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Catalyst and University Canterbury use AI to better support students
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Keeping up with Kohacon20 – Episode 1
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Release of Koha 20.05
Jun 12, 2020, 8:09 PMThe Catalyst Koha team are delighted to celebrate the release of Koha 20.05.
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Mahara 20.04: Better support for large organisations
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It pays to stay local; Open procurement
May 6, 2020, 9:00 AMYou may be supporting your local cafés with takeaways and buying gifts from local artists – well this approach needs to be mirrored in our ICT industry.
Koha: Let the people read, for longer
Apr 1, 2020, 9:00 AMA feature has been quickly developed within Koha that allows libraries to update the due dates of items currently on loan, in bulk. Before this feature, due dates could only be batch extended from inside the database – now, librarians can do it themselves
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Koha: Taking your library online
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