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✨ Aujourd’hui, nos logiciels ont décidé de briller, sauter et se transformer ! ✨
• BibLibre → LibFree 📚
• Koha → Coa 🐸
• Bokeh → Halo ✨
• NumaHOP → NumahopLA 🪄
• Omeka → Omekano 🔧
• Planno → Planorama 🏔️
Mêmes noms ou presque… mais toujours la même passion pour les bibliothèques et l’open source !
Merci d’avoir sauté, cligné des yeux ou illuminé votre journée avec nous 😄
#PoissonDAvril #BibLibre #LogicielsLibres #Koha #KohaILS #Bokeh #BokehPortail #NumaHOP #OmekaS #Omekalia #Planno

📢 SAUT SPECTACULAIRE !
Koha fait un petit bond de côté pour la journée et devient ➡️ Coa 🐸
Quoi ?! Mais pourquoi ?!
👉 Parce que “Koha”, c’est bien
👉 “Coa”, c’est presque pareil et c’était vraiment trop tentant pour ne pas sauter dessus !
Rassurez-vous: toujours le même SIGB performant, la même communauté et les mêmes valeurs open source
Prochaine étape: vérifier si quelqu’un remarque la différence ou si tout le monde croasse avec nous !
#PoissonDAvril #BibLibre #LogicielsLibres #Koha #SIGB

My report on the #Koha Hackfest 2026 in Marseille #Perl https://domm.plix.at/perl/2026_03_koha_hackfest.html

My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt …

I am looking for a self-hostable web based application to be an inventory of the (real, rather than e-) #books in the house. It should be able to accept a list of #ISBNs as input for importing items and look them up (with covers) to ingest their metadata.

It doesn't need #library style circulation (I don't want to run a library so don't want #Koha or equivalent)

I've been using #HomeBox which is ok but only understands "things" rather than "books" (I've written a isbn2homebox script to make that easier). I'd like something purpose designed for books though.

Does anyone use anything like this? There are plenty of free or subscription things available online, but I want to run this myself.

Thanks ☺️

#selfhosting #inventory

@liw @anotherdream @biblibre @KohaILS

that would be good, in the context of #Koha it's probably possible to go back through newsletters and such and build a chronology. So much of is/was public and should still be accessible. But that's only part of the basis of a history.

Oh and I forgot that @ranginui is here too, he'll definitely be able to say more if he's active.

@liw @anotherdream Hi Lars! So, it's been a while and I'm hazy on the specifics that you mention.

The background is that the company (who I'll call LibLime and later PTFS because those were their names) had shifted from reasonably good-faith-behaving within the community, to withdrawing from it and saying "ours now!" and it came to a head over the NZ trademark.

I know there was a lot of digging into historic claims that had been made by LibLime/PTFS about how they wouldn't do the sort of thing they're doing, and also things relevant to the trademark itself, such as how often is "Koha" (the name of the software and the trademark in dispute) associated with LibLime vs. other things, etc. But like I said, my memory of the specifics is hazy.

It was interesting, I attended the trademark hearing (it was walking distance from the office), and the lawyers on our side put out all the arguments they could find, as they should. The lawyers from their side didn't show up, if memory serves. I remember listening and thinking that this one sounds like a solid point, and this other one sounds a bit shaky. When the verdict was published, my intuition was pretty much exactly backwards about what was a good argument and what wasn't.

There are a few #Koha people around here who can no doubt chip in with more concrete information, for example @biblibre and @KohaILS

As an aside, if you go to koha.org it still redirects to liblime.org where they're selling their - probably Koha based - LMS called Bibliovation™, which sounds dangerously close to "bloviation".

#bsd and/or #koha folks - has anyone got Koha running on FreeBSD? I'm thinking to replace multiple small very old boxes with one big refurbished server (maybe an R640?) running FreeBSD with jails, but I need both Nextcloud and Koha to run with minimal effort.

Any comments? Is this madness?

@KohaILS

RE: https://social.kit.edu/@KIT_Bibliothek/116056385736637808

➡️ Submission deadline: 14 March 2026!

#Koha #KohaCon26 #kitbibliotheksud

Patched Koha so patrons can add a text note when creating an ILL https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=40105 an obvious need for us, to support asks like "any format will do", "I need this specific edition", etc. Patrons could add notes _after an ILL was requested_ (though it's not very intuitive how) but due to the way the backend worked you couldn't hack a notes field onto the creation form. Very happy to add this feature and another example of how do it yourself OSS wins. #koha #ils #opensource

Call for Presentations — KohaCon26 is open!
We’re excited to announce that the Call for Presentations for KohaCon26 is now open!

Got a great Koha project, tip, or story to share? We want to hear from you!

💬 Presentations, lightning talks & workshops are all welcome.

🗓️ Submit your proposal by 14 March 2026

🔗 Submit here: https://kohacon26.bibliothek.kit.edu/call-for-presentations/

Let’s make KohaCon26 inspiring, practical, and full of community spirit!

