EBSCO Information Services Continues to Support Open Source Technology for Libraries

EBSCO Information Services Continues to Support Open Source Technology for Libraries

2016-05

EBSCO provides additional financial support to Koha

support for additional system interoperability as well as acquisition and e-resource management capabilities in Koha such as:

• Creation of an acquisitions API
• Complete implementation of ordering and invoicing system
• Improve interoperability between Koha and CORAL to provide an Open Source solution combining traditional ILS work flows and ERM functionality
• Plug-in integration to Italy's Indice SBN

Work on the enhancements mentioned above are expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2017.

The financial support from EBSCO will be provided via the Koha Gruppo Italiano/ The American University of Rome, which will be assisted in this development and integration by key Koha contributors ByWater Solutions, Biblibre and @Cult.

CORAL is an electronic resource management system

Vice President of Global Software Services at EBSCO Ron Burns

Koha is used by more than 15,000 libraries of all types

Some Koha-features: circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, 

Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies–XHTML, CSS and Javascript