For many years, we have been relying heavily on open source applications in our school – on the server, but also on the computers and laptops. Especially on the server-side, open source software is widely used and many great software projects can be used wonderfully in a school. Therefore today Read more…
For 1.5 years our school uses almost exclusively Open Source software. This step has already saved us more than 5000€ in license costs in this short time. But that’s not our main reason for using open source software. The reasons are as follows: Freedom and independence from a vendor the low Read more…
Koha, an integrated library system, is one of the best open source projects I know. We use it in our school and teaching materials library. It is used by many schools, universities and libraries all over the world. It has a lot of features and you can configure and customize Read more…
After a long break, we continue today with the series “How to install and set up Koha for schools”. After the system has been installed, the bibliographic framework has been set up and basic settings have been made, this article will deal with adding of books in Koha and cataloging. Read more…
Koha is one of the best open source projects I know. It’s a very flexible solution, which takes some time to get used to. However, we have already worked through most of the points, especially the installation (part 1) and the bibliographic framework (part 2). In the last part we Read more…
So far we have installed and configured Koha and catalogued the first media. The barcodes are printed and stick in the books. Actually, everything is waiting for us to finally be able to check out the books to our readers. One last step is still missing and that’s what it’s Read more…
After installing Koha in the first part and setting up the bibliographic framework in the second part, today we have to make some basic settings in Koha. We want to create new categories for our users and items, as well as change some system parameters. This article is part of Read more…
In the first part of this series we have already installed Koha. Before we can record or loan a book, some settings have to be made. A major topic is the bibliographic framework. We already chose MARC21 at the installation. What that is, why it is important and how we Read more…
We use Koha for our library, a very powerful and great open source software. On the project’s mailing list I had already read about the “Koha auto increment” problem and hoped it didn’t affect us. But a few weeks ago, one of our staff members from the school library came Read more…