[Koha] Perceptions 2009: An International Survey of Library Automation

MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop
Mon Jan 25 13:29:32 NZDT 2010


Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>
> Marshall Breeding has published his annual Library Automation
> Perceptions Report:
> http://www.librarytechnology.org/perceptions2009.pl  Koha came out
> pretty darn well when independently hosted.  What I'm surprised about
> is that the non-US Koha support companies are missing. This means that
> next year we need to get more international Koha libraries to answer
> the survey!!

Some already answer, but they were classified as Koha -- Independent
even when they are hosted by us (and not just us installing and/or
supporting their server).

The big problem I have with that survey is that libraries give
Marshall Breeding their data, but the survey results are not given
back under any free and open source software terms.  It seems rather
unjust to ask librarians to spend their time on something unequal
like that, doesn't it?

Hope that explains,
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