May 17, 2012toMay 19, 2012

LISolutions in collaboration with Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP), The University of Waikato, New Zealand and Digital Library Network of South Asia (DLNetSA) is organizing a Three Days Training on Free & Open Source Integrated Library Systems (ILS)

Introduction: Free and Open Source Movement has provided great opportunities for library community around the globe. This training will consist of hands-on practical sessions on the following Free and Open Source Software (FOSS):

• Koha ILS (Latest Version)
• Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL)
• DSpace (A favorite Digital Library Suite)

Important Documents for Registration and Nominations:

• Training Brochure
• Online Registration Form
• PDF Registration Form
• Invitation/Nomination Letter for HODs

Event details are as under:

Title: Three Days Training on Free & Open Source Integrated Library Systems (ILS)
Date: May 17-19 2012
Venue: ICMAP Campus, Plot No. 16, Sector H-9, Islamabad, Pakistan

View Larger MapOrganizers:

• LISolutions Pakistan
• Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP)
• The University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Digital Library Network of South Asia (DLNetSA)

Training Team:

• Mr. Ata ur Rehman (Team Lead)
• Mr. Zahid Iqbal
• Mr. M. Shafiq Rana

Organizing Coordinator:

• Mr. Zahid Iqbal
  kashan.zahid@yahoo.com
  +92 331 504 4430

Training Fee: PKR 5000/- (US $ 60 for foreign participants )

Fee includes:
Koha, GSDL, DSpace DVD, Training Kit, LISolutions’ Membership, Certificate, Lunches/Refreshment

How to Register?:

Deposit training fee online and get the payment slip. Then get registered here.

Online Registration

Account Title: LISolutions Trust
A/C No: 0541001951005064
Bank: MCB F-7 Markaz, Islamabad -44000

Important Note: As we have limited seats available, interested participants are requested to get registered on first come first serve basis according to following procedure:

Training Outcomes:
After successful completion of this training the participants will be able to:

• Deploy / Install Koha on your own computer /server
• Learn basic commands of Linux which may be helpful to use Koha and other FOSS software more
• Effectively Configure / customize Koha according to your needs
• Learn the practical use of GSDL and DSpace

Quelques jours avant l’ouverture du symposium Koha (cru 2012), organisé par la BULAC (Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations), Bambou saisit l’occasion d’interroger Corinne Hayet*, chef de projet Koha, pour un retour d’expérience d’intégration du logiciel Koha au sein de son réseau documentaire.

Bambou : “Pourquoi la BULAC a-t-elle fait le choix d’un logiciel libre et de Koha en particulier ?”

C.Hayet : “La BULAC a choisi de passer à un logiciel libre parce qu’elle ne trouvait pas de SIGB propriétaire disposant des fonctionnalités nécessaires à son module de communication. L’appel d’offre qu’elle a lancé en 2007 à ce sujet a d’ailleurs été déclaré infructueux, faute de réponse de la part des fournisseurs.
Le choix s’est porté sur Koha parce que c’est un logiciel nativement UTF8 (base de données). De plus, une étude réalisée par la société BibLibre en 2008 à la demande de la BULAC a montré que le passage à un logiciel libre, y compris avec des développements, ne coûterait pas plus cher à long terme qu’un SIGB propriétaire.
L’utilisation du logiciel libre est aussi une politique volontariste de la BULAC qui a recours aux logiciels libres dès que c’est possible : développement en 2009 d’un logiciel libre pour le déménagement et la gestion de l’implantation des documents dans ses magasins (OLIMP), outils de gestion interne (eGroupware, Cocktail, GLPI), équipement des postes professionnels avec Libre Office, postes publics de consultation sous Ubuntu et XBMC pour l’audiovisuel, bibliothèque numérique sous Omeka.”

……….
Bambou : “Vous avez financé des développements spécifiques pour adapter Koha à votre contexte. Quelles sont ces fonctionnalités ?”

C.Hayet : “Les développements réalisés ont donc principalement portés sur la création d’un module « communication » et d’un module « entrées et magasinage », sur l’amélioration de certaines fonctionnalités déjà existantes dans Koha (chargeur SUDOC, impression et exports avec utilisation de Jasper Report) ainsi que sur l’interfaçage avec les « briques » existantes ou non du SI (WebServices).
L’accent a ainsi été mis sur la réalisation d’un « SIGB intelligent » adapté au bâtiment et s’interfaçant avec des « briques » logicielles déjà en place ou prévues dans le futur système d’information (OLIMP pour la gestion dynamique des magasins, système de contrôle d’accès, allumage des voyants sur les tables de consultation, réservation d’espaces).”

………..
Bambou : “Comment s’est passée l’intégration du logiciel au sein de votre réseau (en termes technique, organisationnel…) ?”

C.Hayet : “La migration vers le SIGB Koha s’est traduite par la mise en place d’une structure projet (comité de pilotage, équipe de projet, groupes de travail, référentiel documentaire). Elle s’est faite parallèlement au transfert des collections et à l’emménagement dans un nouveau bâtiment.
Les développements ont été effectués par la société Progilone ou en interne (chargeur SUDOC, OPAC). La version de Koha à partir de laquelle ces développements ont été faits est la 3.02.00.004.
Ils ont été en priorité réalisés dans le code source de Koha (PERL). Toutefois, les fonctionnalités hors périmètre d’un SIGB classique ou pouvant être exécutées en local sur les postes professionnels ont été développées sur une technologie JAVA et intégrés visuellement dans l’interface de Koha.
La mise en production s’est faite de manière échelonnée en fonction des impératifs de service et d’installation dans le nouveau bâtiment : chargeur SUDOC, OPAC, recherche professionnelle, catalogage et bulletinage en mars 2011, acquisitions en novembre 2011, communication et magasinage-entrées entre décembre 2011 et janvier 2012.”

………..
Bambou : “Quelles sont vos premières impressions sur le fonctionnement du logiciel ?” Avez-vous des premiers retours de la part de vos utilisateurs (professionnels comme usagers)?”

C.Hayet : “Il s’agit d’un logiciel assez facile de prise en main et d’ergonomie. Les difficultés rencontrées tenaient moins à la prise en main de l’outil, qu’à l’appropriation de nouvelles procédures (communication, catalogage et exemplarisation, acquisitions) et d’un nouveau bâtiment. Un effort tout particulier a été porté à la formation, réalisée en interne par des formateurs-référents.”

………..
Bambou : “Quelles évolutions (fonctionnelles ou techniques) attendez-vous de Koha sur les courts et moyens termes ?”

C.Hayet : “Les principales évolutions attendues sont celles concernant les modules « acquisitions » et « périodiques ». Ce sont là les deux « points faibles » de Koha. Nous attendons d’ailleurs avec impatience de voir les développements qui ont été réalisés à ce sujet dans la version 3.8.
Nous attendons aussi un changement sur le moteur d’indexation qui peut présenter actuellement certaines faiblesses et étudions un passage à SOLR qui permettrait à terme la mise en place d’un outil de découverte.”

………..
Bambou : “Envisagez-vous de poursuivre votre action de contributeur au sein de la communauté Koha ?”

C.Hayet : “Oui, l’une de mes tâches prioritaires dans les prochains mois va être de mettre à disposition de la communauté les développements réalisés dans le cadre de notre marché. Nous savons que la fonctionnalité de pré-inscription, notamment, est déjà très attendue par d’autres établissements.
Nous réfléchissons également à poursuivre nos développement avec un module « conservation » pour la gestion des trains de reliure.”

*corinne.hayet@bulac.fr

→ en complément de l’entretien, voir la fiche-synthèse du projet Koha à la BULAC

→ quelques infos sur la BULAC :

• Surfaces :
  • Magasins -> 5000 m²
  • 3 salles de lecture -> 5000m²

• Lecteurs -> 7500 (au 27 avril 2012)
• Volume total -> 1,5 millions, dont 200 000 en libre-accès
• Communication :
  • Prêts -> 1500 prêts pour semaine
  • demandes de communication -> 1000 demandes par semaine
• Ouverture du lundi au samedi de 10h à 22h.

Classé dans:koha, Koha : retour d'expérience Tagged: koha, logiciel libre, opac

Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328)
Volume 3, Issue 4: April 2012

 

Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor.
Please submit news items to

Table of Contents

• Koha Development
  • Koha 3.8.0 Released
  • Koha 3.10 Roles
  • Koha Statistics
  • Browse Headings Using Solr
  • SemantiKoha
• Koha Community
  • New Koha Libraries
  • Community Gossip
  • Pacific Islands Koha Users Call
• Past Koha Events
  • April General IRC Meeting
• Upcoming Koha Events
  • May General IRC Meeting
  • Symposium Koha 2012
  • Koha and Dspace Training in India
  • KohaCon12

Koha Development

Koha 3.8.0 Released
by Chris Cormack

The Koha release team is happy to announce the release of Koha 3.8.0, the third major release since we shifted to time based releases. The release team would like to thank everyone involved in this release for making it possible.

Koha 3.8.0 contains over 130 enhancements with over 1000 changesets from 71 developers. Please read the release notes for more information.

Koha 3.8.0 can be downloaded here.

Installation instructions can be found here or in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball.

Koha 3.10 Roles
by Chris Cormack

Positions for the Koha 3.10.0 release cycle (due October 2012) were confirmed at the April general IRC meeting. It is our biggest release team yet and a really good sign of the health of the community that we had so many volunteers. The roles are:

• Release Manager : Paul Poulain, France
• Translation Manager: Shared between Samuel Desseaux and Frédéric Demians both from France
• Translation Assistants: Katrin Fischer, Germany; Marijana Glavica, Croatia
• Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard, USA
• DB Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard, USA
• Quality Assurance (QA) Manager: Ian Walls, USA
• Quality Assurance (QA) Assistants: Marcel de Rooy, Netherlands; Jonathan Druart, France; Mason James, New Zealand
• Release Maintainer 3.8.x: Chris Cormack, New Zealand
• Release Maintainer 3.6.x: Jared Camins-Esakov, USA
• Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat, New Zealand
• Packaging Assistant: Mason James, New Zealand
• Bug Wrangler: Magnus Enger, Norway; Katrin Fischer, Germany; Dobrica Pavlinušić, Croatia; Koustubha Kale, India
• Meeting Chair: BWS Johnson, USA

So that’s 17 people in total who have volunteered and been accepted to positions for the next 6 months (starting after the release of 3.8.0 on April 23). I think it is also great we have a nice geographic spread, especially the bug wrangler team.

Koha Statistics

Chris Cormack, statistician par excellence, has posted bug statistics for March and statistics for Koha 3.8.0.

Adding Browse Headings to Koha Using Solr
by Stefano Bargioni

The Library of the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome added browse headings to Koha. This is perhaps the first example of integration of Koha and Solr in a production environment. Users can scan lists of authors (established or unestablished forms), titles, title series, author/title, uniform titles, subjects, etc.

