Our school is planning on moving from a homegrown to a hosted ILS. Two options that are being considered are Koha and Follet Destiny® Resource Management Solution. Anyone have good comparison or personal comments to make? I did try out a version of Koha myself about 2 years back, but I did find it hard to add books without having to type in all the information ourselves (vs just pulling the info from Amazon or some similar central source) I like the open source nature of Koha, but we are based in Mexico City and none of the schools in our association are using Koha. For background we are a bilingual K-12 school w/ about 2000 students over 4 campuses. (this means we have 4 classroom sized libraries) Thanks! -Erik -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Koha-vs-Follet-comparison-tp26120715p26120715.html Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
2009/10/29 ErikTPeterson <erik.peterson@gmail.com>:
Our school is planning on moving from a homegrown to a hosted ILS. Two options that are being considered are Koha and Follet Destiny® Resource Management Solution. Anyone have good comparison or personal comments to make? I did try out a version of Koha myself about 2 years back, but I did find it hard to add books without having to type in all the information ourselves (vs just pulling the info from Amazon or some similar central source)
I don't know Follet, but I do know that "copy cataloguing" with Koha is fairly easy, have a look at the section called "Using Z39.50 for Copy Cataloging" at the bottom of this page: http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.2/cataloging/adding-records As long as you have access to Z39.50 servers with records that match what you want to catalogue, it couldn't be much easier! ;-) Regards, Magnus Enger libriotech.no
There are more and more features coming to Koha that make it more school friendly. For the price though it can't be beat. I have several districts using Follett Destiny watching how our implementation goes with Koha. No matter what you do it takes time to get any system just the way you want it. David Schuster Plano ISD Plano Texas Magnus Enger wrote:
2009/10/29 ErikTPeterson <erik.peterson@gmail.com>:
Our school is planning on moving from a homegrown to a hosted ILS. Two options that are being considered are Koha and Follet Destiny® Resource Management Solution. Anyone have good comparison or personal comments to make? I did try out a version of Koha myself about 2 years back, but I did find it hard to add books without having to type in all the information ourselves (vs just pulling the info from Amazon or some similar central source)
I don't know Follet, but I do know that "copy cataloguing" with Koha is fairly easy, have a look at the section called "Using Z39.50 for Copy Cataloging" at the bottom of this page: http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.2/cataloging/adding-records
As long as you have access to Z39.50 servers with records that match what you want to catalogue, it couldn't be much easier! ;-)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "ErikTPeterson" <erik.peterson@gmail.com> To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:03 PM Subject: [Koha] Koha vs Follet comparison
Our school is planning on moving from a homegrown to a hosted ILS. Two options that are being considered are Koha and Follet Destiny® Resource Management Solution. Anyone have good comparison or personal comments to make? I did try out a version of Koha myself about 2 years back, but I did find it hard to add books without having to type in all the information ourselves (vs just pulling the info from Amazon or some similar central source)
I like the open source nature of Koha, but we are based in Mexico City and none of the schools in our association are using Koha.
For background we are a bilingual K-12 school w/ about 2000 students over 4 campuses. (this means we have 4 classroom sized libraries)
Thanks! -Erik -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Koha-vs-Follet-comparison-tp26120715p26120715.html Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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