From saifulamin@yahoo.com Sun Nov 10 20:35:11 2002
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:49:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: "[iso-8859-1] Saiful Amin" 
To: lis-forum 
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Free opensource library database software


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Greetings,

I feel it would be an understatement to designate a complete library
automation software simply into a library database software, more so in
case of Koha, which is using MySQL for its backend database support.  We
have been testing Koha for almost six months now and found it to be
better managed than any other such product in the open source sector,
including PhpMyLibrary and for that matter even Greenstore.

After Pat Eyler became the Kaitiaki ('Guadian' in Maori language), the
manager, early this year there have been lot of activity in this
project.  There has been more number number of releases, more code
standardisation, and definitely more acceptance.  The Nelsonville Public
Library (NPL) network, Ohio with more than  36,000 active users base has
planned to migrate to using Koha and has funded the MARC21 support in
Koha version 1.4.x.

Being a web-based product makes it platform-independent.  It has already
quite a good number of features.  The z39.50 support has been added in
the version 1.2.2.  In addition, there has been two translations of Koha
going on in French (fr.koha.org) and German (de.koha.org).  Last week
someone informed of a plan for a Spanish translation.

Last month one Rob Weir has ported it to win32 environment, the download
for which is availble at : http://www.kohalabs.com/resources/Win32/

The part I found a bit lacking was its documentation.  Though a number of
persons has contributed in its documentation (avaibable at:
http://koha.org/manual/book1.html) its progress is slower than the
development in the software itself.

Regards,

Saiful Amin

 Subbiah Arunachalam  wrote:

      Friends:

      I received it in the mail and you might find it useful.
      Regards

      Arun

      Subject: Free opensource library database software


      Greetings everyone!
      I read in the ALIA (Australian Library and Information
      Asspociation) journal
      Incite, November 2002 about a free library database called
      Koha that is
      downloadable from the net and is also open source so that the
      software can be changed and refined by its users. The article
      was written by Christophe Augias, chief librarian of
      New-Caledonia's Territorial Library.

      ...

      Kind regards,
      Elizabeth Greef
      Sydney, Australia
      E: egreef@sacs.nsw.edu.au



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