On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:08:30PM +1100, Tasmanian Environment Centre said:
Hello Koha
We are a not-for-profit organisation and we run a small library (approx 10,000 items). We currently use a manual card system but would like to move to a system such as Koha. We have seem Koha online and it looks very good, but can you please tell us a bit more? What would it cost for start up and ongoing maintenance?
That mostly depends on what skills you have inhouse. If you have someone with a bit of IT knowledge you can do it yourself. It will still take some time to install, and to set it up. There are a few libraries in Australia running Koha, hopefully someone from one of them will see this question and share some of their experiences with you. If you dont have the inhouse skills to install Koha, then there are a couple of people in Australia who could help. http://koha.org/installation/support.html Or we at Katipo could also offer our skills. We will be at http://online.alia.org.au/ in Sydney in early february. And I think that Irma (who did a lot of work for Environmental and Earth Sciences Pty Koha install) will be there also.
Could we use Koha to make the catalogue searchable online via our website?
Sure can, UNIDO do just that, https://www.unido.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl as do the original Koha users (and pretty much the reason Koha exists) the Horowhenua library trust. http://opac.library.org.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl
What sort of computer and support software would we need?
With 10,000 items you wont need anything too flash. Koha will run under windows, but it will run better on a *nix based operating system (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris etc). Really the most important thing is RAM, you want as much RAM as you can afford basically :) Hope this is some help Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz