing a lot of tickets with a...
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Little Free Library
My retro TV library. I consider all of you that work in libraries to be the luckiest people in the world! And while a 99.9% of me *loves* my job, a very small part of me wishes I had my own library...
View ArticleSuccess in Implementing Workflow Changes
While at TxLA this year, I was able to attend a session given by Nicole Pelinsky of Serial Solutions about practical steps to implementing workflow changes. The first step in a project (of any kind –...
View ArticleEmpower yourself!
I was fortunate to be asked to participate in the first ever TxLA ‘hack-a-thon’. In preparation for this event, TxLA had scheduled a number of sessions related to coding and explaining the ins and...
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KohaCon14 Underway
KohaCon 2014 began on Monday, October 1st in Cordoba, Argentina. The conference started off with a keynote speech by Tomas Cohen Arazi. He welcomed the various types of libraries that make up the...
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Biblioteca Mayor at KohaCon14
During one of the KohaCon breakout sessions, we were given a tour of the Biblioteca Mayor at the Manzana Jesuitica. They have an amazing collection of books that had been collected by the Jesuits....
View ArticleKoha Quote of the Day – Corboba Style
We had the pleasure of listening to three presentations from students in the Library Science School at the University. Seeing students use Koha and explain projects they worked on is very interesting....
View ArticleOne of my favorite things…
As you all are aware, we are just finishing up a major upgrade cycle on our partner’s sites to Koha 3.16.4. One of my favorite times in the Koha community is the release of a new version. What I...
View ArticleScanners and Koha Search Forms
Barcode scanners are time savers! No doubt about it. Every once in a while we’ll hear from a Koha library with scanner issues. The basic issue is “A scanner will fail to scan in barcodes correctly”....
View ArticleTxLA: Self Publishing
Henry Bankhead of Los Gatos Public Library gave a great talk on self-publishing and ebooks. Henry was an early adopter of ebooks and in 2010 Henry started talking with Mark Coker of Smashwords, a self...
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TxLA: Recycling Books!
Do you have too many books that no one wants? Is your ‘Friends of the Library’ bookshop overflowing. Consider promoting some book art. Julie Ousley gave the ‘Rags to Riches: Recycling Books for Fun,...
View ArticleCALIcon 2015
I was honored to be invited to join Rutgers University’s presentation at CALIcon 2015. Caroline Young and John Joergensen gave a presentation about their recent migration to Koha. John provided the...
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Linked Data and BIBFRAME
We live in a world of links. Consider the web, it is full of pages linked to other pages, documents linked to other documents and even bits of data linked to other bits of data. If we perform a Google...
View ArticleUsing FOSS
Prodromes Tsiavos from UCL the Media Institute talked about Open Source Software on the first day of Kohacon16. Open Source software is at the core a collective living organism. It is made of various...
View ArticleAuthorities Town Hall Recap
We had a great turnout for the Authorities Town Hall on Wednesday (8/24). In case you missed it, or if you’d like to view it again as a refresher, the slide show is here and the recording can be seen...
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Non Public Item Notes in Koha
Item level Non-public notes — They’re great for storing all the notes that we need in libraries and not displaying them in the OPAC. Usually the notes consist of acquisitions information, vendor...
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Linked Data at the Marseille Koha Hackfest
This is a two part blog post from Joy Nelson and Nick Clemens who recently attended the Koha Hackfest in Marseille France. Joy Nelson I gave a brief presentation on linked data and the benefits and...
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