Managing Koha Installs in a Developing Country

Managing Koha installs in Managing Koha installs in a developing countrya developing countryOlugbenga AdaraProjektlink Konsult LimitedIbadan, Nigeria(Presentation at Kohacon12, Edinburgh, Scotland)

Who am I?Who am I?ICT Consultant with Projektlink

Konsult Limited, Ibadan, NigeriaProjektlink Konsult Limited is a

Koha support company Also into Management Training

and Business Systems AutomationAbout 17 Koha installs in the past

5 yearsWhat else?

So what’s different about So what’s different about DCs?DCs?So what’s different about DCs?Developing countries are in

general countries which have not achieved a significant degree of industrialization relative to their populations, and which have, in most cases a medium to low standard of living. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country)

So practically I mean - So practically I mean - Low infrastructureHuman resources issuesMost have no form of automation Data entry / analogue to digital

migration is a major issue

Managing the challengesManaging the challenges

Where there is no (reliable) Internet Access

Using a virtual machine for offsite installation. Vmware (or Virtualbox).

Clone virtual and restore on physical using clonezilla

Upgrades – Only manually possibleWhen major upgrades required?

Koha in Virtual MachineKoha in Virtual Machine

ClonezillaClonezilla

Managing the challengesManaging the challenges

Human resources / trainingSimplify training – Patrons

management, Cataloguing and Circulation

Very simple Book/Journal Cataloguing Framework

Automated scripts for backups

Simple Koha FrameworkSimple Koha Framework

Managing the challengesManaging the challengesAnalogue records to digital migration

Scan isbn when available Use MarcEdit to search for

records in batchesUpload into reservoir

orAdd koha items (952) and import

into kohaAny better method?

Batch processing in Batch processing in MarcEditMarcEdit

ConclusionConclusion

Koha has given Nigerian Libraries / Librarians an opportunity to be on the main stream of library technology despite several challenges

Links to mentioned toolsLinks to mentioned toolsMarcedit -

http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php

Clonezilla - http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php

VMWare - https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads

Virtualbox - https://www.virtualbox.org/

QuestionsQuestions

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