[Koha] Switching to Koha unsupported

[jos.kohado at gmail.com]

Hi Matthew

Apologies for that late reply, I've been away from the list for some time.

I'm in a similar position to you right now, except I am running a non-DOS  
LMS, which I fear I will have to replace as it is giving no end of trouble.  
I am currently in the early stages of investigating going-it-alone with  
Koha for a college, and we now have an embryo Koha install with some test  
data in it which appears to work fine. I haven't yet seen a need to buy in  
support (famous last words?) as the community has so much information to  
offer, and people are so willing to share help, but I *have* needed my  
internal techie team, who've been really cooperative and helpful with the  
server side of things, and the support of my line and senior managers -  
going it alone may be free in terms of fees to external vendors, but it's a  
big drain on your time and you will need the full buy-in of your seniors to  
allow you the quality headroom to work things out.

I would be happy as another UK newbie to help with any questions you may  
have, especially if you think they may be a bit basic for the list! I must  
admit in the initial stages I spent quite a bit of time looking for answers  
to questions I thought were silly ones, rather than bother people on the  
open list, but since then I've noticed a lot of those questions have since  
been asked by other newbies and answered with good grace by the old hands.

So come on in, the water's lovely, and there's loads of friendly people  
with life rings :-)

Kindest regards
Jos

On 18 Jun 2010 15:36, "Keogh, Matthew" <Matthew.Keogh at eht.nhs.uk> wrote:

> Dear all

> I work in a small healthcare library, based in a general
> hospital in west London
> with an expanding user-base and a diminishing budget.

> We need a replacement for our aging DOS based library
> management system, but can't afford a commercial solution.

> Koha seems to fit our purposes, but I would appreciate some
> idea of how feasible it would be to implement on our own - without using
> vendors such as PTFS?

> Two of us staff the library and we both have a reasonable
> level of IT literacy. We also have a supportive hospital IT department.

> I would be grateful if anyone could share their experience
> of setting up and using Koha unsupported.

> Many thanks for your help.

> Matthew
> Ealing Hospital Library
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