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05 December 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Creating Spine Label Layouts in Koha

The label creator in Koha 3.2 has been completely rewritten and improved. This tutorial will walk you through creating a spine label layout in Koha. As always, if you have an idea for a video, please just let me know and I’ll add it to my list of things to record.

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28 November 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Disabling Holds in Koha

As a library patron I love the idea of being able to place holds, but some libraries don’t have the resources to handle holds and want to disable holds in Koha. This video tutorial will walk you through disabling holds in Koha 3.2 and later. As always, if you have an idea for a video, [...]

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25 November 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Another Koha Trademark Update

Earlier today I posted more of the bibliography on the Koha trademark dispute, but I guess I didn’t search well enough because I just found several more articles/blog posts/radio broadcasts that I had missed. So here’s another update for you all. Just like before these (and all the others I’ve posted) are in the Zotero [...]

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25 November 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Update on Koha Trademark Dispute

I posted a bibliography of the news covering the dispute over the Koha trademark a couple days ago. Since there we have been kept up to date via various sources (including Jo herself). Here’s a few more articles that I’ve added to the bibliography and you can see the entire thing on Zotero here. Anderson, [...]

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23 November 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Koha Trademark Dispute

Yesterday I posted Jo’s plea for help and today I woke to find that the news had exploded!! I don’t think I found it all, but here’s the bibliography so far: Bledsoe, Elliott. “American company is trying to yank a trade mark from an open source community.” elliott bledsoe web edition, November 22, 2011. http://elliottbledsoe.com/2011/11/keep-koha-trademark-open-source/. [...]

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22 November 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust

The following was originally posted on the official Koha site by Joann Ransom, but I thought I should share it with you all here as well given my belief and support of open source and specifically the Koha project. Horowhenua Library Trust is the birth place of Koha and the longest serving member of the [...]

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21 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Short Koha OPAC Video

For the second in our series of training videos, here’s a brief OPAC overview. As always, if you have an idea for a video, please just let me know and I’ll add it to my list of things to record.

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14 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Intro to Koha Video

Lately I have been recording a series of tutorial videos on Koha. I’m going to be sharing them here, one per week – and here’s the first in the series: If you have an idea for a video, please just let me know and I’ll add it to my list of things to record.

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10 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Koha Tutorial Video Series

I know I’ve been absent for a while, but that’s not because I haven’t been working, it’s because all my efforts have been going in to Koha documentation and training. For that reason I’ve decided to share my Koha tutorial video series with you all! Each week I’ll have a new (to this site) tutorial [...]

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27 April 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Open Source Runs the Web

When I teach open source I always talk about how the web is powered by open source, this awesome infographic gives us a nice visualization of that fact! Read the full post for more info.

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