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Chris Cormack and Alex Buckley on their way to the Helsinki harbour sea cruise with the white and green doomed Helsinki Cathedral in the background

KohaCon 2023 Day Two Highlights

Here are the highlights from KohaCon 2023, day two, brought to you from our team attending the event in Helsinki.

Inkeri Hakulinen from the National Library of Finland speaking on the huge Koha database that their Koha instance has.

KohaCon 2023 Day One Highlights

Here are the highlights from KohaCon 2023, day one, brought to you from our team attending the event in Helsinki.

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Release of Koha 23.05

Rōpu kohinga is delighted to join the Koha community in celebrating the release of Koha 23.05. This release contains 26 new features, 145 enhancements and 701 bug and security fixes.

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How to do recalls with Koha

The Catalyst Koha team is excited that Koha library software project introduced a built-in recalls feature in Koha 22.05, released in May 2022.

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Koha ERM module

Learn how to include electronic resources alongside physical collections in Koha with the ERM module.

Te Wainui Aleisha and Chris standing in front of Ko Maui Hangarau banner.

Catalyst at Ko Māui Hangarau

The Catalyst Koha team was honoured to participate in Ko Māui Hangarau – Porirua, Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) on 17 May 2022.

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How to do a stocktake with Koha

Keeping your Koha catalogue up to date with what’s actually on the shelves is easy using the dedicated Inventory tool. There are several different ways of using the tool.

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Fill your Koha with your files

You can access all types of resources through the library – books, magazines, journals, as well as electronic files. Koha provides a useful tool that allows libraries to upload their own electronic files. This tutorial aims to make the process more straig

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Release of Koha 21.11

The Catalyst Koha team is thrilled to celebrate the release of Koha 21.11. This release contains 4 new features, 196 enhancements and 388 bug and security fixes.

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My year so far: Koha and accessibility

Wainui Witika-Park Rōpū kohinga Developer at Catalyst, shares an update on her first year working on Koha and how she focuses on web accessibility in her role.

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Increasing clicks to your Koha

Aleisha Amohia, Rōpū kohinga Technical Lead at Catalyst shares tips for marketing Koha to your users and increasing traffic to your library site.