Kohacon10

Kohacon

UK

MJ Ray

Koha: A Cooperative View

software.coop

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4255

• overview of cooperatives (since 1493!)
• Shared Commitment * (Common Interest + Mutual Trust) = Cooperation

France

Lee Phillips

Ask a Librarian: Why I Love Koha

Butte-Silver Bow Public Library

Paul Poulain

Koha

BibLibre

A Brief History

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4266

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4222

http://bywatersolutions.blip.tv/file/4295349/

• video of librarians saying what they love about using Koha

Nicole Engard

Bywater Solutions

Koha: Participation is Key

http://www.slideshare.net/nengard/koha-con10-participation

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4276

• Koha was born out of one library's dream, but lives by the hands of the community
• you are the community
• jump right in

USA

George Oates

Open Library

Open Library and Koha Sitting in a Tree

http://www.slideshare.net/george08/kohacon-2010

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4285

• overview of Internet Archive and Open Library
• data in; activity; data out
• cool things they do with bibliographic data
• getting data out of Open Library and into Koha

Farasat Shafi Ullah

National University of Science and Technology

From LAMP to Koha

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4280

• transition from "Library Automation and Management Project" to Koha
• lots of exporting and importing (but new features well worth it)
• PakLAG has written several local customisations

Pakistan

Nigeria

Olugbenga Adara

Koha Uptake in Nigeria

Projektlink Konsult

Prospects and Challenges

http://www.slideshare.net/gbengaadara/koha-uptake-innigeria-5565325

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4229

• unreliable power and internet
• <20% of libraries have ILS
• (at least) 13 Koha users

Malaysia

Amzari Abu Bakar

Universiti Teknologi MARA

The Efforts of Promoting Koha ILS: The Malaysian Experience

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4274

• 2005-2008: 3 Koha libraries
• 2009 onwards: over 100 Koha libraries! (including 8 academic libraries)

Australia

Bob Birchall

Koha Governance

CALYX

Observations and options

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4234

http://www.slideshare.net/BobatCalyx/koha-con10-presentationbb17oct10

• governance is not management
• comparison of different FOSS projects

Sue Lavery

Alexander Machonochie Centre

It is not the code that is locked

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4270

Irma Birchall

CALYX

10

• prisons are challenging environments for librarians
• also a challenge for trainers

Mark Osborne

Albany Senior High School

Koha @ ASHS

http://bit.ly/ashskoha

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4261

• "without sharing there is no education"
• able to achieve a lot (easily) with Koha

David Friggens

University of Waikato

Library Data for Fun and Profit

http://prezi.com/mwjky7gmsazv/

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4248

• lots of library data at our fingertips
• lots of interesting ideas on how to utilise it
• will you consider releasing your data?

New Zealand

Rosalie Blake

Keynote

Horowhenua Library Trust

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4218

• prehistory of Koha
• e iti noa ana na te aroha - a small gift given in love

Walter McGinnis

Katipo

Stuart Yeates

Kete and Koha: Integration built on Open Standards

NZ Electronic Text Centre

Victoria University of Wellington

eBooks:

Why they break ISBNs

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4227

http://www.slideshare.net/mcginniwa/kohacon10-kete-and-koha-integration-built-on-open-standards

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4252

http://www.slideshare.net/stuartayeates/koha2

• several ways to combine Kete and Koha search results
• open standards make it very easy

http://www.nzetc.org

• ISBNs very broken for ebooks
• use URIs for identifiers?

Chris Cormack

Andrew Caudwell

Catalyst IT

Ten Years in Ten Minutes

a visualisation of ten years of Koha coding

http://code.google.com/p/gource/

Wellington

François Marier

Freedom in the Library

Catalyst IT

convincing your boss that sharing is good

http://www.flickr.com/photos/noizyboy/4069391/

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4263

Speaker photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/kohacon10/

http://www.slideshare.net/fmarier/kohacon10-francoismarier

• proprietary software has anti-features
• Free Software gives you four freedoms

Chris Cormack

What's New in Koha 3.4?

Catalyst IT

Don Christie

Catalyst IT

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4243

Promoting Free Software in Libraries

• long list of plans
• going to try a time-based release schedule

http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4283

• learned helplessness using proprietary software
• MyKoha software as a service
• Launch of Open Network Libraries

http://onl.org.nz