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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some great presentations about Koha from the recent koha-US conference: recordings linked from the schedule tab koha-us.org/events/confe... #KohaILS #KohaUS

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The latest ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "How do record merges handle total circulation counts?" Read the answer at zurl.co/B3SN9 #KohaILS

Speech bubble with the latest ByWater Solutions Question of the Week "How do record merges handle total circulation counts?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Registration is now open for the koha-US Annual Conference, 18–20 August 2026, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA. For conference information, including the schedule and registration form, visit koha-us.org/events/confe... #KohaILS #KohaUS #Conferences #Libraries

Gems of Knowledge, koha-US 2026 annual conference, 18-20 August 2026, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The latest ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "Does the batch hold modification tool interact with item groups?" Read the answer at zurl.co/CnP0F #KohaILS

Speech bubble with the latest ByWater Solutions Question of the Week "Does the batch hold modification tool interact with item groups"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Koha Community Challenge is back for 2026, starting on 1 May! ByWater Solutions has partnered with koha-US for another Community Challenge! Whatever your activity of choice is, join us for the community challenge from 1-31 May. Learn more at bywatersolutions.com/news/spring-... #KohaUS

A shield with the "Koha Community Challenge 2026", with pictures of sporty people on either side - walking, biking, and jogging.

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The latest ByWater Question of the Week: "Can the citation feature be hidden in the Koha OPAC?" Read the answer at zurl.co/AyFmJ #KohaILS

Speech bubble with the latest ByWater Solutions Question of the Week "Can the citation feature be hidden in the Koha OPAC?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Continued... - Can required fields be configured by patron category in Koha? zurl.co/w2Z7p - How can items and/or records be hidden from the Koha OPAC? zurl.co/o1znC 2/2 #KohaILS

Speech bubble with the ByWater Solutions Question of the Week "Can required fields be configured by patron category in Koha?"

Speech bubble with the ByWater Solutions Question of the Week "How can items and/or records be hidden from the Koha OPAC?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Recent Koha Questions of the Week from the ByWater Solutions team: - How does the Koha CatalogerEmails system preference work? zurl.co/Sl421 - What is the recommended limit of Koha inventory items to process at a time? zurl.co/NsUAG 1/2 #KohaILS

Speech bubble with the ByWater Solutions Question of the Week "How does the Koha CatalogerEmails system preference work?"

Speech bubble with the ByWater Solutions Question of the Week "What is the recommended limit of Koha inventory items to process at a time?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

In case you missed it! Great to "meet" some of those working on Koha. BONJOUR! Welcome to this week's Monday Minutes live from Koha Hackfest!! In this episode, Nick chats with different developers about what's new and upcoming in the Koha community! The video: zurl.co/2gP5H #KohaILS

ByWater Solutions staff selfie (Nick, Tomas, Lisette, Andre) with the sun setting over the harbour - Monday Minutes live from Koha Hackfest!

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Time for another ByWater Solutions Question of the Week! This week's question is: "How can items or records be hidden from the Koha OPAC?" Read the answer at zurl.co/o1znC #KohaILS

Speech bubble with the latest ByWater Solutions Question of the Week "How can items or records be hidden from the Koha OPAC?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This week's Question of the Week from ByWater Solutions: "Do I need to update Z39.50 credentials with Library of Congress?" The answer: zurl.co/Kvear (Spoiler alert: Yes!) #KohaILS

Speech bubble with the latest ByWater Solutions Question of the Week "Do I need to update Z39.50 credentials with Library of Congress?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

On now for Koha's Global Bug Squashing Week, Documentation Wednesday. Join the documentation team during their drop-in session - learn to edit the manual. For details, see the community calendar koha-community.org/calendar/ and ByWater Solutions' post bywater.solutions/gbsw26 #KohaILS

Koha Global Bug Squashing Week, 23 to 27 February 2026.

