Library invests in Free Software (GNU-Friends) [LWN.net]

GNU-Friends reports on the use of the Koha library system by a library in Ohio. "Nelsonville Public Library, in Athens County, Ohio has recently decided to migrate to Koha, a free software integrated library system. While reviewing it, they decided that they felt that it needed three additional features to meet their needs. Instead of dropping it from consideration, they decided to take the money that they would otherwise spend on licensing fees and pay someone to implement these features."

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Happy Koha User and Developer

Posted Sep 6, 2002 18:54 UTC (Fri) by tonnesen (guest, #3589) [Link]

I've been using Koha since 2000, shortly after it was released. I am a network administrator for a public school district and am using Koha in several elementary schools in my district. The library budgets in the elementary schools in my district are very small, and money spent on library automation software is money much better spent on books.

I have made several changes to Koha over the course of the last couple of years. Initially I added a web-based circulation module to augment the original telnet interface. The telnet interface was designed to make circulation faster for Horowhenua who had to connect to their main server over dialup lines. In my case, the server was always on the same lan as the circulation desk, so user interface was more important than speed.