Koha is...
Koha is an
award-winning library management system (LMS) maintained by a world-wide
community of contributors, including us, software.coop in Europe. We've
offered a hosting service, bespoke training and support since 2003 and have
developed a fascinating range of extensions, including radio-frequency ID
tagging,
improved borrower management tools and ordering over electronic data
interchange. We were the
UK's first Free and Open Source Software LMS company - where we've led, others
are now following.
- Full-featured: Built around standards like
MARC21 (see the manual for details of
all of them)
- Scalable: In use with tens of millions of records
with suitable hosting.
- Social: Ready to send news and search
results from your catalogue to other web pages with RSS feeds and more.
- Literate: Easy to use with reference management software like
Zotero.
- Free and Open Source Software: Released under the GNU GPL, so it can be hosted by us, by you or moved between the two, as you wish.
- Extensible: you can add some features by using community
contributions in the admin interface, or hire us to develop Koha further.
- Stable: But monitored 24x7 by our Network Operations Centre, just
in case.
Our clients say things like...
"We had the co-op undertake additional work to install a communication channel in the other direction, from the supplier's database into the Koha acquisitions module. The process is amazingly straightforward" - Library Manager, London
Koha Hosting
Type | Initial import | Included support | Included training | Per month | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Educational Library | up to 5000
items | up to 1h/month | not included | £120 | Buy now |
Small Library | up to 5000 items | up to 3h/month | one
afternoon | £247 | Buy now |
Specialist | more | up to 3h/month | one afternoon | £Ask | Ask now |
Custom | as many or few as you wish | as much or little as you wish | as much
or little as you need | £Ask | Ask now |
How To Order: Once we
have your details, we ask for any further details we need (usually by the next
working day) and then send you a proposal. The first "per month" payment is
normally due on commencement of work and the setup fee is invoiced once the
import is complete.
Authorised: All of our
packages use the current official version (buyer beware the
unofficial restricted-access versions with somewhat misleading names such as
"OurCompany Koha", "enterprise Koha" and "Koha
premium").
Backups: Full featured,
automated and reliable.
Bespoke Training: Our
highly regarded training is tailored for your needs.
Consultancy: Development or additional support
services are available on request -
please ask.
Further Information
- Official Koha Documentation
- Demonstration Catalogue (and Admin Interface - login with demo as username and password - reset periodically)
- What to Get When Buying A Library Management System
(coming soon)
- Get good general library support from the Library Co-op
- Other Offers from software.coop