Te Ihi, Te Wehi, Te Wana = Koha

Paul Nielsen Hauraki District LibrariesCath Sheard South Taranaki District Libraries

Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd

LIANZA ConferenceWellington – November 2011

Doc# 820589

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Te ihi - Passion

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Te wehi - People

• developers and support companies for Koha and other OSS do it because they believe in it

• ‘it’ being the philosophy, the community, the product and libraries. 

• Don't forget the librarians

• What better ‘values’ fit for libraries

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Te wana - Power

• support companies can provide the bridge

• You decide how much or how little you want them to do – after all it is your $!

• You can customise Koha 

• The power then is in the library’s hands 

• The power of community

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The Koha wave - Worldwide

• Recent NZ wave part of global shifto Library Journal’s “Automation Marketplace 2011”

• Open source vs. the proprietary ILS

• Koha momentum, 2010 contracts

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The power behind the wave #1

Automation Marketplace 2011: The New Frontier, by Marshall Breeding, LibraryJournal.com, 01/04/2011, accessed 13/04/2011.

Jo Ransom, Head of Libraries at HLT, as quoted in Small town software has fans in high places, by Anthony Doesburg, NZ Herald, 27/10/10, accessed 13/04/11.

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Koha Around the World

World Wide•Nat Lib Venezuela•2nd most used in France•Academic Libraries in India, France, Mexico, US•Public libraries in Pakistan, Malaysia, The Phillipines•Public and academic libraries in the South Pacific•All primary schools in Prince Edward Is, Canada•Translated into 65 languages and counting including Hindi, Cyrilic and Te Rēo•Delhi Public Library

New Zealand•Horowhenua Library Trust•South Taranaki DC•Hauraki DC•Waitaki DC•Rangitikei DC•Plant & Food•ERO•Metservice•SSC and Treasury•Family Planning NZ•OPUS

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The Kiwi Koha wave - finally!

• Floodgates opened in late 2010

• Hauraki, Plant and Food, South Taranaki, Treasury, Waitaki

• Critical mass in NZ to drive development

• How to explain the prior lack of uptake in NZ?

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Koha is the ultimate shared service

• Philosophical match with libraries

• Real value and return on your investment – changes you want are made

• You contribute to the development and direction of Koha

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Want more Koha?

• pauln@hauraki-dc.govt.nz

• chrisc@catalyst.net.nz

• cath.sheard@stdc.govt.nz

• http://onl.org.nz/home

• http://koha-community.org/

• http://library.hauraki-dc.govt.nz/

• http://catalyst.net.nz/

• @paulcnielsen

• @ranginui

• @cathsheardnz

• @kohails

• #kohails

• NZ Users Group

• Download & go!10

Now its your turn

• Hands-on time

• Some set tasks

• Roving help

• Questions

• Wrap up at end

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