July 2018 Newsletter

New ByWater Solutions Website

Our new website will be launching in the next few weeks! The new site features easy to search videos, on demand webinars, tutorials and more! Keep an eye out for the update!

Librarian of the Month

July's Librarian of the Month is Graham Brunk from The Society of Four Arts Library in Palm Beach, Florida. Graham was nominated by the ByWater team for his contribution to the development of the children's OPAC. He gave suggestions on the design, tested as we developed the interface and provided feedback to get the Children's OPAC up and running. You can check out their Children's OPAC at http://cl.fourarts.bywatersolutions.com

Do you work with someone who goes above and beyond to make your library a better place? Nominate them for a Librarian of the Month Award! Nominate Them Today!

Koha 17.11 Video Tutorials

OPAC Summary Display

17.11 brings the ability for a patron summary dashboard in the OPAC once your patrons log in. Once your patron logs in, the login area on the OPAC homepage gets populated with a summary of checkout items, fine total, holds placed and ready for pick up.

To turn this on, visit the Opacusersummary system preference or view the short tutorial video.

New System Preference: Mark Lost Items Returned

The new system preference marklostitemsasreturned in Koha 17.11 was created to give libraries the ability to control marking items returned within various places in Koha.

The Koha Community bug that is related to this change is Bug 12363.