[Koha] Education: Koha education meeting highlights and recording

[Caroline Cyr-La-Rose]

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

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Librarian | Product Manager

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