Dear all, Koha is not well known in Norway yet, but awareness of it is slowly starting to grow... One of the features I think Norwegian librarians will be looking for is integrated support for inter-library loan. I have searched the mail-list archives and the wiki for information about whether this is on the horizon for Koha, but have not found anything substantial. This makes me wonder: is ILL not seen as something that should be part of the ILS in other parts of the world? I remember that some time ago a company called Relais International released their ILL software as Open Source - so maybe this means ILL is seen as a stand-alone application, rather than something that should be integrated into the ILS? http://www.relais-intl.com/relais/home/index.htm Any and all information/views on this is very welcome! Regards, Magnus Enger http://collib.info/
Hi, At 09.44 06/10/2008, Magnus Enger wrote:
Koha is not well known in Norway yet, but awareness of it is slowly starting to grow... One of the features I think Norwegian librarians will be looking for is integrated support for inter-library loan. I have searched the mail-list archives and the wiki for information about whether this is on the horizon for Koha, but have not found anything substantial. This makes me wonder: is ILL not seen as something that should be part of the ILS in other parts of the world?
I remember that some time ago a company called Relais International released their ILL software as Open Source - so maybe this means ILL is seen as a stand-alone application, rather than something that should be integrated into the ILS? http://www.relais-intl.com/relais/home/index.htm
Any and all information/views on this is very welcome!
Koha don't have an ILL module. Because the main targets of Koha ILS (not huge public libraries, schools libraries, private libraries) don't need a specific ILL module. You can manage ILL transation usign special patrons (for you not for the sistem) in the circulation module. Bye Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @)
Because the main targets of Koha ILS (not huge public libraries, schools libraries, private libraries) don't need a specific ILL module.
I think the large public libraries and consortia in the U.S. now switching to Koha would disagree with that characterization! Generally speaking, if something is not in Koha, it's because no one has deemed it so mission-critical that they have funded the development of that feature. This could be because they have higher funding priorities, or just because they don't have the money. If an ILL module was something of interest, I'd say the first step would be to put together an outline of what features it would include. See RFCs for Koha 3.2 for examples: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2 -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
"Magnus Enger" <magnus@enger.priv.no> wrote:
I remember that some time ago a company called Relais International released their ILL software as Open Source - so maybe this means ILL is seen as a stand-alone application, rather than something that should be integrated into the ILS? http://www.relais-intl.com/relais/home/index.htm
I've seen ILL implemented as checking out to an ILL "borrower" even on "big name" systems. I'm sure we could do better, but I'm not aware of current ILS-ILL standards. Are there any particularly useful ones? Thanks for your help, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237
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