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Should password be mandatory to send ACCTDETAILS notice
by BOUIS Sonia 14 Apr '19

14 Apr '19

Hello, We wanted to send notices to our new external patrons using ACCDETAILS notice but, we have seen that in members/memberentry.pl, there's a checking to be sure there's a password for the patron. We don't use the password (this field is in the "BorrowerUnwantedField" system preference in our Koha) because we send our patrons in the university directory with a specific password not created in Koha. We would like to use the ACCTDETAILS notices to send our new patron a summary of the services provided by the library and to explain how they could connect to their account or how to change their password. We don't want to send them the password by email. Do you see a reason to keep checking if there's a password in memberentry.pl or do you think we could remove it? Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Cheers Sonia BOUIS ------------------------------------------------------ Responsable du Service des applications documentaires Bibliothèques universitaires Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 ADRESSE GÉOGRAPHIQUE > Manufacture des Tabacs | 6 cours Albert Thomas | LYON 8e ADRESSE POSTALE > Bibliothèque de la Manufacture | 1C avenue des Frères Lumière | CS 78242 - 69372 LYON CEDEX 08 Ligne directe : 33 (0)4 78 78 79 03 http://bu.univ-lyon3.fr<http://bu.univ-lyon3.fr/>| Suivez-nous > Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/bulyon3/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/bulyon3>| Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/bu.lyon3/?hl=fr> --------------------------------------------------- L'Université Jean Moulin est membre de l'Université de Lyon

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Pakistan Kohacon19 2nd Intentional Conference
by FullStack Solutions 12 Apr '19

12 Apr '19

On behalf of the Organizing and Advisory Committee we take great pleasure in welcoming IT professional, Librarian, Information Specialist, to *Islamabad*, *Pakistan* for the *“2nd International Conference on Koha and other Open Source Software” *conference to foster the progress in the field by contributing with your expertise to what promises to be a very comprehensive and exciting meeting, and to enjoy the immense unique artistic heritage and wonderful landscape of *Islamabad.* *“2nd International Conference on Koha and other Open Source Software”**,* which will be held April 26-27 ,*2019 at National Library of Pakistan Islamabad, *is now an established event, attracting global participant’s intent on sharing, exchanging and exploring new avenues of Koha and other Open Source Software and related research and latest developments. The event will have 5-6 world level (Highly cited class) plenary speakers, established Keynote speakers, active Invited speakers and fresh contributed speakers. In addition, variety of poster presentations along with workshops and special sessions would be interested in audience. Progress in Open Source Technologies is always linked to the progress and welfare of human civilization. Future advances in multiple fields of science and engineering critically depends on the availability of superior materials. The aim of the Open Source Technologies is to promote quality research and real-world impact in an atmosphere of true international cooperation between scientists and engineers by bringing together again the world class researchers, International Communities and Industrial heads to discuss the latest developments and innovations in the fields of* Open Source Technologies * We sincerely hope that *KohaconPaksitan-2019* serves as an international platform for meeting researchers from around the world, widen professional contact and create new opportunities, including establishing new collaborations. We are looking forward to seeing you at *KohaconPaksitan**-2019** in Islamabad, Pakistan. For details related to the conference i.e International Speakers, Registrations and others important Information please visit the Koha Pakistan Website link below: * *www.Kohapakistan.org <http://www.Kohapakistan.org>* *Regards* *Sher Afzal Khan* *President/Founder Koha Pakistan* *Conference Secretary* Email: kohapaksitan(a)gmail.com web: www.kohapakistan.org

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Advice for restricting loans from 3M self-check
by Mason James 12 Apr '19

12 Apr '19

hi folks does anyone have any advice for restricting some Koha item-types from being circulated (issued/returned) via a 3M self-check machine, but!... still allow the item-type to be circulated via Koha'a staff-admin interface? it seems it might be possible using a specific 'sip_media_type' value for an item-type does anyone else have a similar situation? thanks, Mason

