WG: Introducing myself, adress administration, and accessibility
Hello I am the head of a special library for blind and visually impaired people. We lend audio books and books in braille. The books are sended in boxes in Germany and also abroad. We think about introducing Koha. We like the program because it is quite customizable, because you can get many statistics information and because it has a magazin administration, and we have heard that quite a few libraries are now working with this system and a good exchange is possible. Now I have two questions: 1. As already said we are mainly a shipping library. For this reason We need more than three addresses per customer. We have so far understood that you can create three addresses in Koha. Is it possible to expand the program by the way that you can create 6 to 8 addresses per user? 2. In our library also work blind and visually impaired employees. First tests from Koha have shown us that the system is quite usable for this clientele. We assume that there is still need for adjustment. Would it be conceivable that our ideas on accessibility would be assured in the further development of Koha? I'm looking forward to understanding questions and ideas to our situation. Kind regards Andrea Andrea Katemann Leiterin der Deutschen Blinden-Bibliothek Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt e.V. (blista) Postfach 11 60, 35001 Marburg Tel.: +49 6421 606-0, Direktwahl: -405, Fax: -476 E-Mail: katemann@blista.de Internet: www.blista.de Pflichtangaben: www.blista.de/sc/impressum.php ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
Hi Andrea, Welcome to the Koha community! Indeed there are 3 kinds of address you can define per patron: "Main address", "Alternate address" and "Alternate contact". However you can define an unlimited number of "additional attributes". They are free text fields you can fill by patron. That could match your needs. If you found any bugs or if you have suggestions/ideas to improve accessibility, you can open bugs (1 per bug/idea would be good) on our bug tracker at bugs.koha-community.org I am sure some of the Koha developpers will be happy to help you. Regards, Jonathan On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 at 12:28 Andrea Katemann <Katemann@blista.de> wrote:
Hello I am the head of a special library for blind and visually impaired people. We lend audio books and books in braille. The books are sended in boxes in Germany and also abroad. We think about introducing Koha. We like the program because it is quite customizable, because you can get many statistics information and because it has a magazin administration, and we have heard that quite a few libraries are now working with this system and a good exchange is possible. Now I have two questions: 1. As already said we are mainly a shipping library. For this reason We need more than three addresses per customer. We have so far understood that you can create three addresses in Koha. Is it possible to expand the program by the way that you can create 6 to 8 addresses per user? 2. In our library also work blind and visually impaired employees. First tests from Koha have shown us that the system is quite usable for this clientele. We assume that there is still need for adjustment. Would it be conceivable that our ideas on accessibility would be assured in the further development of Koha? I'm looking forward to understanding questions and ideas to our situation. Kind regards Andrea
Andrea Katemann Leiterin der Deutschen Blinden-Bibliothek Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt e.V. (blista) Postfach 11 60, 35001 Marburg Tel.: +49 6421 606-0 <+49%206421%206060>, Direktwahl: -405, Fax: -476 E-Mail: katemann@blista.de Internet: www.blista.de
Pflichtangaben: www.blista.de/sc/impressum.php
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Dear Andrea, Il 27/01/2017 12:28, Andrea Katemann ha scritto:
1. As already said we are mainly a shipping library. For this reason We need more than three addresses per customer. We have so far understood that you can create three addresses in Koha. Is it possible to expand the program by the way that you can create 6 to 8 addresses per user? Can you explain more why do you need so much addresses per user ? In Koha you can add free text fields if you want: https://koha-community.org/manual/16.11/html/ch02s03.html#patronattributetyp...
2. In our library also work blind and visually impaired employees. First tests from Koha have shown us that the system is quite usable for this clientele. We assume that there is still need for adjustment. Would it be conceivable that our ideas on accessibility would be assured in the further development of Koha?
