Author: <span>Vinod Kumar Mishra</span>

Author: Vinod Kumar Mishra

Missing Regional/Local Language Search Configuration in Koha ILMS

NEP2020 emphasizes the importance of education in regional languages, and the Government of India is actively promoting the translation and writing of books in these languages. This initiative holds great potential for libraries to diversify their collections by incorporating materials in multiple languages. However, the existing Online Public Access Catalogue …

Guide to Generating Electronic Resource Usage Statistics in Koha: with example

The Koha community recently incorporated a new Electronic Resource Management module in Koha. Starting from version 23.11, the new “eUsage” feature has been introduced within this module. This functionality empowers librarians to promptly generate usage statistics reports without relying on third-party services from different publishers. Librarians will now have the …

PDF files Split, Extract, Merge, etc. with PDFsam Basic open-source software

Dear All Now a day’s, it is seen that for many of our day-to-day work, PDF files are required, or we are creating the pdf files. Sometimes we need to Split the large PDF files into multiple small files, but for this, we may require to buy commercial solutions. The …

Department wise “sort1” (issue+renew) statistics in date range with graph

Now a day’s there is always discussion about e-resources uses statistics which we used to provide based on the IPs (Overall institute), sometimes it is also asked department wise but it’s difficult to get because of IP-based access. Similarly, for print books, we can generally get transaction statistics for the …

Customization of Koha online purchase suggestion form

The majority of the libraries have their own book Indent/requisition form with local fields because of which it is very difficult to make standard online purchase suggestion form within the Library management software. The proprietary ILMS solution may cost a huge amount for the same but open source software gives …

Turnitin: Settings and Similarity Check

The current Turnitin Video demonstration explains how to create Class, Add assignments, Various settings of assignments and its relevance. An attempt has been made to clarify all the doubts and some complexity while checking the similarity with Turnitin software. You may Click here to view the video on YouTube by

Reservation/Hold of on shelves books due to Covid19

Dear AllIn General Library facilitates online reservation/hold on books which is already issued to some one but now due to Covid19 it is good idea to activated the feature to reserve/hold those books which is even available on shelves too. To view all the books on particular subject kept on …

Cataloguing of Online Video Lectures In MARC Format

Dear all, Sharing a small guide on how to catalogue Online Video Lectures recorded on a particular subject in academic institutions (Generally in India). Example: Installation of Koha 02 Lecture Video : (Installation of Ubuntu and Installation of Koha) Vinod Kumar Mishra Role: Instructor Department: Library and Information Science NIT …

Time to protect the Libraries not the Librarian’s?

Dear all, Recent few advertisements is an alarm for Not library professionals but existence of Libraries itself in future. IIIT Allahabad and IIT Kanpur appointing Assistant Registrar and Dy. Registrar in libraries and made library science related qualifications under essential or desirable. Seems the perception of libraries and librarian’s has …

Koha JSON public Report to HTML table conversion with table sorter functionality

Dear All, Koha provides facility to make your own reports through staff client and publish it public so that it can be viewed by anyone through web browser (URL). We have created new arrivals public report at NIT Rourkela at http://opac.nitrkl.ac.in/ and displayed in html table format too but its …