Does your library limit your patrons to a certain number of checkouts for certain item types? At the Athens County Public Libraries, for instance, we limit patrons to 10 audio books, 10 music CDs, 10 videos, and 5 DVDs at a time. If a patron tries to check out more than 5 DVDs, Koha will [...]

Posted by oleonard, Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:08:02 +0000

One question I’m often asked is, “Where can I find a batch download of authority records?” Unfortunately I have yet to find a free way to get a bulk download of Library of Congress authorities (which you can download one by one on the official site), but I have found these sites that I want [...]

Posted by Nicole C. Engard, Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:34:11 +0000

<p>How to change the text of the OPAC login link</p> <table style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker'/> <col class='diff-content'/> <col class='diff-marker'/> <col class='diff-content'/> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color:white;color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color:white;color:black;">Revision as of 12:53, 30 July 2010</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 149:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 149:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background:#eee;color:black;font-size:smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background:#eee;color:black;font-size:smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background:#eee;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div>Don't forget to surround the code above in &lt;syntaxhighlight lang="jquery"&gt; $(document).ready(function(){ and }); &lt;/syntaxhighlight&gt; inside the "opacuserjs" preference.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background:#eee;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div>Don't forget to surround the code above in &lt;syntaxhighlight lang="jquery"&gt; $(document).ready(function(){ and }); &lt;/syntaxhighlight&gt; inside the "opacuserjs" preference.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div> ==== Change the text of the OPAC login link ====</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div> * '''Developer:''' Owen Leonard (Nelsonville Public Library)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div> * '''Purpose:''' Change the text of the OPAC login link</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div> * '''Status:''' Completed</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div> * '''Intranet or OPAC?:''' OPAC</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div> * '''Version:''' Any </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div> &nbsp; &lt;syntaxhighlight lang="jquery"&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div> &nbsp; $("#members a:contains('Log in to Your Account')").text("Log In");</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background:#cfc;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div> &nbsp; &lt;/syntaxhighlight&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background:#eee;color:black;font-size:smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background:#eee;color:black;font-size:smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background:#eee;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div>[[Category:Tips_&amp;_Tricks]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background:#eee;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div>[[Category:Tips_&amp;_Tricks]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background:#eee;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div>[[Category:Development]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background:#eee;color:black;font-size:smaller;"><div>[[Category:Development]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Posted by Oleonard, Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:53:33 +0000

For the second in our series of training videos, here&#8217;s a brief OPAC overview. As always, if you have an idea for a video, please just let me know and I’ll add it to my list of things to record. Share:

Posted by Nicole C. Engard, Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:01:37 +0000

July 28th, 2010 CONTACT: Nathan Curulla (888) 900-8944 sales@bywatersolutions.com The Rolling Hills Consolidated Library Partners with ByWater Solutions for Koha Support and Implementation ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the Rolling Hills Consolidated Library, of St Joseph, Missouri, has partnered with them for the implementation and [...]

Posted by Nathan A. Curulla, Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:45:59 +0000

I&#8217;ve been playing with gitdm, it generates some quite neat stats, you can view them here http://stats.workbuffer.org/gitdm/ If there is a changeset you want me to run stats for let me know.

Posted by Chris, Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:33:52 +0000

Last week the Official Koha Newsletter was published. Volume 1, Issue 7: July 2010 Table of Contents Tips &#38; Tricks Search in Koha Amazon Content Not Appearing? Koha in Libraries Koha Users Forum launched in Nigeria Archive &#38; Access Project Koha Events Second Koha Open Day in London KohaCon 2010 Program Available Continue reading “Koha [...]

Posted by Nicole C. Engard, Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:44:24 +0000

There was recently some discussion on the Koha mailing list about how &#8220;branches&#8221; fit into the development process. I replied with a description of how I use branches in my development process, and this post is an expansion of that. In my discussion of Koha&#8217;s bug-reporting process I mentioned that a developer who wants to [...]

Posted by oleonard, Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:21:03 +0000

I left something out of my post on Customizing the staff client login logo that I wanted to be sure to add: Once you&#8217;ve changed the logo you may want to change where it links to as well. By default it links to the Koha web site (or the deprecated version if your installation is [...]

Posted by oleonard, Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:59:13 +0000

Bethesda, MD, July 21, 2010 – LibLime is pleased to announce that the Northeast Harbor Library, has successfully migrated to Koha. &#8220;Our present ILS system did not meet our needs. Our catalog was not on the Internet, patrons couldn’t receive notices or reminders by email. These are features that patrons have been requesting for years [...]