#KohaCon26 #Koha #OpenSource #Libraries #KohaILS #KIT #KITBibliothek

💻 La Direction des bibliothèques et de la Science ouverte d'Université Côté d'Azur a accueilli en mars le symposium Koha, pour la première fois à Nice en 2025 ! Des journées passionnantes pour échanger sur ce SIGB open source. Retrouvez les supports et captations ici : https://koha-fr.org/symposium-2025/

Merci à Mathieu Saby (@27point7) pour l'organisation !

#koha #sigb #opensource

Hankintalain muutosta kommentoivat nyt myös Oulun ja Turun kirjastopalvelujohtajat Kalevassa julkaistussa mielipidekirjoituksessaan:
https://www.kaleva.fi/hankintalain-muutos-on-vakava-uhka-suomen-yleisten/11762086

#kirjastoala #kirjastot #hankintalaki #koha

@hpiirai Kiitos, tämä oli hyvä nosto. Kirjoitus varmaan tiivistää aika monen kirjaston näkemyksen. En näe, että ehdotettu hankintalaki tässä tuo sellaisia säästöjä tai järkevää kilpailua, mitä lailla on sanottu tavoiteltavan.

Yksi pointti tässä kirjoituksessa tosin jäi vielä vähän sivuun. Avoimessa lähdekoodissa #kirjastot omistavat oman datansa, ja pystyvät hyödyntämään sitä helposti. Suljettujen järjestelmien aikaan data pysyi hyvin tiiviisti ohjelman sisällä.

#kirjastoala #Koha

Kohacon2025 in New Zealand 😀

Kohacon 2025 will be held in New Zealand from 17 to 23 November.
New Zealand is the birthplace of Koha, which was created 25 years ago. The first version went into production at HLT on 1 January 2000, and since then, the baby has grown up, with Koha now being the most widely used ILS in the world!

#Koha #ILS #KohaILS Kohacon #BibLibreEN

Today I nearly posted questions to the #Koha chat (twice), but while writing the question (and looking at the code) I found the solution on my own :-)

🎉 Heute vor 10 Jahren hat die BBF gemeinsam mit dem Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (#BSZ) rund 1 Million Datensätze aus ihrem alten Bibliothekssystem in das #OpenSource-System #Koha migriert.
Die Software wird seither sehr erfolgreich eingesetzt: der Datenbestand ist inzwischen auf 1,5 Millionen Datensätze angewachsen.
Das ist uns einen Geburtstagskuchen 🎂 wert. Herzlichen Dank an alle Beteiligten!!!👏 🥰

#Bibliothek #OpenSource #Jubiläum @KohaILS @dipf_aktuell

Certains se demandent pourquoi BibLibre pousse le SaaS et ne veut plus de contrats "on premise" pour Koha. La réponse complète est ici : https://www.biblibre.com/fr/blog/biblibre-koha-le-mode-saas/
Bonne lecture !

#SaaS #Koha #BibLibreFR #SIGB

Some people are wondering why BibLibre is pushing SaaS and no longer wants “on premise” contracts for Koha. The full answer is here: https://www.biblibre.com/en/blog/biblibre-koha-saas-mod/
Enjoy your reading!

#Saasmod #Koha #KohaILS #BibLibreEN

Hah - looks like RNZ NineToNoon this morning (at 9:35), will be interviewing my former colleague Chris Cormack about #Koha (https://koha-community.org/) - the NZ-founded, world-leading #libre / #FOSS library management software. Cool!

Today, as an evening amusement, I fixed a very nast Bug in the #Koha test suite, that did not occure when running only the affected test file, but only when also running some other tests: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=39700

The root cause was a function returning a list, but the test calling the function in scalar context. Unfortunately a classic #Perl footgun :-(

Today I fought against AI bots that where scraping / DDoSing one of our customers library OPAC. The quick fix was to block all non-EU IP address. We don't have a good fix yet, but can draw on a lot of ideas that where discussed at #Koha Hackfest. #JohnConner

BibLibre était présent au symposium Koha 2025 à Nice 😀

Notre retour sur l'événement est disponible dans le billet ci-dessous 👇

https://www.biblibre.com/fr/blog/retour-sur-le-symposium-koha-2025/

#Koha #Kohala #Symposium #Nice

Mahdollinen ajatusleikki:

Jos Kansalliskirjastolla olisi oma Mastodon-instanssi, jossa tilit KK:lle yleisesti sekä keskeisille palveluille (Finna, E-kirjasto, Digi, Melinda, Julkaisuarkistot, Koha, FinELib, Finto, Annif/FintoAI...) viestintään ko. palveluihin liittyen (kuten X:ssä ollut) + sillattuna myös Blueskyn puolelle.

Seuraisitko näitä? Mitä niistä?

#Kansalliskirjasto #SuomiMastodon #Finna #EKirjasto #DigiKansalliskirjasto #Melinda #Julkaisuarkistot #Koha #FinELib #Finto #Annif #FintoAI

#Koha in French academic libraries network, by Sonia Bouis, in „o-bib. Das offene Bibliotheksjournal“.

„As Koha is the most used open source #LibraryManagementSystem (LMS) worldwide, the French case is just one among a lot of other examples.“ https://www.o-bib.de/bib/article/view/6088/9241 #france