2020.11.05 - Agenda with notes
Leavenworth Public Library
Meeting switched to Zoom only
No recording of this meeting was made
Agenda
Announcements, news, brief items, etc.
Introductions
Additions to the agenda
Announcement
Upgrade to Koha 20.05 on Saturday, December 19
Training dates will be announced soon (first week of December)
All training will be online
Koha community release notes https://koha-community.org/koha-20-05-released/
Hoopla searching in Next Search Catalog
We will no longer be adding Marc records for Hoopla titles to the catalog
New feature allows patrons to search all of Hoopla when searching our catalog
Training documents at (this link)
Live now on our production server
At the meeting Jack suggested we look at Capria and we will follow up on Capria by the January meeting
Placards for Flipster and Hoopla keywords
This is also live in our server now - adds “placards” some OPAC searches
See the page at this link for a quick example
Or search for “Atlantic Monthly,” “Hoopla,” or “Family handyman ebook” on the OPAC
Item type changes
Video (Television) – Item type code = NVIDTV
Live on our server today
Every library now has a circulation rule for Video (Television) that matches their circulation rules for VIDEO
Contact nexthelp@nekls.org to change the circulation rule
You will need to update the item type on items owned by your library (instructions here) or ask for help at nexthelp@nekls.org
Other changes coming
See the timeline at this link
At the meeting “Costume,” “Mask,” and “Video (digital player)” item types were also suggested and may be incorported into the timeline at this link
Changes to patron category descriptions
6 patron categories are not automatically billed for items when they have been overdue for more than 45 days
The names of those categories have been updated to include “(exempt)” after the name of the Category
The timeline of the automatic overdue item deletion process is at this link
To get a count of borrowers at your library in all categories plus an indication of which categories staff at your library can use, run report 3361
The Library associate (exempt), Student (exempt), and Teacher/Faculty/Administrator (exempt) all have corresponding non-exampt counterparts. If you want your patrons in any or all of those exempt categories updated to their non-exempt counterparts, let us know at nexthelp@nekls.org
942$h
Is now a mandatory field starting today
Training documents at
As stated at the last meeting, 942$c is next (it’s the difficult one)
2020 participation agreement (final)
2020 Privacy and confidentiality statement
2021 Meetings
2021.01.19 (Tuesday)
10:00 a.m. - noon
Zoom only
State statistical survey help from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
2021.04.01 (Thursday)
10:00 a.m. - noon
Zoom only
2021.09.02 (Thursday)
10:00 a.m. - noon
Nekls office (in person and on Zoom)
2021.11.09 (Tuesday)
10:00 a.m. - noon
Leavenworth Public Library (in person and on Zoom)
Next meeting
January 19, 2021
Zoom only
Zoom link