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Re: [Koha] PTFS Acquisition of LibLime Reactivated and Completed (Wagner, Jane)
by gsl 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

I think if PTFS wants to host the site on their servers, that would be fine, and their support and contributions would be more than welcome, as it is now. "The Community" should control the site, however, as koha-community.org is controlled and managed now. That implies that the community should own the domain name koha.org. I don't see anything that changes the need to make forward progress with the HLT organizational effort, which could hold the domain ownership. If that doesn't happen, then koha-community.org will continue to be the Real Koha website. PTFS could still own liblime.com. Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Minges" <jminges(a)nekls.org> To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:06:00 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [Koha] PTFS Acquisition of LibLime Reactivated and Completed (Wagner, Jane) Without commenting on any other effect of the announcement regarding the PTFS acquisition of LibLime, I am curious about views of the Koha community regarding the statement: "PTFS pledges to enhance and maintain the www.koha.org site as the focal point for the world’ s Koha activities– the place to find the latest information on Koha support, documentation, news, and downloads." Will a PTFS hosted koha.org be regarded as the web presence for the global Koha community? Will koha-community.org/ continue, and which site will in fact be regarded as the global community site? Jim -- Jim Minges, Director Northeast Kansas Library System 4317 West 6th Street Lawrence, KS 66049 Phone: 785-838-4090 FAX: 785-838-3989 jminges(a)nekls.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Re: [Koha] PTFS Acquisition of LibLime Reactivated and Completed (Wagner, Jane)
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Thought I warned some or all of you at one time of the error of a company controlling this domain name.... Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC In a message dated 3/16/2010 8:15:38 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, jminges(a)nekls.org writes: Without commenting on any other effect of the announcement regarding the PTFS acquisition of LibLime, I am curious about views of the Koha community regarding the statement: "PTFS pledges to enhance and maintain the _www.koha.org_ (http://www.koha.org/) site as the focal point for the world’ s Koha activities– the place to find the latest information on Koha support, documentation, news, and downloads." Will a PTFS hosted _koha.org_ (http://koha.org/) be regarded as the web presence for the global Koha community? Will _koha-community.org/_ (http://koha-community.org/) continue, and which site will in fact be regarded as the global community site? Jim -- Jim Minges, Director Northeast Kansas Library System 4317 West 6th Street Lawrence, KS 66049 Phone: 785-838-4090 FAX: 785-838-3989 _jminges(a)nekls.org_ (mailto:jminges@nekls.org) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz _http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha_ (http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha) CONFIDENZIALE: Questo messaggio e gli eventuali allegati sono confidenziali e riservati. Se vi è stato recapitato per errore e non siete fra i destinatari elencati, siete pregati di darne immediatamente avviso al mittente. Le informazioni contenute non devono essere mostrate ad altri, né utilizzate, memorizzate o copiate in qualsiasi forma. CONFIDENTIAL: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may contain reserved information. If you are not one of the named recipients, please notify the sender immediately. Moreover, you should not disclose the contents to any other persons, nor should the information contained be used for any purpose or stored or copied in any form.

