Koha: A Koha Diary

“Late in 2001, the Nelsonville Public Library became interested
in exploring the possibility of doing away with our commercial
integrated library system (ILS) and replacing it with open source
software. While I am sure cost (or rather, the lack of cost) was
part of the allure of open source, if I recall correctly Joshua F.,
the library’s systems administrator, was aware of open source
software, was new to libraries, felt that librarians should be able
to easily sympathize with the philosophy of open source, and was
shocked at how much libraries were willing to pay for their
commercial–and very specialized–software.

“At some point Joshua convinced me to look into Koha, an open
source ILS, and I eventually convened a committee of library staff
to investigate…”

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