[Koha] Koha as a federated library

[Anselm Olweny]

Thanks Savitra,

Could you guide further about how to implement this?

Anselm

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:54 AM, savitra sirohi <savitra.sirohi at osslabs.biz
> wrote:

> Anselm, nice work on Joomla integration!
>
> On the look & feel for each library I suggest you use the multi-opac
> feature in koha. With this feature you can assign different css files
> for each library. Also the search will be performed only on that
> library's items.
>
> You will need different sub-domains for each library.
>
> Here is an example:
> http://east.koha.dce.k12.wi.us/
> http://weston.koha.dce.k12.wi.us/
>
> Thanks,
> Savitra Sirohi
> Nucsoft OSS Labs
> http://www.osslabs.biz
>
> 2010/4/17 Anselm Olweny <aolweny at gmail.com>:
>  > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > I am setting up a federated library system using koha where each of the
> > libraries needs to have its own look and feel and also should be able to
> > search its own collection and also be able to search the collection of
> the
> > other libraries in the federation by the users choice. I have also
> > integrated koha into a CMS "joomla" in order to handle non koha pages.
> >
> > In my koha set up I have created the different libraries as branches and
> > activitated the IndependantBranches preference in koha. You can see this
> at
> > http://koha.apkn.org (koha in Joomla) or http://koha.apkn.org:81 (Koha
> pure)
> > or http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainug.pl and
> > http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainke.pl (Independent
> libraries).
> >
> > However, I am not sure whether this is the right way to set up federated
> > libraries using koha. Could someone kindly advise me about the right way
> to
> > set up federated libraries using koha?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Anselm
> >
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