[Koha] Official Koha Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 5: May 2011

[Nicole Engard]

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Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328)
Volume 2, Issue 5: May 2011

Table of Contents

    Koha Developments
        Koha 3.2.9 Available
        Koha 3.4.1 Available
    Koha Community
        Farmington Sponsors Facebook/Twitter Share Development
        Standards Organisation of Nigeria implements Koha supported by
Projektlink Konsult Ltd.
        University of Guyana Chooses Koha
    Koha Tips & Tricks
        Increase Koha Performance
        Configure Automatic Receipt Printing


Koha Developments


Koha 3.2.9 Available
by Chris Nighswonger

The package can be retrieved from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.09.tar.gz

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

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.09.tar.gz.MD5

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.09.tar.gz.MD5.asc

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.09.tar.gz.sig

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Koha 3.4.1 Available
by Chris Nighswonger

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.1.

The package can be retrieved from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.01.tar.gz

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

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.01.tar.gz.MD5

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.01.tar.gz.MD5.asc

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.01.tar.gz.sig

Come and get it! Read More


Koha Community


Farmington Sponsors Facebook/Twitter Share Development
by Hall Bright

ByWater Solutions has provided a Facebook and Twitter application for
the Farmington Libraries to allow patrons to tweet and facebook what
they are reading. When you go into the details VIEW of an item, the
patron sees the Facebook and Twitter icons on the right menu where a
Hold is placed. See:
http://catalog.farmingtonlibraries.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=161062

By clicking the Facebook “Like” button, a patron is prompted to log in
to Facebook. Then, a patron can write commentary or such and the
commentary and the title [with a link to the catalog] appears on their
Wall. The library’s address also appears.

The Twitter “Tweet” button also prompts a log in screen and then
brings up a customizable message with an automatically generated
TinyURL type link back to the catalog.

We are still in testing, but we are excited for this customization.


Standards Organisation of Nigeria implements Koha supported by
Projektlink Konsult Ltd.
by Olugbenga Adara

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) Library, established in
1971, has adopted Koha for managing it’s library collections.

The SON library has the responsibility to assemble and maintain a
collection of standards, normative documents, books and other relevant
materials it considers appropriate and relevant for a standards
management in Nigeria.

The implementation was carried out in conjunction with Projectlink
Konsult Limited (PKL) Full details can be found online.


University of Guyana Chooses Koha
by Sekhar Mallampati

University of Guyana (uog.edu.gy), Berbice Campus (South America) has
launched it’s Library Automation System Koha on 12th May, 2011. The
collection size is around 13000. We are also working on implementing
Koha for University’s main campus (Turkeyen) Library which has a
collection size of 140000.

This is first of it’s kind in the country (Guyana). University of
Guyana is the first one to implement this world’s leading Open Source
Library Software (Koha) in the Caribbean.

We have started helping the National Library of Guyana to start their
journey with Koha.

University of Guyana, Berbice Campus Library’s “Online Public Access
Catalog (OPAC)” service can be accessed at:
http://ugbclibrary.uog.edu.gy

Dept. of Software Services has provided technical support for
University of Guyana automation project. I am a software engineer and
HOD for Dept. of Software Services, University of Guyana.

We want to thank you all for this feature-rich product. We have been
benefiting from the mailing lists, etc.


Koha Tips & Tricks


Increase Koha Performance
by Fridolyn SOMERS

Here is a little technical trick :

In koha-conf.xml, the address of the database server is stored :

<hostname>__DB_HOST__</hostname>

If you use its host name (mysql.mydomaine.com for example), the DNS
will be used for each database connection.

Using the IP address will pass-by DNS and may increase a little bit
the Koha server performance.


Configure Automatic Receipt Printing
by Koha Community

Did you know that you can set Koha to automatically print receipts for
circulation? There is a guide on the wiki that will walk you through
the process with different printers and browsers. Learn more on the
Koha wiki.




Newsletter edited by Nicole C. Engard, Koha Documentation Manager.
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