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 have been told this LC issue will be in place for the next release.
ya hoo!

ed sharpe archivist for smecc


> Subj:Re: [Koha] Library System - good system, LC problem 
> Date:4/21/2004 1:45:28 PM US Mountain Standard Time
> From:baljkas at mb.sympatico.ca
> To:pgichiri at strathmore.edu, koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> CC:baljkas at mts.net
> Sent from the Internet 



Wednesday, April 21, 2004    15:05 CDT

Greetings, Peter,

Just a 'quick' reply to your message inquiring about Koha, that others on the 
listserv will hopefully augment with their wisdom.

First, I (and many others) think Koha is a great system. It is extremely 
versatile and compared to other ILS that one would have to purchase at significant 
cost, it is astoundingly good.

In terms of technical support and further development, the prospects are at 
least as good. Most questions to the listserv receive a response within 24 
hours, usually less. The community is very good at lending a hand with advice.

Development is continual and the nice thing there is that, being an open 
source product, your library could direct further development along lines that 
would give you features you wanted simply by financing the programming and/or 
appealing to the Koha community to see if some nice volunteer could effect the 
change you wanted.

As people write in to the listserv with different questions and requests for 
features, many are added to the programmer's 'bug' lists for future work. If 
you look back at the archive of message, you can see how much has been 
accomplished in just one year (something we should all be applauding and thanking the 
developpers for)!!.

There are only 2 significant issues that I can see in terms of your library 
adopting Koha.

The first is that it would be preferable if there were a member of the 
systems administration team who were familiar or willing to familarise him- or 
herself with the program so that you would have technical support closer to home.

The second -- and this is really the major one -- is that Koha is NOT at 
present compatible viz. LC classification numbers. I am not sure what the progress 
has been in the last several months towards that. I know that the 
understandable focus of the developpers has been on achieving a stable 2.0 release, which 
is now done.

In the meantime, perhaps somebody on the development side could reply with a 
guesstimation on how long it might be until LC-numbers are usable within Koha. 
Also, if there is a library that uses LC classification that has found a way 
around this issue, it would be helpful to let the community know.

Hope this lengthy response helps a bit, Peter. I think your library would 
ultimately benefit greatly by adopting Koha.

Best wishes in your automation/migration project,

Steven F. Baljkas
library tech at large
Koha neophyte (and cheerleader!)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Peter Gichiri 
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 4:09 AM
> Subject: [Koha] Library System
> 
> 
I am an assistant librarian working at Strathmore university, an up-coming 
university in Kenya, Africa. We are scouting for a library system that will 
address all the aspects of the library. We are using the Library of Congress 
systems of cataloging books. We hope to have a system that is compatible with other 
departments of the university for we share enough information with other 
department. The university has a well laid computer network.

Is Koha a suitable system and what are is the best way ahead.

Peter Wanyoike Gichiri
Ass. Librarian
Strathmore University


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