This talk has been given during LLA conference in Beiruth, May 2016. It present the Koha ILS project, and end with a few slides about BibLibre

1. The world's first free and
open source library system
A presentation by

2. Who I am
● Paul Poulain, French (Marseille)
● Open source fan since 1997
● Involved in Koha since early 2002
● Former Koha Release Manager[v 2.0, 2.2, 3.8, 3.10]
● Founder of BibLibre, Open Source for libraries
● Paul.poulain@biblibre.com, twitter :
paul_poulain

3. What is ?

4. An Open Source ILS

5. Developped
since 2000
by 250+ volunteers worldwide
More than
10000 libraries
use it today

6. Major release
2 times a year
A regular release schedule
Maintenance release
every month

7. A fully featured ILS
Web platform (staff and
OPAC)
Easy to use
Easy to deploy

8. Fully themable

9. Complete acquisition module
Patron suggestions
Budget
Book vendors
EDIFACT

10. Full cataloging module
MARC 21
UNIMARC

11. Circulation
Check-out
Check-in
Holds
Transfers between
branches
RFID
Self-checkout support

12. Serials management
Subscription
Expected issues
Claiming late
issues,...

13. Members management
Including :
LDAP
CAS
Shibboleth

14. Statistics

15. Lots of parameters

16. Plans for the future
● New search engine (Elastic Search)
● Interoperability (restful Webservices for all
modules)
● Link with other Library software (Coral for
ERM, Drupal or Bokeh for portal)

17. Some myths
● Open Source is not sustainable
– Koha is supported by 10+ organizations all around
the world, including some ministries (Argentina,
Turkey), and for profit companies
● Open Source is not reliable
– With more than 10000 libraries including ALL
public libraries in Argentina, all public libraries in
Turkey, 10+ universities in France, not reliable,
really ?

18. Some myths
● Open Source is free (cost nothing)
– Not really. The software is available for free. But
setting it, maintaining it, developing it, require an
effort. That can be either money (support
company) or time (internal IT staff)
● Open Source need IT proficiency
– Not more, not less than a proprietary software
– BUT you have the choice to do it yourself or ask a
support company

19. References
● Main websites:
– Koha: http://koha-community.org
– Drupal : http://www.drupal.org
– Bokeh: http://www.bokeh-library-portal.org
– Coral: http://coral-erm.org
– BibLibre: http://www.biblibre.com

20. First company in Europe
dedicated to Open Source for
libraries

21. ● 8 French Universities migrated to Koha
First company worldwide in
terms of community involvement

22. Services
Cloud services
More than 70 customers in
our private cloud
Support and
maintenance
150+ customers,
600+ libraries
supported
Project
management
With a dedicated
project manager

23. Training
Learn how to
master Koha
Migration
We have some of the
best specialists
Development
Adjust Koha to
your needs
Services

24. 8 French universities and 10+ large
public libraries migrated to
55 libraries
1.5 million items
70 000 patrons
The largest being :

25. High quality service
during the project
At
we promise

26. High quality service
during maintenance
Support plateform accessible 24/7
Quick bugfixes when needed
Updates every quarter
Major upgrade once a year

27. Koha is free software
BibLibre is supporting your
freedom

28. Contact us:
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commercial@biblibre.com
www.biblibre.com/en
Thank you
Learn more about us:
www.koha-community.org
Learn more about Koha: