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

Author: Vinod Kumar Mishra

Consortium for software management in libraries: an Idea !

Dear all, We have or had many consortium in libraries especially for periodicals procurement, but i do not understand why we do not understand the need of consortium for software management in libraries though many big government libraries are using similar software like Libsys, Koha, SOUL, Dspace, eprint, Joomla, ezproxy, …

Crowdfunding for Koha Online Purchase Suggesion

Dear all/Koha users, Contribution Closed Since Target Achieved As you know at present by default all the category of patrons can either place purchase suggestions or not via opac but many educational institutes only allow purchase suggestion by the faculty or some specific category of users. Similarly in public and …

NIT New Non-Teaching Staff Recruitment Rule2017 OR Slow Poison For Their Career??

Dear All, Degradation/De-motivation of Staff and Expecting world class Institute/Developed India?? Recent approval/orders of new recruitment rules for non-teaching staff in NIT system is very surprising, the entire recent rule indicate it has been made by those people who has no experience of such cadre or did not consulted with …

Setting of Printer to print the check out slip in Koha

Dear All I noticed due to recent upgrade of Firefox (57.0) Add-on “JSPrintSetup” as sated at Koha wiki is not working because of some compatibility related issues. Hence you may once try the instruction given at another link of Koha wiki. I have followed the above second option/link and found its …

Migration from Libsys to Koha along with RFID @ NIT Rourkela

Dear All, Many times question is asked by many professionals why NIT Rourkela did not implemented Koha in their library till date? though we helped many in this regard. Please find here the update. NIT Rourkela from 17th May, 2017 fully migrated from Libsys along with old RFID devices and …

Mega Library Event at BHU, Varanasi

Dear All, There are two mega events going to be organized at Banaras Hindu University from 6th to 9th November, 2017. 1. First BHU LIS Alumni Meet 2. IASLIC 2017 Conference Hope many of library professionals from all India will take active part in above two mega events and establish …

Experience With Koha Re-Implementation at IGKV, Raipur

Dear All, It was wonderful learning experience of Koha Up-gradation/Re-Implementation at IGKV, Raipur. Koha was implemented, customized and maintained by OpenLx technologies as per credit note in the Koha 3.12. But library was struggling to use its full feature due to training, management or other issues. It was installed on …