8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

The Long and Winding Road to Open Sharing in Northeast Kansas – Keynote address

Jim Minges (Minges & Associates Consultants) & Liz Rea (ByWater Solutions) 

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Elevating ILL with some Rapid Improvement
Find out how the new pioneering Koha integration with ExLibris’ RapidILL service can help your users confidently create and place RapidILL interlibrary loan requests.

Andrew Isherwood (PTFS Europe), David Peacock (University of Hertfordshire)

10:15 PM – 10:45 PM

Level up the Library Community with Koha via RAFLIMTS
The presentation will talk about the trend of informal learning via YouTube in librarians for Koha and present an analysis of Koha video tutorials by RAFLIMTS that has informally educated and leveled up over 0.2 million librarians on the Koha library system with 98 percent likes on YouTube. Moreover, respond to every comment with a heart and provide commandlines, scripts, templates, etc. The analysis will show how a channel brings positive changes in professionals’ life. RAFLIMTS uploaded 85 videos in total. Of those, 38 are about the Koha installation, administration, global system preferences, tools, reports, interface design, backup, etc.

Furrukh Hussain Zai (Pakistan Library Association & RAFLIMTS)

10:45 AM – 11:45 AM

Designing a Patron Empowering OPAC
Lucas Gass and Jessica Zairo will explore some of the ways you can design the Koha OPAC to customize your interface, personalize your library brand and give your community exactly what they want. Accessibility/discoverability plays an important role in making sure your patrons can find what they are looking for. We will highlight Koha examples that have integrated features that have enhanced the users experience in the OPAC.

Jessie Zairo & Lucas Gass (ByWater Solutions)

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Adoption, Implementation and Data Migration: Lagos State University Library Experience
KOHA Adoption, Implementation and Data Migration: Lagos State University Library Experience The study explores the adoption, implementation and data migration of Koha Integrated Library System (ILS) by both library staff and users at the Lagos State University Library. The University was using commercial software before adopting Koha. The study adopted a survey design, using questionnaire as the instrument for gathering of data, to sample user’s opinion on the software utilization and general perception, and also to evaluate level of satisfaction of library staffs. A total of 37 library staff and 207 (undergraduate and post-graduate) students participated in the study. The data collected were analyzed using simple percentage tables. The data analysis revealed that its excellent features have made it popular and continues to receive improvement and upgrade by the library patrons. It has also increased the use of OPAC by library patrons in searching for library resources from any comfort zone. Library staff rated high the performance of the cataloguing, circulation, patron and OPAC modules of Koha. The findings also revealed that the level of satisfaction and utilization by library staff were very high due to its friendly interface. It concludes by proffering solutions to the observed problems like staff training and retraining on software design and networking, fostering synergy with some units of the universities such as Information and Communication Technology (I.C.T.) Unit of the university for the purpose of strengthening the system.

Adegoroye Adebola Oluwamayokun (Lagos State University)

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Koha Implementation in GHQ central Library
Koha implementation an experience from Pakistan.

Sher Afzal Khan (Koha Pakistan)

Assessing and Improving Koha Performance
Discussing tools and tricks for Koha developers to both assess and improve Koha’s responsiveness.

Nick Clemens (ByWater Solutions)

Koha and Open Source at the King’s Fund Library
In 2009 the King’s Fund Library became one of the first UK libraries to move to Koha, which empowered and emboldened us to implement a range of open source solutions in the following years, allowing a small health Library to punch above it’s weight. This presentation will describe how we have used open source software to innovate and thrive in a generally risk-averse organizational environment. It will touch on our contribution to the Koha community in the UK, software developed in-house using the LAMP stack, and our use of other open source software and engagement with other communities such as Samvera.

Matthew Hale (The King’s Fund)

Twilio – Enhancing Patron Communication
You may have heard about Twilio, but what is it really? We’ll share our experience in setting up this service, and what kinds of things you can do beyond basic notifications.

Christopher Brannon (Coeur d’Alene Public Library / Cooperative Information Network)

For a region that reads and writes. The RedLEI virtual library: Fundamental support resource for research, training and knowledge mobilization in early literacy in Central America and the Caribbean.
The RedLEi Virtual Library provides access to updated and contextualized information on Education and initial literacy in the Central American and Caribbean region. It is a space to promote knowledge, the use of multimedia tools, training of education professionals and the dissemination of evidence on the learning of initial literacy in the region.

