Koha Services from Lib Lime Nicole C Engard

Koha Services from Lib. Lime Nicole C. Engard, Open Source Evangelist nce@liblime. com http: //liblime. com

Outline • Lib. Lime • What is Open Source? • Demos • Open Discussion

The leader in open-source solutions for libraries

Athens County Public Libraries

First Library in the US to Adopt an Open Source ILS: Koha

Intensely Frustrated • Libraries slow to adopt open source • ‘No Support’ was the most common objection • An Open Source Software Company seemed the most practical approach

It all started with an idea: open access to ideas and information not only builds better libraries, it builds better software too.

Integrated Library Systems Meta-Search Digital Library

It’s all Open Source! • You steer development! • Features can be implemented in days and weeks, not years and decades • You can share your solutions with other libraries

Growth Patterns • 400% growth three years running • Incorporated January 2005, 1 fulltime employee, 1 customer • September 2008, 24 employees, over 400 customers and 120 contracts

Our Customers supports hundreds of libraries around the globe. Our customers include: library consortia, academic and research institutions, public libraries, museum and special libraries, K -12 schools, enterprise corporations and government and non-profit organizations.

Consortia using Koha • Crawford County Federated Library System • 9 member libraries; 246, 616 items; 518, 382 circulation • Independently Cooperating Ashtabula Network • 6 member libraries; 166, 597 bibs • Westchester Academic Library Directors Organ (WALDO) • 15 member libraries migrating to Koha • Central Kansas Library System • 31 member libraries • Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority (INCOLSA) • 30 member libraries • Mass. Cat • 100+ member libraries • Northeast Kansas Library System • 116 member libraries

Strategic Partnerships

What is Open Source? Open source software is software that users have the ability to run, distribute, study and modify for any purpose. This permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. Open source software is often developed over the Internet in a collaborative manner.

What is Open Source? “ 55% of US Companies use OSS for Mission Critical applications” -Forester Research

What is Open Source? Why So Popular?

Why so Popular? Reliability through Peer Review

Why so Popular? Reliability through Peer Review No Vendor Lock-in

Why so Popular? Reliability through Peer Review No Vendor Lock-in User-centric Development

Why so Popular? Reliability through Peer Review No Vendor Lock-in User-centric Development Freedom to Innovate

Why so Popular? Reliability through Peer Review No Vendor Lock-in User-centric Development Freedom to Innovate Zero License Fees

“Software is a service industry operating under the delusion that it is a manufacturing industry” -- Raymond, Eric, The Cathedral and the Bazaar

How much would you pay for a Horizon 8. 0 license?

The Value of Software Hinges on Maintainability

Open Source in Libraries Open Source hasn’t been as widely adopted in libraries as in the business world.

Open Source in Libraries Common questions libraries have: • Is there support? • Do I have to skimp on features? • Isn’t Open Source risky?

Open Source in Libraries Is there support? This is where Lib. Lime comes in. • Phone Support • Email Support • Chat Rooms • Instant Messaging • Mailing Lists • Online Documentation • Worldwide User Community

Open Source in Libraries Do I have to skimp on features? • Open Source developers follow the rule of “Release early and release often” • Users vote with their dollars • Lib. Lime has a dedicated business analyst and development staff to respond immediately to customer sponsored development projects

Open Source in Libraries Isn’t Open Source Risky? Several Levels of Risk to consider: • Software security issues • Open source is just as secure if not more secure than proprietary systems because of its transparency • Company mergers and acquisitions • Because you own the code to your system you are not tied to one support source and will never be left without support

200 The Koha Project NPL goes live in 2003 with a bold claim: “Within the next few years, our web site will offer some of the best online library services available anywhere in the world. ” Stephen Hedges, Director 3

The Koha ILS: Continued • Fully web-based ILS • Offers same features as the proprietary ILS • Software available for free • Support and customization available at reasonable prices • Data is yours! http: //liblime. com http: //koha. org

Lets take a look! • http: //public. demo. kohalibrary. com/ • http: //public-staff. demo. kohalibrary. com/

Demo

Thank You Nicole C. Engard, Open Source Evangelist nce@liblime. com http: //liblime. com