HI Does anyone know of a primary school using Koha????, - and if so can you send me their contact details please. Thanks -- ICT Teacher Waipa Primary School Phone & Fax 07 824 8228 Direct Dial into Classroom: 07 824 8276
Hi, I'm new to this list and to Koha. My daughter's primary school needs/wants an automated library management system, both hardware and software. The school has very little money. I found Koha on Google the other night, and it seems right to me. I am going to suggest to the school that I set up Koha using a couple of recycled machines running Debian, and hopefully get the library automated for (a good deal) less than a grand. I'm currently speccing the system, and I have a few questions :). (I have had a look around your archives, and the site). Firstly, is there a Debian package? Someone was talking about it last year, but I can't see what happened next. Secondly, the FAQ says the more RAM the merrier (naturally). Would 256 mb be ok on a machine serving one client, with a db of about 3000 books? My primary motivations are cost-management and user acceptance, so reasonably fast performance must be weighed against the cost and availability of second-hand machines with more than 256 Ram. Thirdly, is Koha *easy* for me to install, set up, and administer? I have no idea about library management, nor do I know what OPAC stands for, etc. But I do know Debian, and databases, and networking...The school has a card-based system, and the librarian is a part-timer who is not tech literate at all. So an honest assessment of whether Koha is appropriate in this situation would be very much appreciated. (I hope the answer is a strong "yes!") May I finish by congratulating you on your effort. Mark H Melbourne, Australia PS I don't have a Linux machine set up at the moment, otherwise I'd download Koha and have a look around. -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of Sue Ware Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 6:02 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Primary Schools using Koha HI Does anyone know of a primary school using Koha????, - and if so can you send me their contact details please. Thanks -- ICT Teacher Waipa Primary School Phone & Fax 07 824 8228 Direct Dial into Classroom: 07 824 8276 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Mark Hatherly wrote:
Hi, I'm new to this list and to Koha. My daughter's primary school needs/wants an automated library management system, both hardware and software. The school has very little money. I found Koha on Google the other night, and it seems right to me. I am going to suggest to the school that I set up Koha using a couple of recycled machines running Debian, and hopefully get the library automated for (a good deal) less than a grand. I'm currently speccing the system, and I have a few questions :). (I have had a look around your archives, and the site). Firstly, is there a Debian package? Someone was talking about it last year, but I can't see what happened next. Secondly, the FAQ says the more RAM the merrier (naturally). Would 256 mb be ok on a machine serving one client, with a db of about 3000 books? My primary motivations are cost-management and user acceptance, so reasonably fast performance must be weighed against the cost and availability of second-hand machines with more than 256 Ram. Thirdly, is Koha *easy* for me to install, set up, and administer? I have no idea about library management, nor do I know what OPAC stands for, etc. But I do know Debian, and databases, and networking...The school has a card-based system, and the librarian is a part-timer who is not tech literate at all. So an honest assessment of whether Koha is appropriate in this situation would be very much appreciated. (I hope the answer is a strong "yes!") May I finish by congratulating you on your effort.
128 mb is, imho, enough, so 256 is great. 3000 books is a small library? koha is quite easy to install if you know how to configure apache. If you don't, it's a little less easy, but the doc is quite good. The biggest problem in the actual version of koha, for a librarian, is that it's not marc compliant. So, you should ask you daughter if this could be a problem for her or her boss. Note the next version will be marc compliant. for the last sentence, yes, you can congratulate us ;-) -- Paul
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 22:43, Mark Hatherly wrote:
Hi, I'm new to this list and to Koha. My daughter's primary school needs/wants an automated library management system, both hardware and software. The school has very little money. I found Koha on Google the other night, and it seems right to me. I am going to suggest to the school that I set up Koha using a couple of recycled machines running Debian, and hopefully get the library automated for (a good deal) less than a grand. I'm currently speccing the system, and I have a few questions :). (I have had a look around your archives, and the site). Firstly, is there a Debian package?
Yes there is Steve Tonnesen has been working on packaging koha up and he has a debian package on one of his servers. Ill ask him to pop the address up.
Someone was talking about it last year, but I can't see what happened next. Secondly, the FAQ says the more RAM the merrier (naturally). Would 256 mb be ok on a machine serving one client, with a db of about 3000 books? My primary motivations are cost-management and user acceptance, so reasonably fast performance must be weighed against the cost and availability of second-hand machines with more than 256 Ram.
As paul said 256mb should be plenty. With 3000 books mysql should be able to keep a lot of the tables in ram (which makes everything faster).
Thirdly, is Koha *easy* for me to install, set up, and administer? I have no idea about library management, nor do I know what OPAC stands for, etc. But I do know Debian, and databases, and networking...The school has a card-based system, and the librarian is a part-timer who is not tech literate at all. So an honest assessment of whether Koha is appropriate in this situation would be very much appreciated. (I hope the answer is a strong "yes!") May I finish by congratulating you on your effort.
For the debian package, if you are familair with debian then it is very easy. The tarball is a bit harder and in fact id recommend downloading a nightly cvs tarball http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/koha-cvsroot.tar.gz Or checking the files out of cvs. Koha 1.1.1 is quite dated now. Hope this helps Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz
On 12 Mar 2002, Chris Cormack wrote:
Yes there is Steve Tonnesen has been working on packaging koha up and he has a debian package on one of his servers. Ill ask him to pop the address up.
Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://mail.cmsd.bc.ca/debian local main and run: apt-get install koha Steve Tonnesen.
Hi folks, thanks for the responses to my questions. I hope to install Koha on a test system this weekend. -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of Tonnesen Steve Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:30 AM To: Chris Cormack Cc: Mark Hatherly; koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha for my daughter's primary school? On 12 Mar 2002, Chris Cormack wrote:
Yes there is Steve Tonnesen has been working on packaging koha up and he has a debian package on one of his servers. Ill ask him to pop the address up.
Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://mail.cmsd.bc.ca/debian local main and run: apt-get install koha Steve Tonnesen. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, [iso-8859-1] Sue Ware wrote:
Does anyone know of a primary school using Koha????, - and if so can you send me their contact details please.
I have a few primary (elementary actually, K-7) schools using Koha. Do you want to contact me (a technician) or a librarian at one of the schools? Steve.
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