Koha is an Open Source Integrated Library System (http://www.koha.org); we’re currently in the process of migrating our nine libraries to it from our previous ILS, Winnebago Circ/Cat. Currently two have been completed and more will be migrated in the coming months. We’re creating this page due to frequent questions from our library colleagues about our migration.

To test drive our Koha catalog, visit http://catalog.ccfls.org. Currently it contains about 120,000 materials; by the completion of our migration we expect it to contain somewhere between 200,000 to 300,000.

We are running dev_week, a transitional version of Koha that uses the Zebra indexing engine to increase search speed with larger collections. The next official release of Koha (3.0) will also use Zebra. Dev_week is available via cvs at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/koha. Currently our custom Intranet template is only available in dev_week and Koha 2.2. Our public catalog uses a version of Nelsonville Public Library’s template.

CCFLS Intranet screenshot:

Our on-staff developer, Kyle Hall, has created Koha-Tools, a suite of tools to be used in conjunction with Koha. It includes our migration scripts, an offline circulation module, reports, and a WordPress search plugin, among many other things.

He has also put together a vmware image of Koha 2.2.9, available here: http://kylehall.info/index.php/projects/koha/koha-virtual-appliance

Our server is running Ubuntu Dapper Drake LTS, amd64-server edition. It has dual 2.0ghz AMD Opteron 246 processors and 6 GB memory.

Links:

• Koha.org
• CCFLS’s Koha public catalog
• Zebra, from IndexData
• kohadocs.org
• The Koha Developer’s wiki
• Koha-Tools
• Koha 2.2.9 vmware image