Koha administration & tools

On this page is a curated list of resources on Koha adminstration and tools. For all our latest content view our blog posts.

Getting started

• Koha administration (Koha manual)
• Koha tools (Koha manual)

• Koha administration overview (2024, webinar recording, 23min)

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Circulation rules

• Circulation and fine rules (Koha manual)
• Day loans in Koha (2025, 2min video) – What’s On Our Mind series

Transport cost matrix

Using the Transport cost Matrix to prioritise reservations between libraries depending on how difficult or costly it is to ferry the items.

• Transport Cost Matrix (Koha manual)
• Using Koha’s transport cost matrix (2020, 16min video) – Sally Healey, Cheshire Libraries Shared Services

Data protection and privacy in your library

• Data protection options in Koha (2024, 11min video) – What’s On Our Mind series
• Cookies information in Koha – setting up your cookie consent (2024, 16min video) – What’s On Our Mind series

Cataloguing frameworks

How to set up the frameworks (or templates) that your library will use when cataloguing

• MARC Bibliographic frameworks (Koha manual)
• Setting mandatory and important flags in frameworks (2023, video 12 mins

Elasticsearch

Find out how the Elasticsearch search engine works in Koha and what options there are of configuration

• Search engine configuration (Koha manual)
• Elasticsearch (2024, 16min video) – What’s On Our Mind series
• Using keyboard shortcuts in Elasticsearch (2024, 6min video) – What’s On Our Mind series

Tools

Notices and slips

learn how to configure the notices and slips templates you use for email, sms and print notifications

• News bulletins (Koha manual)
• Customising notices and slips (Koha Community wiki page)
• Notices and slips library (Koha Community wiki page)

News

Learn how to add a News item to the OPAC or staff interface homepage

• News bulletins (Koha manual)

HTML customisations

Manage content across the OPAC and staff interface – add information blocks and customise text blocks

• HTML customisations (Koha manual)
• Add content to module home pages in the staff interface (2024, 11min video) – What’s On Our Mind series

Pages

Create extra pages within the Koha OPAC or staff interface (2024, 6min video) – What’s On Our Mind series

• Pages (Koha manual)
• Adding additional pages to the Koha OPAC (2023, 5min video) – What’s On Our Mind series

Uploads

How to upload a file such as a PDF or image to the Koha server so that it can be displayed on the OPAC or staff interface.

• Koha manual
• Koha file upload utility (2024, 6min video) – What’s On Our Mind series

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