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Minister Moyo Advocates for School Libraries at Zimbabwe Library Association Conference

Today, at the 57th Annual Conference of the Zimbabwe Library Association in Kariba, Hon. Torerai Moyo, the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, emphasized the crucial role of libraries in schools. Speaking under the theme "Positioning the Library and Information Profession in a Knowledge-Driven Economy," he stated, "It's now the thing of the past; all schools should have libraries, and the libraries should be manned by qualified librarians—one school, one library."

The conference also saw the presence of Mr. Gabriel Mhumha, the Provincial Education Director, highlighting the government's commitment to enhancing educational resources.

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.11.00

25 November 2021

Koha is the first free and open source software library automation
package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world.

NEW FEATURES

Cataloging

Show the parent record’s component parts in the detailed views

This enhancement adds the ‘ShowComponentParts’ system preference.

When enabled, a record with analytical records has a new tab below the record detail containing links to the component parts records.

The feature requires MaxComponentRecords is set to limit the maximum number of attached records to display; if more records are found then a link to the ‘Show analytics’ search will appear at the bottom of the listed analytics.

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Koha 21.05 released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.05.00

Significant changes

Accounting
Work has continued on refactoring the accounting code this cycle. The ‘Point of sale’ and ‘Cash management’ features have been further enhanced to better expose cash-up functionality to the user interface and aid in auditing processes and effort has been made to ensure all accountline actions are properly recording using double entry accounting methods with offsets to link income to debts.

Transfers
A significant amount of work has gone into refactoring the transfers system to enable future enhancements and improve maintainability. Transfers can now be queued and a priority system exists for the various mechanisms that can trigger a transfer. Additionally, an audit trail is now left in place to allow future debugging to take place. This has helped us to resolve a number of long standing bugs and edge cases in the transfers process.

Accessibility
Work has continued to make Koha more accessible:
• Title elements on the OPAC and staff client now start with the most unique information first
• The structure of headings on the OPAC has improved and headings are now more descriptive
• Breadcrumbs on the staff interface now show the most unique information first
• The OPAC has improved labelling to make it more accessible to people using screen readers
PayPal support
Paypal support has been dropped from Koha core and moved to a plugin [23215]

New features

Acquisitions
• [20212] Improve performance of acquisitions receive page
This development changes how the orders table on receiving in acquisitions is rendered.
Before these patches all active orders data was fetched from the database, along with all the related data (patrons, biblio). This leads to significant delays because all orders matching the filtering criteria were loaded, even when only 20 rows were displayed on the UI.
With this patch, the table is rendering using server-side pagination, provided by the REST API. This means
(1) only the information to be rendered is fetched (faster drawing
(2) the page doesn’t reload anymore when a new filter is added: it just refreshes the table, very fastly.
Sponsored by: Camden County Library System
Sponsored by: ByWater Solutions
• [22773] Bulk close invoices and filter invoice view (open/closed)
This new feature splits the view of the invoice search results into opened and closed tables and adds the ability to bulk close or reopen invoices.

Cataloging
• [11299] Add a button to automatically link authority records in cataloguing (AJAX)
This patch adds a new button to the basic MARC editor. When clicked this button will run through all controlled fields in the MARC record and search the existing authority file to link them to authorities. Depending on system preferences unmatched headings will create new authorities or remain unlinked. Results will be highlighted so that the cataloguer can see what was done.
MARC Bibliographic data support
• [8976] Default sequence of subfields in cataloguing and item editor
Sponsored by Orex Digital
This new enhancement adds the ability to change the default order of the subfields.
Both bibliographic and authority MARC subfield structure are taken into account. And so the item edition as well.
This will answer, for instance, the following needs:
o $i in 7xx fields should be the first subfield in the sequence
o 300 fields are sorted number first when cataloguers enter the letter fields first
o 100 field, it’s commonly $a, $q, $d.
Staff Client
• [22569] Add a ‘Transfers to send’ report
This enhancement adds a ‘Transfers to send’ report to the circulation module.
This is a parallel for the ‘Transfers to receive’ report and lists all items that are set to transfer but not yet in transit (along with their transfer reason and whether they’re available to be picked from the shelves or currently checked out).

System Administration
• [26633] Add advanced editor for transfer limits
This enhancement adds an “advanced” editor for transfer limits that displays all to/from library combinations in a grid and allows them to be edited in a manner somewhat similar to the transport cost matrix editor.