ByWater Solutions Contributions to Koha 22.05 Community Release

by Jessie Zairo on Jun 30, 2022

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced the 22.05 contributions to the Koha Community code from the ByWater Development team. At ByWater, we believe transparency is a key to success. We submit all developments, plugins, tools and documentation we create back to the Koha Community.

Below you will find some of the recent enhancements the ByWater Solutions development team worked on for the 22.05 release.

Read more at Koha Community Announces 22.05 Release.

Kyle Hall

• Add ability to disable demagnetizing items via SIP2 based on patron categories
• Add ability to check patron messaging preferences from a notice
• Remove the ability to transmit

Nick Clemens

• When placing a request on the OPAC, the user is shown titles they cannot place a hold on
• Allow archiving multiple suggestions
• Allow extended attributes during self-registration when using PatronSelfRegistrationVerifyByEmail

Lucas Gass

• Allow for quick spine labels to be editable for printing
• Add Syndetics cover images to staff client
• Reprinting holds slip with updated expiration date

About Koha

Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.

Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management, and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies, HTML5, CSS, and Javascript, making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit http://koha-community.org/.

About ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions is a full-service, high-quality Open Source support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their systems than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Folio LSP, Coral ERM, and Libki PC Management.

Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions not only lowers the cost of implementation and maintenance of OSS but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit https://bywatersolutions.com.

For More Information

Jessica Zairo
Director of Library Sales and Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944