An engine written in Perl runs on a regular basis to synchronize Solr entries with Koha data. The process is driven by an xml config file where chosen tags and subfields of authority or bibliographic records are described in order to feed one or more lists for browsing. More than 500,000 entries were generated, starting from about 111,000 authority records and 147,000 biblio records.

Browse search was added at the top of “Browse by Subject” page; see http://catalogo.pusc.it/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authorities-home.pl.

This topic will be presented exhaustively at KohaCon12 in Edinburgh.

SemantiKoha
by Magnus Enger

Recently, there has been a fair amount of discussion about RDF/Semantic Web technologies being central to the efforts to replace the MARC family of “standards”, including from the US Library of Congress [1]. However, there has not been much testing of these technologies in the context of actual ILSes. I aim to do something about that with my “SemantiKoha” project. The goal is to explore how openly available semantic/linked data can be used in the Koha OPAC to enhance the user experience and aid in discovery. The practical work is at a very early proof-of-concept stage, but there is a live demo available [2] and the source code is also available [3]. If anyone wants to join the fun and contribute please don’t hesitate to contact me!

[1] http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-051311.html and http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html.

[2] http://semantikoha.libriotech.no/. See, for example, the page for Charles Darwin: http://semantikoha.libriotech.no/cgi-bin/koha/opac-view.pl?uri=http://data.deichman.no/person/darwin_charles.

[3] https://github.com/MagnusEnger/semantikoha. See especially the README, which explains how the demo is set up: https://github.com/MagnusEnger/semantikoha/blob/master/README.txt.

Koha Community

New Koha Libraries

• Middletown Township Public Library (via ByWater Solutions)
• Wilderness Coast Public Libraries (via ByWater Solutions)

Community Gossip

Owen Leonard has revisited the process of customizing OPAC cart and lists buttons, this time using CSS3 features.

Adalid Ortiz reports that Biblioteca Loyola of the Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana in Mexico has published an online manual in Spanish for their Koha OPAC. They previously published an online manual in Spanish on cataloging with Koha.

Matt Adams has posted an update on LibLime’s application for the New Zealand Koha trademark.

Pacific Islands Koha Users Call
by Pam Bidwell, University of the South Pacific

I would like to hear from users of Koha in the Pacific Islands.

Many small Pacific countries struggle with extra issues when automating their libraries, such as unexpected power outages (and damaging power surges), intermittent and slow Internet access, old technology and limited IT expertise. For many Pacific libraries, Koha is their first automated system, and staff training is a real issue. Quite a few Pacific Koha projects have stalled as a result of these problems.

We need to develop a supportive local community that shares knowledge and offers support.

I hope to set up a smaller discussion forum for the Pacific Koha community (while still being involved in the wider Koha community discussions). The forum will talk about day to day use of Koha, answer basic questions about using the system and share resources such as training materials. I would also like to discuss regional training possibilities.

Please email me at pamela.bidwell(at)usp.ac.fj if you would like to be involved.

Past Koha Events

April General IRC Meeting

The April general IRC meeting was held on 4 April 2012.

More info, including the agenda and links to the minutes, is here.

Upcoming Koha Events

May General IRC Meeting

The May general IRC meeting will be held on Wednesday, 2 May 2012.

More info is here.

Symposium Koha 2012

Symposium Koha 2012 will be held at BULAC in Paris 14-15 May 2012. The symposium will be a forum for exchange and meetings between Koha users, future users, and providers. More info is here.

Koha and Dspace Training in India

Two-day Koha training and certification workshops are being offered in Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi. More info is here.

Three-day Koha and Dspace training and certification workshops are being offered in Mumbai and Bangalore. More info is here.

KohaCon12

KohaCon12 will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 5-7 June 2012. A hackfest will be held 9-11 June.

This is a free conference for everyone interested in the Koha library system. There is no registration fee, but attendees are asked to pre-register.

The organizers are seeking sponsors to help defray the cost of the conference. Sponsors so far include Tamil, PTFS Europe, Catalyst, Libriotech, Projektlink Konsult, and The Galecia Group. Information on sponsorship is here.

More details on the conference can be found here.

 

The Koha release team is happy to announce the release of Koha 3.8.0, the third major release since we shifted to time based releases. The release team would like to thank everyone involved in this release for making it possible.

Koha 3.8.0 contains over 130 enhancements with over 1000 changesets from 71 developers. Please read the release notes below the fold for more information.

Koha 3.8.0 can be downloaded from download.koha-community.org or at this direct link

Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org/ Koha 3.8.0 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.08.00.tar.gz Installation instructions can be found at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball Koha 3.8.0 is a major feature release, that comes with a lot of new features, and many tweaks to improve performance. Those tweaks are usually not activated by default when you install Koha. If you're upgrading, they are not activated. Go the the "PERFORMANCE" chapter to see all of those improvements, and how to activate them. NEW FEATURES ========== There are 130+ enhancements in Koha 3.8. Some of them are minor, some are major. The list is given below. The number in () is the bugzilla number (http://bugs.koha-community.org) The "IMPORTANT" flag before an enhancement description means it's a totally new feature, or a major improvement of an existing one, or a change that you should be warned, because you'll spot it in your daily use of Koha CATALOGUE and CATALOGUING * IMPORTANT Add ability to take book cover images from local img db (1633) This feature let you attach images to bibliographic records, that can be cover images or any kind of image * Delete biblios if deleting all their items in batch deletion (6027) When you do batch deletion, you can check a checkbox to automatically delete biblios that have no more items attached. The previous behaviour is still there (do not delete the biblio), and the checkbox not checked by default * Choose framework on Merge (6210) When you merge 2 bibliographic records, you can choose the framework of the merged record * Attach/move items - adding option "try again" after success or wrong barcode (6323) * Enhanced Workflow for adding analytical records (6831) In cataloguing after searching for the parent record the new tool bar option 'add child' takes you into the addbiblio screen but with the Host Item Tag already populated with data derived from the parent record * Adding invoice number and vendor name to the moredetail page (7235) When a biblio is created through an acquisition order, the vendor name and invoice number is displayed, and linked to the order * In the items table, make items.materials of type text, and show its contents at circulation (7278) The note in the item field mapped to items.materials will show up in a message box when checking the item in or out. * New call number allocation plugin (7458) When you activate this new plugin (callnumber-KU), the callnumber has the following behaviour: FREN 0 (then click on ...) - FREN 0000 is returned FREN 0 (then click on ...) - FREN 0001 is returned (the first unused value beginning with this prefix) FREN 01 (then click on ...) - FREN 0100 is returned FEAT AM (then click on ...) - FEAT AM01 is returned FEAT AM (then click on ...) - FEAT AM02 is returned * Create index for items.itemcallnumber (7509) This index speed up a lot the shelves browsing feature * OCLC Connexion Gateway, including extension svc/import_bib (7613) * Add auto-completion on auth_finder (7400) * 5 icons have been added to bridge itemtype icon theme (7373) * A minor change in the “GetMarcAuthors” function of C4/Biblio.pm would allow differentiate the type of authors in the templates (4376) * Add search links in detail pages (6120) * IMPORTANT Authority matching improvements (7284) Implemented new C4::Linker functionality to make it possible to easily add custom authority linker algorithms. Currently available linker options are: * Default: retains the current behavior of only creating links when there is an exact match to one and only one authority record; if the 'broader_headings' option is enabled, it will try to link to headings to authority records for broader headings by removing subfields from the end of the heading (NOTE: test the results before enabling broader_headings in a production system because its usefulness is very much dependent on individual sites' authority files) * First Match: based on Default, creates a link to the *first* authority record that matches a given heading, even if there is more than one authority record that matches * Last Match: based on Default, creates a link to the *last* authority record that matches a given heading, even if there is more than one record that matches OPAC * IMPORTANT XSLT systempreference should take a path to file rather than YesNo (4032) You can now display biblio detail and search results using a XSLT taken from a file. It means you can have a XSLT that is independant from the one provided by Koha. You can still choose to display using normal mode or the default XSLT provided * Add ID attribute to certain areas of OPAC so jquery can be used to hide them (4819) * IMPORTANT Star ratings in the opac (5668) You can now activate (through a system preference) local rating in the OPAC. Logged-in users can rate any biblio * IMPORTANT Display information about library on OPAC detail (7264) In libraries administration, there is a new field that, if filled, is displayed on the OPAC when the patron put his mouse over library name. This can be used to enter library opening hours, address,... * System preference to configure export options for OPAC detail page (7392) The new system preference allows to give a list of | separated values to define, which download options are offered in OPAC. You can choose between BIBTEX (bibtex), Dublin Core (dc), MARCXML (marcxml), MARC-8 encoded MARC (marc8), Unicode/UTF-8 encoded MARC (utf8), Unicode/UTF-8 encoded MARC without local use (9xx, x9x, xx9) fields and subfields (marcstd), MODS and RIS * Add ISSN to SearchForTitleIn (7576) The placeholder {ISSN} is now available in SearchForTitleIn systempreference (as title, author, isbn were previously) * Introduce sys pref to control 'browse results' in OPAC (7935) A system preference has been added to activate or desactivate the "browse result" feature (that let you move to the next/previous record when you've made a search) * "Add to Cart" changes to "Remove from Cart" when a record already in the cart is checked (3215) * comments shouldn't show patron's full name (5503) * Babeltheque integration (7470) Babeltheque is a french provider for enhanced content (comments, reviews,...). The basic support available in previous versions has been improved a lot. * social networks links (7470) You can activate a system preference that will display Facebook 'I like', google+ '+1', linkedIn and some other social networks links. (Note that the system preference OPACBaseURL must be filled in order to have this feature working correctly) ACQUISITION * Linking suggestions &amp; orders (5346) You can now jump from a suggestion to the order placed or from the order to the suggestion it comes from * IMPORTANT keep track of cancelled orders (5358) When you cancel an order, it does not disappear, but is displayed in a table below the other orders * Create new budget from a copy of a previous budget (6943) * Claim notice in acquisitions is now using the message queue (7103) * Claims/Late orders in acquisitions give feedback (7104) * Modify order notes when basket is closed (7166) When a basket is closed, you still can update an order notes. This will let you, for example, add a comment about a delay for delivery * Change booksellers search results display (7169) The page displayed when you search for a bookseller has been changed a lot for a better readability * edition statement field (7289) The edition statement field has been added to the order form * IMPORTANT claims management improvement (5347) When you claim a late order, the date of the last claim and the total number of claims is now saved and displayed * IMPORTANT new fields in vendor table (7293 and 7291) There is now a field to store the common delivery time. It is used to calculate estimated delivery when placing an order, and displayed in acquisition claims. There is also a field containing the library customer number at the vendor * IMPORTANT display suggestions from librarian library only by default (7300) By default, the librarian sees only the suggestions placed by patrons from his library * Add default date limit to acquisitions histsearch (7301) * Suggestion show page (7577) There is now a page to display a suggestion, that is used when jumping from order to suggestion * Use of date filters on bookseller pages (7737) * When adding Vendor default to active currencies (4161) PATRONS * The patron password is masked as it is entered (5280) * Display Organisation and Parent Organisation names when viewing a borrower of type organisation (6303) * Link in readingrec.pl to export a barcode file (6751) * A system preference has been added to renew membership from expiry date or from current date (6843) * Clean up interface on fine payment screens (7080) * IMPORTANT Group borrower attributes and link between patron category and attribute (7154) In patron extended attributes, you can now: - group patron attributes, in a PA_GROUP authorised value list. - select a patron category for a give attribute. If you choose one, only patrons of this category will have this attribute available and displayed * IMPORTANT Add ability search borrowers only on email / phone (7544) In patron search, you can choose on which field you're doing your search: - standard (the default option, the previous one&nbsp;: search on patron card, then name+surname) - email - borrowernumber (Koha internal number) - phone * Custom field removal from patron entry screens (6190) The systempreference BorrowerUnwantedField (same format as BorrowerMandatoryField) implement a mechanism for removing unwanted fields from the entry screens SERIALS * Partial duplication of a subscription (5354) A syspref has been added that you can use to define fields that should not be duplicated when you duplicate a subscription * Add a 1/4 month frequency (6321) * The hardcoded routing list note is now a system preference (7557) CIRCULATION * IMPORTANT Hourly loans (5549) issuing rules can now be defined in hour unit, enabling daily/hourly loans * Make fields from issues table available in overdues (5607) * IMPRTANT Offline circulation improvements&nbsp;: Firefox plugin, and upload all files, apply at once (5877) You can download a Firefox plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/koct/), that will let you do offline circulation when your network is down. When the network is back, you can upload all KOCT files from your circulation desks, and apply all of them at once. * Adds staticfines.pl for static fines processing (6858) This script let you define static fine like "when the patron is late, set a fixed fine of 1€ for each book late" * IMPORTANT User Configurable Slips (7001) - Slips and checkout reciepts are now driven under the notices editor. - The Notice for a given event can be defined for all libraries, or library by library - You can define a CSS to format the notices (see systempreferences) * Floating collection (7144) Adds support for Floating Collections (i.e. items that don't automatically return home when checked in at another branch) on a per branchcode/itemtype basis. * Display of issue number for serials in overdues (7434) * Printing Transfer Slips for checkin items that do not have holds but need transfer (7467) * Display fine amount and make payment link during checkin (7566) * add columns to overdues export (4051) * Double-clicking the 'place hold' button can result in duplicate holds (4054) * Suspension of holds (7641) Users are now able to place a hold 'on suspension'. This means the hold will preserve it's place in the queue, but it will be skipped over to the next non-suspended hold when the item becomes available. Upon un-suspension, the hold will resume it's original place in the queue. * Expire holds that have been waiting too long (7408) For holds that have been waiting for pickup longer than the ReservesMaxPickupDelay number of days, there is now an automated way to mark these holds as "expired" (misc/cronjobs/holds/expire_holds_over.pl). * Cancel all waiting holds (6039) There is now a button to cancel all waiting holds and an option to choose to cancel or not hold needing a transfer when clicking on this cancel all button * Add "AllowItemsOnHoldCheckout" syspref to allow issue to the patron regardless of hold status (7090) An item scanned at a self check station connected to Koha over SIP2 can generate an issue regardless of whether there is a hold on the item. If the patron has the book in hand, they should be allowed to check it out; otherwise, what's to stop them from just taking it? * Add system pref to control behavior of submitting empty barcode field on circulation page (7077) It used to be that submitting an empty barcode input field when a patron's account was open in Circulation would clear the page (the same behavior as the "clear screen" buton offers now). Since inclusion of Bug 4389 this action has been co-opted to pop up a quick slip print window. A system preference has been added to allow the library to choose which behavior they want. PERFORMANCE (see below for more information about performance) * Use memcached cache koha-conf.xml configuration variables (6193) * Caching Templates (7511) * work on persistency compatibility to make Koha Plack / mod_perl compliant (7172) * Enhancing the performance test suite (6015) SEARCHING * More options for AdvancedSearchTypes (7031) Adds the ability to perform advanced searches in both the OPAC and staff client on more than a single AdvancedSearchType at a time. Support included for Itemtype, Collection Code and Shelving Location. AdvancedSearchTypes syspref preference is repurposed; no longer a single value, it can now take multiple item code fields separated by "|". The order of these fields will determine the order of the tabs in the OPAC and staff client advanced search screens. Values within the search type are OR'ed together, while each different search type is AND'ed together in the query limits. The current stored values are supported without any required modification. Each set of advanced search fields are displayed in tabs in both the OPAC and staff client. The first value in the AdvancedSearchTypes syspref is the selected tab; if no values are present, "itemtypes" is used. For non-itemtype values, the value in AdvancedSearchTypes must match the Authorised Value name, and must be indexed with 'mc-' prefixing that name. * Add ICU option to Koha out of the box (7698) during installation, you now have an option to use ICU. ICU is a unicode library that improve a lot zebra search engine for non latin alphabet catalogue INTERNALS * Be stricter with utf-8 output (6752) * Have mysql returning errors (7184) * Move SIPconfig.xml, sip_run and sip_shutdown outside from C4 (7238) * Allow authentication to Koha via PKI / x.509 certificates (6296) * Using OPACBaseURL for CAS Authentication (7745) * Cleaning up import tables and action_logs (7240) The cleanup_database.pl now can clean imported records and logs * Opac-ics depends on Date::ICal which is largely unmaintained (7532) the Date::ICal dependancy has been removed * Use KohaDates Template::Toolkit plugin to display dates (7743) all dates are displayed through a Template::Toolkit plugin, that make the code more readable and maintainable. This change is not visible to users * A lot of html div &amp; ids &amp; spans have been added to help with CSS customization (7760, 7781, 7876, and some others) TOOLS * Give option to use description for homebranch/holding branch in label creator instead of the branchcode (7615) * It is now possible to export MARC records without private/local fields (7345) * It is now possible to duplicate a holiday calendar (7477) * It is now possible to mark a range of holiday as closed (7681) LISTS * a deep work has been started to clean up the code and make it more flexible (7310 most of this work is invisible for now, but new features will come soon. for now, the only visible improvement is the system preference OpacAllowPublicListCreation that let you enable or disable the creation of public lists by patrons VARIOUS * Main page enhanced (7781) The search toolbox available on most page has been introduced on the main page for more consistency. A "Welcome to Koha" has been added, The menus are located at the same position if there is no news or if there is some * Improving koha-list and koha-create (6913) The biggest change is to add support for pre-determined MySQL credentials using a file in /etc/koha/passwd (for security reasons, if you use this feature, make sure the file is not world-readable). The configuration file has the following format: instance:user:password:database The database is optional, but the other two are both required if you want to specify MySQL credentials. If no credentials are specified for a given instance, the standard koha_instance username and an auto-generated password are used. The following additional command line options are now available: * --use-db - use a pre-existing database, see also --database * --database - specify the name of the mysql database (still defaults to koha_instance) * --passwdfile - specify a custom (Koha) passwd file for MySQL credentials The following additional variables are now available (for use in koha-sites.conf or a custom config file): * OPACPORT (previously added but not documented) - port on which the OPAC should be served * OPACPREFIX - prefix for the OPAC's virtual host * OPACSUFFIX - suffix for the OPAC's virtual host This commit also adds the --keep-mysql option to koha-remove, which, if specified, will prevent koha-remove from deleting the database or MySQL user when removing an instance. * rebuild_zebra.pl now has a --limit option to allow partial re-indexing (7246) * a System Preference has been added to select the first day of week (Sunday or Monday) to use in the calendar (OPAC and Intranet) (7261) * Koha's OAI-PMH now fully support sets (6440) * Provide datepicker for sql reports runtime parameters (5698) * Installation might fail it user web doesn't have in its path the database command path (6008) * Script to recreate entries in the statistics table from the issues and oldissues table (6025) * Set a timeout to z3950 servers that could have network problems occasionally (6140) PERFORMANCE ========== A lot of work has been made to improve Koha performance. Some of those improvements are available for everybody in any situation (like database connexion that has been speeded by 200ms (7188) However, the 3 most important speed improvements requires a tweaking of your configuration file TEMPLATE CACHING Without the tweak, templates are compiled everytime you call them. It means that, when you call circulation.pl page, the circulation template is read, parsed and analysed before being filled. The read/parsing/analysis need to be done only once. Fortunately, Template::Toolkit is a great tool and provide a caching mechanism: the read/parsing/analysis phase is made only once and the result is stored on your server, at a location defined in your koha configuration file. To activate the caching you must: - open koha-conf.xml - search for the <config> part of the file - add a line <template_cache_dir>/tmp</template_cache_dir> - that's all folks&nbsp;! Of course, the /tmp directory is at your choice, you can use whatever directory you want. The directory you choose will be filled with files under path/to/koha/koha-tmpl/... (so, if you choose /tmp for template caching and your Koha is installed on /usr/opt/koha, you'll have /tmp/usr/opt/koha/koha-tmpl/...) The size of those files on the disk is less than 5MB The performance improvement is a rough 10%, so it's worth it MEMCACHE Memcache is a global caching mechanism that we use for caching almost static data that are retrieved from mySQL. It has been introduced in previous versions of Koha, but it has been upgraded in this release. Previously, the memcache configuration was in the Koha configuration. The consequence was that it was not possible to cache the configuration file itself. In Koha 3.8, the memcache configuration is now in the Apache setting. If you're upgrading from a previous version, you must update your configuration, or the memcache won't work anymore. To activate memcache: * install memcached server (apt-get install memcached). You should not need to update the memcached configuration file, the default values are OK, but it may be worth reading it, to let him use more memory or listen on a different unix port * update your koha-httpd.conf file, and add the following lines: <memcached_servers>127.0.0.1:11211</memcached_servers> <memcached_namespace>KOHA</memcached_namespace> Note that, if you have more than one Koha instance on your server, you *must* have a different namespace for each. Otherwise, the'll all share the same cached values, and you'll get some unexpected behaviour&nbsp;!!! DISCLAIMER = the memcache mechanism read cached values only once every 10 minuts. So, if you change some parameter that is cached (like cataloguing frameworks), you'll have to wait up to 10 minuts before seing the changes when cataloguing. You've been warned. In future versions, we plan to add a more efficient caching mechanism that will update the cache when it's needed, but for now, just wait. At your option, you also can restart memcache (sudo /etc/init.d/memcached restart) or flush the cache (echo "flush_all" | /bin/netcat -q 2 127.0.0.1 11211) The performance improvement is a rought 10%, mostly due to configuration caching (reading and parsing the XML on each page is costly) PERSISTENCY Since version 1, Koha run on the webserver in CGI mode. This mode is not the most efficient we can have. We made a lot of changes on the code to make it persistency compliant. The OPAC is safely run under Plack mode in production in Lyon 3 university and a few other early testers. The staff interface is still considered as experimental, but if you want to help us polishing and make it stable, you're welcomed to try it. Setting up Plack result in a huge performance boost. The speed of most pages is multiplied by 3&nbsp;! It means that a page computed in 1.8s will be computed in 0.6s under Plack. If you want to activate Plack, head to the wiki page: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Plack If you want to activate Plack for staff, we strongly suggest to be (or become) a subscriber of koha-devel mailing list (the Koha developers one), and announce there that you're running Plack for staff&nbsp;! System Preferences ========== The following system preferences have been added or changes (the number in () is the bugzilla number) * OpacBrowseResults (7935) * OpacStarsRating (5668) * OPACXSLTDetailsDisplay, OPACXSLTResultsDisplay, XSLTDetailsDisplay and XSLTResultsDisplay (4032) * AutoResumeSuspendedHolds (7641) * Babeltheque_url_js and Babeltheque_url_update (7470) * SocialNetworks (7470) * OpacAllowPublicListCreation and OpacAllowSharingPrivateLists (7310) * UseICU (7092) Be carefull that this syspref can be changed, but only in conjunction with zebra configuration files * OAI-PMH:AutoUpdateSets (6440) * AllowPKIAuth (6296) * RoutingListNote (7557) * CalendarFirstDayOfWeek (7261) * ExpireReserveMaxPickupDelay and ExpireReserveMaxPickupDelayCharge (7408) * NoticeCSS and SlipCSS (7001) * AutoCreateAuthorities, LinkerModule, LinkerOptions, LinkerRelink, LinkerKeepStale, CatalogModuleRelink (7284) * OpacPatronimages (3516) * ShowReviewer is now none|full|first|surname|firstandinitial|username instead of yes/no (5503) * TransferWhenCancelAllWaitingHolds (6039) * OpacExportOptions (7392) * AllowItemsOnHoldCheckout (7090) * BorrowerRenewalPeriodBase * OPACLocalCoverImages, LocalCoverImages, AllowMultipleCovers (1633) * CircAutoPrintQuickSlip (7077) * BorrowerUnWantedField (6190) System requirements ========== Installation ========== You can install Koha from: * the tag.gz provided, see INSTALL and INSTALL.debian (even if you're not using debian. There are some usefull hints here) * git repository. Download Koha from git.koha-community.org, and checkout branch 3.8.x or tag 3.8.0 * debian package, that will be provided soon (check http://koha-community.org for announcement) Upgrading ========== If you have a Koha already running, you must take care of the following changes: * The SIP start and shutdown scripts and configuration file have been moved from C4 directory to misc/bin, Update your system or your SIP server won't work anymore * The cleanup_database.pl script has 2 new options, to clean-up imported records and logs, update your crontab&nbsp;: --import DAYS purge records from import tables older than DAYS days. Defaults to 60 days if no days specified. --logs DAYS purge entries from action_logs older than DAYS days. Defaults to 180 days if no days specified. * The Date::ICal dependancy has be removed and a DateTime::Format::ICal has been introduced, update your perl packages on your server&nbsp;! * The memcache configuration has been moved from koha conf file to Apache configuration file Also note that Koha 3.4.x or later no longer stores items in biblio records. If you are upgrading from an older version ou will need to do the following two steps, they can take a long time (several hours) to complete for large databases misc/maintenance/remove_items_from_biblioitems.pl --run misc/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r Documentation ========== The Koha manual is maintained in DocBook format. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/documentation/ As of the date of these release notes, the Koha manual is available: english: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.8/en/ french: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.8/fr/ The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary Translations ========== Complete or near-complete translations are available in this release for the following languages: * French (100%) * Spanish (100%) * German (100%) * Chinese -Taïwan- (97%, OPAC 100%) * Italian (86%, OPAC 100%) * Danish (81%) * Portuguese (79%) * French -canada- (76%) * English -nz- (76%) * Greek (74%) * Norwegian (73%) Note that some strings in online help have been introduced after string freeze, so: * the previous number don't count them * you'll find some strings in english in online help Partial (less than 50%) translations are available for various other languages. The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate The most up-to-date translations can be found at: http://translate.koha-community.org/ Release Team ========== The release team for Koha 3.8 is Release Manager: Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com> Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians <frederic@tamil.fr> QA Manager: Ian Walls <koha.sekjal@gmail.com> QA team: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>, Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com> Bug Wranglers: Katrin Fischer, Magnus Enger Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> Release Maintainer (3.8.x): Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz> Credits ========== The following individuals contributed patches to Koha 3.8.0.: Paul Poulain Owen Leonard Katrin Fischer Chris Cormack Colin Campbell Marcel de Rooy Dobrica Pavlinusic Nicole C. Engard Kyle M Hall Ian Walls Jonathan Druart Jared Camins-Esakov Adrien Saurat Frédéric Demians Julian Maurice Srdjan Jankovic Liz Rea Robin Sheat Magnus Enger Duncan Tyler Elliott Davis Garry Collum Chris Hall Frédérick Capovilla MJ Ray Juan Romay Sieira Chris Nighswonger Alex Arnaud Sam Sanders Maxime Pelletier Matthias Meusburger Sophie Meynieux Tomas Cohen Arazi Mason James Marc Balmer Stéphane Delaune Henri-Damien Laurent D Ruth Bavousett Connor Dewar Christophe Croullebois Zeno Tajoli Gaetan Boisson Aleksa Vujicic Brendan Gallagher Marc Veron Galen Charlton Serhij Dubyk {Сергій Дубик} Janusz Kaczmarek Salvador Zaragoza Rubio Koustubha Kale Kate Henderson Jono Mingard Albert Oller Frère Sébastien Marie Martin Renvoize Peter Lorimer Bart Jorgensen Jorgia Kelsey Lyon3 Team James Mason Jesse Maseto Fridolyn Sommers Jon Aker Greg Barniskis Joy Nelson Nahuel Angelinetti We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org. Revision control notes ========== The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git The branch for Koha 3.8.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix releases) is 3.8.x. Bugs and feature requests ========== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/

