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About KOHA
• Koha is an open-source integrated
library system, used world-wide by
public, school and special libraries.
• KOHA word means a gift or donation.
• Koha was created in 1999 by Katipo
Communications for the Horowhenua
Library Trust in New Zealand, and the
first installation went live in January
2000.
• Written in Perl, JavaScript, HTML
• Operating system - Linux
• Available in 26 languages 2
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Features
• Koha is a web-based ILS (Integrated Library
System)
• Translated into many languages
• Cataloguing data stored in MARC
• Accessible via Z39.50
• Union catalog facility
• Customizable search
• Online circulation
• Offline circulation
• Barcode printing
• Patron card creation
• Report generation
• Patron self registration from through OPAC
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Releases
• KOHA releases follow a regular, calendar based, pattern
with monthly maintenance releases and bi-annual feature
releases.
• Each Koha release has a version number that consists of
the year and month number of the release.

Current and historic releases

Version Release date Supported until
22.05 2022-05-28 (stable) 2023-11
21.11 2021-11-25 (oldstable) 2023-05
21.05 2021-05-28 (oldoldstable) 2022-11
20.11 2020-11-27 2022-05
20.05 2020-05-31 2021-11
19.11 2019-11-27 2022-05
19.05 2019-05-30 2020-11
18.11 2018-11-27 2020-05

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KOHA Architecture

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KOHA Modules
Circulation
• Before circulating your collection you will want to set your Global System Preferences, Basic Parameters
and Patrons & Circulation Rules.

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KOHA Modules
Patrons
• Before importing and/or adding patrons be sure to set up your patron categories.

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KOHA Modules
Cataloging
• In Koha the bibliographic record contains the main information related to the material. This includes
things like the title, author, ISBN, etc. This information is stored in Koha in Marc (different flavors of Marc
are supported in Koha). Once this information is saved, item records can be attached.

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KOHA Modules
Z39.50/SRU
If you want to catalog a record based on an existing record at
another library

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KOHA Modules
Advance Search
The Advanced Search page offers many ways to limit the
results of your search. You can search using the Boolean
operators AND, OR, and NOT; limit by item type; limit by
year and language; limit by subtypes audience, content,
format, or additional content types; by location and by
availability.

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KOHA Modules
Serial
The serials module in Koha is used for keeping track of
journals, newspapers and other items that come on a
regular schedule.

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KOHA Modules
Acquisitions
The Koha Acquisitions module provides a way for the
library to record orders placed with vendors and manage
purchase budgets.

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KOHA Modules
Reports
Reports in Koha are a way to gather data. Reports are
used to generate statistics, member lists, shelving lists, or
any list of data in your database.

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KOHA Modules
Tools

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KOHA Modules
Koha administration

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01. KOHA IN-OUT

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02. KOHA Backup
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03. KOHA Task Scheduler For Reports

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04. KOHA Z39.50/SRU Search

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05. KOHA OPAC New Arrivals

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06. KOHA OPAC User Registration

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07. KOHA Framework Customization

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09. KOHA E-Mail Control

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Some of Our Developed KOHA
Features
01. KOHA OPAC

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02. KOHA OPAC

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03. New Arrivals E-Mail

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04. Book Catalogue

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05. Old LMS Data Retrieval
1. AutoLib
2. Soul
3. Libsys
4. Elims

All types of software data retrieval and transferred from the old
LMS to Koha. 

If the data is already in Excel, we can upload it into Koha. 

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