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Koha Cataloguing Made Easy: Create MARC Records with Gemini AI

 

Regional Languages Installation in Koha I Koha Translate in Local Language

 

Koha 25.11 Installation Step by Step 2026

 

Koha 25.11.00

 Koha 25.11.00 

Koha 25.11.00, released on 5 December 2025, is a major new version that introduces 3 significant new features along with 224 enhancements and 433 bug-fixes. Among the notable additions: staff and patrons can now place holds on “the first available item from a group of titles”; a new batch tool lets staff modify multiple holds at once; and hold-groups can be created from existing holds so that when one is filled the others are skipped until needed. The update also brings broad improvements across accessibility (e.g., semantic HTML5 tags and better color contrast), acquisitions (duplicate-checking new orders, improved EDIFACT/invoice visibility), and system architecture (unified FTP/SFTP file-transport management, polymorphic class support), further refining the overall user experience and maintainability.

https://koha-community.org/koha-25-11-00-is-here/

National Level Workshop on Koha

 National Level Workshop on Koha: An Open Source Integrated Library Management System 

Organised by Central Library Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning 

Vidhyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam, Puttaparthi – 515134 October 10 - 11, 2025

Registration 

ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE: Organising Secretary, Central Library, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL), Vidhyagiri, Puttaparthi – 515134. E-mail: centrallibrary@sssihl.edu.in In any emergency, please contact: +91-9664631017

 

Koha In Out Management System

 Good Morning to all

Mr. Omkar Kakeru developed a program with PHP for Koha i.e. Inout Management System. It is PHP application (plugin).  It’ll scan the barcode from the ID and log the entry time and exit time of the patrons. The patron data will be fetched from the Koha database.

There are two user interfaces. One is for the reading barcodes at the door. Another one is to access the reports. This system generates four type of reports. There are three users by default for administration. Master user can have eye on every location. And the other two users are for allotted locations. These data can be accessed from admin panel in various manner like date wise, time wise, number wise and more.

There is two types of installation procedure. Manual installation and GIT installation.

For Installation procedure visit https://writeride.com/how-to-install-in-out-management-system/

Package download link :  https://github.com/omkar2403/inout.git

Bulk Patrons Import in Koha I Bulk Users Import in Koha I

 

Cataloguing with Z39.50 in Koha I import Catalogue Data I In Telugu

 

How to Create Items in Koha I How to Add Items in Koha

 

Create Patron Category in Koha I Create Types of Users in Koha

 

Koha: How to Create a New Library and Group of Libraries

 

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Koha Live Dvd 16.05

KOHA Live Dvd (16.05)

  Latest version of Koha livedvd (16.05) on Ubuntu 14.04 can download through the following link . Please note that Koha has changed the version naming structure i.e. earlier it was like 3.18, 3.20, 3.22 but now its 16.05 almost the nomenclature is similar to Ubuntu versions.

Koha Livedvd : http://mishravk.com/2016/07/koha-livedvd16-05/

Information Courtesy: Vinod Kumar Mishara

Workshop on Koha

 National Workshop-cum-Training Program on Koha

Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation (Ministry of Culture), Govt. of India, Kolkata and Department of Library & Information Science, Mizoram University (Central University), Aizawl is jointly organizing a “National Workshop-cum-Training Program on Koha” which is scheduled to be held from 21^st June, 2016 – 23^rd June, 2016 under the North-East Region Program. The venue of the said workshop shall be the Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl.

 

Library and Information Science professionals (especially for faculties, librarians and other library professionals) working in any type of organisation or library in the North-East Region can participate in this workshop-cum-training program. Participant should be conversant with computer operations and also will get preference over others. Preference will be given to those who have their own personal laptop (with minimum 1 Gb RAM & 40 Gb Hard Disk). The number of participants shall be restricted to 30 only and selected participants shall be called for the workshop-cum-training program after submitting their registration form through proper channel. The preference will be given to North-East Library & Information Science professionals.

 

Selected participants both from North-East Region and other parts of the country shall be provided free fooding & lodging; to & fro second class train/sumo/bus fare. Registration fee will be charged Rs. 500/-. Scanned copy/image file or word file of registration form should submit electronically at kohamzu@gmail.com on or before 10^th June, 2016. The selected participants shall be intimated after 5^th June, 2016 via email and Mizoram University website also.

 

For more details regarding workshop and registration, please visit the Mizoram University website (http://www.mzu.edu.in/) or download the attachment enclosed here.

 

 

Workshop Coordinator Dr. Akhandanand Shukla Assistant Professor Department of Library & Information Science Mizoram University (A Central University) Tanhril, Aizawl – 796 004 Mobile: +91 97740 03221 Tele./Fax: 0389 - 2331608 Email: kohamzu@gmail.com

Koha ILS project changes version numbering

For almost 3+ years, Koha has been using the version 3.x. Every stable public release had an incrementally updated even number as “x” (i.e. 3.0, 3.2, 3.4… 3.18, 3.20, 3.22 et. al.). The internal development versions (used only by the developers) used the next odd number after the current stable release e.g. 3.21 was used when 3.20.x was the latest stable series.

