Koha 3.2 : The next step

Koha 3.2 : the next step Joann Ransom – Horowhenua Library Trust. Chris Cormack – Catalyst IT Ltd.

Outline
• Intro to Koha
• Koha 3.2 features
• Community
• Librarians in a FOSS world
• Koha for consortia

Intro to Koha
• 1999 by HLT & Katipo Communications
• GNU GPL license Version 2, 2000
• Active community
• Lots of development
• Koha 3.0 Dec 2008
• Koha 3.2 Nov 2009

Koha 3.2
A full featured modern ILS
Free / Open source
No vendor lockin
Library standards and protocols
Multi platform
Can be fully integrated it into your website.

Features
Customisable
Translations
MARC
Z39.50 or copy cataloguing
Report and export
Label maker
RSS feeds
Email or text notifications
Sip2 / RFID

Built-in “web 2.0”
Tags
Reviews
Comments
Lists, carts, virtual shelves
Purchase suggestions
RSS feeds
Zotero

OPAC
As a customer I want to know:
everything you have on file about ME
what you HAVE
HERE and NOW
How to FIND it
Is it USEFUL to me?
and what happens if I can't find anything?

Translations Select translation Mandarin or Taiwanese Te Reo

Current loans

View Account

Reserves

Reading History

Notifications

Recommendations

Finding stuff Keyword Advanced Faceted searching By collections

Finding stuff Keyword Advanced Tags

faceted searching

format icon & location info Options for what next

Digital content from Kete

Content from Koha sits alongside digital content from Kete plus Digital NZ

Imported Enrichment
Amazon, Google or Syndetics
for covers, contents, scans, reviews
Library Thing or SOPAC 2
for user generated content

Amazon

Drupal

Events

Exhibitions

Google

Library Thing

Vanilla Koha

Vanilla OPAC

Albany High

Nelsonville

Total Web Presence
Koha
Kete
Could add in a CMS
Drupal, Joomla, Kea
then apply Design
Artist
html skill

Community
• 38+ active developers pushing enhancements and fixes
• Translations

Libraries and FOSS
Both...
• Believe that information should be freely accessible to everyone
• Give away stuff
• Benefit from the generosity of others
• Are about communities
• Make the world a better place :)

Librarians in a FOSS World
What you want NOT what you are given
System admin skills
Irc – chat, meetings
Bug reporting, testing and enhancement requests
Sharing, helping, asking
Discussion lists
Wikis

Vendors NZ
All do installations but specialities too
• Katipo : design, koha and kete
• Catalyst : development
• Koha Aloha : support, data migration Australians working in NZ:
• Calyx : librarians, marc, migration, policy, training.
Coopetition

Koha Libraries
Europe, North America & Asia 25% each
Oceania, S. America & Africa 25% combined
Kerala State Delhi NYU Medical Libs Guggenheim WIPO UNIDO

Koha for Consortia MASSCAT Plano ISD9 SEKLS INCOLSA NEKLS CKLS ASCC

Contacts
Chris Cormack
Catalyst IT Ltd.
[email_address]
Joann Ransom Horowhenua Library Trust [email_address] Richard Anderson & Walter McGinnis Katipo Communications Ltd. [email_address]

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Koha 3.2 : The next step

by Joann Ransom on Jan 20, 2010

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