[Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word

[Marshall Breeding]

A map version of the Koha listings in the libraries.org component of Library Technology Guides is available via this url:
 https://librarytechnology.org/libraries/map.pl?ILS=Koha

It's a bit slow right now and I plan to see what I can do to optimize it a bit.

Most importantly, having more libraries using Koha registered in libraries.org will help demonstrate its global impact.  

-marshall


Marshall Breeding
Editor, Library Technology Guides
www.librarytechnology.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Sebastian Hierl
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2016 2:34 AM
To: Liz Rea
Cc: koha
Subject: Re: [Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word

Thank you, Michael!

In view of our marketing initiative aimed at librarians who are not yet familiar with Koha it would be helpful to have such a list or a map illustrating Koha's international impact on our main website.  Librarians not familiar with Koha usually are not familiar with the Koha wiki.  If Marshall Breeding does a good job at keeping the list up to date, we should go with his--his expertise and objectivity would further provide credibility, though I would ideally want to work with him (or his data) to implement a visually stimulating map or list.

I fully agree that asking librarians to create profiles and learn how to use Git only to list themselves on a website for promotional purposes is not going to work and that the listing mechanism will have to be simplified.

-Sebastian

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On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Liz Rea <wizzyrea at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's gone. For now.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Michael Kuhn <mik at adminkuhn.ch> wrote:
>
> > Hi Sebastian
> >
> > We discussed this issue before and a number of very impressive 
> > figures
> were
> >> quoted, but when I go to the home page of the Koha community, at 
> >> https://koha-community.org/about/libraries/, I only see a sample of
> Koha
> >> libraries and our library is missing.
> >>
> >
> > I was not aware of this list, which is very incomplete and 
> > uninformative compared to 
> > https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide or 
> > especially to Marshall Breedings great list of Koha libraries 
> > throughout the world at 
> > https://librarytechnology.org/lwc-processquery.pl?ILS=Koha (which actually list 4'427 libraries with a lot of details).
> >
> > Please do not get me wrong, I think that the list is good, but as 
> > any
> list,
> >> hard to keep up to date.
> >>
> >> In light of our marketing effort, we should bring it as up to date 
> >> as we can. In order to get us listed, I went to 
> >> https://gitlab.com/koha- community-devs-users/Koha-library-list/ and clicked on "Merge Request,"
> >> but
> >> could find how to place a new request. There is no "new" button or 
> >> similar.  Others were able to do it and I applaud them, but we are 
> >> not going to get many new libraries to list themselves and keep 
> >> this list relevant, if they cannot easily and immediately place a 
> >> request.  Is
> this
> >> something that could be fixed?  I.e. add a green "NEW" button or
> something
> >> of the sort.  And could you explain me how I could add our library?
> >>
> >
> > To me it seems an absolutely horrible idea that libraries or anyone
> should
> > learn or use Git when they want to include themselves in a simple list.
> > Instead I suggest to delete this list and instead link to 
> > https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide
> >
> > In my case however I stick to the above mentioned lists and I will 
> > simply ignore the list at 
> > https://koha-community.org/about/libraries/ when adding new libraries.
> >
> > Best wishes: Michael
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