[Koha] The University of hte South Pacific Library - seeking information on koha

Zeno Tajoli z.tajoli at cineca.it
Thu Aug 31 14:47:53 NZST 2017


Hi Elizabeth and all,

a list of answers:

>1.      Is there a Koha version specific to Academic Libraries?
No

>2.      Can Koha be installed in a Windows environment?
No. You need to use Linux

>3.      Is Customer support 24/7?
If you pay a support company for it, yes

>4.      Depending on the severity of the bug, what are the time ranges for solving a bug?
For free a quick solution is only for security bugs. If you pay a support company, ask for it.

>5.      Does Koha have a Discovery Layer Service?
Not inside. But you can use Vufind [https://vufind.org/vufind/] with a specific driver.

>6.      Does Koha have Predictive text searching?
No
>7.      Does Koha include an eRM module?
Not inside. But you can use Coral [http://coral-erm.org/]

>8.      Does Koha have a Mobile Interface and Circulation for Android or iOS or HTML5 Browsers)
Koha works with every  HTML5 Browsers but it doesn't have a staff circulation section for mobile.
But Opac and requests from users are mobile frendly.

>9.      Does Koha have a Digital Asset Management System?
No
>10.  Does Koha have a Dashboard for Analytics Solution?
No
>11.  Does Koha have a drag-and-drop feature for creating ad-hoc reports?
No.
>12.  Is Lending of ebooks possible with Koha?
Yes, if you catalogue them or you use a service like OverDrive (a specific integration is present)

>Can Koha cater for this so that each library located in different countries can have their respective timestamp to match their local time zone?
No


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