Category: Koha

Fiji Day 5 – User Training

Today we focused on more indepth user training, basically carrying on from
where we left off on Monday. So we got into the nitty gritty of cataloguing
including setting up frameworks and plugins.
The highlights of the day were the Diwali morning tea, with fantastic Indian
sweet and savoury tidbits to eat. Then for lunch Joan the Head Librarian
took me to a restaurant that does Fijian food. So I had Palusami with corned
beef, Dalo (taro), Coconda and some incredibly hot chili things.
It was a great lunch, filling and delicious.

Im writing this entry on the bus on the way to Nadi, im staying at the Tanoa
International Hotel there, mostly because it has free shuttles to the
airport so I wont have to get up to early tomorrow.
If they have internet there ill post this otherwise it will have to wait til
I get back to NZ.

Fiji Day 4 – Tech Day

Today we spent the day covering the tech side of Koha. The topics we covered
were

  • Installing Koha (2.2 and 2.4)
  • Back ups and other scheduled tasks
  • Preferences, Privileges, Issuing Rules
  • Customising Koha/Templating
  • Zebra
  • New Features, where now.
  • Loading data
  • Deployment scenarios – 2.2 and 2.4 and 3.0
  • Overview of data model 2.2 and 2.4 and 3.0

It was a pretty productive day we covered a lot but I think in a way that
wasnt information overload.
I’m back at the hotel now having a shower before we go out for Japanese food,
yes I know its weird thing that when you visit a country everyone there
wants to take you out for non-local food 🙂

Fiji – Day 3 – First day of training

Today I got up nice and early and had breakfast, then got in touch with one
of the Chris’s from USP and organised a ride, so I didnt have to try and
take the server in a taxi. After getting a tour of the library I powered the
server up and was most relieved that everything worked.
We then broke for morning tea, which was really good, they do a good latte
at the student cafe. We then worked out a bit of a plan of attack for the
remaining days and then had some fantastic and very cheap Indian food for
lunch.

That afternoon we got cracking on the business of demoing/presenting Koha. I
think there we about 18 people there with lots of questions. It went pretty
well was my impression, hopefully they felt the same. Tomorrow I talk mainly
with the techy people, which should be fun, ILS’s just arent that
complicated really so im not sure I can fill in a full day, but we’ll see.

Im back in the hotel now chilling out, 8.30am start tomorrow, so I will need
to be up by 7am.

Lianza all finished, now off to Fiji

Well the conference went really well I thought, there was a ton of interest in Koha, some pretty solid too. Russ’ talk seemed to have gone over really well too, he was getting lots of comments yesterday from people who had gone to his session. We have a tape of the talk (yes tape … yes I know .. tape??) so have to get the converted some a format thats used in this millenium.

Now I have a couple of days to get ready to head off to Fiji to run some training sessions. Which should be fun, and warm.

Last day of Lianza conference today

Russ and I are about to explode if we here anything 2.0 again, web 2.0, library 2.0 especially.
I won’t even start on a rant about how lame they are, because then id still be here a couple of hours later having missed my bus. The rest of the conference has been good and we have been getting quite a bit of interest. The 2.4 opac has turned a few heads alright.

People blogging about Koha

There have a been a few blog entries about Koha recently here are a few I’ve noticed.

I’m sure there are tons more, if you know of any, let me know.