Koha upgrade highlights and catalogue customisation tips webinar

Did you know you can customise your Koha OPAC without having a technical background? In fact, there are many things you can tweak for your organisation without touching the code.

Alex Buckley, Rōpū kohinga developer from Catalyst, shares tips on customising your Koha and new release highlights in the 'Koha upgrade highlights and catalogue customisation tips' webinar.

Thanks to everyone who joined in on the live webinar. If you'd like to try out any of the new features as you watch, head to the Catalyst Koha demo site: https://demo.mykoha.co.nz/

You can also check out the webinar slides as you watch along: https://slides.com/alexbuckley/koha-upgrade-highlights-and-catalogue-customisation-tips

Chapters
00:00 | Introduction
01:43 | Webinar agenda
02:44 | How Koha releases work
13:47 | How to automate the MARC record ordering process
25:05 | Future booking enhancement
30:19 | View all bookings awaiting pickup
30:58 | Task management system enhancement
38:24 | Place multiple item levels holds at once for the same record
41:07 | Time-saving reports enhancement
47:10 | Catalogue customisation tips - drive traffic and engagement to your Koha OPAC
47:51 | OPAC HTML customisations
49:13 | How to edit HTML customisations without code
50:45 | WYSIWYG editor (What You See is What You Get)
54:28 | Tip #1: Store information in your OPAC header
57:21 | Tip #2: Highlight topics in your catalogue
59:05 | Lists are not obvious in Koha out-of-the-box
59:45 | Lists before customisations
59:51 | Lists after customisations
01:01:02 | How do we update lists?
01:12:25 | An example of customised lists to highlight parts of the OPAC that people may miss
01:13:25 | Tip #3: Drive users to library subscription resources
01:14:22 | What's possible with subscription resources?
01:14:35 | How do we update subscription resources?
01:21:31 | An example of subscription resources
01:21:57 | Tip #4: Set and forget library news
01:22:15 | How to set news
01:22:27 | Example of setting new for an April library competition
01:23:12 | A visual example of what's possible
01:23:30 | Tip #5: Translate your library news
01:25:14 | Bonus tip: add the lang code for Australian Indigenous languages using Austlang plugin
01:26:58 | Koha resources

Koha and Rōpū kohinga resources

Read more about the latest release of Koha, Koha 24.11: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/stories-and-studies/catalyst-blog/release-of-koha-24-11?mtm_campaign=ropu-kohinga&mtm_source=social&mtm_medium=youtube&mtm_content=koha-upgrade-highlights-and-opac-customisation-tips&mtm_cid=webinar&mtm_group=koha&mtm_placement=description

Get up to date with Koha 24.05: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/stories-and-studies/catalyst-blog/release-of-koha-24-05?mtm_campaign=ropu-kohinga&mtm_source=social&mtm_medium=youtube&mtm_content=koha-upgrade-highlights-and-opac-customisation-tips&mtm_cid=webinar&mtm_group=koha&mtm_placement=description

Learn more about how Rōpū kohinga and if Koha would be the right fit for your collection: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/our-solutions/libraries-collections-and-archives?mtm_campaign=ropu-kohinga&mtm_source=social&mtm_medium=youtube&mtm_content=koha-upgrade-highlights-and-opac-customisation-tips&mtm_cid=webinar&mtm_group=koha&mtm_placement=description

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Koha Library management system is used by over 18,000 libraries globally. Rōpū kohinga at Catalyst is a proud Koha vendor and contributor and is experienced with other open source software for libraries, archives, and collections including DSpace and VuFind. Learn more about the team on the Catalyst website: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/our-solutions/libraries-collections-and-archives?mtm_campaign=ropu-kohinga&mtm_source=social&mtm_medium=youtube&mtm_content=koha-upgrade-highlights-and-opac-customisation-tips&mtm_cid=webinar&mtm_group=koha&mtm_placement=description

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