April 26, 20126:00 pmto8:00 pmLocation and map: The Melbourne Atheneaum Library  Moyra McAllister emailed the Koha e-list with the following invitation: "I am a Koha user based in Melbourne, and I know of a few others. At the recent VALA conference held here it was suggested that we form a user group to meet a few times a year to exchange tips and ideas and provide support for newbies. If there is anyone on the list who is interested in this idea could you contact me (off list please). Moyra E-mail: moyrab@internode.on.net" Moyra is a senior librarian who has many years experience installing and using Koha in several library contexts. We congratulate Moyra on her initiative.  At CALYX, we have wanted to see Koha user groups established in major Australian cities, but preferred to see this done by librarians, not by a support company.  So we are thrilled that that is now occurring with Melbourne the first city to host the 1st Koha user group meeting in Australia. We hope that librarians in other cities will create their own Koha user group too. Moyra also said “As a number of you work in other states, it has been suggested that we could perhaps use Skype for teleconferencing. “ We don't know if this will be possible at this first meeting. Have you ever noticed in the Koha Release Notes, Maori proverbs like this one? "Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini" It means, 'Success is not the work of one, but the work of many.' The Koha project gains its strength from the community of librarians and support companies.  The Maori word 'Koha' means 'gift': in Maori culture, it is a gift given with some expectation of reciprocity.  Participating in a user group and sharing your experience with others is a great way to give back to the community.

Best wishes, Irma 

 

There was a request for fishing to be one of the options for the excursion day. So we could put together a package to go sea fishing. The trip could be about 4 hours, will probably be with Dougie out of North Berwick. No experience is required, rods and bait provided. It is likely to cost up to £40 and we need 10 people to sign up, includes travel and lunch, but is weather dependant.

Further to my enquiry the skipper said this: “You can fish for mackerel, then for cod and pollok, probably best if there are only 8 or 9 fishing at one time for mackerel as we can get a bit tied up when we hit a shoal! You can bring your own food and drink and we can also take you round the Bass Rock as well to see the amazing gannets and perhaps some seals.”

http://www.charterboats-uk.co.uk/braveheart-northberwick/

Payment and further details will be sorted out when enough people registered.

UPDATE: Please register before 30th April at the latest so arrangements can be made.

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Bambou poursuit ses consultations auprès des utilisateurs du logiciel libre Koha en relatant cette fois-ci un cas un peu plus singulier puisqu’il s’agit là, non pas d’une migration d’un logiciel propriétaire vers Koha, mais de celle d’un logiciel libre (PMB) vers Koha (lequel, rappelons-le, est libre ET communautaire). On remercie donc Magali Hurtrel Pizarro, conservateur de la Bibliothèque Universitaire de l’Institut catholique de Toulouse, de nous livrer ce retour d’expérience, quelques mois seulement après la mise en service de Koha au sein de son établissement.

Bambou : “Pourquoi la Bibliothèque universitaire de l’Institut catholique de Toulouse a-t-elle fait le choix de changer de logiciel libre en passant de PMB à Koha ?”

Magali Hurtrel Pizarro :” Le choix de migrer de PMB à Koha a été principalement motivé par notre souhait de rejoindre le réseau du Sudoc. Ce passage de l’un à l’autre était un pré-requis dans la mesure où PMB ne pouvait fournir de passerelle d’échange Sudoc-SIGB opérationnelle. Les retours d’expérience positifs de structures documentaires universitaires, notamment du sud-est de la France, ou de l’Institut des sciences de l’homme, à qui je renouvelle mes remerciements pour leur disponibilité, nous ont permis de confirmer notre choix avec sérénité. Le choix du passage de PMB à Koha a facilité également notre connexion au portail Origène, meta-catalogue des bibliothèques des 5 instituts et universités catholiques françaises (http://origene.univ-cathofrance.fr/)

Principaux critères (entre autres) vus comme apportant une valeur ajoutée :

• une meilleure gestion du format UNIMARC et des autorités matières RAMEAU
• une gestion des liens pour signaler les filiations des ressources continues
• une valorisation des nouveautés par le biais d’une requête pérenne (tag de notices).

……….

Bambou : “Comment s’est passée l’intégration (en termes technique, organisationnel…) ?”

Magali Hurtrel Pizarro :” L’intégration réalisée en 2011 par la société TAMIL s’est très bien passée.En quelques mots, le projet s’est déroulé sur un an environ, de la rédaction du cahier des charges au choix du prestataire qui allait nous accompagner dans ce changement d’envergure, à la migration des données, et enfin à la mise en ligne de la nouvelle interface du catalogue « aux couleurs » de notre bibliothèque.

En termes techniques, les plus grandes difficultés semblent avoir été la récupération des notices « filles », propres à PMB et les bulletins de périodiques qui sont devenus des notices d’articles, interrogeables aujourd’hui par mot du titre.

En termes de fonctionnalités, ce projet a sollicité beaucoup d’ingéniosité de la part de Frédéric Demians (Tamil) pour répondre au plus près à nos attentes. Les liens de filiation entre notices de périodiques, notamment, est une grande réussite, particulièrement appréciée de nos lecteurs. Les transferts réguliers du Sudoc vers Koha sont opérationnels et nous avons réalisé la première partie de la localisation automatique de nos données (issues de PMB) dans le Sudoc.