Well, if you send fixes and patch on this topic [or you pay developers for them] you need to follow this workflow: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_workflow. Speaking about standard of accessibility is a very good idea [we love standars]. We think that the Opac is Ok on accessibility, Intranet not so well. But you can probably write a more complete report about this topic. Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Zeno Tajoli /SVILUPPO PRODOTTI CINECA/ - Automazione Biblioteche Email: z.tajoli@cineca.it Fax: 051/6132198 *CINECA* Consorzio Interuniversitario - Sede operativa di Segrate (MI)
Hello Thank you very much for this fast answer. I will try to explain why we need more addresses. Our Institution, called blista www.blista.de is a boarding school. In our institution we have pupils, they are registered with always two addresses. One is the address of their parents and the second is the address of the group in our school where they life. So it is very often that as a standard two addresses we give them when they come in our library. A third address could be perhaps an address of their grand parents where they spend their holidays etc. Another address could be one of a flat where they life for a short time but we know that they will go back in the first one. Besides many of our users give us an address to which we have to send braille books and another we have to send their magazines, another where they often spend their holidays, another which we have to use to send them the talking books and an address of a hospital in which they longer have to stay. All this addresses we have to manage because our users change between them. I hope I could describe my problem. Thank you for the information about accessibility! I'm looking forward also to discuss about standards. Best regards Andrea Andrea Katemann Leiterin der Deutschen Blinden-Bibliothek Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt e.V. (blista) Postfach 11 60, 35001 Marburg Tel.: +49 6421 606-0, Direktwahl: -405, Fax: -476 E-Mail: katemann@blista.de Internet: www.blista.de Pflichtangaben: www.blista.de/sc/impressum.php -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Tajoli Zeno [mailto:z.tajoli@cineca.it] Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Januar 2017 13:03 An: Andrea Katemann; koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Betreff: Re: [Koha] WG: Introducing myself, adress administration, and accessibility Dear Andrea, Il 27/01/2017 12:28, Andrea Katemann ha scritto:
1. As already said we are mainly a shipping library. For this reason We need more than three addresses per customer. We have so far understood that you can create three addresses in Koha. Is it possible to expand the program by the way that you can create 6 to 8 addresses per user? Can you explain more why do you need so much addresses per user ? In Koha you can add free text fields if you want: https://koha-community.org/manual/16.11/html/ch02s03.html#patronattributetyp...
2. In our library also work blind and visually impaired employees. First tests from Koha have shown us that the system is quite usable for this clientele. We assume that there is still need for adjustment. Would it be conceivable that our ideas on accessibility would be assured in the further development of Koha?
Well, if you send fixes and patch on this topic [or you pay developers for them] you need to follow this workflow: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_workflow. Speaking about standard of accessibility is a very good idea [we love standars]. We think that the Opac is Ok on accessibility, Intranet not so well. But you can probably write a more complete report about this topic. Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Zeno Tajoli /SVILUPPO PRODOTTI CINECA/ - Automazione Biblioteche Email: z.tajoli@cineca.it Fax: 051/6132198 *CINECA* Consorzio Interuniversitario - Sede operativa di Segrate (MI) ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
2. In our library also work blind and visually impaired employees. First tests from Koha have shown us that the system is quite usable for this clientele. We assume that there is still need for adjustment. Would it be conceivable that our ideas on accessibility would be assured in the further development of Koha?
Your feedback on accessibility issues would be very much appreciated. I agree with Jonathan's suggestion that you file a bug report if you find problems or have suggestions. Thanks, Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
Hello Owen and koha-comunety Thank you for your helpful answers. It would be good to know that our suggestions to accessibility would be welcome. Is there perhaps any idea to manage our addresses? I'm looking forward to any opinions. Best regards Andrea Andrea Katemann Leiterin der Deutschen Blinden-Bibliothek Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt e.V. (blista) Postfach 11 60, 35001 Marburg Tel.: +49 6421 606-0, Direktwahl: -405, Fax: -476 E-Mail: katemann@blista.de Internet: www.blista.de Pflichtangaben: www.blista.de/sc/impressum.php -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] Im Auftrag von Owen Leonard Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Januar 2017 14:56 An: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Betreff: Re: [Koha] WG: Introducing myself, adress administration, and accessibility
2. In our library also work blind and visually impaired employees. First tests from Koha have shown us that the system is quite usable for this clientele. We assume that there is still need for adjustment. Would it be conceivable that our ideas on accessibility would be assured in the further development of Koha?
Your feedback on accessibility issues would be very much appreciated. I agree with Jonathan's suggestion that you file a bug report if you find problems or have suggestions. Thanks, Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
Hi, Il 30/01/2017 09:19, Andrea Katemann ha scritto:
Hello Owen and koha-comunety Thank you for your helpful answers. It would be good to know that our suggestions to accessibility would be welcome. Is there perhaps any idea to manage our addresses? I'm looking forward to any opinions.
You can use this feature to add your extra addresses: https://koha-community.org/manual/16.11/html/ch02s03.html#patronattributetyp... You probably will have problem on printing those extra addresses. Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Zeno Tajoli /SVILUPPO PRODOTTI CINECA/ - Automazione Biblioteche Email: z.tajoli@cineca.it Fax: 051/6132198 *CINECA* Consorzio Interuniversitario - Sede operativa di Segrate (MI)
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