Free RDA Cataloging Training Guide
Marielle Veve, Metadata Librarian at University of North Florida, recently shared a free RDA Cataloging Training Guide via one of the mailing lists I subscribe to. I created this RDA manual for...
View ArticlePlaying in the Koha sandbox
Have you ever been browsing through the Koha bugs database and see a bug with a status of “needs sign off”? Have you ever reported a problem and wondered how to “sign off” to get a new feature or bug...
View ArticleHow Koha 3.12 Handles Lost Statuses
One of the most common questions we get about Koha is how lost statuses are handled. Hopefully this handy guide will be of use in that area. If the long overdue cron job is running with these settings:...
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...
View ArticleSpring is in the air: Refreshing your Koha OPAC via handy plugins
After the long winter for some of us in the north and the ice down south, we are all waiting for spring to arrive. The time to open our windows and clear out the dust but what about your OPAC? Is it...
View ArticleSetting up Receipt Printers on Ubuntu for Koha
Today a tutorial from one of our newest partners, Sean Park at the Coos County Libraries. A message came across our mailing list asking the following: We are new to Koha and ByWater, and everything is...
View ArticlePrinting Lists the “Old Way” in Koha 3.14
I’ve been teaching our partners all about Koha 3.14 and one of the great upgrades that comes with 3.14 is a new interface for lists in the staff client. I happen to love this new look and feel, but a...
View ArticleWhen anti-spam measures go too far?
There’s been a recent event that has many systems administrators up in arms. No, I don’t mean Heartbleed. I’m talking about Yahoo and how they have broken pretty much every mailing list in existence....
View ArticleEntering Good Support Tickets, Revisited
Two years ago, Thatcher Rea posted Entering Good Support Tickets. I felt that there was more to be said on the topic. Technical support is one of the primary services that we provide at ByWater...
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Guest Post: Getting MARC Records from Amazon
Today’s guest post was submitted by Jeremy Wellner at the Stanwood-Camano School District. I’ve gotten a process figured out to actually make Amazon give us a MARC record for us to import into Koha....
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Koha Lists Form Focus
I’ve had a few partners contacting me asking if there is a way to make the cursor focus on ‘add to’ box on the lists function in the Koha staff client. The answer is of course! So, when looking at a...
View ArticleInventory in Koha
Today seems to be the day of Inventory related tickets and phone calls at ByWater so I thought I should share what we learned (and what we taught our partners) with you all. First off, Koha has an...
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Sorting Reports by Date in Koha 3.14
It’s time for another post ripped right from the support system at ByWater. We’ve had a bunch of partners report to us that they can no longer sort their saved reports in Koha 3.14 by creation date. I...
View ArticleLinks to Koha Videos for Patrons
Today I had 2 partners ask me if we had updated the links to our Koha tutorial videos for partners since we had issues with our old video host last year. The answer is yes!! Here they are: Search the...
View ArticleOPACBaseURL the most forgotten Koha system preference
As our partners know I have been pushing to get their Koha catalogs all upgrades to the new responsive theme as quickly as possible. One thing I did to find out what themes people were using was run a...
View ArticleGuest Post: Electronic library cards in Koha
Today we have a guest post by Paul Landers of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Preston Smith Library. Inspired by the airlines’ electronic boarding passes, we are beta-testing some...
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Multiple Columns in Koha’s Bootstrap Theme
Many of our partners have a table on their main page listing new titles in their collection. Tables, however, are not responsive and so that cause issues on mobile devices when they upgrade to the...
View ArticleAdding Reports to the Koha Wiki
I recently received an email asking me if there were any tutorials on how to share reports on the Koha wiki. There were not … so of course I created one. This tutorial will show you how to edit the...
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What I didn’t get to show at NAKUG ( covers that flow )
I’ve been working on a plugin for CCFLS that I was planning to show at the Koha North American Users Group (NAKUG) meeting but didn’t get a chance to, so here it is! Click to view animation This is may...
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Using Koha and Linux to Power Bookmobiles
In today’s guest post, Alan Stolfus from the Rolling Hills Consolidated Library has a story to share with us about how their library is using open source software on their bookmobiles. When the Rolling...
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