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Plano, Texas USA

Encompassing 68 schools, Plano ISD is nationally recognized for its education excellence. Twenty-four Plano schools have captured the prestigious National Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence honor, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education. Several Plano ISD schools have received the honor twice.

Their OPAC can be found online at:

http://pisd.kohalibrary.com/

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• Migrated to Koha in 2009
• 68 schools
• 1 million items
• Supported by LibLime

NEW ZEALAND

Horowhenua Library Trust is the library that started it all! When a Y2K bug threatened to make its legacy ILS obsolete, Horowhenua commissioned Katipo Communications to create Koha and release it as open source in 1999.

The first ILS to be release under the GPL, Koha won both the 3M Innovation in Libraries award and an Interactive New Zealand award the following year. Koha has truly lived up to its name, which means ‘Gift’ in the Maori language of New Zealand. On behalf of the hundreds of libraries around the world using Koha... Thanks Horowhenua!

Their OPAC can be found online at:

• 4 branches

• Migrated to Koha in 1999

Pennsylvania, USA

“Open-source software allows libraries to take control of their technology. You will not necessarily save time or money implementing open source. However, what you gain is priceless: complete control.” -- John Brice, Systems Administrator, CCFLS

Ohio, USA-- Located in picturesque southeast Ohio, the Nelsonville Public Library System (NPL) is a true Koha pioneer. NPL made waves in 2002 by becoming the first public library in the U.S. to adopt the open-source ILS, and the first public library in the world to use the MARC version of Koha, which they had sponsored. More recently, in 2006, NPL became the first library to put the new Zebra-based version of Koha into production. This was a fitting honor, since NPL played a significant role in making Koha ZOOM a reality.

Stow, Ohio USA

Award-winning Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library is the second-largest in Summit County, Ohio. With 38,000 active borrowers and over 150,000 titles, the library continues to expand services, programs and other resources to meet the needs of their growing community.

Stow-Munroe Falls made the decision to use Koha after being informed that their proprietary ILS would no longer be supported. Stow-Munroe Falls made a significant investment in Koha, sponsoring enhancements to authorities control and a more granular circulation ruleset. They also enhanced the interface to help staff and patrons with the transition process.

“The ROI speaks for itself. Open source is cost- affordable and technologically-sound choice. It enables libraries to position themselves to be prepared for technology changes in the future.”
-- Doug Dotterer, Director Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library

Their OPAC is available online at:

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• 150,000 titles

• 38,000 borrowers

• Migrated to Koha in 2007

NEW ZEALAND

Rangitikei Libraries consist of six branches: Taihape, Marton, Bulls, Hunterville, Mangaweka and Kawhatau. The libraries operate as a network, sharing 50,000 books by a rotation system. The second public library to go live with Koha, Rangitikei have been using Koha since the middle of 2005. With several branches spread out over a large area, Rangitikei needed a system that was able to work over all types of connectivity, including rural modems.

Their OPAC can be found online at:

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• 6 branches

• 50,000 items

• Migrated to Koha in 2005

Nicosia, CYPRUS

Near East University (NEU) in Cyprus chose Koha to manage their impressive new library and culture complex in early 2006. NEU Library houses 250,000 open shelves, is open 24 hours a day, and is available to the public free of charge.

The increased scalability offered by Koha’s Zebra integration was critical for NEU, who began testing Koha in early 2006.

Impressed with Koha, NEU joined programmers worldwide to assist the Koha project in completing the integration of the new highly-scalable indexing and retrieval engine (known as "Zebra") into the Koha code base. With over two million items in their rapidly growing collection, NEU is the largest production collection using Koha to date.

“With Zebra-backed Koha, we have the most advanced search engine available to the library community. It is probably also the fastest. And, provides us with the capability of organizing union-catalogs.” -- Tümer B. Garip, University Libraries Director, Near East University

Unimpressed with the handling of Turkish characters in other major proprietary ILS systems, NEU chose Koha because the open-source ILS gave them the freedom to fine-tune searching and address character encoding issues in-house. The ability to customize Koha has enabled NEU to develop many new features for Koha in-house, including a SMS service where users just send a text message from their mobile phones to renew their books automatically. NEU is a major player in the Koha community, and are devoted to fostering community growth by contributing back their features. Those features will likely be included in Koha version 3.0.

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• Migrated to Koha in 2006

• Over 2 million items

New York, USA

New York, USA— The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library contains published resources that reflect and inform museum collections and exhibitions, with particular focus on modern and contemporary art, architecture, and design. Materials are collected in English and Western European languages with limited selections made among other languages. The Library’s mission is to support the research endeavors of the Guggenheim staff members, volunteers, and interns.

“ By selecting an open-source ILS, the Guggenheim Library has an opportunity to develop and customize Koha into a library catalog that has the potential to be adopted by other institutions with similar needs.“ -- Francine Snyder, Manager of Library and Archives, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library

Salinas, California USA

The Salinas Public Library houses over 225,000 volumes in English and Spanish and serves a population of 150,000. The Library provides the only free Internet access in the area and is well known for its innovative youth programming such as poetry slams and is planning a digital and film-making creative lab for teens. The Library will celebrate its centennial in September 2009.

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• 225,000 volumes
• Migrated to Koha in 2008
• Supported by LibLime
  

Kansas USA

The Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) is a multi-type regional library system serving 116 libraries in a 14-county region. NEKLS will be using Koha ZOOM to run 'NExpress', their regional shared ILS and courier service. 

"After examining the major ILS systems, NEKLS believes that Koha ZOOM is the most refined, flexible and well-supported system in the open-source ILS market." -- Jim Minges, Director of NEKLS

For more information about Northeast Kansas Library System's move to Koha, check out the press release:

The Northeast Kansas Library System Selects Koha ZOOM

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• 13 libraries initially migrating to Koha
• Migrating to Koha ZOOM in 2008

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Massachusetts, USA

"One of the biggest reasons MassCat chose Koha ZOOM was because it is an open-source system. We like the idea that we can directly contribute to the development of the system and that our development decisions will actually have a more immediate impact on our library users than they would if we were attempting to convince a proprietary system vendor to put our needs before those of another customer."

"We are also pleased that any development that we decide to sponsor will contributed back to the rest of the community of Koha users so that they can benefit as well. Development won’t just be 'quick fixes' that are made just for us – everyone will grow together."--Nora Blake, Manager of MassCat

For more information about MassCat's move to Koha, check out the press release:

MassCat Consortium Chooses Koha ZOOM

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• a resource sharing network for over 100 libraries in Massachusetts
• Migrated to Koha ZOOM in 2008
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Ohio, USA

"We are so excited about all the benefits of open source. Not only will it save us substantially compared to our current system for four of the libraries, but the benefits of customizing the software to do exactly what we want far outweighs the traditional proprietary ILS vendors." --Kathleen L. Jozwiak, Director of the Henderson Memorial Public Library.

For more information about ICAN's move to Koha, check out the press release:

Independently Cooperating Ashtabula Network (ICAN) Chooses Koha ZOOM

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• 6 libraries
• Migrated to Koha ZOOM in 2008

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Indiana, USA

The ISLC is a diverse, multi-type resource sharing network composed of 30 member libraries including an art museum, the Indiana Supreme Court Library and a wide range of public and school libraries throughout the state. LibLime's Koha ZOOM solution will provide ISLC membership with a shared integrated library automation system, including a web-based union catalog and integrated circulation, acquisitions and serials control modules.

"As librarians use technology to develop new services, open-source software will become increasingly important."

"Our partnership with LibLime, the foremost provider of support for open-source library applications, positions INCOLSA to provide a wide range of responsive services for our clients. We are eager to develop this alliance with LibLime as we work with our members to enhance our statewide shared catalog." --Michael Piper, Executive Director at INCOLSA

For more information about INCOLSA's move to Koha, check out the press release:

INCOLSA Selects Koha for Indiana Shared Library Catalog

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• 30+ member libraries
• Migrated to Koha in 2008
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Kansas, USA

"We believe the Open Source model, embodied by Koha ZOOM, reflects the spirit of public libraries. Funding projects that benefit everyone means more libraries will switch to open-source library automation and sponsor new developments that other libraries will benefit from too. CKLS libraries will be able to grow with Koha ZOOM for a long, long time."-- James Swan, Administrator of CKLS

For more information about Central Kansas Library System's move to Koha, check out the press release:

Central Kansas Consortium Chooses Koha

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• 31 member libraries
• Migrated to Koha ZOOM in 2008
• Supported by LibLime
  

Texas, USA

Big Country Library System is a 39-member regional library system. Geographically, BCLS is the largest regional system in Texas, and at 34,127 square miles, is larger than the state of South Carolina. Eleven libraries migrated to Koha during 2009, with additional libraries to join over the next 2 years.

"We were looking for an ILS that our libraries would be able to sustain over the long-term. Koha’s open-source solution was the best match for us to keep ongoing costs as low as possible. We also wanted a fully-hosted ILS. LibLime was able to give us what we needed." --says John Pecoraro, Coordinator of the Big Country Library System

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• 288,600 items
• Migrated to Koha in 2009
  
• Supported by LibLime
  

Florida, USA

Roux Library, located at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, is committed to providing the resources necessary to sustain a superior academic experience and to promote an atmosphere of free inquiry in which the human heritage may be investigated and the truth served. An important purpose of Roux Library is to promote scholarship, research and leisure reading among all their users. Their collection contains approximately 175,000 items.

• 175,000 items
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Florida, USA

Southeastern University is a Christian liberal arts university with just over 3000 students, primarily traditional, on-campus. The Steelman Library collection contains over 100,000, and has an annual circulation between 40,000-50,000.

The library's catalog can be found online at: http://seu.kohalibrary.com/

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• over 100,000 items
• Supported by LibLime
  

Florida, USA

Clearwater Christian College is a Christian, liberal arts, co-educational college which is denominationally unaffiliated and dedicated to sound academic instruction while propagating the historic Christian faith. The College is committed to building a library collection which supports the courses and programs offered by the college, acquaints users with varying points of view, provides recreational reading, and enables students to develop special interests. The collection of the library contains over 100,000 volumes and serves a population of about 700 students, faculty and staff.

The library's catalog can be found online at: http://ccc.kohalibrary.com/

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• over 100,000 volumes
• Supported by LibLime
  

Montana, USA

Butte Silver Bow Public Library's collection of 65,000 items is hosted on a server on site at the library.

"Butte Silver Bow Public Library hopes to be an innovator and example to other Montana lbraries on open-source ILSs and just what they can do with Koha."

"We look forward to participating in the Koha community and becoming a library powered by open source. Why? Because information is power and the power should belong to all the people!"--Director Lee Phillips.

Check out Director Lee Phillips blog: http://en.wordpress.com/tag/koha-comes-to-butte/

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• 65,000 items
• Supported by LibLime 
  

The John C. Fremont Library is a small library, serving Florence, CO. It has been live on Koha since February of 2008, and is self-supported.

Its OPAC can be found at http://jcfld.us.to/.

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• 15,000 items
• 1,100 borrowers
• Development version of Koha 3.0
  

Koha hosted through Katipo.co.nz

OPAC: http://biblio.famaf.unc.edu.ar

OPAC: http://biblio.agro.unc.edu.ar

Montanta, USA

Butte Silver Bow Public Library's collection of 65,000 items is hosted on a server on site at the library.

"Butte Silver Bow Public Library hopes to be an innovator and example to other Montana lbraries on open-source ILSs and just what they can do with Koha."

"We look forward to participating in the Koha community and becoming a library powered by open source. Why? Because information is power and the power should belong to all the people!"--Director Lee Phillips.

Check out Director Lee Phillips blog: http://en.wordpress.com/tag/koha-comes-to-butte/

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• 65,000 items
• Supported by LibLime 

Utah, USA

Winner of the 2007 Best Small Library in America award (sponsored by Library Journal and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Grand County Public Library serves a County which has about 10,000 residents but sees around 1 million visitors a year.  The Library is surrounded by Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and the confluence of the Colorado and Green rivers.

"There isn’t a public library in Utah that is running Koha and we are excited to be an example for others. However, we lack in-house programming skills. Cost is a huge issue for us and as I was researching options, the support from LibLime is very reasonable compared to paying proprietary systems for support."

--Library Director Carrie Valdes

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• 50,000 items
• Supported by LibLime
  

New Hampshire, USA

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• 12,000 items
• Supported by LibLime
  

Stevens-Henager College, Boise opened in March 2004. Established 115 years ago in Ogden, Utah, Stevens-Henager is one of the oldest career colleges in America. The college was originally a business school and is now a senior college offering bachelor's degrees in Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science and Graphic Arts.

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The AeU Library offers an excellent combination of traditional and electronic information resources in a well designed conducive 'living library' ambience with the interface for the e-library in a virtual environment for the e-learning community.

The AeU library takes the responsibility of providing a comprehensive collection in print, electronic and multimedia formats to meet the information needs of the University. In the development of the Library's resources priority is given to meet the course needs of the University.

Special focus is given to the development, access and delivery of the e-library or digital library. The digital library is accessible to all AeU Library members, students, staff, researchers and scholars from any place and at all times. All AeU students including distance learners and staff are members of the Library.

Kelantan Public Library consist of 8 branches. Implement Koha from September, 2008.

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The Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) is a multi-type regional library system serving 116 libraries in a 14-county region. The NEKLS vision is for libraries to be recognized and respected for providing convenient access to state-of-the-art library resources and outstanding customer service. Taking a leadership role in placing state-of-the-art technology in the hands of member libraries, and working in a shared technology environment with libraries throughout Kansas, are key strategies to reaching that vision. NEKLS provides a spectrum of services including training and consulting, technology services, advocacy, recognition of library service improvement, and grants to libraries. One of the flagship NEKLS services is NExpress, a regional shared ILS and courier service.

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Crawford County Federated Library System (CCFLS) in Pennsylvania chose LibLime to support their new Koha ZOOM system in 2006. The nine-library system leveraged its own IT staff to implement and customize Koha, and selected LibLime’s Koha ZOOM Basic package for additional support. CCFLS is set to go live by April 2007.

In addition to taking advantage of the rich functionality sponsored by other libraries, CCFLS decided to give back to the open-source community by becoming a major sponsor of Koha’s Zebra integration--an effort lead by LibLime to improve the underlying architecture and scalability of the system.

“Open-source software allows libraries to take control of their technology. You will not necessarily save time or money implementing open source. However, what you gain is priceless: complete control over the user interface.” -- John Brice, Systems Administrator, CCFLS

CCFLS chose to carefully customize Koha's staff interface based on their own staff's feedback. They plan to contribute their interface design back to the Koha project as a ‘theme’, supporting Koha’s philosophy of collaborative and library-driven development.

• 9 library consortia
• Migrated to Koha ZOOM in 2007
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The Santa Cruz Library System serves all of Santa Cruz County except the City of Watsonville, which has an independent Library.  It is funded by local property and sales taxes. The library has approximately 235,000 titles in its collection and 61,000 active borrowers. SCPL seeks to provide its patrons with a high level of access to materials in both their collection and to the rapidly growing resources on-line. To do so, they strive to move quickly to adopt new technologies and capitalize on the data available in their system.

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