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Hi Marius, <br>
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Welcome to the global Koha community :)<br>
<br>
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My 2 comments....<br>
<br>
"Upgrading the open source community version of Koha has become
straight forward.<br>
Most IT supported Koha libraries don't know the frustration of
running an outdated LMS."<br>
<br>
"Koha is free-of-licensing-fees <br>
Koha has all the
features of hugely expensive proprietary offerings".
<br>
<br>
Best wishes and hope to meet you at the 2011 Koha conference.<br>
<br>
Irma<br>
-- <br>
Irma Birchall<br>
CALYX information essentials<br>
Koha & Kete implementations and services<br>
T:(02) 80061603<br>
M: 0413 510 717<br>
<a href="mailto:irma@calyx.net.au"><u>irma@calyx.net.au</u></a><br>
<a href="http://www.calyx.net.au/"><u>www.calyx.net.au</u></a><br>
<a href="http://koha-community.org/"><u>http://koha-community.org/</u></a><br>
<a href="http://kete.net.nz/"><u>http://kete.net.nz/</u></a><br>
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On 3/02/2011 1:54 AM, Marius Stoica wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTin_+20L9YarQQZOGSu0BoaACpgDEgx5PJ7hmtze@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><span class="fplc">Hi everybody !!!
</span><br>
<br>
My name is Marius Stoica, I am a librarian at the <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://aradlibrary.org">Arad County
Public Library</a> from Romania. We are trying for some time to
find the best and the most convenient Integrated Library System.
We have finally two choices: our current ILS, a proprietary
software that is immature and quite experimental and, of course,
Koha. Next week I will make an official presentation of Koha and
my colegues will have a trail period of about one week to test a
Koha demo. Aftar that we will decide which of these two ILS to use
and end this period of transition.<br>
<br>
In the last weeks I become quite familiar with Koha and a biG bIG
BIG fan <img goomoji="330" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex;
vertical-align: middle;"
src="cid:part1.02080305.02060808@gmail.com">, I would like to
see our library using Koha, even more, I would like to see a
community of Koha users in my country. There are two small
libraries that use Koha in Romania. Both are specialized academic
libraries. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://aradlibrary.org/">Arad County Public Library</a>
can be the first encyclopedic medium size library that uses Koha
and this can be an extraordinary revelation for the other county
libraries from Romania. Two ideas that can stand as a revelation:
<br>
<ul>
<li>first, there is the fact that with Koha you can implement a
faster, easier and cheaper consortium network for all the
libraries in a county, while in Romania there is no functional
consortium of county public libraries;</li>
<li>second, there is the fact that librarians from Romania and
the public servants in general are not aware of other choices
regarding the IT infrastructure, i.e. free, open source
software and the empowering and emancipation this kind of
software can bring in the field of work.</li>
</ul>
So, I want to have as many arguments as possible to advocate Koha
in front of my colleges and the administration stuff of our
library.<br>
I will appreciate any kind of support, advice or good thought.<br>
<br>
Warm regards,<br>
Marius Stoica<br>
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