[ILUG] open source library systems

[Ronan Cunniffe]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> does anyone know of any good open source library systems?  I'm currently
> looking at Koha which is functional but well, my first impressions (and it
> may just be that I haven't delved deeply enough) are a bit on the mediocre
> side.
>
> http://koha.org/

I've been digging into koha as well, and www.kohadocs.org is your friend.

  My impression is that Koha is going through a few mid-life crises at
the moment.  It's been around for a couple of major releases, it's being
expanded and ported in various ways, and the original design is not
looking very shiny at this point.

(It's also written in Perl, and I think the LD50 for Perl is a lot less
than koha's ~250K SLOC)

On the other hand, it's up and running at a couple of dozen sites around
the world, and has quite a few people working on it, including a definite
release program.


> I'd like to see what else is around.  Is anyone using Koha, or something
> else?  Preferably web based but I'm open minded.

Openbiblio?  (obiblio.sourceforge.net)

It's written in PHP, but seems to be much earlier on the curve than Koha,
and appears to be a one-or-two-person operation at the moment.

Ronan