En terme organisationnel, et dans la dynamique de deux déploiements simultanés, presque trois (Koha, Sudoc et Origène), nous ne pouvons que nous réjouir du chemin parcouru (à titre indicatif, la première informatisation de la bibliothèque de l’ICT date de 2005 avec PMB).

Cela a été un réel travail d’équipe ! De nouveau, un grand merci à Frédéric Demians (Tamil), l’équipe de l’ABES et aux bibliothèques de l’UDESCA“

……….
Bambou : “Quelles sont vos premières impressions sur le fonctionnement du logiciel ?” Avez-vous des retours de vos utilisateurs ?

Magali Hurtrel Pizarro :” Nous sommes ainsi que nos utilisateurs globalement très contents. Une enquête de satisfaction portant notamment sur cette récente évolution sera prochainement distribuée à nos lecteurs. Nous aurons alors plus d’éléments de réponse.

Concernant les fonctionnalités prévues pour les utilisateurs, tout n’est pas encore finalisé. Nous pensons particulièrement au compte-lecteur que nous espérons mettre à disposition de nos étudiants et enseignants à partir de septembre prochain (en lien avec l’annuaire LDAP de l’établissement, en cours de déploiement)“

……….
Bambou : “Quelles évolutions attendez-vous de Koha sur les court et moyen termes ?

Magali Hurtrel Pizarro :” Il nous manque un peu de recul pour véritablement nous projeter pour le moment, surtout dans un contexte de réflexion intense sur le web sémantique.Néanmoins, il semble que certains liens pourraient être développés (par exemple, entre les différents supports : texte imprimé et document numérique). Les fonctionnalités de recherche en OPAC pourraient aussi être améliorées, notamment concernant les autorités matière (termes « employé pour », etc. / « commence par » au lieu de « contient » seulement). A méditer donc…”

……….
Bambou : “Envisagez-vous de participer au développement fonctionnel du logiciel, de vous positionner comme un acteur-contributeur au sein de la communauté Koha ?”

Magali Hurtrel Pizarro :”Oui, pour le bien commun, dans la mesure de nos moyens, bien sûr !”

……….

Quelques infos sur la BU de l’ICT

→ sa mission : répondre aux attentes de la communauté universitaire de l’ICT non seulement en matière de documentation mais aussi en terme de méthodologie de recherche.

→ sa collection :

• 20 000 volumes en libre-accès, 250 000 ouvrages en magasin consultables sur demande, ainsi que 300 titres de revues, reflétant les domaines d’enseignement de l’I.C.T.
• une collection patrimoniale évaluée à 25 000 volumes qui présente des trésors tels le Livre des Rois, quelques incunables et autres fonds essentiellement religieux.
• le fonds du Centre d’Etudes Africaine, Arabe et Asiatique qui comprend de nombreux ouvrages dans les domaines des missions, de la théologie et de l’anthropologie culturelle.
• 5000 prêts / an
  

→ ses services :

• Aide à la recherche et orientation du lecteur
• Postes informatiques dédiés à la recherche documentaire
• Accès WIFI et Internet
• Photocopieuse et impression de vos résultats de recherche à partir des ordinateurs de la B.U. (vente de la carte à la B.U)
• Prêt entre bibliothèques (PEB)

→ ses publics : 2000 étudiants environ

Classé dans:entretien, entretiens Koha, koha, Koha : retour d'expérience Tagged: koha, logiciel libre

Après la MIOP en 2010 et Lyon 2 en 2011, c’est au tour de la BULAC d’organiser le symposium Koha. Vous pouvez d’ores et déjà vous inscrire (et ce, jusqu’au 6 mai prochain) à ces 2 journées qui se dérouleront les 14 et 15 mai sur le site de la Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations. → Au menu : Lundi 14 mai 2012

• 13h30 : Accueil général

• 14h-17h30 : Ateliers

A. Cycle « débutants » : découverte du logiciel, mise en place d’un projet Koha

NB. Nombre de participants limité à 40.

• 14h-14h45 : Présentation générale du SIGB Koha. Pascale Nalon et Jérôme Pouchol (association Kohala)

• 14h45-16h15 : Retours d’expérience. La parole sera donnée à 4 structures de type et de tailles différentes qui viennent de mettre en place un projet Koha.

• 16h30-17h15 : Ateliers « bac à sable » - découverte en libre-service de Koha ; présentation par Paul Poulain.

B. Cycle « utilisateurs »: de nouvelles fonctionnalités développées pour Koha

• 14h-15h30 : Développements du module d’acquistion Koha. Sonia Bouis (BU Lyon-3)

• 15h30-17h : Des outils d’importation de notices dans Koha. Présentation parallèle de chargeurs SUDOC et de vendangeurs. Bernard Desnoues (BULAC) ; Sophie Leca (Carré d’Art – ville de Nîmes); Guylène Parent (Pôle universitaire Léonard de Vinci – sous réserve).

• 17h15-18h : Koha à l’heure du RDA

Rencontre de prestataires autour de l’adaptation du SIGB Koha aux nouvelles normes catalographiques. Animation : Pascale Nalon (Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Mînes-ParisTech). Liste des participants en cours.

• 18h30 : Assemblée générale de l’association Kohala.

Mardi 15 mai 2012

• 9h-9h30 : Visite facultative de la BULAC

• 9h30-12h30 : Ateliers optionnels

Pendant toute la matinée, l’atelier « bac à sable » est en accès-libre.

A. « Install-Party » Koha

• 9h30-12h30 : Animation par Guillaume Hatt (Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes). Attention : limité à 18 participants

B. Ateliers à la carte

• 9h30-11h30 : Module de bulletinage. Olivier Crouzet (BU Lyon-3)
• 9h30-11h30 : Module de communication d’ouvrages en magasin. Émile Page (BULAC)
• 11h45-12h30 : Intégration de Koha et de Babelthèque. Michel Étienne (Carré d’Art,ville de Nîmes) ; Jérôme Pouchol (Médiathèque Intercommunale Ouest-Provence).
• 11h45-12h30 : Des versions mobiles pour Koha. Intervenant à confirmer. NB : atelier limité à 40 participants. 

12h30-14h : Buffet offert aux participants

14h-17h30 : Session plénière

• 14h-15h : Démonstration de la version 3.8 – Futures from Koha (intégration SOLR, PostgreSql). Paul Poulain (Biblibre, release manager de la version 3.8).
• 15h15-17h15 : Table-ronde. La question des montée de version et des intégrations de la version communautaire. Animation : Philippe Chabanon (Kohala). Participants : Pierre Angot (BU de Limoges), Sonia Bouis (BU Lyon-3), Claire Hernandez (Biblibre). Sous réserve : société Progilone, Bibliothèque francophone multimédia de Limoges.
• 17h15-17h30 : Conclusions du symposium par l’association Kohala.

Classé dans:koha Tagged: coopération, koha, logiciel libre

In a Koha community meeting last night, positions for the Koha 3.10.0 release cycle (due October 2012) were confirmed. It is our biggest release team yet and a really good sign of the health of the community that we had so many volunteers. The roles are

• Release Manager : Paul Poulain, France
• Translation Manager: Shared between Samuel Desseaux and Frédéric Demians both from France
• Translation Assistants: Katrin Fischer, Germany; Marijana Glavica, Croatia
• Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard, USA
• DB Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard, USA
• Quality Assurance (QA) Manager: Ian Walls, USA
• Quality Assurance (QA) Assistants: Marcel de Rooy, Netherlands; Jonathan Druart, France; Mason James, New Zealand
• Release Maintainer 3.8.x: Chris Cormack, New Zealand
• Release Maintainer 3.6.x: Jared Camins-Esakov, USA
• Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat, New Zealand
• Packaging Assistant: Mason James, New Zealand
• Bug Wrangler: Magnus Enger, Norway; Katrin Fischer, Germany; Dobrica Pavlinušić, Croatia; Koustubha Kale, India
• Meeting Chair: BWS Johnson, USA

So that’s 17 people in total who have volunteered and been accepted to positions for the next 6 months (starting after the release of 3.8.0 on April 23). I think it is also great we have a nice geographic spread especially the bug wrangler team.

April 27, 2012 10:00 amtoApril 28, 2012 5:00 pmMay 4, 2012 10:00 amtoMay 5, 2012 5:00 pmJune 22, 2012 10:00 amtoJune 23, 2012 5:00 pmJuly 6, 2012 10:00 amtoJuly 7, 2012 5:00 pmAugust 24, 2012 10:00 amtoAugust 25, 2012 5:00 pmAugust 31, 2012 10:00 amtoSeptember 1, 2012 7:00 pmOctober 19, 2012 10:00 amtoOctober 20, 2012 7:00 pmNovember 2, 2012 10:00 amtoNovember 3, 2012 5:00 pm

Koha & Dspace training and certification workshops being offered in Mumbai and Bangalore.

The objectives of this program are to:
- Train library professionals & staff on using Koha/Dspace
- To test and certify their readiness to use the software

This is a 2 day program for Koha and 1 day program on Dspace, covering the key modules and functions in the software. At the end of program, participants will be required to demonstrate their skills on the various modules. Participants who complete 60% of the exercises successfully will be awarded a Basic skills certificate.

Participation fee for the workshops are as follows:
Koha (2 day workshop): Rs. 3,000 per head
Dspace (1 day workshop): Rs. 1,500 per head.

Participants can register in one (Koha or Dspace) of both the programs, as the are on contiguous dates.

The Koha workshops are scheduled as follows:

Mumbai: 27th (Friday) & 28th April (Saturday), 2012
Bangalore: 4th (Friday) & 5th May (Saturday), 2012
Mumbai: 22nd (Friday) & 23rd June (Saturday), 2012
Bangalore: 6th (Friday) & 7th July (Saturday), 2012
Mumbai: 24th (Friday) & 25th August (Saturday), 2012
Bangalore: 31st (Friday) August & 1st September (Saturday), 2012
Mumbai: 19th (Friday) & 20th October (Saturday), 2012
Bangalore: 2nd (Friday) & 3rd November (Saturday), 2012

And the Dspace workshops are scheduled as follows:

Mumbai: 29th (Sunday) April, 2012
Bangalore: 8th July (Sunday), 2012
Mumbai: 26th August (Sunday), 2012
Bangalore: 4th November (Sunday), 2012

For more information including registration details and workshop outline please visit these pages:

http://www.osslabs.biz/koha/training-certification
http://www.osslabs.biz/dspace/training-certification

April 20, 2012June 5, 2012toJune 11, 2012

The call for conference papers is open for this year’s kohacon! We’d love to see presentations from librarians for librarians, sharing their experiences, tricks and tips. Talk times are flexible, with long and short options, so please consider registering as a speaker.

We are particularly keen to receive proposals about archives/special libraries using Koha, Resource Description Framework/Semantic Web/Linked Data and the Koha packages, in both the main conference and the later hackfest.