All that is set to change with the new major version of Koha to be released in just a few days. We are going to align the time-based public releases to yy.mm format. So, the upcoming stable release will be numbered 16.05, and the one scheduled for November 2016 will be 16.11.

Source:http://blog.l2c2.co.in/index.php/2016/05/05/koha-ils-project-changes-version-numbering/

Workshop on Koha

3 Day National Workshop on Koha

From 20^th to 22^nd April,2016 

at NMIT, Bangalore

Organised by

Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore 

Resource Persons:

Prof. ARD Prasad, Head, DRTC, Bangalore

Mr. Gopalakrishna, Librarian, BMS Institute of Technology, Bangalore

Registration Fees of Rs.2000/- or Rs.2,500/- (with Accommodation) is to be paid by cash or Demand Draft / Cheque drawn on any nationalized bank in favour of ‘Principal, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology’payable at Bangalore & must reach the workshop coordinator before 16^thApril,2016

Plz visit the Institution website http://www.nmit.ac.in/news-events.php for more details.

Interested persons can confirm their participation by registering their details

online at http://goo.gl/forms/KtH7gWIQT1

Workshop brochure is attached herewith.

Address for further Communication:

Mr. K.C.Gangadhar

Workshop Coordinator

Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology

Yelahanka, Bangalore-560 064

Email : library@nmit.ac.in; gangadhar67@yahoo.com

Liblive DVD 1.6 Released

LIBLIVEDVD 1.6 Released

Liblivedvd 1.6 released on 04-12-2015. It includes Lubuntu 14.04.3, DSpace 5.4, Koha 3.20 and Drupal 7.41.

It can download at :http://sourceforge.net/projects/liblivecd/

 

Koha 3.18 Video Turorials

Koha 3.18 Video Tutorials

• Patron Management in the Koha 3.18 Public Catalog 

• Acquisitions Basics in Koha 3.18

• Public Catalog Searching in Koha 3.18

• What's new in Circulation in Koha 3.18 

• Managing Holds in Koha 3.18

• Course Reserves in Koha 3.18

• What's New in Notices in Koha 3.18

• Circulation Setup in Koha 3.18

• Catalog Basics in Koha 3.18

• Searching in the Staff Client in Koha 3.18

• Managing Budgets in Koha 3.18

• Budget Rollover in Koha 3.18

• Koha 3.18 Staff Client Introduction 

• Automatic renewal in koha 3.18  

• Evidence Based Collection Management with Koha

Excel to Koha Data Conversion

Data Conversion from Excel to Koha

— After generating the MS excel file from existing proprietary software , the next step was to convert the Ms excel file into MARC format that can be imported into Koha.

— To convert the Excel into MARC, the very efficient utility “MarcEdit” was used. MarcEdit is a free programme, which can do all sorts of cool stuffs with your Marc data.

First Step: Converting from Excel format into .mrk format

• —  First, we will convert excel format into .txt format. Screen shot excel file given below.

• —  Just open excel file then save as txt file. Screen shot of the txt file given below.

• —  Then, we will convert txt format into .mrk format. For this we will use MarcEdit.
• —  Now open it and select Add-ins-->Delimited Text Translator.
• —  Click Next when the following window appears.

• —  Locate your excel file by choosing the format Excel File(*.xls).
• —  Similarly, fill all the other entries such as Output File, Excel Sheet Name and check UTF-8 Encoded (if required) and Click Next.

• —  Now you will be prompted for mapping the fields to recognise the fields by standard marc format.
• —  You can customize Indicators and all other things.
• —  Similarly map all other fields and then Click on Finish.

Convert .mrk file to .mrc

• —  Next Select MarcMaker to convert .mrk file into .mrc format.

• —  Locate your input file and name your output file. Then Click Execute.
• —  And it will show you the Result.
• —  Finally we will import above created .mrc file into Koha.

Second Step: Data Migration to Koha:

• —  First login with Koha User ID and Password and get the main Interface of Koha. 

• —  Click on Tools in your Koha staff client
• —  Next Click on Stage MARC Records for Import 

• —  After this, choose your previously created .mrc file and click on Upload.
• —  You can also add comment about file and finally click on Stage For Import

• —  When the import is done, you will get a result something like this

• —  Next, click on Manage staged records.
• —  Here you can even change matching rules
• —  Click on Import this batch into catalog when you are done.

• —  After all the records get imported, check Status and it should read "imported“
• —  And within few minutes, we have imported all the records in Koha
• —  Now you can search the OPAC.

 

 Best of luck.