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Notes from the KohaCon13 Roundtables
This page has transcriptions of all of the comments and wishlist items from the various roundtables held at KohaCon. Duplicate items have been removed.
OPAC
- Stop calling it the OPAC -- call it the catalog(ue)
- Document how search works
- Need explanations for keyword, facets, relevance
- User-defined facets
- Then expose search functions
- Would like to improve searching/indexing
- Elasticsearch
- Displaying book covers
- Owen uses iframe + Drupal nodes
- would like something more integrated (using public reports?)
- Co-op star ratings (macro+micro, live+cached)
- What do I read next + suggestions
- Exportable reading history
- email plain text file
- Trouble with misspelling, accented words
- Did you mean API?
- Use dictionaries to search a translated term
Cataloging
- Joy Nelson's notes for the non-MARC breakout group
- Nicole Engard's notes for the breakout group on on Frameworks, RDA, and Misc.
Circulation
- Ability to alter due dates specifically (item by item)
- Display subtitles
- Customizing or limiting number of paid or completed notifications sent
- Malfunctions when holds are scanned and then not clicked "confirmed" -- "ignore is the default"
- Could add system preferences to adjust behavior: automatically send holds or necessarily require a click
- Automatically choosing "ignore" is a bug
- Already-triggered holds checked out to a different patron, it needs to become an item-level hold, not an item-specific hold. (Galen asks: was bib-level meant)?
- Batch item checkin
- Fine receipt not showing what's paid for
- Way to make print overdues more formattable
- Need bill notice that is printable, not just email
- Transfer slips bug: not printing titles
- Way to choose default tab of lists (public or private first)
- Customization for assigning notices (by branch)
- Group libraries for notification purposes
- Make overdue notices take calendar (e.g., closed dates) into account, e.g., to not send notices on holidays or regularly closed days
- Patron privacy - how long we keep data on holds and fines and lost-and-paid items
- Make it possible to change the hold pickup location from inside patron record
- Alter due dates after checkout
- Ability to save certain previously-resolved histories
- Can selfcheck automatically checkin, waive fines for previous patrons, and check out to patron who has it in their hands?
- Can we get rid of patron's name attached to items they have lost and paid for?
- For adult patrons with linked cards (e.g., juveniles), display any fines or notes from linked records
- Family card - one card, many users with one general
- Needs to be a better way to discover documentation for existing tools and processes
- E.g., example was somebody requesting ability to import patrons from CSV file -- which already exists in Koha
Serials
Upcoming release
- Pattern info stored separately from record
- Improvement in pattern validation
Problems
- Holdings records standardized
- Ease of use
- Twice-monthly patterns
- Supplements
- Analytics
Wishlist
- Acquisitions/serials integration
- Getting prediction pattern for centralized source
- Multiple subscription receiving
- Collapsing display in OPAC -- summary of holdings
Reports
- Galen Charlton's notes on the admin and reports roundtable
- Cancel button on reports
- Last run date on reports
- Last edited date on reports
- Report page not staying - jumping to top
- Report group permissions
- who can see
- who can run
- who can create
- Print button on reports output page
- Printable version of inventory report with options for number of pages
- Delivery of reports via FTP
- Tabbing with pulldowns
- Update schema docs; schema doc versioning
- HTML output option for public reports
Acquisitions
- EDI -- some developments in process, need testing
- Fund rollovers/fund tracking
- Figuring out terminology differences
- Better ISBN matching
- Baker and Taylor Title Source integration (in progress)
- Batch order load
- Item record overlay during batch load
- Automatically creating items -- allow items to be created on order-by-order basis rather than all or nothing
- Bibs can be deleted without canceling orders, leading to orphan order records
- More flexibility to record acquisitions activities without having to go through the entire order/receive/etc. process
- standing orders, gifts, etc.
- Ability to change vendor for an order (coming in 3.14)
- Order history
- Ability to view all order titles (either open or closed) by vendor
- More flexibility for order reports
- Cursor default options
Administration
- Galen Charlton's notes on the acquisitions roundtable
- Total holds limit per patron type
- Easy to ready way to see all circ policies
- Way to test circ rules
- Circ rules cumbersome
- Circ rules based on library groups
- Clone ability for circ rule defaults
- Delete notice permission
- Way to not edit other's notices
- Cacheable public reports -- ALREADY IN KOHA
- Separate permissions/interfaces for slips and notices and library-level slips and notices
- Use Template Toolkit for notices
- Duplicate all notices for a new library
- Add fine receipt to notices
Tools
- Better way to discover existing documentation for existing tools and processes
- Better links to tools/manual pages
- Label and patron batches not assigning ID until "add to batch"
General interface
- Single sign-on Koha + Google + Moodle (e.g., using Mozilla Persona, Shibboleth Support)
- Timeouts -- make it possible to have different for staff (longer) and public (shorter)
- Being able to return to search results after placing a hold
- Syspref to require SSL login