Please complete the proposal form at http://koha-community.org/kohacon12/ before 20 April 2012.

About KohaCon12

KohaCon12 will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 5-7 June 2012, followed by the hackfest 9-11 June.

This is a free conference for everyone interested in the Koha library system, which is Free and Open Source Software. There is no registration fee, but we will ask that attendees pre-register. Further calls, including calls for registrations and sponsors will be posted soon.

Details (travel, hotels, agenda draft, etc) can be found linked from http://koha-community.org/kohacon12/

KohaCon12 is the fifth KohaCon, following last year’s successful conference in India which brought together users and developers worldwide. KohaCon12 will feature an international slate of speakers (both Koha users and active Koha contributors) conducting presentations and workshops on a diverse range of topics. Talks will cover a range of topics from general experiences of Koha through to technical information on the various modules.

“We expect this event to have wide appeal,” said MJ Ray of host organisation and Koha support provider software.coop. “The conference is for both techies and non-techies. In addition to presentations on the technical side of Koha, the conference will be a demonstration of how users and developers around the world cooperate to improve Free and Open Source Software. software.coop is delighted to host KohaCon in Edinburgh in our tenth anniversary year and this UN International Year of Co-operatives.”

“Koha conferences are always an informative and uplifting event, I have no doubt that this years conference in Edinburgh will be the best conference yet.” said Chris Cormack, one of the original authors of the Koha version 1.0.

About Koha

Koha is the first Free and Open Source Software Integrated Library System (ILS). Gifted by Horowhenua Library Trust and now in use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. The impressive set of features available in Koha continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. Koha has lived up to its name, which means ‘Gift’ in the Maori language of New Zealand.

To learn more about the Koha project, visit: http://koha-community.org

Press Contacts: MJ Ray or ML Edmondson at software.coop +44-844-4437-237

Quittant l’École des chartes sous peu, mon poste est à pourvoir.

J'expliquerai peut-être bientôt pourquoi, mais voilà déjà la fiche de poste.
N'hésitez pas à me contacter si vous voulez des précisions, le formulaire de contact est là pour ça.

Et si vous connaissez quelqu'un susceptible d'être intéressé(e), n'hésitez pas à faire circuler l'info !
Merci d'avance.

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Paul Poulain*, nouveau release manager du SIGB Koha (version 3.8), et également co-fondateur de la société BibLibre, a bien voulu nous éclairer sur le mode de gouvernance qui structure et anime désormais la communauté internationale des développeurs du logiciel libre Koha

Bambou : “Vous êtes actuellement le release manager de la version 3.8 communautaire de Koha. Pouvez-vous nous préciser en quoi consiste cette fonction ?”

Paul Poulain : “La communauté Koha rassemble des contributeurs des quatre coins du monde. Un travail de coordination est donc nécessaire pour que les contributions s’assemblent de la manière la plus harmonieuse possible. Afin qu’un nouveau contributeur puisse identifier “qui fait quoi”, un certain nombre de responsabilités doivent être nominatives. Parmi celles-ci :

• le Release Manager = il est responsable de la coordination des travaux en vue du développement de la version du logiciel qui sera diffusée à la prochaine publication. Depuis 18 mois, notre cycle de publication est basé sur le principe “Time Based Release”, c’est à dire 1 publication tous les 6 mois (fin avril et fin octobre). Le contenu de la publication n’est donc pas défini à l’avance : ce qui est prêt est publié. Ce qui ne l’est pas est repoussé au cycle suivant. C’est justement le rôle du Release Manager de coordonner et trancher en cas de difficulté.
• le Release Maintainer = il est responsable de la maintenance de la dernière version stable publiée (à ce jour, la version 3.6)
• le QA manager = il est chargé de définir et contrôler la qualité technique du code qui “rentre” dans l’application. Ce rôle est très important même si invisible, car c’est grâce à la QA que l’application reste “lisible” et “maintenable”. Le QAM est assisté de QA Assistants, qui l’aident dans sa tache de contrôle.
• Dans les autres responsabilités, citons le “documentation manager” (responsable de la documentation -en anglais-) le “translation manager” (responsable du site sur lequel sont faites les traductions) et le “packaging manager” (responsable de la fabrication et publication des “paquets” Koha pour différentes distributions de Linux -à commencer par Debian-)”

Bambou : “Comment êtes-vous désigné et par qui ?”

Paul Poulain : “Généralement 2 mois avant une release, une page de wiki est ouverte par quelqu’un (n’importe qui), pour demander “qui est candidat à quel rôle pour la prochaine version?”. Pour la prochaine version, la page est visible ici. N’importe qui peut être candidat et, s’il y a plusieurs candidats, un vote est organisé. Il n’y a eu que très rarement besoin d’un vote jusqu’à présent. En effet, ces différentes responsabilités ne sont pas des sinécures, elles demandent beaucoup d’investissement, et ne rapportent rien, sauf des complications dans son quotidien !
Pour la prochaine version (baptisée 3.10 pour l’instant), vous pourrez constater que nous avons encore plusieurs postes vacants, dont celui de QA Manager, le précédent QAM ne souhaitant pas poursuivre.
Pour ce qui me concerne, j’ai postulé pour rester Release Manager parce que j’estime qu’un seul cycle de 6 mois, c’est trop peu. Je me porterai peut-être volontaire pour un 3eme cycle dans 6 mois, mais ce n’est pas sûr, et en tous cas sûrement pas pour un 4eme ! Pour l’instant, j’ai encore de nombreuses idées que je souhaite mettre en place.”

Bambou : “Quel temps consacrez-vous à cette activité ?”

Paul Poulain : “Lorsque j’ai posé ma candidature, nous (la direction de BibLibre) avions convenu que j’y passerai un mi-temps. Dans les faits, j’y consacre un peu plus qu’un mi-temps. Et je ne travaille pas que 35H par semaine. Par contre, je réussis à préserver mes week-ends de manière très stricte et j’y passe quelques soirées, mais j’évite que ce soit fréquent. Le travail possible est tellement important que 2 personnes pourraient y consacrer un plein temps sans difficulté !”

Bambou : “Quels sont les critères d’acceptation ou de refus d’un patch soumis par les développeurs ?”

Paul Poulain : “Pour être inclus dans Koha, un “patch” (= des lignes de code source qui corrigent un bug ou ajoutent une fonctionnalité) doit passer plusieurs étapes:

• être soumis via la plateforme, avec un formalisme décrit sur notre wiki communautaire
• être testé par une tierce personne du point de vue fonctionnel. Lorsqu’un testeur (n’importe qui, il n’y a pas besoin de s’inscrire pour ce faire) a testé le patch et constaté qu’il règle bien le problème décrit ou ajoute la fonctionnalité annoncée va “signer” le patch, toujours sur la plateforme
• être passé au tamis de la QA. la personne de l’équipe de QA qui va regarder le patch va vérifier s’il respecte nos règles de développement, notamment la conformité avec nos “coding guidelines“
• enfin, le Release Manager va vérifier une dernière fois le patch et l’inclure dans Koha. Le RM a le “mot de la fin” dans tous les cas. S’il estime qu’il serait utile qu’une autre personne teste le patch, que son intégration est “dangereuse” pour la stabilité du code en général,… il peut le refuser. Certains me demandent combien de patches je rejette, je dirais qu’1 patch par semaine, au maximum, pose problème.

Dans la plupart des cas le rejet n’est pas définitif. Lorsqu’un patch ne “revient pas” après avoir été rejeté une première fois, c’est généralement parce que celui qui l’a soumis ne répond pas à nos demandes. Dans ce cas, il arrive parfois qu’une autre personne prenne le patch en charge, mais c’est assez peu fréquent.
Ajoutons que les patches qui correspondent à une correction de bug ne posent généralement pas de problèmes importants et qu’il arrive que j’accepte des corrections de bugs importants même si la solution proposée n’est pas idéale techniquement. L’efficacité prime.”

Bambou : “Pensez-vous que le modèle de gouvernance actuel est satisfaisant ou en attendez-vous des évolutions, au regard notamment de l’expansion considérable de Koha sur le plan international ?”

Paul Poulain : “C’est une question très large, et également très sensible… Comme toutes les communautés Open Source -ou presque-, l’écosystème Koha fonctionne sur le principe de la “méritocratie“.
Certaines communautés ont une organisation s’apparentant à des cercles concentriques, avec un noyau ayant une autorité et des droits plus importants que les cercles périphériques. La communauté Koha est strictement basée sur le principe “1 personne = 1 voix”. Cela signifie qu’il faut toujours être convaincant lorsque l’on porte une idée.
Cette situation me convient plutôt, mais elle aboutit parfois à des blocages lorsqu’il n’y a pas de consensus. Et le blocage signifie que l’on ne change rien à une situation dont tout le monde s’accorde à dire qu’elle n’est pas bonne.
Heureusement, ce genre de blocage est rare, et en général, celui qui apporte une idée sur la balance, avec la réalisation de cette idée, est bien accueilli !
Un autre souhait que je pourrais formuler serait que plus de bibliothécaires s’impliquent dans la gouvernance du projet. Il y a quelques profils “mixtes” (Katrin -allemande-, Liz et Owen -américains- ou Magnus -norvégien-), mais la plupart des participants réguliers et assidus ont un profil de développeur.”

Bambou : “Quelles sont vos motivations à exercer une telle responsabilité, au-delà des compétences techniques qui sont les vôtres ?”

Paul Poulain : “Vaste question… à laquelle je peux donner plusieurs réponses, toutes sincères et vraies. Tout d’abord, j’ai fait mienne la devise suivante : “seul on va plus vite, ensemble on va plus loin”. Au final, je préfère aller plus loin que plus vite. Par ailleurs, BibLibre est le plus gros contributeur de Koha. Il m’a donc paru logique que nous poussions notre participations aussi au niveau “RM”. Il m’a aussi semblé que j’avais quelques idées qu’il serait plus facile de mettre en œuvre en étant Release Manager, “en tenant la barre” en quelque sorte.
Enfin, je suis un “libriste”, avant d’être un “chef d’entreprise”. BibLibre ayant la taille et les moyens d’investir dans cette œuvre commune, il nous a semblé que c’était cohérent avec notre “mission” d’entreprise.“

*Ingénieur en Informatique, Paul Poulain a travaillé pour l’assurance maladie et, à la fin des années 1990, dans une start-up du secteur de la vente en ligne. Il s’implique dans des projets de logiciels libres depuis 1998. Contributeur aux développements de Koha depuis 2001, il s’est engagé à temps plein dans ce projet dès 2002. Il en est l’un des plus importants développeurs, ayant en particulier mis en œuvre la gestion des formats MARC. Dans ces différentes activités, Paul Poulain a ainsi œuvré depuis 2001 à faire connaître les logiciels libres dans le monde des bibliothèques.
paul.poulain@biblibre.com | +33-(0)491813508 | http://twitter.com/paul_poulain

Classé dans:entretien, entretiens Koha, koha Tagged: koha, logiciel libre

Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328)
Volume 3, Issue 3: March 2012

 

Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor.
Please submit news items to

Table of Contents

• Koha Development
  • Koha 3.6.4 Released
  • Koha 3.8 Status
  • Koha 3.10 Roles
  • Release Manager’s Newsletter
  • Koha Statistics
• Koha Community
  • New Koha Libraries
  • Community Gossip
  • New Zealand Meeting Call
  • Meeting Logs
• Past Koha Events
  • Marseille Hackfest
  • March General IRC Meeting
  • Global Bug Squashing Week
• Upcoming Koha Events
  • April General IRC Meeting
  • KohaCon12

Koha Development

Koha 3.6.4 Released
by Chris Nighswonger

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.6.4.

