Hello everyone! The first community education meeting took place earlier today. There were a dozen in attendance and we had a great chat. For those who couldn't make it, and for the curious, here is the recording https://drive.google.com/file/d/147jzhaEZJdsNsFFxXzb8SUvGj1T5ulRP/view there is also the transcript of the chat https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xb8TjtrDaIdZPrVUekueqzRYz4StLip8 Thanks again to ByWater Solutions who hosted the meeting. Here are some highlights from the meeting: * We created a wiki page to share our training material https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Training_resources o Feel free to add to this wiki page, I already started with some resources that were shared during the meeting o If you add something, make sure to write the version of Koha it applies to. This is just to keep it the most up-to-date possible. * We also created a wiki page for how-to's or "step by step"'s https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/How-to o These will live along side the manual for people who need more structured instructions on how to do things in Koha o It's easier to edit than the manual, so more people can contribute o There is still the need to find a way to translate these if they are to be included in the manual eventually * We decided against creating a new mailing list for education and training as most of us are already swamped in emails and subscribed to too many listservs o We will use the regular Koha mailing list o However, it was suggested that we add "Education: " before the subject of the email. That way those of us who are interested in this topic will know to read those emails, and those of us who aren't interested in education/training can disregard the email or even create a rule in their email client to delete them automatically * Eventually, there will be example MARC records for all types of materials to help us with non-librarian library staff who do cataloging. * We also shared some best practices o We all loved koha-US' learning page, which organizes the community information in a more visual manner https://koha-us.org/learn-from-koha-us/ o ByWater do a "policy call" before the training to understand the library's setting and needs. This also helps with configuration. They have a survey that they use with that call to collect hard data from their clients for the configuration of Koha o Most support companies do the training on a test environment with the library's own data. This is kept until go-live so staff can practice. Some keep the test environment after go-live for tests, practice and training new staff. o ByWater tries to cater to all learning styles by giving the same information in different ways (videos, step-by-steps, in person training, etc.) I think that covers everything. For those who were there, don't hesitate to respond if you think I forgot anything. Next meeting will take place on November 19 at 19 UTC. It will still be hosted by ByWater and this is the link to access it https://zoom.us/j/392843340 Thank you everyone! Caroline -- Caroline Cyr La Rose, M.L.I.S. Librarian | Product Manager Phone: 1-833-465-4276, ext. 221 Caroline.Cyr-La-Rose@inLibro.com <mailto:caroline.cyr-la-rose@inLibro.com> INLiBRO | Document Technologies Specialists | www.inLibro.com <http://www.inLibro.com>