Koha
Koha Library Management System
With over 15,000 systems worldwide Koha is one of the most widely used Library Management systems (LMS) in the world, and for good reason.
The premium Open Source LMS, Koha is actively developed and supported by over 40 partner service companies like us across the globe. Used and developed by libraries of all types and sizes, the system is richly featured and scalable according to your organisation’s requirements.
Overview
Koha is the world’s first free and open source library management system. Koha is a fully featured, scalable library management system. In use worldwide, its development is steered by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies worldwide.
Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management, and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies, HTML5, CSS and Javascript, making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL).
Modules
Koha is entirely web-based for both staff and public functions. This helps make the system light, easy to use, easy to deploy and easy to manage. For use of Koha’s OPAC, all features are implemented in currently available major browsers.
Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloguing, acquisitions, serials, course reserves, user management, inter library loans, and more.
Support
As an ISO27001 company, Open Fifth has an excellent reputation for the quality of the support service that is delivered. Our staff are highly skilled and all have many years experience in working in the library sector. We are supporting over a hundred organisations, many of which are extremely demanding in the quality of the service that we deliver. We can only provide this service due to the high quality and experience of our staff.
Community
Koha has an active user community worldwide that participates in guiding software direction and sponsoring product development. Over 40 companies worldwide are now actively contributing to the product with over 400+ Koha contributors submitting code and translations into over 40 languages. There have been over 15k downloads of the software globally.