The package can be retrieved from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.04.tar.gz

You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.04.tar.gz.MD5
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.04.tar.gz.MD5.asc
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.04.tar.gz.sig

Release notes for 3.6.4 are at http://koha-community.org/koha-3-6-4.

Koha 3.8 Status

Koha 3.8.0 is scheduled to be released on 23 April 2012.

As of 26 March, 3.8 is in a feature freeze.

Paul Poulain, Koha 3.8 Release Manager, has posted a roadmap to 3.8.

Koha 3.10 Roles
by MJ Ray

With the release of Koha 3.8.0 scheduled for 23 April 2012, it’s time to start thinking about roles for the 3.10 series.

We would like volunteers for:

• Release Manager
• Translation Manager
• Documentation Manager
• Database Documentation Manager
• Quality Assurance (QA) Manager
• Assistant QA Managers
• Specific Module maintainers
• Release Maintainers
• Packaging Manager (and grasshopper)
• Bug Wranglers (the more the merrier!)
• Meeting chair

Anyone who wants take on any of these roles is more than welcome to write their name next to one on the Roles for 3.10 wiki page and perhaps link to their proposal.

The community will vote on these during the April General IRC meeting, 4 April 2012 at 10:00 UTC +0000, straight after the release news.

Please, consider stepping forwards to help lead Koha’s development.

Release Manager’s Newsletter

Paul Poulain, Koha 3.8 Release Manager, is publishing a monthly newsletter dedicated to Koha 3.8 development. It can be found on the Koha Community website in the Koha News category. The fourth issue is here.

Koha Statistics

Chris Cormack, statistician par excellence, has posted some recent stats on Koha:

February bug/enhancement statistics
Statistics for Koha 3.6.4

Koha Community

New Koha Libraries

• Columbia County Rural Library District (via ByWater Solutions)
• Kalamaria Public Library (Thessaloniki, Greece) (via Union Catalog of Academic Libraries)
• Plum Creek Library System (via ByWater Solutions)
• Southern NH Library Cooperative (via ByWater Solutions)
• Walla Walla Public Library (via ByWater Solutions)
• Washoe County Library System (via ByWater Solutions)
• Wilderness Coast Public Libraries (via ByWater Solutions)

Community Gossip

Marc Balmer reports that he has integrated the proprietary arcapos point of sale system with Koha using the SIP protocol. This combination enables the sale of items in the library with seamless integration of fee processing and payment. More info is here.

Stefano Bargioni has developed a Perl script to generate authority records from bibliographic records, which would be useful for migrating data to Koha from an ILS that lacks authority records. You can download the script and get more info here. Stefano would appreciate help with replacing XML::Simple with YAML::Sick and with preparing config files for non-MARC21.

Mysore University Library has implemented a mobile version of their Koha opac.

Kristina D.C. Hoeppner posted to her blog an account of her introduction to squashing bugs during Global Bug Squashing Week.

Vimal Kumar V. has posted a survey to measure adoption and user perceptions of potential Koha users in India.

Chris Cormack tweeted that by upgrading to Koha version 3.6.4, Horowhenua Library Trust, the New Zealand library that sponsored the original development of Koha, is now running a version of Koha containing a contribution by the 14-year-old son of the Trust’s Head of Libraries, Joann Ransom. Chris added that when the original Koha first went live, it also contained a contribution by the son of the Head of Libraries at that time.

Chris has also posted info on using Koha with citation managers Zotero, Endnote, and RefWorks.

New Zealand Meeting Call
by Hannah Benbow

We’re keen for another Koha users group meeting here in New Zealand. If you’d be interested in coming along, let me know so we can get an idea of interest. Contact me on: +64 4 917 6103 or email Hannah.benbow@treasury.govt.nz.

I’ve heard really great things about the last meeting hosted by the Horowhenua Library Trust and would be keen for something similar—an opportunity for users to talk about how to get the best out of Koha and to share their knowledge and ideas.

If there’s enough interest for this to proceed, the Central Agencies Shared Services Information Management team would be happy to host it here at Treasury.

Meeting Logs
by Galen Charlton

Minutes and logs of community meetings that are recorded by MeetBot can now be found at http://meetings.koha-community.org/. I’ve updated all links to meeting minutes on the wiki and instituted a redirect from the previous URL base. I ask any webmasters who link to meeting logs to update their links accordingly.

Past Koha Events

Marseille Hackfest

Paul Poulain has posted an extensive report on the Hackfest that took place in Marseille from 19-25 March.

Gaëtan Boisson posted an earlier report.

March General IRC Meeting

The March general IRC meeting was held on 21 March 2012.

More info, including the agenda and links to the minutes, is here.

Global Bug Squashing Week 2012-03-19
by Magnus Enger

Global bug squashing days are days designated to a concerted effort to get bugs and patches moving along in the right direction. A global bug squashing week is 5 global bug squashing days in a row.

The week of 19-23 March 2012 was a global bug squashing week, coinciding with the Marseille Hackfest. More info is here.

Upcoming Koha Events

April General IRC Meeting

The April general IRC meeting will be held on Wednesday, 4 April 2012.

More info is here.

KohaCon12

KohaCon12 will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 5-7 June 2012. A hackfest will be held 9-11 June.

This is a free conference for everyone interested in the Koha library system, which is Free and Open Source Software. There is no registration fee, but we will ask that attendees pre-register. Further calls, including calls for papers and registrations will be posted soon.

Details (travel, hotels, agenda draft, etc) can be found linked from here.

KohaCon12 is the fifth KohaCon, following last year’s successful conference in India which brought together users and developers worldwide. KohaCon12 will feature an international slate of speakers (both Koha users and active Koha contributors) conducting presentations and workshops on a diverse range of topics. Talks will cover a range of topics from general experiences of Koha through to technical information on the various modules.

“We expect this event to have wide appeal,” said MJ Ray of host organisation and Koha support provider software.coop. “The conference is for both techies and non-techies. In addition to presentations on the technical side of Koha, the conference will be a demonstration of how users and developers around the world cooperate to improve Free and Open Source Software. software.coop is delighted to host KohaCon in Edinburgh in our tenth anniversary year and this UN International Year of Co-operatives.”

“Koha conferences are always an informative and uplifting event, I have no doubt that this years conference in Edinburgh will be the best conference yet.” said Chris Cormack, one of the original authors of the Koha version 1.0.

 

The Hackfest BibLibre organized in Marseille is almost over ! time passes too quickly.

A lot of great great great work has been made, I’ll try to report things we made:
As we planned, we splitted in 5 groups, 4 of them focusing on specific hackers topics, the 5th one being librarians testing & translating.

Plack group

(Alex, Matthias, Dobrika and Henri-Damien at the beginning)
this group focused on introducing plack on Koha. A big performance boost was expected from their work.

• Alex, Matthias and Dobrika worked on “plackifying” Koha. The OPAC is already working fine under plack (it’s lived in Lyon3 university, running 3.6, since 3 months)
  A wiki page has been written to show how to integrate plack into Koha setup: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Plack
• The main problem that has been encountered with the staff interface is described in section 3 of this page: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Plack#Running_Intranet
  Dobrika worked a lot on writing patches to solve those problems (see bug 7172). He plans to run Koha on plack in production on staff interface next week, so that will be easier to identify any remaining problem !
• The major goal is to be Plack available as an option for Koha 3.8.

Just a comparison (patron search taken as example): generating a page in CGI mode takes 1.12s, and in Plack mode, it takes 0.334s (3 times faster. Yes you’re reading well. Koha is 3 times faster with Plack !)

A second comparison : zebra search: 1.6s for plack and 3s for CGI

A better use of Plack can even be made, and everybody plan to continue the work for 3.10
Just beware that you’re trading speed for memory: plack consumes more memory than CGI: each child running consumes around 60MB of memory, so if you’ve 12 childs (suggested/recommended value), it mean you need aroung 1GB for Plack.

Alex also tried to see how Koha could be fully PSGI compliant, but the tries were not successfull for now.

Ergonomy

(Owen, Katrin, Adrien, Gaetan, Marijana and Julian)

• The group made big lists of things that are inconsistent, ergonomy guidelines,… Some wiki pages have been written.
• the group suggested to use “Add” when we add something to an existing object, and the term “New” when it’s something not related to anything else
• Adrien added header search bar, that is everywhere else on Koha has been introduced in the mainpage (patch submitted)
• Gaetan started to work on a design for the home page, and the staff interface. The goal is to have it for 3.8
• Katrin added id to all pages, as well as a specific css class. It mean we will be able to write a css with different colors for each module (the patch has been pushed, see bug 7760, comment 32 for an example how to use it). The bug 7812 is also related to this improvement, and is about adding a global “header” that include the menu, the header search bar and the breadcrumb, but no code has been submitted yet.
• Owen presented a framework (bootstrap) that could be a replacement for YUI. The interesting point with bootstrap is that it contains all what we need for smartphones. Julian hacked a little bit, and replaced the opac-search.pl.

Database

(Marc, Stéphane and Christophe)

• the group focused on removing mysql-ism
• a first list of mysql-ism has been identified and put on the wiki: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/PostgreSQL.
• the “show column” mysqlism has been removed in a patch submitted on bug
• a generic OO approach has been taken for things that don’t have a generic equivalent.

Solr

(Zeno, Juan, Claire, Jonathan (a little) and Henri-Damien)
The Solr work is a long term work.
All the work the group made is explained in the wiki page : http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Switch_to_Solr_RFC#.23kohahack12

Librarians

The group of french librarians did a great work !

Bugzilla show the following numbers : no patches need to be pushed, 16 patches are waiting for QA, 71 patches are waiting for signoff.

The number of patches needing signoff hasn’t been lowered at first glance. But it’s a wrong feeling ! If you look closer, you’ll discover that :

• 3 patches only had no activity since january
• 6 patches only had no activity since february
• 13 patches haven’t been updated this week but earlier in march.

all other patches still to sign-off had an activity this week.
Around 30 patches have been signed-off.

Those librarians where french, so the french translation of Koha 3.8 have been done, and a large part of the manual has been translated as well.