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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

Koha Bug Squashing Week, 23 to 27 February 2026

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

First up for Koha's Global Bug Squashing Week, Mattermost Monday! For details, see the community calendar koha-community.org/calendar/ and ByWater Solutions' post bywater.solutions/gbsw26 Check the time for your timezone www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... #KohaILS #GBSD

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Time for ByWater Solutions' latest question of the week! This week's question is: "How can I display cover images for records with a 979 ISBN?" Read the answer at zurl.co/bOb6v #KohaILS

Speech bubble with the latest ByWater Solutions Question of the Week "How can I display cover images for records with a 979 ISBN?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This week's ByWater Question of the Week: "What are the manual cancellation options for holds expired on the shelf?" Read the answer at zurl.co/JTMYm #KohaILS

Speech bubble with this week's ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "What are the manual cancellation options for holds expired on the shelf?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This week's ByWater Question of the Week: "How does Koha's automatic item modification by age tool calculate age?" Read the answer at zurl.co/QGMCi #KohaILS

Speech bubble with this week's ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "How does Koha's automatic item modification by age tool calculate age?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Last week's ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "Can renewal notices be turned off if a library is using automatic renewals?" Read the answer at zurl.co/s41GH #KohaILS

Speech bubble with the latest ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "Can renewal notices be turned off if a library is using automatic renewals?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Time for the latest ByWater Solutions Question of the Week! The question is: "Can a deleted list be restored?" Read the answer at zurl.co/v7tD1 #KohaILS

Speech bubble with this week's ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "Can a deleted list be restored?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The last ByWater Solutions Question of the Week for 2025! This week's question is: "Why is this pop-up appearing while editing items connected to a serial subscription?" Read the answer at zurl.co/1lGSG #KohaILS

Speech bubble with this week's ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "Why is this pop-up appearing while editing items connected to a serial subscription?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

This week's ByWater Solutions Question of the Week is: "Can Koha display the last seen date on a patron record?" Read the answer here: zurl.co/CsLvz #KohaILS

ByWater Solutions Question of the Week in a speech bubble: "Can Koha display the last seen date on a patron record?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Time for the ByWater Solutions Question of the Week. This week's question is "Do we need to copy holidays to new branches added in Koha?" Read the answer at zurl.co/vLq9D #KohaILS

Speech bubble with this week's ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "Do we need to copy holidays to new branches added in Koha?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Thanks to Kristina for taking such fabulous photos of KohaCon25, and creating a fabulous record of the Koha Community's time together celebrating 25 years of Koha www.flickr.com/photos/4nits... (CC BY 4.0 SA). #KohaCon25 #KohaILS

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Time for another ByWater Question of the Week! This week's question is: "Why are audiobook covers not loading with Coce cover images?" Read the answer at: zurl.co/LzabF #KohaILS

This week's ByWater Question of the Week: "Why are audiobook covers not loading with Coce cover images?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Last week, Xercode (xercode.com) were at the 3rd Koha Portugal Community Meeting, sharing experiences and best practices. They participated in the roundtable “The Future of Koha” and celebrated the power of #FreeSoftware in libraries #KohaPortugal #Koha2025 #ComunidadKoha #KohaILS

nel members at the 3rd Koha Portugal conference sitting on chairs answering questions

Panel members at the 3rd Koha Portugal conference sitting on chairs answering questions and presenting

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Time for the ByWater Question of the Week!! This week's question is: "Can I restore deleted items or borrowers in Koha?" Read the answer here: zurl.co/haguO #KohaILS

ByWater Solutions Questions of the Week: "Can I restore deleted iItems or borrowers in Koha?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

KohaCon25, the Koha Community's annual international conference, is just TWO weeks away! The programme (2025.kohacon.org/schedule/) is packed with lots of opportunities for community members to learn, share, and work together to improve Koha: 1 of 2 #KohaILS #KohaCon25

Partners and sponsors for KohaCon25: ByWater Solutions, Biteca, Open Fifth, Catalyst, LMSCloud, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Chris Cormack, Bob and Irma Birchall, Farasat S. Ullah

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Koha Community event this week. The koha-US Annual Conference, 2 to 5 September, in Providence, Rhode Island, USA koha-us.org/events/confe... Check the conference schedule for the YouTube live-streaming link. Day 1 in your timezone www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... #KohaILS #KohaUS

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

From the team at ByWater Solutions, recent questions of the week: - "Can patron SMS numbers be searched from patron search?": the answer zurl.co/wIUu4 - "What statistics are recorded for offline circulation?": the answer zurl.co/3J3zH #KohaILS

Conversation bubble with the ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "Can patron SMS numbers be searched from patron search?"

