[Koha] Koha Usage Examples

[Ian Bays]

Hi Mark,

Staffordshire University in the UK is using the Community version of 
Koha.  Dave Parkes blog includes the announcement in 2010:

http://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/informationlandscape/2010/12/10/staffordshire-university-chooses-koha-for-its-new-library-system/

Also the British Library for Development Studies may be relevant:

http://blds.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/migrating_to_koha_a_BLDS_journey.pdf

There are also some Health libraries that sometimes are seen as 
academic.  These and the above all use the Koha Community Open Source 
Software.

I see others have advised about the history concerning Koha-Community 
and Liblime.

I hope this helps.
Ian

On 29/01/2013 12:18, Mark Johnson wrote:
> Hello Koha Community
> My name's Mark Johnson, and I work for OSS Watch at the University of 
> Oxford.  Recently, we published a document entitled "Open Source 
> Options for Education"[1] which includes a mention of Koha.
>
> After we announced the document's publication, we received some 
> feedback from the Koha community via Twitter that we'd given the wrong 
> link and a misleading example of Koha's usage, so I've come here to 
> make sure that we can set it right.
>
> We've not changed the link for Koha to point to koha-community.org, as 
> requested by a message on Twitter[2].
>
> We were also informed that our example of Koha being used at the 
> University of the West of England was in fact "LibLime Academic Koha", 
> which "is not FOSS, nor has it ever been"[3].  This is obviously a 
> misunderstanding on my part.  It was my understanding that LibLime was 
> simply a company providing commercial support for the open source Koha 
> product.  Am I now correct in believing that it (also?) produces a 
> separate, closed-source product called "LibLime Academic Koha"?  Any 
> background to this would be very much appreciated.
>
> Finally, if anyone would be willing to share an example of the open 
> source Koha system being used in their educational institution for me 
> to use in place of the UWE example, particularly if they are based in 
> the UK, I would be very grateful indeed!
>
> Many Thanks
> Mark Johnson
>
> [1] http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/ossoptionseducation
> [2] https://twitter.com/nengard/status/293088894000451585
> [3] https://twitter.com/KohaAloha/status/293313158410534913
>


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