Koha

Library and Information Services: Scope/Approach

Provide information resources to accomplish the project priorities

Major library activities: Acquiring, Organizing , Storing and Disseminating Information in both Print and Electronic format

Implementing ILS, Digital Library System

Need for an ILS

To improve the overall functions of the library

To facilitate wider and deeper access of information

To achieve a new level of library management

To improve the existing services and to introduce new services

Need for an ILS

To have an efficient control over the entire operation

To avoid the duplication of work

To facilitate sharing of the catalog resource

Open Source ILS systems

Koha

LearningAccess ILS

Avanti

OpenBiblio

phpmylibrary

Emilda

Evergreen OPAC

What is Koha?

System Requirements

Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP

Apache Webserver

MySQL Database Server

Active State Perl

Koha Features

Free/Open-source Software

web-based OPAC, circ, and management interfaces

Full MARC 21 and UNIMARC support

Branch Transfers

Self-checkout

Integrated Z39.50 server for resource sharing

Koha-User Goodies

Online Reservations

Online Renewals

E-mail Overdue Notifications

Book Bag (a shopping cart for your selections)

Virtual Shelves (create and save item lists for public or private use)

Borrowing History

Main Modules

Acquisition

Classification

Cataloguing

Administration

OPAC

Acquisition

Full Acquisitions Module

vendors

budgets and pricing information

archives

Classification

DDC

CC

LC

NLM classification

Cataloging

MARC

ISBD

Koha Cataloging

Full Serials Support

Integrated Z39.50 Cataloging Module for record retrieval

Administration

Koha Admin

System Admin.

System Preferences

OPAC

General Search

Advanced Search

Reservation

Suggest to purchase

Koha Web Resources http://koha.org Koha Homepage http://www.ttllp.co.uk/koha/ Koha England Examples http://koha.athenscounty.lib.oh.us Nelsonville Public Library System's OPAC http://koha.org/drive Horowhenua Library Trust Intranet and OPAC Development and Communication http://sourceforge.net/projects/koha Koha project CVS host (2.2/2.0 source code repository/download) http://www.mjr.dsl.pipex.com/ Koha project Arch host (2.0 source code/repository/download) http://koha.org/wiki KohaWiki http://bugs.koha.org Koha bug reporting system http://koha.org/mailing/

Koha mailing lists page http://koha.org/irc/ http://hss-labs.cmsd.bc.ca/cgi-bin/kohalog.pl Koha IRC logs irc.katipo.co.nz port 6667 #Koha Koha IRC channel http://mjr.towers.org.uk/rings/koha-people-info.html Koha Webring Documentation http://kohadocs.org koha documentation project http://koha.org/manual The official Koha manual http://www.skemotah.com/Migrating_to_Koha.html Stephen Hedges' Koha migration guide

THANK YOU

Questions/Suggestions