Thank you, Michael! In view of our marketing initiative aimed at librarians who are not yet familiar with Koha it would be helpful to have such a list or a map illustrating Koha's international impact on our main website. Librarians not familiar with Koha usually are not familiar with the Koha wiki. If Marshall Breeding does a good job at keeping the list up to date, we should go with his--his expertise and objectivity would further provide credibility, though I would ideally want to work with him (or his data) to implement a visually stimulating map or list. I fully agree that asking librarians to create profiles and learn how to use Git only to list themselves on a website for promotional purposes is not going to work and that the listing mechanism will have to be simplified. -Sebastian -- Sebastian Hierl, Ph.D. Drue Heinz Librarian, Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library American Academy in Rome Via Angelo Masina 5 00153 Rome Italy T: +39 06 5846 417 F: +39 06 5810 788 On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Liz Rea <wizzyrea@gmail.com> wrote:
It's gone. For now.
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Michael Kuhn <mik@adminkuhn.ch> wrote:
Hi Sebastian
We discussed this issue before and a number of very impressive figures were
quoted, but when I go to the home page of the Koha community, at https://koha-community.org/about/libraries/, I only see a sample of Koha libraries and our library is missing.
I was not aware of this list, which is very incomplete and uninformative compared to https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide or especially to Marshall Breedings great list of Koha libraries throughout the world at https://librarytechnology.org/lwc-processquery.pl?ILS=Koha (which actually list 4'427 libraries with a lot of details).
hard to keep up to date.
In light of our marketing effort, we should bring it as up to date as we can. In order to get us listed, I went to https://gitlab.com/koha- community-devs-users/Koha-library-list/ and clicked on "Merge Request," but could find how to place a new request. There is no "new" button or similar. Others were able to do it and I applaud them, but we are not going to get many new libraries to list themselves and keep this list relevant, if they cannot easily and immediately place a request. Is
Please do not get me wrong, I think that the list is good, but as any list, this
something that could be fixed? I.e. add a green "NEW" button or something of the sort. And could you explain me how I could add our library?
To me it seems an absolutely horrible idea that libraries or anyone should learn or use Git when they want to include themselves in a simple list. Instead I suggest to delete this list and instead link to https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide
In my case however I stick to the above mentioned lists and I will simply ignore the list at https://koha-community.org/about/libraries/ when adding new libraries.
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