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Category Archives: Koha
Paralysed Perl Package Problem
With any luck, someone has seen this problem before and can fix it easily. I don’t seem to be able to find the fix by searching, but the search terms feel like they’re either too general or too specific. I … Continue reading
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Welcoming a helping hand
I’ve added the lovely k’s Helping Hand to Koha Community Blogs. I’m particularly pleased to see a site combining both Koha and Drupal, two of my current favourites. A bit more about the background to the site is over at … Continue reading
KohaCon 2009
KohaCon 2009, the conference for the premier free software integrated library system (Koha) will be held in Plano, Texas, USA on 16-17 April 2009. This is a FREE conference. There is no registration fee, but we are requesting that all … Continue reading
What’s an Interest Group? An Association? A Foundation?
I thought that Koha: Users and Developers of Open Source (KUDOS) and Koha Libre Association (KohaLA) were both Koha Interest Groups, but Nicole’s post about ALA Midwinter makes me think I’ve got it wrong: “KUDOS (KOHA Users and Developers of … Continue reading
OCLC Library Data-grab Policy Countdown
There’s now about a month until the privatisation of library data described in Libraries, Cooperatives, OCLC and TTLLP happens. There’s now a Thingology Blog series on Why libraries must reject the OCLC Policy, with a list of four actions at … Continue reading
Posted in Koha
Tagged cooperatives, creative commons, data licensing, free and open source software, Koha, oclc
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Libraries, Cooperatives, OCLC and TTLLP
Thanks to Koha, TTLLP is partly a library services worker cooperative and just now there’s a massive flame-storm about the largest library services consumer cooperative – OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center – because it just updated the terms for … Continue reading
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Tagged cooperatives, creative commons, data licensing, free and open source software, Koha, oclc
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Library Open Source Webinars (FYI/RFC)
Today is the first of the Library Open Source Webinars run by WiLS. It takes place in a few hours (2pm CST, which I think is 14:00:00-0600, or 20:00:00Z) and costs USD25 per session or USD100 for all six. Future … Continue reading
Posted in Drupal, Koha, Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged libraries, open source, phone, standard browser, video, webinar, windows media
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Recent Events: London LinuxExpo, Toronto Free Software and Open Source Symposium, Public Sector Online, Get Online Day, the Global Financial Crisis, c&binet
Today’s the last day for the Gov.UK Consultation on Forced ISP Snooping: Please Say NO. I didn’t get to LinuxExpo, partly because of Monday Machine-Mangling Madness but I saw LinuxExpo 2008 — Robert Castelo from the Drupal point-of-view. I also … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives, Drupal, Koha
Tagged cooperatives, Drupal, get online day, government, ica, linuxexpo, london
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Dot-coop Domain Renewal Hell
Without emailing us in advance, UK.domains.coop just expired our software.coop domain on 29 October instead of 5 November. When I looked at the renewal option in the control panel, the fees have increased by about 30% since last year. I … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives, Koha, ThePhoneCoop
Tagged cooperatives, domain registration, dot-coop, service, software.coop, support
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You Wait Ages for a Survey…
As well as my little What topics do you want to read here? survey, there’s a more serious Free/Open Source Participant Satisfaction Survey by Brenda Chawner for the Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand which you might like to answer. … Continue reading