Crawford County Federated Library System

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
• Supported by LibLime