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

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

Carts

Lists

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 Syndeticsfor covers, contents, scans, reviews

Library Thing or SOPAC 2for user generated content

Amazon

Amazon

Amazon

Drupal

Events

Exhibitions

Google

Google

Google

Google

Library Thing

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 NYUMedical

Libs

Guggenheim

WIPO

UNIDO

Koha for Consortia

MASSCAT

Plano ISD9

SEKLS

INCOLSA

NEKLS

CKLS

ASCC

Contacts

Chris Cormack

Catalyst IT Ltd.

chrisc@catalyst.net.nz

Joann Ransom

Horowhenua Library Trust

jransom@library.org.nz

Richard Anderson & Walter McGinnis

Katipo Communications Ltd.

richard@katipo.co.nz