Survey on Koha usage in India

This paper represents Koha as one of the first ILSs developed as open source software and has been continuously developed by a growing community of developers across the globe. This can be useful from small libraries to large libraries. This paper includes issues and affairs related to implementation, budget, working on different modules of Koha such as Administration, Acquisition, circulation, cataloguing, serials, Patrons, Tools, and Reports etc. With successful execution of the Survey on Koha Usage in India, it recommends KOHA as most worthwhile open source library software which shall be useful in developing an integrated library system for academic libraries.

Keywords: Open Source Software, Integrated Library Management.