Conversation bubble with the ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "What statistics are recorded for offline circulation?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Thinking of attending the koha-US annual conference in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, from 2–5 September 2025? Registration closes on 30 August! Visit the koha-US website for the conference schedule, registration, and more at koha-us.org/events/confe... #KohaILS #KohaUS

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Did you know that koha-US (koha-us.org) is sharing a table at the ByWater Solutions' booth, at the Amercian Library Association conference?! We hope you can stop by and say hi if you are there! #ALAAC25 #KohaUS #KohaILS

Fred at the American Library Association conference, representing koha-US (sharing a booth with ByWater solutions).

koha-US at the American Library Association conference (sharing a booth with ByWater solutions).

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Last week's ByWater Question of the Week!! The question is: "What is counted as checkouts in Koha's item search?" Read the answer: zurl.co/KiEoG #KohaILS #Libraries

ByWater Solutions question of the week "What is counted as checkouts in Koha's item search?".

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The koha-US 2025 annual conference is from 2nd to 5th September 2025, in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The Conference Committee is currently accepting presentation proposals, due by 16 May 2025, at koha-us.org/events/confe... Conference page koha-us.org/events/confe... #KohaILS #KohaUS

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Time for a new ByWater Solutions' Question of the Week! This week's question is: "What happens to claim return history on deleted items?" The answer: zurl.co/CFjh6 #KohaILS #Koha #LibraryTechnology

Speech bubble with the week's ByWater Question of the Week "What happens to claim return history on deleted items?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Have you registered yet for the Koha Community Challenge 2025? All proceeds go directly to koha-US, and it's a great way to get moving and build community!! Register here: bywater.solutions/KohaCommunit... #KohaILS #KohaUS

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Registration for KohaCon25 in-person attendees is now open at kohacon25-1.lilregie.com KohaCon25, the Koha Community's annual world-wide conference, is from 17-23 November 2025, Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. The conference website 2025.kohacon.org 1/2

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Time for another ByWater Solutions Question of the Week! This week's question is: "How come I see different numbers between total checkouts and item's checkout history?" Read the answer at zurl.co/tfaMM #Koha #OpenSource #LibraryTechnology

Conversation bubble with this week's ByWater Solutons' question of the week: "How come I see different numbers between total checkouts and item's checkout history?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This week's ByWater Question of the Week: "Why isn't this item or record showing in my public catalog?" The answer: zurl.co/iCnPm #KohaILS #Koha #OpenSource #LibraryTechnology

This week's ByWater Solutions Question of the Week: "Why isn't this item or record showing in my public catalog?"

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

In this week's Monday Minutes from ByWater Solutions, Jessie and Nick look at some exciting circulation enhancements added in Koha 24.11. The video: bywater.solutions/MM210 The blog: bywatersolutions.com/education/mo... #KohaILS #Libraries #OpenSource

Sports team members pouring water out of a bucket over Nick and Jessie, with a caption "ByWater Solutions pouring out the latest education content for our community".

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Tautoko Mai | Call for Kohacon25 Sponsors Help us celebrate 25 years of open source innovation and community collaboration by sponsoring Kohacon25, our annual worldwide conference, 17-23 November, Wellington, New Zealand. Sponsorship levels and details lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/ko... #KohaILS

E ngā ringa tautoko o te kaupapa Koha
Tēnei te karanga ki a koutou
He wā tēnei o te hokinga mai, o te whakanui
E rua tekau mā rima ngā tau e kawe ana i tēnei taonga ki te ao
Nō reira, nau mai, tautoko mai

(To all supporting hands of the Koha project
This is our call to you
This is a time of returning, of celebration
Twenty-five years of carrying this treasure to the world
Therefore, welcome, support us)

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Time for a new Koha Question of the Week from the Team at ByWater Solutions!! This week's question is: "What hold status details can be found in the Koha database?" The answer: bywatersolutions.com/education/ko... #KohaILS #Libraries #OpenSource

This week's Koha Question of the Week "What hold status details can be found in the Koha database?".

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KohaILS @kohails.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Last week's Koha Question of the Week from the team at ByWater Solutions: "Why am I getting an error when I try to run a custom SQL report?" The answer bywatersolutions.com/education/ko... #KohaILS #Libraries

Speech bubble with the Koha Question of the Week: "Why am I getting an error when I try to run a custom SQL report?"

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