Category: <span>Koha</span>

Category: Koha

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …