Managing Koha Installs in a Developing Country
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This document summarizes the challenges of managing Koha installations in developing countries and strategies for addressing them. Key challenges include low infrastructure, human resource issues, lack of automation, and migrating analogue records to digital. To address unreliable internet access, the presenter recommends using virtual machines and Clonezilla for backups and restoration. For training and cataloguing, they suggest simplifying workflows and using batch processing tools like MarcEdit. Despite challenges, the presenter concludes that Koha has enabled Nigerian libraries to participate in modern library technology.
Managing Koha Installs in a Developing Country
- 1. Managing Koha installs in a developing country Olugbenga Adara Projektlink Konsult Limited Ibadan, Nigeria (Presentation at Kohacon12, Edinburgh, Scotland)
- 2. Who am I? ICT Consultant with Projektlink Konsult Limited, Ibadan, Nigeria Projektlink Konsult Limited is a Koha support company Also into Management Training and Business Systems Automation About 17 Koha installs in the past 5 years What else?
- 3. So whats different about DCs? So whats different about DCs? Developing countries are in general countries which have not achieved a significant degree of industrialization relative to their populations, and which have, in most cases a medium to low standard of living. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country)
- 4. So practically I mean - Low infrastructure Human resources issues Most have no form of automation Data entry / analogue to digital migration is a major issue
- 5. Managing the challenges Where there is no (reliable) Internet Access Using a virtual machine for offsite installation. Vmware (or Virtualbox). Clone virtual and restore on physical using clonezilla Upgrades Only manually possible When major upgrades required?
- 6. Koha in Virtual Machine
- 7. Clonezilla
- 8. Managing the challenges Human resources / training Simplify training Patrons management, Cataloguing and Circulation Very simple Book/Journal Cataloguing Framework Automated scripts for backups
- 10. Managing the challenges Analogue records to digital migration Scan isbn when available Use MarcEdit to search for records in batches Upload into reservoir or Add koha items (952) and import into koha Any better method?
- 11. Batch processing in MarcEdit
- 12. Conclusion Koha has given Nigerian Libraries / Librarians an opportunity to be on the main stream of library technology despite several challenges
- 13. Links to mentioned tools Marcedit - http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html Clonezilla - http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php VMWare - https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads Virtualbox - https://www.virtualbox.org/
- 14. Questions Thank you gbengaadara@yahoo.com gbengaadara@projektlinkkonsult.com www.projektlinkkonsult.com kohacon13bid.projektlinkkonsult.com (Hopefully will see you all in Nigeria next year)