A presentation at Kohacon 12 in Edinburgh, Scotland

1. Managing Koha installs in a
developing country
Olugbenga Adara
Projektlink Konsult Limited
Ibadan, Nigeria
(Presentation at Kohacon12, Edinburgh, Scotland)

2. Who am I?
 ICT Consultant with Projektlink Konsult
Limited, Ibadan, Nigeria
 Projektlink Konsult Limited is a Koha
support company
 Also into Management Training and
Business Systems Automation
 About 17 Koha installs in the past 5 years
 What else?

3. So what’s different about DCs?
 So what’s different about DCs?
 Developing countries are in general
countries which have not achieved a
significant degree of industrialization
relative to their populations, and which
have, in most cases a medium to low
standard of living.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country)

4. So practically I mean -
 Low infrastructure
 Human resources issues
 Most have no form of automation
 Data entry / analogue to digital migration
is a major issue

5. Managing the challenges
Where there is no (reliable) Internet
Access
 Using a virtual machine for offsite
installation. Vmware (or Virtualbox).
 Clone virtual and restore on physical
using clonezilla
 Upgrades – Only manually possible
 When major upgrades required?

6. Koha in Virtual Machine

7. Clonezilla

8. Managing the challenges
Human resources / training
 Simplify training – Patrons management,
Cataloguing and Circulation
 Very simple Book/Journal Cataloguing
Framework
 Automated scripts for backups

9. Simple Koha Framework

10. Managing the challenges
Analogue records to digital migration
 Scan isbn when available
 Use MarcEdit to search for records in
batches
 Upload into reservoir
or
 Add koha items (952) and import into
koha
 Any better method?

11. Batch processing in MarcEdit

12. Conclusion
Koha has given Nigerian Libraries /
Librarians an opportunity to be on the
main stream of library technology despite
several challenges

13. Links to mentioned tools
 Marcedit -
http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html
 Clonezilla - http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
 VMWare -
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads
 Virtualbox - https://www.virtualbox.org/

14. Questions
Thank you
gbengaadara@yahoo.com
gbengaadara@projektlinkkonsult.com
www.projektlinkkonsult.com
kohacon13bid.projektlinkkonsult.com
(Hopefully will see you all in Nigeria next year)