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About Koha with Class: for instructors
Free, hosted ILS for your classroom
LibLime's Koha with Class initiative provides library school classes with up to 5 hosted installations of Koha--the most advanced open-source library automation system--per class, free of charge.
"I am so pleased that I could help with piloting the Koha with Class
Initiative. The initiative will provide excellent opportunities for
library school students and faculty. Faculty can provide their
students with hands-on integrated library system experience, which is
something faculty cannot normally do due to proprietary issues with
most library automation vendors. Experience with a live integrated
library system will benefit students greatly as they search for and
begin their first professional librarian positions."
-- Dr. Diane Neal, Texas Women's University
Koha with Class Benefits
Best-of-breed Library Technology
Full-featured, hosted, version of Koha Classic (based on Koha 2.2.7), the most widely deployed version of Koha:
- Circulation and borrower management;
- Web-based OPAC with online reserves, renewals, account management;
- Cataloging, full acquisitions;
- Authorities control;
- Serials management;
- Barcode and spine label printing;
- Support for multi-lingual interfaces;
- Z39.50 server with Bath compliance;
- LibLime templates that allow logo and color/layout stylesheet customization.
Student benefits
Students will have full access to the administrative interface and can set up a library from scratch including:
- system preferences;
- library branches;
- book funds, budgets and currency exchange rates;
- item types and borrower categories;
- loan rule matrices;
- authorized values, thesauri and authorities;
- serials planning;
- set up catalog searching stop words;
- Z39.50 servers settings;
- import and export of MARC records;
- spine label and barcode printing.
Program benefits
Koha with Class strengthens your library school's automation programs:- offers hands-on experience to students;
- allows your program to directly participate in a global open-source project;
- no license restrictions, completely free;
- Since it's web-based, it fits in well with online classrooms;
- tech-savvy students can explore the source code.