Tips

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Koha Tips �from Consortia and Large Libraries

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Easy Branch Location Limits

The OSL Team

Ocean State Libraries

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The Scoop on Library Groups

Bob Bennhoff

Colorado Library Consortium

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Pulling Koha up by Its Bootstraps

Jason Robb

Southeast Kansas Library System

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Easy Transport Cost Matrix

The OSL Team

Ocean State Libraries

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Hidden Gems: Report Edition

Valerie Burnett

ByWater Solutions

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LET’S

GO

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Branch Limits

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What do you get when you have:

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• 79 branches,
• 308 shelving locations,
• 147 item types, and
• 1,451 collection codes?!

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The Problem

1. Use SQL to add branch limits based on what people are using today.
2. Focus clean-up effort on shelving locations.
3. Create process to add new shelving locations.
4. Rinse and repeat for item types and collection codes.
5. Enjoy fewer data entry errors!

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Library Groups

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You have a consortia with multi branch districts

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The Problem

1. Libraries are independent and partitioned from patrons, but resource share
2. Districts can’t be partitioned and need to share patrons and edit items
3. Some materials are not shared outside of the district but are shared within district
4. It is nice to search by district
5. If we did floating collections, we could localize it

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Three Library Types Case Study

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Circulation Hold Rules Example

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Bootstrap

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You are spending too much time writing customizations and it still looks out of place when you’re done!

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See also: Accessibility, mobile responsiveness

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The Problem

What is Bootstrap?

What version does Koha use?

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A free and open-source CSS framework for front-end web development…

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…which means a way to keep your customizing consistent while also building new tools without starting fresh.

Koha was upgraded to bootstrap 5 in version 24.11 for both the staff interface and the OPAC.

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⚠️Tip: With Koha open, you can find the bootstrap script tag (do a Ctrl+F for bootstrap) and click it within the page source (Ctrl+U) to see the version currently in use

Components

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🌈Styling keywords 🌈

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How it works

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For simple things like alerts and badges, adding the component keyword and the styling keyword(s) as classes to an element will style them appropriately.

<div class='alert alert-warning' role='alert'><h4>Warning</h4>Trouble up ahead</div>

Koha example usage

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Tabs

Buttons

Badges

Resources, templates & shortcuts

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• Official documentation:�https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/getting-started/introduction/
• W3 schools:�https://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap5/bootstrap_get_started.php
• Breakneck bootstrap (custom component generator):�https://bootstrapr.io/bs5/index.html

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The Matrix

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How do you achieve better load balancing for systemwide holds with small, medium and large libraries?

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The Problem

The Transport Cost Matrix

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ANSWER

With thanks to Jason Robb for inspiration…

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Group libraries into smaller zones that are balanced:

• Borrowing history
• Number of holdable items

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The "cost" to share "in zone" = $1.

The "cost" to share "out of zone" = $2.

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Hidden Gems

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Not every librarian can be an expert in MYSQL and writing reports

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The Problem

There’s still lots you can do!

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RESPONSE

You can do more with reports!

• Automatically include links to records and borrowers
• Batch updates on report results
• Add columns to the output
• Insert parameters
• What is this log of which you speak?
• Hide data menus
• New! DataTables!

Thank

You!

Questions?

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Easy Branch Location Limits

Adam, Renée and Steve

Ocean State Libraries

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The Scoop on Library Groups

Bob Bennhoff

Colorado Library Consortium

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Pulling Koha up by Its Bootstraps

Jason Robb

Southeast Kansas Library System

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Easy Transport Cost Matrix

Adam, Renée and Steve

Ocean State Libraries

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Hidden Gems and Gotchas

Valerie Burnett

ByWater Solutions

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