[Koha] Koha Usage Examples

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Johnson
Hello Koha Community My name's Mark Johnson, and I work for OSS Watch at the University of Oxford. Recently, we published a document entitled Open Source Options for Education[1] which includes a mention of Koha. After we announced the document's publication, we received some feedback from

Re: [Koha] Koha Usage Examples

2013-01-29 Thread Nicole Engard
Mark, I am one of the people who updated you via Twitter (Thanks for touching base and the quick response!). I am heading out to a meeting so I can' give you the whole story, but there is a bibliography that might interest you: https://www.zotero.org/groups/koha/items you can search for keywords

Re: [Koha] Koha Usage Examples

2013-01-29 Thread Owen Leonard
We've not changed the link for Koha to point to koha-community.org, as requested by a message on Twitter[2]. I assume that by not you mean now :) It was my understanding that LibLime was simply a company providing commercial support for the open source Koha product. Am I now correct in

Re: [Koha] Koha Usage Examples

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Johnson
On 29/01/13 13:28, Owen Leonard wrote: We've not changed the link for Koha to point to koha-community.org, as requested by a message on Twitter[2]. I assume that by not you mean now :) Whoops! Yes, you're right. It was my understanding that LibLime was simply a company providing commercial

Re: [Koha] Koha Usage Examples

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Johnson
On 29/01/13 13:06, Nicole Engard wrote: I am one of the people who updated you via Twitter (Thanks for touching base and the quick response!). I am heading out to a meeting so I can' give you the whole story, but there is a bibliography that might interest you:

Re: [Koha] Koha Usage Examples

2013-01-29 Thread Ian Bays
Hi Mark, Staffordshire University in the UK is using the Community version of Koha. Dave Parkes blog includes the announcement in 2010: http://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/informationlandscape/2010/12/10/staffordshire-university-chooses-koha-for-its-new-library-system/ Also the British Library for

Re: [Koha] Koha Usage Examples

2013-01-29 Thread Colin Campbell
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:18:43PM +, Mark Johnson wrote: Finally, if anyone would be willing to share an example of the open source Koha system being used in their educational institution for me to use in place of the UWE example, particularly if they are based in the UK, I would be very

Re: [Koha] Koha Usage Examples

2013-01-29 Thread Cab Vinton
Boston University's British Programmes is on Koha -- http://library.bu-london.co.uk/ Marshall Breeding's lib-web-cats is an excellent source for answering this type of question: http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/ A quick search did not bring up any other Koha libraries of type

Re: [Koha] Koha Usage Examples

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Johnson
On 29/01/13 15:13, Cab Vinton wrote: Marshall Breeding's lib-web-cats is an excellent source for answering this type of question: http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/ A quick search did not bring up any other Koha libraries of type Academic in the UK ... Searching for School

Re: [Koha] Koha Usage Examples

2013-01-29 Thread MJ Ray
Cab Vinton bibli...@gmail.com Boston University's British Programmes is on Koha -- http://library.bu-london.co.uk/ The co-op supports that, as well as Florida State University in London which hasn't been mentioned yet. We've done many other ac.uk installations - the first was the Franciscan