Programme for Day 2
Day 1 - Day 3
| 8:00-8:50 | Housekeeping Russel Garlick |
| 9:00-9:30 | eBooks:
Why they break ISBNs Stuart Yeates A view of eBooks from an administrative and cataloging point of view, focusing on how some of the current practices around unique identifiers and organisation of content by media is going to be challenged. About Stuart A. Yeates He is currently Lead Architect at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre. Full Bio >> recording - slides |
| 9:30-10:30 | Koha:
A cooperative view MJ Ray An introduction to cooperative values and principles followed by a look at the structure, history and future of Koha and its community in this context. I will probably also cover some of the big library cooperatives and the experiences of a small library services cooperative with them. About MJ Ray He is a worker-owner of software.coop, a tech worker co-op providing computer-related services worldwide, including Koha and Debian support and development, since 2002. Full Bio >> recording - slides |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Koha
in schools Mark Osborne Albany Senior High School is New Zealand's first open source high school, and Koha is one our our key online environments. Learn more about how Albany is using Koha to promote literacy, community and high achievement. About Mark Osborne He is Deputy Principal of Albany Senior High School on Auckland's North Shore. Full Bio >> recording - slides |
| 11:30-12:15 | Freedom
in the library: Convincing your boss that sharing is good François Marier This presentation will show how the concepts of sharing, freedom and public domain are embodied by the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community. After describing what is meant by FOSS, we will look at how fairness is promoted through the choice of copyright licenses. Then we will examine the benefits of this freedom and of the related communities (for example, Creative Commons) it has inspired. Nobody should ever get fired for putting FOSS in their library! About François Marier He has been involved in Open Source communities for more than 10 years. Currently, François Marier is a senior software developer at Catalyst IT. Full Bio >> recording - slides with audio |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15-14:15 | Koha:
A brief history Paul Poulain This talk will cover a history of the Koha project, how it started, who has been involved, and how it got to where we are now. About Paul Poulain He has been working on Koha since January 2002. He is the original author of the MARC parts and many others. Full Bio >> recording - slides |
| 14:15-15:00 | It
is not the code that is locked Sue Lavery and Irma Birchall Sue Lavery, a very experienced librarian, accepted a job in a high security prison in 2008. Her talk highlights how Koha was deployed and how it has changed the lives of many of her clients and her own. About Sue Lavery Sue Lavery is the Librarian at a new jail, The Alexander Machonochie Centre, in Canberra, Australia. She has spent the past year establishing the library and promoting a reading culture within the prison. About Irma Birchall Irma Birchall, was appointed by Cybersource Pty Limited who implemented Koha @ AMC to provide Koha training and support to Sue. Irma founded CALYX information essentials and provides clear and focused Koha training.Full Bio >> recording - slides |
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15-16:00 | Koha:
How you can help Nicole Engard Often people forget that the reason open source software exists is because of the hard work of volunteers, paid developers, and users alike. This workshop will walk you through how you can participate in the Koha community to further the betterment of the product. About Nicole Engard She is the Director of Open Source Education at ByWater Solutions. Full Bio >> recording - slides |
| 16:00-17:00 | The
efforts of promoting Koha ILS: The Malaysian experience Amzari Abu Bakar Koha has been promoted in Malaysia starting from the year 2005. However, it was not until 2008 that Koha began getting a warm welcome from libraries in Malaysia. The longest experience of using Koha in Malaysia is only one year, while experience in promoting Koha has reached five years. Efforts that have been made by users in other countries could be studied by Koha enthusiasts in Malaysia. Based on these promotion experiences, several encouraging and discouraging factors of using Koha in Malaysia have been identified. At the end of this discussion, several suggestions are made to overcome discouraging factors, empower Koha users and to encourage new Koha users in Malaysia. About Amzari Abu Bakar Amzari Abu Bakar is a degree holder in BSc Information Studies (Information Systems and Management) and MSc Information Management. He has been a Lecturer at Faculty of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA teaching Web Programming, Library Automation and IT in Libraries subjects since August 2008. Full Bio >> recording - slides |
Day 1 and Day 3