Conclusion

Last year, everybody was happy of our hackfest. This year, everybody is happy with this hackfest. So next year we will organize another one, you can already ask your boss (for end of march)

A mi-parcourt de ce hackfest d'une semaine, il est temps de vous éclairer sur ce qu'il se passe à BibLibre ces jours-ci !

Nous ne sommes pas moins de 35 à nous être réunis pour travailler ensemble à l'amélioration de Koha. Et cette fois-ci, des collaborateurs sont venus d'Allemagne, de Croatie, d'Italie, de Suisse, d'Espagne, et même des Etats-Unis pour participer. Des personnes qui travaillent dans des bibliothèques utilisant Koha sont également venues des 4 coins de la France pour nous apporter le regard fonctionnel dont nous avons besoin pour valider le bon fonctionnement du logiciel.

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Ce billet fait suite à celui de Claire : lien.

Dans sa dernière partie, Claire rappelle qu'une communauté à besoin d'acteurs et que vous pourriez très bien en faire partie! Si l'aventure vous tente, BibLibre met à disposition des bacs à sable pour tester les correctifs ou les nouvelles fonctionnalités centralisés dans Bugzilla.

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Nous avons fait le constat ces 2 derniers mois que la part des requêtes provenant des robots de type moteur d'indexation (web crawlers, web spider) est grandissante, aussi bien chez les installations clientes que chez nos hébergés.

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Un ouvrage à ne pas manquer ! (en toute objectivité ) que ce dernier opus de la Boite à Outils paru ce jour aux Presses de l’ENSSIB, sous une forme totalement inédite (à la fois imprimée et numérique). Et dont voici le sommaire :

• Mode d’emploi
  par Xavier Galaup
• Partie 1. le périmètre de la médiation numérique documentaire 
  • La médiation numérique dans le cadre d’une politique documentaire raisonnée : l’exemple de la MIOP
    par Jérôme Pouchol
  • Définition et enjeux de la médiation numérique documentaire
    par Cécile Gardiès et Isabelle Fabre
  • La médiation numérique et les musées : entre autonomie et prescription
    par Geneviève Vidal
  • Le blog bibliomab, une approche de la médiation documentaire numérique du patrimoine
    par Léo Mabmacien
  • Services de questions-réponses en ligne et médiation documentaire numérique : des outils de médiation documentaire à plusieurs facettes
    par Claire Nguyen
• Partie 2. Construire son projet de médiation numérique documentaire
  • Définir son projet : 5 grandes étapes
    par Franck Queyraud
  • Construire la médiation documentaire par les publics : les portails thématiques de l’infothèque
    par Véronique Mesguich
  • Scénariser le catalogue et contextualiser la recherche documentaire
    par Bernard Strainchamps
  • Eléments pour une évaluation de la médiation documentaire numérique
    par Xavier Galaup
• Partie 3. Se former et accompagner les équipes
  • Inclure la médiation documentaire numérique dans le travail d’équipe
    par Didier Desmottes
  • Acquérir une culture numérique et utiliser les outils de la médiation documentaire numérique
    par Thomas Chaimbault
  • Comment lancer et faire fonctionner un blog de bibliothèque ? Quelques pistes concrètes à partir de l’exemple du buboblog
    par Perrine Helly
  • Chermedia, l’agora des bibliothécaires du cher : un outil de lien social et de médiation culturelle et numérique
    par Christine Perrichon
  • Points d’actu ! Une voix singulière
    par Bertrand Calenge
• Partie 4. Interagir en ligne, produire des contenus, partager
  • Silence on joue ! Le médiateur, les jeux vidéo et les fonds documentaires
    par Julien Devriendt
  • Les coups de coeur 2.0 de la médiathèque de Quimperlé
    par Pascal Thibault
  • Netvibes : la trousse à pharmacie du Scd de Lyon 1
    par Marie-Gabrielle Chautard
  • Un exemple de médiation documentaire numérique autour du centenaire de Jean Carbonnier (1908-2003) : du colloque à l’exposition virtuelle et à la numérisation
    par Noëlle Balley et Sébastien Dalmon
  • Utiliser et intégrer les réseaux sociaux littéraires pour la médiation documentaire numérique des bibliothèques
    par Alexandre Lemaire
  • La médiation dans le catalogue enrichi et participatif du portail de l’astrolabe
    par Philippe Diaz
• Mémento
  par Xavier Galaup
• Glossaire
• Bibliographie
• Liste des illustrations
• Liste des auteurs

Classé dans:fonds pro, formation, koha, MIOP, numérique, outil, Politique documentaire Tagged: bibliothèque numérique, blog, formation, koha, MIOP, numérique, opac, poldoc, portail, réseaux sociaux

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.6.4.

The package can be retrieved from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.04.tar.gz

You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.04.tar.gz.MD5
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Release notes for 3.6.4 are below the fold.

Come and get it!

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.6.4 22 Feb 2012 ======================================================================== Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org/ Koha 3.6.4 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.04.tar.gz Installation instructions can be found at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball Koha 3.6.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.6.4 ====================== 6488 critical opachiddenitems not working in master 6634 critical manager_id not populated when paying fines 6984 critical Holds Statistics Doesn't Work 7018 critical need all acq permissions to search 7339 critical Help System in IE8-9 Does Not Load With 500 Error 7359 critical Begin migration to a new "Koha" namespace from the old "C4" namespace 7432 critical Changing frameworks should refresh cache 7450 critical Missing placeholders in admin/authorised_values.pl 7551 critical Any logged-in OPAC user can renew items for others using a properly constructed URL 2012 major Add bilio crashes under no zebra 3264 major Uncloning a dropdown list in MARC authorities/biblio editor may clear all subfields (see comment 17) 5327 major Unit tests required for all C4 modules 6115 major Acquisition reports : date filter & sorting don't work 6490 major Lost and paid not updated when book is checked out without check-in 6631 major Unrestricted creation of lists by anonymous users 6718 major No manager_id saved for writeoff of fines 6842 major Branch transfer limits broken 7005 major no confirmation for write off all 7431 major OPAC item hold list doesn't show 'checked out' 7459 major Can only add to one public list in OPAC search results Bugs fixed in 3.6.4 ====================== 5473 normal 952 fields should be filled in by Acquisitions 6598 normal OPACFineNoRenewals syspreference does not stop user renewing in opac 6694 normal Anonymous sessions not kept when casAuthentication is on 7114 normal Hiding filters on funds page messes with layout 7127 normal Templates must be valid XHTML 7190 normal written off fines being refunded 7350 normal In New order the "+" button duplicates input text but not the "selected" in ddl 7402 normal invoice not showing received titles 7406 normal saved reports not showing right number 7409 normal Missing dependencies for Debian package 7457 normal basket.pl makes a lot of noise in the logs 7466 normal Cart notification popup should appear onscreen even when button is offscreen 7472 normal Edit button ineffective when paying borrower fee 7476 normal Files executable that probably should not be 7489 normal Implement DisplayOPACiconsXSLT for NORMARC XSLT 7501 normal OPAC authority browser should mark alternate rows as highlighted 7521 normal Cannot receive serials without full serials permissions 4376 enhancement A minor change in the “GetMarcAuthors” function of C4/Biblio.pm would allow differentiate the type of authors in the templates 5346 enhancement Linking suggestions & orders 6210 enhancement Choose framework on Merge 6299 enhancement Provide a list of authorized values for relator terms 6314 enhancement UNIMARC OPAC XSL improvements 6323 enhancement Attach/move items - adding option "try again" after success or wrong barcode 6752 enhancement Be stricter with utf-8 output 6790 enhancement C4::Serials::getroutinglist returns unnecessary variable 6838 enhancement Filtering and pagination in subscriptions table 6865 enhancement Replace image-based gradient backgrounds with CSS3 gradients 6913 enhancement Improving koha-list and koha-create 6985 enhancement Hide "kw,wrdl:" from Search Results 7080 enhancement Clean up interface on fine payment screens 7083 enhancement Show creator name on list of public lists 7090 enhancement Add "AllowItemsOnHandCheckout" syspref to allow issue to the patron regardless of hold status 7148 enhancement Add some error handling to Acquisitions' Z39.50 search to match Cataloging's 7157 enhancement Improve the j2a.pl cronjob 7201 enhancement Hold to pull report needs extra fields 7246 enhancement rebuild_zebra.pl --limit option to allow partial re-indexing 7289 enhancement edition statement field 7343 enhancement search tag usability in MARC framework 7345 enhancement Should be possible to export MARC records without private fields 7355 enhancement Note subfields are not displayed in TEXTAREA if hidden 7357 enhancement Subscriptions titles are replaced by "---" when duplicated 7458 enhancement New call number allocation plugin 7511 enhancement Caching Templates 7514 enhancement Choose OPAC language with URL parameter 7532 enhancement opac-ics depends on Date::ICal which is largely unmaintained System requirements ====================== Changes since 3.4: * Perl 5.10 is required Documentation ====================== As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/documentation/ As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/ The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary Translations ====================== Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages: * Chinese (Taiwan) * Danish * English (USA) * English (UK) * French (France) * German * Italian * Portuguese (Brazil) * Spanish Partial translations are available for various other languages. The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate The most up-to-date translations can be found at: http://translate.koha-community.org/ Release Team ====================== The release team for Koha 3.6 is Release Manager: Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz> Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard@gmail.com> Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians <frederic@tamil.fr> QA Manager: Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com> Bug Wranglers: MJ Ray, Marcel de Rooy, Paul Poulain, Mason James Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> Credits ====================== We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.6: * Los Gatos Public Library * NEKLS * East Brunswick Public Library * Athens County Public Libraries * Horowhenua Library Trust * Halton Borough Council * South Taranaki District Council We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.6.4. 3 Tomas Cohen Arazi 1 Alex Arnaud 2 D Ruth Bavousett 3 Jared Camins-Esakov 2 Colin Campbell 7 Garry Collum 11 Chris Cormack 1 Christophe Croullebois 1 Stéphane Delaune 8 Frédéric Demians 1 Connor Dewar 1 Jonathan Druart 1 Nicole Engard 1 Magnus Enger 4 Katrin Fischer 2 Kyle M Hall 2 Kate Henderson 7 Srdjan Jankovic 1 Bart Jorgensen 1 Janusz Kaczmarek 1 Jorgia Kelsey 1 Henri-Damien Laurent 13 Owen Leonard 1 Peter Lorimer 5 Julian Maurice 1 Matthias Meusburger 2 Jono Mingard 31 Chris Nighswonger 2 Maxime Pelletier 26 Paul Poulain 1 MJ Ray 7 Liz Rea 5 Marcel de Rooy 5 Sam Sanders 3 Adrien Saurat 6 Robin Sheat 1 Juan Sieira 1 Duncan Tyler 2 Aleksa Vujicic 1 biblibre We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-patches@lists.koha-community.org. Revision control notes ====================== The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git The branch for Koha 3.6.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix releases) is 3.6.x. The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.8.0. Bugs and feature requests ====================== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini ##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 22 Feb 2012 20:14:40 Z #####