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Koha Newsletter: Volume 1/Issue 3: March 2010
by Nicole Engard 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 1, Issue 3: March 2010 Read Online: http://koha-community.org/koha-newsletter-volume-1issue-3-march-2010/ Subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KohaNewsletter Table of Contents * KohaCon 2010 o KohaCon10 Registrations Open o Call for Papers Open o Sponsorship * Koha News o New Koha Community Site o Popular Libraries in Argentina Choose Koha o Growing Trend: Koha integrated with Kete * Koha Tips o Meta-searching with Koha and Paspar2 KohaCon 2010 KohaCon10 Registrations Open by Russel Garlick The 3rd Koha Conference will be held in Wellington, New Zealand October 24-29, 2010. The conference consists of a 3 day conference proper followed by a 3 day hackfest. The conference is open to all members of the Koha Community and registration is essential. It is free to attend the conference, but due to room size and other constraints, the organisers need to know exactly who will be turning up. If you are looking to get to NZ from the far flung reaches of the world, then please check out the conference website www.kohacon10.org.nz. Members of the community have contributed advice on traveling from the US, Europe and elsewhere. We have also arranged some accommodation deals with local hotels. Call for Papers Open by Russel Garlick If you have already registered, have you considered giving a talk? The call for conference papers is also open. 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. Sponsorship by Russel Garlick KohaCon10 is being organised and run by volunteers and is entirely reliant on sponsorship. The organisors would like to thank the sponsors that have already come on board (Libriotech, ByWater Solutions, BibLibre and Catalyst IT). If your company is interested in sponsoring the event, please contact Russel Garlick (russ on irc, or russel.garlick(a)gmail.com) As a free conference, reliant completely on sponsorship, we regret that we are unable to provide financial assistance for anyone wishing to attend the conference. Koha News New Koha Community Site by Owen Leonard The Koha community has attempted to communicate with LibLime about the situation without success. The Koha community has nominated the Horowhenua Library Trust to act as an independent steward of Koha-related assets like the Koha.org and the Koha trademark. We have proposed to LibLime that, given their lack of care and interest in Koha.org, transfer the domain and its management to HLT and let the Koha community take back control. LibLime has not responded to these requests. The community was left with no choice: we had to create a new home for the Koha project. We can no longer depend on the good will of LibLime. Koha-community.org came together quickly and beautifully thanks to all involved. Thanks are owed especially to Liz at the Northeast Kansas Library System for all her hard work. If you want to share a link to the real open source Koha, please use http://koha-community.org. Read the entire post at http://www.myacpl.org/koha/?p=522. Popular Libraries in Argentina Choose Koha by Verónica Lencinas In 2007 five popular libraries from Córdoba (a province in Argentina) united to form a union catalog. Popular libraries are non governmental organizations in Argentina that receive funds from the national government through the Comisión Nacional Protectora de Bibliotecas Populares (http://www.conabip.gov.ar) In most villages, towns and cities they are the only public libraries available. Since there were no special funding for the union catalog, all work had to be done for free and free software were the only option considered. In September 2007 the first version of the catalog went online at http://catalogo.puntobiblio.com running on Koha 2.2.9. Now the network has broadened to 18 libraries and include now not only popular libraries but also public, school, academic and special libraries. The first popular library to implement Koha 3.0 in Argentina was the Biblioteca Popular República Argentina, who was also the founder of the network. Now other popular libraries as well as the Comisión Nacional Protectora de Bibliotecas Populares had shown their interest in a broader implementation of Koha. Growing Trend: Koha integrated with Kete by Walter McGinnis A number of organizations using Koha are tying in search results from an affiliated Kete site. These same Koha OPACs are then accessed from their Kete sites for their search results, too. This makes it easier for users to discovery complimentary resources no matter which system the items are stored in. This is accomplished via both software packages’ support of the OpenSearch standard. On the Koha side, Chris Cormack from Catalyst IT has written a simple add-on to the Koha OPAC to take a user’s keyword search terms and request results from a designated Kete site and place the results in a sidebar beside the normal catalog results. Kieran Pilkington from Katipo Communications has also contributed to this code. The code works fine, but is not apart of the Koha codebase yet as it could have a better user interface for setting the designated OpenSearch source by non-technical Koha administrators. On the Kete site, site administrators simply fill out a form to identify the Koha catalogue’s search interface as an external search source. A similar sidebar then will appear next to the Kete site’s search results. In Kete, there is also the ability to automatically look up an item’s title in external search sources and display their results while on the item’s Kete detail page. Since both the Koha add-on and the Kete External Search Sources functionality are built around the OpenSearch standard, other services that follow this standard can also be tied in as search target. The sites using this functionality are in New Zealand, Australia, and the Middle East. Koha Tips Meta-searching with Koha and Paspar2 by Mark Osborne “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” Sound familiar? It’s the opening line of Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. It’s a great novel but we don’t have a copy of it in our library. But then with freely available e-books and public domain audio books it’s probably not the end of the world. What we do need to have is the ability for our students to search for and find these resources; which is why we’re setting up Paspar2 integration with Koha. It allows us to set up meta-searching beyond our catalogue, querying Project Gutenberg, Librivox.org, Google Books and a host of other online resources. That means if we don’t have a physical holding of an item, our students can still access a copy for an e-book reader, laptop or iPod. --------------------- Newsletter edited by Nicole C. Engard, Koha Documentation Manager. Please send future story ideas to nengard(a)gmail.com.

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Two minor web site tweaks
by Lars Wirzenius 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

I propose two minor web site tweaks. The http://koha-community.org/about/ page mentions "For a comprehensive overview of features visit the Koha feature map." at the end of the second paragraph in the main text. Could the words "feature map" be turned into a link to the feature map? (Where is the map, anyway?) The http://koha-community.org/download-koha/ page does not mention the Koha license. It is customary for free software projects to mention the license, so people do not need to download the software to check what it is. A paragraph like the one below could be added to the top of the page (between "Download Koha" and "Koha requirements"): Koha is free software and is licensed under the GNU General Public License, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Would these changes be acceptable?

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Sabbatical Leave
by Inock Siziba 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Hello all, I am due to take sabbatical leave from 01 May 2010 until 31 August 2010. I am currently serving as Head Librarian at the Theological College of Zimbabwe. Our college is an inter-denominational school and broadly evangelical. We have Library holdings of 14, 575 books, subscribe to a variety of theological journals and a small collection of audio visual materials. My desire is to spend my sabbatical leave attached to a library which has a strong interest in using technology to facilitate the creation and delivery of library collections. Also, an exposure to library open source systems would be very beneficiary for me, as our library has recently migrated to koha. For more information about the Theological College of Zimbabwe and our library, please visit our website at: http://tczonline.com/ If any of you are willing to give advice or host me during my sabbatical leave, please respond directly to me off the mailing list, or to Rev. Dr. Nakah (College President) at vnakah(a)tcz.co.zw. Regards Inock Siziba Librarian Theological College of Zimbabwe PO AC 587 Ascot Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Email: isiziba(a)tcz.co.zw <isiziba(a)tcz.co.zw> Tel. + (263 9) 287032