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Roles for 19.11 now open
by Renvoize, Martin 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Hi everyone, The role proposals page for the upcoming 19.11 development cycle is now available at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_19.11 and we'd love to see some new names on the volunteers' list. The vote on roles will be held at the next irc general meeting and descriptions of what the roles entail can be found here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles . Roles to draw your attention to: * Bug Wranglers - We can always do with more bug wranglers! These people love to keep things tidy and Bugzilla is always in need of your help. We need people to help manage 'the list', identifying the duplicates, promoting bugs to specialists and finding people to do signoffs and testing. Everyone is invited to this party, we need you! * Documentation Team - The documentation team is a growing team that's made great inroads into bringing Koha's documentation up to date and ensuring we have a really well-documented piece of software. There's plenty more to do and they're always on the lookout for new contributors. * Wiki Curators - Koha's wiki is bursting at the seams with good information, but we need your help to bring order to the chaos and keep improving the content. If you've got an interest in maintaining an area of the Wiki, helping identify out of date information or categorizing data then this is a job for you. * Quality Assurance Team - This vitally important team is always looking for new recruits! If you've got an eye for detail, or you're a tester who likes rolling up their sleeves a little bit and looking at how a piece of code works, then we'd love to hear from you. Again, there's always support available from 'the usual suspects' so don't shy away, why not make this your first cycle on the QA team and see how much fun it can be working with this important team. * Quality Assurance Topic Expert - Do you know one particular area of koha better than the rest? Are you the 'go to' guy (or gal) for SIP2, EDI, Acquisitions or another area of Koha? We'd like to hear from you too. You don't have to know the whole codebase to be a great QA Specialist, you're an expert in what you know and we always need more experts. Those are just a few highlights, please see the wiki page above for the full list. *Martin Renvoize* <https://www.ptfs-europe.com> Development Team Manager *Phone:* +44 (0) 1483 378728 *Mobile:* +44 (0) 7725 985 636 *Email:* martin.renvoize(a)ptfs-europe.com *Fax:* +44 (0) 800 756 6384 www.ptfs-europe.com Registered in the United Kingdom No. 06416372 VAT Reg No. 925 7211 30 The information contained in this email message may be privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this email message in error, please email the sender at info(a)ptfs-europe.com

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Plugins upgrade
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Hi all, I wanted to share something I added to the GOBI plugin I wrote. A while back we added an upgrade method for plugins, but there's no fixed way of handling it, it will just call the upgrade method if version doesn't match. So for the first time I used it, and wanted to share the results just in case - Someone finds it valuable for copy and paste - Someone has better ideas for enhancing this. The code: https://github.com/thekesolutions/koha-plugin-gobi/blob/master/Koha/Plugin/… Thanks for your feedback! -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (http://theke.io) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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Koha 19.05 dates
by Nick Clemens 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

Hi All, Sorry for the delay here, this release has snuck up on me a bit :-) Time flies when you are having fun. I looked at the calendar and realized that Kohacon falls when we would normally be releasing. After talking with a few others I have decided to release after Kohacon, so we have the time during the hackfest to clean up the release. My planned dates for the 19.05 release are: May 3 - Feature slush - no enhancement/new features that have not passed QA will be considered for release May 10 - Feature freeze - only bugfixes will pushed after this - 1st draft of release notes May 17 - String Freeze - 2nd draft of release notes May 30 - Release Let me know if there is any feedback or a need to adjust the dates. As always, thanks to all for helping. I know this will be another great release put together by our fabulous community. Thanks, Nick -- Nick Clemens ByWater Solutions bywatersolutions.com Phone: (888) 900-8944

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New OPAC design
by Paul Poulain 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

Kia ora, hoping you're all enjoying the new month starting, We (BibLibre) think that the default OPAC layout is not adapted to the youngest audience. That's why we've decided to create a new design for the OPAC, that will be soon submitted for inclusion in Koha 19.05. We really hope you'll enjoy this new design. We have set it on our demo instance, you can have a look here : https://demo.biblibre.com/ PS: our customers will have this design automatically set during the next update. -- Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] New OPAC design
by Elaine Bradtke 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Well golly, our test site used to be that colour! Elaine Bradtke VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society |http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 9:43 AM Michael Sutherland <sudrland(a)vt.edu> wrote: > Those colors are hideous. Did anyone think at all about accessibility? > You can't even read the yellow lettering on white because of the lack of > contrast. Perhaps this is a fine design for a younger audience (theme). > However, when considering a new design you should consider how individuals > with disabilities, such as color blindness, will be affected. (Color > blindness affects approximately 1 in 12 *men* (8%) and 1 in 200 women in > the world.) > > Unless the redesign is in jest. If that's the case, carry on. > > M. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > *Michael J. Sutherland* > University Libraries > Virginia Tech > sudrland(a)vt.edu | 540.231.9669 <+15402319669> | https://catalog.lib.vt.edu > > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 7:57 AM Paul Poulain <paul.poulain(a)biblibre.com> > wrote: > > > Kia ora, hoping you're all enjoying the new month starting, > > > > We (BibLibre) think that the default OPAC layout is not adapted to the > > youngest audience. That's why we've decided to create a new design for > > the OPAC, that will be soon submitted for inclusion in Koha 19.05. We > > really hope you'll enjoy this new design. > > > > We have set it on our demo instance, you can have a look here : > > https://demo.biblibre.com/ > > > > PS: our customers will have this design automatically set during the > > next update. > > > > -- > > Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner > > BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques > > BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >

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