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Pre-configured Koha

 

Product Brief

Éclat’s team of qualified Library and IT professionals offers a Cloud-based Pre-configured mainstream Koha ILS services with international data-standards to all Libraries, big or small which value user-centric approach and take advantage of modern tech-tools.

Koha is an award-winning open source ILS project supported by international community with commits by almost 300 authors and with an estimated adoption by thousands of Libraries worldwide.

Visit Koha-community website if you wish to know more about ongoing development and contribute to.

Pre-configured Koha features

  • Secured & optimized deployment architecture

Koha servers optimized for superior and hassle free performance with enhanced security, auto backup and auto version upgrade facility and guaranteed uptime allowing 24-hr-access to authorized users from any internet access point

  • OPAC

Library can select from Pre-configured Koha OPAC themes to provide their users facilities to view new arrivals, account summary, multi-lingual basic/advanced catalogue search, book suggestions/previews, event announcements, tabs to highlight  Library services, resources and facilities

  • Pre-defined Authorized Values

To facilitate analysis of stock, usage by membership groups, issue-statistics, identifying branch-wise stock, ready-to-use standardised codes have been assigned to various types of items, patron (user) levels, alphanumeric barcodes, collection types.  This is one of the highly appreciated features of Preconfigured Koha.  Experience the advantages all by yourself !

  • Patron (Users)

Select your member categories from predefined User Category groups with 50 plus user types. Codification is useful in designing various types of reports in knowing the patron-hierarchy in numbers. 

100 plus predefined Primay & Secondary subject- interest areas are made available to provide target-based SDI & RSS feeds services.  The Patron Registration data has added fields like blood-group, designation, ID card data etc. 


  • Circulation  

In addition to routine circulation activities such as issue, return, renewal and reservations, one can use preconfigured templates for sending email alerts for library-transactions, generate patron-slips, overdue reminders, check-in, check-outs, hold-pick-up emails etc.

  • Cataloguing

Ready to use Marc21 templates for various types of library materials have been designed, keeping FRBR needs in mind.  This saves considerable amount of staff time in entering data and quickens addition of purchased stock to Library collection. 

There more than more than 50 different ready-to-use item-types such as Books, eBooks, DVD, Thesis etc.  Standardized predefined item-codes facilitate better search and reporting. Bardcode-printing and Spine-labels formats have already been designed for standard-label-sizes available. 

  • Acquisitions, Serials & Budget/Funds

Ready-to-use standardized Budgets, Fund codes are assigned to facilitate report to monitor spends and audit requirements (Accession Register).

  •  Reports   

25 plus tailor-made MIS report templates such as category-based usage statistics, Accession Register, New-arrivals List etc, covering important modules like Circulation, Acquisition, Cataloguing, Serials, Patron etc

Click here to download complete manual and read more about all the features available in Koha ILS.

Our Services

  • Hosting & Maintenance
  • Data Migration
  • Online Training & Support
  • Consultancy for Digital Library

Click Request a Demo for an online guided-demonstration on benefits of using Pre-configured, cloud-based hosted Koha services for your Library.  It only takes about half an hour and enables you to clear doubts you may have.