Koha Community events coming up this week:
- Hackfest in Marseille, France
- koha-US: Education Committee*
- koha-US: Circulation SIG*
- koha-US: Consortia SIG*
View the calendar for details koha-community.org/calendar/
* koha-US events are open to everyone.
#KohaILS #KohaUS #Community
Koha Community events this week:
- General Koha Community Meeting
- koha-US: Acquisitions SIG*
- Development Meeting
- koha-US: Development Committee*
- koha-US: Customization SIG*
Check the calendar for details koha-community.org/calendar/
* koha-US events are open to everyone.
#KohaILS #KohaUS
Episode 612: The Terrific Every-Other-Thursday Training Video from koha-US.
The trouble with cataloging permissions www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWMX...
Christopher and George talk about issues and challenges managing permissions for staff.
#KohaILS #KohaUS
Koha Community events on this week:
- Development Meeting
- Documentation Team Meeting
- koha-US: General Meeting*
- koha-US: Cataloging Special Interest Group*
Check the calendar for details koha-community.org/calendar/
* Open to everyone from around the world to attend.
#KohaILS #KohaUS
Koha Bug Squashing Week, 23 to 27 February 2026
On today for the Koha Global Bug Squashing Week are:
- koha-US Education COmmittee: Developing Koha Together Forum
- Setting up your devbox
For more details, see the community calendar koha-community.org/calendar/ and ByWater Solutions' post
bywater.solutions/gbsw26
#KohaILS #KohaUS #GBSD
PS The calendar (koha-community.org/calendar/), ByWater Solutions' post (bywater.solutions/gbsw26) and GBSW wiki page (wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2026-02...) have links so you can see each event's date and time in your timezone.
#KohaILS #KohaUS #Community
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• Thursday: Sign off on bugs - Session 1
• Friday: Sign off on bugs - Session 2
For more details, see:
- the community calendar koha-community.org/calendar/ and
- ByWater Solutions' post bywater.solutions/gbsw26
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This week is Global Bug Squashing Week, with events on every day!
• Mattermost Monday: An introduction to the community
• Tuesday:
- Developing Koha Together Forum
- Setting up your devbox
• Wednesday: Documentation Team Drop-in sessions
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Koha Community events this week:
- Global Bug Squashing Week!
- koha-US: Education SIG*
- koha-US: Developing Koha Together Forum*
- koha-US: Circulation SIG*
- koha-US: Consortia SIG*
See our calendar for details koha-community.org/calendar/
* Open to everyone!
#KohaILS #KohaUS #Community
Koha Community events on this week:
- koha-US: Acquisitions Special Interest Group*
- Koha Community Development Meeting
- koha-US: Development Committee*
- koha-US: Customization SIG*
For details, see koha-community.org/calendar/
* koha-US events are open to everyone.
#KohaILS #KohaUS
Koha Community events on this week:
- koha-US: System Administration SIG*
- koha-US: Board Meeting*
- koha-US: Baby Devs SIG*
For the times and details koha-community.org/calendar/
* koha-US events are open to everyone to attend, you don't need to be a member.
#KohaILS #KohaUS
Koha Community events on this week:
- koha-US: Education Committee*
- koha-US: Circulation Special Interest Group*
Check the calendar for times and details koha-community.org/calendar/
* koha-US events are open to everyone from around the world to attend.
#KohaILS #KohaUS
Koha Community events on this week:
- koha-US: Acquisitions Special Interest Group
- Koha Community Development Meeting
- koha-US: Consortia Special Interest Group
Check the Koha Community calendar for the times and details koha-community.org/calendar/
#KohaILS #KohaUS
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Check the Koha Community calendar for times and details koha-community.org/calendar/
Got a Koha event coming up? Let us know so we can add to the calendar!
* koha-US events are open to everyone from around the world to attend, you don't need to be a member.
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Koha Community events on this week:
- koha-US: System Administration Special Interest Group*
- Documentation Team Meeting
- koha-US Board Meeting*
- Documentation Team - Drop-in session
- koha-US: Development Committee*
- koha-US: Customization Special Interest Group*
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#KohaILS #KohaUS
Koha Community events on this week:
- Koha Community Development Meeting
- koha-US: General Meeting
- koha-US: Baby Devs Special Interest Group
Check the Koha Community calendar for the times and details koha-community.org/calendar/
Got a Koha event coming up? Let us know!
#KohaILS #KohaUS
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Check the Koha Community calendar for times and details koha-community.org/calendar/
Got a Koha event coming up? Let us know so we can add to the calendar!
* koha-US events are open to everyone from around the world to attend, you don't need to be a member.
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#KohaILS #KohaUS
Koha Community events on this week:
- koha-US: Education Committee*
- Koha Community General Meeting
- koha-US: Circulation Special Interest Group*
- koha-US: Development Committee*
- koha-US: Customization Special Interest Group*
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#KohaILS #KohaUS
Koha Community events on this week:
- koha-US: General Meeting
- koha-US: Cataloging Special Interest Group
Check the Koha Community calendar for the times and details koha-community.org/calendar/
Got a Koha event coming up? Let us know so we can add to the calendar!
#KohaILS #KohaUS
Episode 601: The Terrific Every-Other-Thursday Training Video from koha-US.
Koha conference adventures www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_c...
Season 6 kicks off with George reporting on all the exciting conferences that he has been trekking to this year.
#KohaILS #KohaUS
Episode 526: The Terrific Every-Other-Thursday Training Video from koha-US.
Securing patron categories www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lY8...
Christopher shares some code to hide special patron categories, and make the category selection a little less cluttered.
#KohaILS #KohaUS
Episode 525: The Terrific Every-Other-Thursday Training Video from koha-US - Sorting unruly dropdown lists www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pAW...
George talks about a regression in a couple dropdown lists in Koha, and how to sort them.
#KohaILS #KohaUS
The Koha-US 2025 Annual Conference is over but you can still catch "The Impact of AI on Libraries" from Galen Charlton and Brian Pichman! Full presentation: www.youtube.com/live/ogdepGDD378 #kohails #KohaUS #OpenSource #Libraries #AI
Galen Charlton posing for a photo by a draw bridge in Mystic, Connecticut on a brilliantly sunny day.
Historical, wooden, glass fronted bookshelves in Providence Public Library.
Photo of the auditorium entrance inside the Providence Public Library. The entrance has the word 'auditorium' over it in an upbeat orange color.
A big thank you to the Koha community - we had a great time at the Koha-US 2025 Annual Conference last week. Photos via Equinox staff member Galen Charlton on the road in Mystic, CT and at the Providence Public Library. #kohails #equinox #KohaUS #OpenSource #Libraries @gmcharlt.bsky.social
Slide reading: "To Sum Up: bots and crawlers are a real problem, mitigations are available, active management is essential: everybody involved is playing either whack-a-mole or cat-and-mouse."
In sum via @gmcharlt.bsky.social & Brian Pichman (also thank you! great session!) #kohails #KohaUS #equinox #AI #Libraries
Slide reading: "Other ideas: enhance Koha to add support for CAPTCHAs for Koha's search page: problematic, since it can create accessibility barriers, but may be a necessary evil, e.g. Cloudflare, Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, mirrors what's been done in Evergreen and VuFind"
Other ideas (we see you CAPTCHA). #kohails #KohaUS #AI #Libraries
Slide reading "Tactical Mitigations: while IP and UA blocks are not a long term solution, in the short term applying them can be useful to restore access to a system, example: analyze logs to see if particular ranges are sending requests, then block them, ditto for URL patterns and user agents."
Tactical mitigations are still useful. #kohails #KohaUS #AI #Libraries
Slide reading: "Staff interface vs. OPAC performance: lots of ways to set up Koha systems, but many configuration are such that if the OPAC is slow or unavailable, the staff interface is as well, the "AI" crawlers generally aren't going after the staff interface as such fortunately: turning off the system preference for OpacPublic to Disable, if already using Discovery Layer, you can close out the Koha OPAC, separation is possible if necessary."
@gmcharlt.bsky.social - separate your staff interface and your OPAC. #kohails #KohaUS #AI #Libraries
@gmcharlt.bsky.social - you are not alone with this problem. #kohails #KohaUS #AI #Libraries
Brian Pichman - using tools like Cloudflare and Anubis is that you are not alone, there are a lot of people looking at logs and can help respond to AI traffic problems. #kohails #KohaUS #AI #Libraries
