Vote for the KohaCon13 Venue
Each year the location for KohaCon is picked by Koha community members. For those of you interested in joining us for KohaCon 2013, the voting on venue is now open! To review the full proposals please...
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KohaCon13 Registration and Call for Speakers Open
Registration for KohaCon13, the international users’ conference of the Koha open-source library system, is now open! KohaCon13 will be held October 16 – 22 at the Atlantis Casino Resort in Reno,...
View ArticleKohaCon13: Meeting the People Behind the Data
KohaCon13 has begun and I have a special goal this year. As the Director of Migrations, I see a lot of data pass through my hands. I get to know a library’s personality through the process of wading...
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KohaCon13: Calm at the centers of the distributed whirlwinds
KohaCon13 opened up with a talk by Galen Charlton our 3.14 release manager. Galen started with what we have to look forward to in Koha 3.14. First and most importantly is what’s new for the patrons: A...
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KohaCon13: The Koha History
Chris Cormack and Paul Poulain were up to talk to us about the history of Koha next at KohaCon13. Sept 1999 – “It’s just a big database how hard can it be” Jan 2000 – Koha released to library Sept 2000...
View ArticleKohaCon13: 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...
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KohaCon13: One Library’s Koha Migration Experience
Suzanne Fayle, a ByWater partner from Roseman University was up next at KohaCon13. When Roseman when to look for a new ILS they needed: intuitive staff client intuitive catalog for user more bank for...
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...
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KohaCon13: Kete Redevelopment Project
JD (Joanne Dillon) was up next to talk to us about Kete! Kete is where the Horowhenua Library stores their digital content (Koha is where the physical stuff is cataloged). Like Koha, Kete is open...
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: OPAC Roundtable
John Crockett from Washoe County Library System moderated the OPAC discussion at KohaCon13 and summarized and reported the topics discussed. There was talk of changing the indexing system from...
View ArticleKohaCon13: Introducing Libki
ByWater’s very own Kyle Hall, presented on LibKi an open source kiosk management system that includes a time management piece along with a reservations system at KohaCon13. Kyle wrote this program back...
View ArticleKohaCon13: Koha and Drupal
Paul Poulan of BibLibre spoke about integrating Koha and Drupal at KohaCon13. Drupal is a Content Management System ( CMS ) which is verify flexible. It as thousands of add-on modules, and dozens of...
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KohaCon13: Circ/Patrons Roundtable
After lunch at KohaCon13 we had roundtables and here are the notes from our Circulation/Patrons Roundtable. The post KohaCon13: Circ/Patrons Roundtable by Nicole C. Engard appeared first on ByWater...
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KohaCon13: Open Source ERMs
ByWater Solution’s own David Noe took the stage to present on Electronic Resource Management (ERM) systems this morning at KohaCon13. David started by telling us that his job is to fit square pegs in...
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: Yes, but what have you done for me lately?
Chris Cormack from New Zealand gave a great presentation at KohaCon13 on what Koha means to him and how we all can help. Chris is one of the original developers of Koha, He started working on Koha in...
View ArticleKohaCon13: Testing Patches
The Koha Release Managers were up next to talk about a bunch of Koha testing things at KohaCon13. First up was Paul Poulain and he showed us the Koha Sandboxes. Sandboxes are a way for you to test new...
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...
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