Please remove me from the mailing lists. Thank you, Kathy Hines. Circulation Manager Lawton Public Library 110 SW 4th Street Lawton, OK 73501 580-581-3450, Ext. 104 -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 3:13 PM To: kathryn@catalyst.net.nz Cc: Koha-List Subject: Re: [Koha] How many Koha libraries are there worldwide? Hi, On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Kathryn Tyree <kathryn@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

Liz Rea who runs koha-community.org in her own time (thank you Liz) just let me know that there were 2684 unique visits to the Koha download page, from 1-21 August. That's 21 days, 2684/21 = 128 unique visits per day. Lets multiply that by 365 and we have 46,720 visits in 1 year (they won't all be unique when we do this based on a 3 week sample, but it's an indication). Koha has been around for going on 17 years, and we all know that the rate of libraries leaving Koha is really really low :-)

Based on the logs of the Koha Apt server, the full koha-common Debian package was downloaded 25,210 times in the past 52 weeks from 9,429 unique IP addresses. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Software, Inc. / Open Your Library email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

I generally agree with the Catalyst that the number of implementations around the world is something in the 15,000 range. I often mention in my talks that it is likely that Koha is the most implemented ILS globally. I would like to be able to better document this assertion. I know that there are many Koha implementations missing from the libraries.org directory I maintain. I've mentioned this before, but any help the Koha community could lend in registering libraries using Koha in the directory would be very useful and would help bring recognition to its global impact. -marshall Marshall Breeding Editor, Library Technology Guides www.librarytechnology.org Marshall.breeding@librarytechnology.org twitter.com/mbreeding -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Kathryn Tyree Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 10:29 PM To: mik@adminkuhn.ch Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] How many Koha libraries are there worldwide? Hi Michael, and all, Catalyst say "around 15,000" lately, and feel pretty confident that this is still a conservative number. Why? As Michael said, many libraries choose not to report anywhere that they use Koha, or might not think to do it, and the project does not make it compulsory. We know this looking at http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-processquery.pl?ILS=Koha because we can see gaps where many countries that have strong/prolific Koha communities are not well-represented. It's an English-speaking website - some Koha libraries may be unable to access it or have no reason to engage with it. Liz Rea who runs koha-community.org in her own time (thank you Liz) just let me know that there were 2684 unique visits to the Koha download page, from 1-21 August. That's 21 days, 2684/21 = 128 unique visits per day. Lets multiply that by 365 and we have 46,720 visits in 1 year (they won't all be unique when we do this based on a 3 week sample, but it's an indication). Koha has been around for going on 17 years, and we all know that the rate of libraries leaving Koha is really really low :-) *If* we all reported to hea.koha-community.org we could tell a more complete story (I'm not pointing the finger, Catalyst don't currently report all our customers to Hea - I mean to ask them all though!) We don't know for sure how many libraries in New Zealand use Koha. It's around 80-100 if you count by physical branches, rather than organisations. There are 49 items in librarytechnology.org that match Koha+New Zealand, so NZ is only approx half-reported there, and we speak ok English ;) There are loads more Koha libraries around the pacific, often supported out of NZ or Australia. Best wishes, Kathryn On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 01:45 +0200, Michael Kuhn wrote:

Hi

I wonder how many libraries worldwide are using Koha.

At the moment Marshall Breedings wonderful website libraries.org lists 4'352 libraries using Koha: * http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-processquery.pl?ILS=Koha

I always thought there are about 4'000 or meanwhile even 6'000 libraries using Koha, since of course not everyone is listing their library in libraries.org.

But today I was thrilled to find the number of "around 15'000" Koha libraries in an article by Catalyst: * https://www.catalyst-eu.net/news/koha-introduction-courses

Does anyone have other numbers? Or does anyone have the approximate numbers for his own country?

For Austria, Germany and Switzerland I try to find every Koha library, these are the current numbers (http://adminkuhn.ch/wiki/Koha/Anwender), but not counting library branches:

* Austria: 7 * Germany: 37 * Switzerland: 7

Best wishes, Michael

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