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[KohaCon10] Reminder Volunteers Meeting Tomorrow
by Russel Garlick 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Hi everyone, Just a reminder the next KohaCon10 Volunteers Meeting is tomorrow. Next meeting is set for Wednesday, 17 March 2010 at 10:00 a.m. Wellington time (Tuesday, 16 March 2010 at 21:00:00 UTC) I expect this to be fairly short catch up on progress to date. AGENDA 1) Call for papers update - Nicole 2) Website update - Russel 3) Sponsorship update - Russel 4) General questions Till then, Cheers -- Russel Garlick Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2237 +64 27 537 1377 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand

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PTFS Acquisition of LibLime Reactivated and Completed
by Wagner, Jane 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

PTFS Acquires LibLime Bethesda, MD-March 15, 2010-Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS), an industry-leading library solutions provider and developer of the ArchivalWare digital library and content management software, has acquired LibLime, the global leader in open-source software solutions for libraries. "PTFS has supported ILS solutions for 15 years, so the acquisition of LibLime and the addition of their Koha customer base is logical expansion for PTFS. With our in-depth knowledge of both the bibliographic and digital collection arenas, we are in an excellent position to bring the necessary technologies to libraries. We will make the Koha Open-Source ILS more cost-effective for libraries struggling to keep pace with commercial pricing during tough economic times. We welcome the opportunity to partner with all of these new customers to advance the capabilities of Koha," stated John Yokley, PTFS CEO. This acquisition expands PTFS's existing U.S. and European open-source library solutions business. In addition, it will accelerate PTFS's Digital Library System (DLS) initiative, an integration between the Koha ILS and ArchivalWare. The DLS solution will provide libraries and information centers with a next generation solution by providing a single toolset to manage all of their collections - print and digital. The first order of business will be to transition the existing LibLime customers into PTFS's support center. PTFS will focus on enhancing customer support for the LibLime contracts acquired and will immediately assign additional resources required to accomplish this task. PTFS will also take over all existing development projects already under way at LibLime - including the multi-year Westchester Academic Library Director's Organization project which is adding rich academic functionality to the Koha platform; and the Madison, Wisconsin-based South Central Library System project which will significantly increase Koha's support of public library workflows in a consortial environment. PTFS is excited to work with all of the sponsoring organizations to expand the Koha platform. PTFS pledges to enhance and maintain the www.koha.org site as the focal point for the world' s Koha activities- the place to find the latest information on Koha support, documentation, news, and downloads. Combining the PTFS and Liblime Koha operations will bring nearly 150 organizations totaling over 700 libraries into the PTFS Koha customer support group. The acquisition establishes PTFS as the world's largest company providing open-source ILS solutions for libraries. About PTFS, Inc. Founded in 1995, PTFS is a library centric company and is the developer of the ArchivalWare content management software. PTFS has provided commercial ILS systems integration, implementation, and support since its inception. In 2008, PTFS entered the open-source library marketplace in 2008, developing, implementing, and supporting Koha ILS solutions. Providing digital library and content management solutions for over a decade, PTFS is experienced in executing complete turn-key solutions as well as on-site library staffing and consulting services. For more information, see www.ptfs.com. Contact: Rbangs(a)ptfs.com Jane Wagner Library Systems Analyst PTFS Inc. Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088 x 151 jwagner(a)ptfs.com

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Urgent Request – How to solve error 500
by Akin Adigun 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Kindly help!!! I am using koha 3.0.1 on open suse 11.1 and nozebra. How do I solve error 500 on my koha server. Every time it error starts the server will hang.Help will be appreciated. Thanks Akin Adigun (MCP) Akinomatics Tel: +2348035565348, +2348029219271

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Caroline Loh/lib/staff/npnet is out of the office.
by Caroline Loh 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

I will be out of the office starting 15/03/2010 and will not return until 16/03/2010. Mrs Lim Ben Wai/Information Systems Manager (ext 6369) will cover my duties. For matters relating to copyright laws, please refer to Ms Lim Bee Ang (ext 6551). If you need to reach me, please call my Secretary, Mdm Teo at 6460 6280 . With best regards Caroline Loh (Mrs) | Director | Lien Ying Chow Library Ngee Ann Polytechnic, 535 Clementi Road, Singapore 599489 DID: 6460 6288 | FAX: 6466 8274 | EMAIL: lck4(a)np.edu.sg | http://www.np.edu.sg/library/library.html Our Mission: Advancing People With Information NP Vision: Connecting Minds. Unlocking Talents. Creating Value NOTICE: This message may contain privileged/confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please delete it immediately and notify the sender .

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by My Famil via Yahoo! 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

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