[Koha] Anyone have an annual circulation of over 10 million transactions

[Greg Barniskis]

On 8/7/2013 3:51 PM, Kate Boyle wrote:

> As a question of personal interest, does any library or consortia running Koha have an annual circulation of over 10 million transactions.   If so, could you please reply with library name and number of circs.

Hi all,

If you can discount for a moment the fact that LibLime Koha is not Koha, 
or at least agree that it is (or was) based on Koha, I think the South 
Central Library System of Wisconsin [1] runs one of the largest examples 
that you'll find [2] of any in-production system based on Koha 
technology. At least, we were the biggest fish in the pond when we 
started our migration a few years ago.

The SCLS consortium consists of 53 library locations in 7 counties, 
having 830,000 shared bib records. We clear around one million circs per 
month, and 300,000 hold requests. Total issues and renewals for 2012: 
11.97 million.

Our heavy footprint was one of the reasons that LibLime added Plack to 
its fork, and that made a dramatic difference in performance. I 
understand that the Koha community also has also integrated Plack into 
mainstream Koha and made other performance enhancements, so I'm 
optimistic that Koha can scale up pretty high. Probably the key would be 
implementation in the right hardware and network environment (multiple 
platforms, optimized, with load balancing).

[1] http://www.scls.info/
[2] http://www.linkcat.info/

-- 
Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator
South Central Library System (SCLS)
<gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 242-4716