Posted by jonathan, Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:02:57 +0000

Thanks to Nicole Engard of ByWater Solutions (@bywatersolutions on Twitter), Koha users can access a collection of short video tutorials on Koha. Nicole will be adding to the list as time goes on; you can access the collection at http://bywatersolutions.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&#38;nsfw=dc.* &#8230; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://gmlc.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/koha-tutorial-videos/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>

Posted by Stephanie Chase, Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:20:53 +0000

Lately I have been recording a series of tutorial videos on Koha. I&#8217;m going to be sharing them here, one per week &#8211; and here&#8217;s the first in the series: If you have an idea for a video, please just let me know and I&#8217;ll add it to my list of things to record. Share:

Posted by Nicole C. Engard, Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:01:17 +0000

A Koha user (from Tanzania!) asked today on the Koha mailing list, &#8220;I need some help on how to customize the staff client login page/replace koha logo with a new one.&#8221; I haven&#8217;t heard this request before, so it&#8217;s a good opportunity to investigate. If this were the OPAC we could use a system preference, [...]

Posted by oleonard, Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:54:50 +0000

You may notice some inconsistencies with the 3.2 manual while I work on it this week. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Posted by Liz Rea, Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:47:49 +0000

I was thinking about ease of use, and what we could to to improve the Koha OPAC from the point of view of the patrons, and the first thing my mind jumped to was the process of placing holds. For many patrons placing a hold is the goal of their visit to the OPAC. They&#8217;re [...]

Posted by oleonard, Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:39:35 +0000

July 19th, 2010 CONTACT: Nathan Curulla (888) 900-8944 sales@bywatersolutions.com The Luther Rice Seminary and University Partners with ByWater Solutions for Koha Support and Hosting ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the Luther Rice Seminary and University, of Lithonia, GA. has partnered with them for the hosting [...]

Posted by Nathan A. Curulla, Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:06:51 +0000

Owen Leonard, active Koha member, has written a great overview of how to participate in the bug reporting/patching process for Koha. As the Koha project has grown our workflow has evolved to meet the demands of a wider pool of developers. We’re better today at collaborating thanks to Git, our version control system. We’re better [...]

Posted by Nicole C. Engard, Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:40:00 +0000

As the Koha project has grown our workflow has evolved to meet the demands of a wider pool of developers. We&#8217;re better today at collaborating thanks to Git, our version control system. We&#8217;re better at communicating with each other through the Koha wiki and Koha&#8217;s Bugzilla database. It has helped a lot that we&#8217;ve worked [...]

Posted by oleonard, Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:13:17 +0000

<p>BibLibre business is still growing, we have to hire some new people. Our offices are too small, so we move !</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.biblibre.com/en/blog/entry/moving-shaking">read more</a></p>

Posted by Paul Poulain, Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:49:56 +0000

Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 1, Issue 7: July 2010 Table of Contents Tips &#038; Tricks Search in Koha Amazon Content Not Appearing? Koha in Libraries Koha Users Forum launched in Nigeria Archive &#038; Access Project Koha Events Second Koha Open Day in London KohaCon 2010 Program Available &#160; Tips &#038; Tricks Search in Koha by Marilen Aretius Corciovei For people used to web searches and database oriented application Koha [...]

Posted by Nicole C. Engard, Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:23:01 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust chooses Koha supported by PTFS Europe London, 14th July 2010 The library at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has chosen the Koha open source library management system to replace its existing Unicorn system. PTFS Europe are carrying out the initial implementation and providing ongoing [...]

Posted by jonathan, Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:04:25 +0000

This past weekend I had the pleasure of spending time with some local librarians. As it always does, the discussion of open source and my opinions came up &#8211; in particular what my opinion was of the &#8216;in-fighting&#8217; going on right now in the Koha world. For those who have spoken to me (not just [...]

Posted by Nicole, Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:05:13 +0000

July 9th, 2010 CONTACT: Nathan Curulla (888) 900-8944 sales@bywatersolutions.com Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary Partners with ByWater Solutions for Koha Support and Implementation ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, of Allen Park, MI. has partnered with them for the installation and support [...]

Posted by Nathan A. Curulla, Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:36:29 +0000

London, 5th July 2010. The new library at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO has chosen the Koha open source library management system. PTFS Europe are carrying out the initial implementation and providing ongoing support. The system is hosted at the PTFS Europe data centre in Maidenhead in the UK. Koha Library Management System With Koha, [...]

Posted by jonathan, Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:25:05 +0000