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What is an Integrated Library Management System?

An integrated library system (ILS), is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed.

An ILS usually comprises a relational database, software to interact with the database, and two graphical user interfaces (one for patrons, one for staff).

What is KOHA?

Our Integrated library system is built on the KOHA platform, which is one of the leading and award winning open source library platforms adopted by several libraries across the world.

KOHA is a web-based ILS, with a SQL database (MySQL preferred) backend with cataloguing data stored in MARC and accessible via Z39.50 or SRU. The user interface is very configurable and adaptable.

KOHA Staff Members Interface

KOHA Staff Members Interface

KOHA Features and Benefits

  • Easy-to-use circulation policies, strong patron management, intuitive navigation, and extensive permissions for staff accounts.
  • Parent-child relationship for patron records, as well as a ‘copy’ patron feature to quickly add families.
  • A Clubs and Services feature that allows libraries to manage reading groups, book clubs, and other other community outreach programs. This feature is easily managed by library staff.
  • Extensive support for holds, including an option to ‘suspend’ and ‘reactivate’ a hold, an option to place holds from a patron’s OPAC account, an option to allow staff to re-organize the holds queue, and an option to place holds at either the title or item level.
  • Enhanced matching policy rules for the 001 and 035 tags, allowing libraries to update older records with a newer version.
  • Libraries to ‘undo’ entire import batches from the catalog in a single click, rather than having to delete on a one-by-one basis.
  • SIP2 configuration for a wide variety of vendors and their products, including ITG, 3M, EnvisionWare, Talking Tech, Overdrive, TechLogic, and Librarica.
  • OPAC, staff, administrative features and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies–XHTML, CSS and Javascript–making KOHA a completely Web-based solution.
KOHA OPAC

KOHA Online Public Access Catalogue