Mariela Zelada (Red para la Lectoescritura Inicial de Centroamérica y el Caribe (RedLEI))

Open Source Software as Free Culture
This presentation links and contrasts free and open source software (FOSS) including Koha, with open access (OA) publishing. Library workers broadly accept the values and principles of OA, with many of us both advocating and practically facilitating OA in our work; however the same is however not true of FOSS where we see reticence and a relative lack of bold and ambitious action. The reasons for this, and practical routes to overcome these challenges will be explored. The experience of University of West London Library Services will provide a case study in how our strategic planning can reflect free culture beyond OA, and strategically link OA and FOSS in professional practice.

Andrew Preater & Tundun Folami (University of West London)

A Fine-Free Koha Build
Going fine-free in Koha is not just turning off fines. Hear about one library’s journey to balance patron accountability and ease of access.

Michael Spagnuolo (North Richland Hills Library)

Redesigning Coverflow: Enhancing the User Experience
Take Coverflow to the next level! Learn how we modernized the display of our OPAC with the goals of improved patron discovery and increased circulation.

Barbara Glassford Johnson (Bedford Public Library)

Coffee & SIGs (Special Interest Groups)
Grab some coffee and listen as the koha-US Special Interest Group leaders talk about their experience and challenges with their groups.

SIG Leaders

Displays Revisited: Streamlining Workflows with the Course Reserves Module
Displays are a key tool in marketing a library’s collection. In the absence of a true displays management module, this session revisits the idea of using Course Reserves to manage items on display, leveling up both the staff and patron experiences.

Jason Robb (Southeast Kansas Library System)

Leveling Up with Plugins
Power up Koha with Plugins! Learn why plugins exist, how they are created, and how to use them!

Kelly McElligott & Donna Bachowski (ByWater Solutions)

Metabase: Next Level Data Visualization
Join us as we talk about how we used Metabase to streamline and increase the quality of our data visualization.

Justin Laake (McKinney Public Library System)

Funding QA and Joint Development

Brendan Gallagher (ByWater Solutions), Paul Poulain (BibLibre), Andrew Auld (PTFS Europe Limited), Jonathan Field (PTFS Europe Limited), and Nate Curulla (ByWater Solutions)

Saving Kittens and Supporting Koha
Koha is strengthened by its ever-growing global community. Each year in Wellington, New Zealand, Catalyst IT guides a group of high school students to make their first contributions to an open source project, and thereby inducting the newest Koha developers. This is facilitated through the Catalyst Open Source Academy, a two-week programme for high school students to learn all things open source. This presentation will share highlights and insights from the Academy over the years, and how young people in New Zealand are ‘saving kittens’ and levelling up Koha at the same time.

Aleisha Amohia (Catalyst IT New Zealand)

Implementation and Use of Koha ILMS at KCW Sidhwan Khurd: A case study

Dr. Mahipal Dutt (Khalsa College for Women Sidhwan Khurd)

Open to Everyone – Getting Involved in the Koha Community

Jessie Zairo, Kelly McElligott, Nick Clemens (ByWater Solutions)

Koha – Advancing into Electronic Resources Management (ERM)
Koha is a world class library system for print books but has historically never fully supported electronic resources. The introduction of an Electronic Resource Management module for Koha elevates Koha from a traditional ILS to a Library Services Platform (LSP). Jonathan will detail some of the development which has been taking place to introduce new areas for e-holdings, agreements and licenses.”

Jonathan Field (PTFS Europe Limited)

From csv to mrc: Converting Your Spreadsheet into MARC Records
Are your library’s bibliographic records stored in a spreadsheet? Does dealing with them feel like herding cats? Let us show you some simple tools to standardize your cat records so you can import data that are easier to search/filter in Koha.

Fred King (MedStar Washington Hospital Center), Lauren Denny (Teamwork Library Consortium)

Cataloging SIG discussion

Heather Hernandez (San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center)

Acquisitions SIG discussion

Rhonda Kuiper (Round Rock Public Library)

How Koha is the Best ILS

Sunita Pareek (Poornima University)

Train the Trainer – Keeping your Staff Up-To-Date with Koha

Jessie Zairo, Kelly McElligott (ByWater Solutions)

Build Cool and Insightful Visualizations with your Koha Data

Raymond Bryson (Montgomery County Public Libraries (MD) – MCPL)

Sys Admin & Web Dev SIG discussion

Jason Robb (Southeast Kansas Library System), Lucas Gass (ByWater Solutions)

Consortia SIG discussion

Bob Bennhoff (Colorado Library Consortium)