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Information and Communication Technology Applications

• Subscriptions;
Notes • Check-in of individual issues of journals;
• Payment, reminder, binding, and title history;
• Export/import by using ISO 2709 bibliographic exchange format;
• Article indexing of journal/book articles;
• Cataloguing of electronic journals; and
• Keeps track of the history changes of the journals.

Administration

In addition to the features available in the Administration Module of the SOUL 1.0, some more
features have been added to the administration module of the SOUL 2.0. With the inputs from the
various SOUL users and requirements of the library staff and their user rights. The module has
been divided into three major sections for accommodating the new features; those are User
management, System Parameters and Masters. The administration volume provides the following
These Administration module include following features:
• Grouping of users based on the policy;
• Transactional rights over the systems;
• Transaction level security to users;
• Various configuration settings such as labels, e-mail and other parameters related to the soft-
ware use; and
• Common master databases being used in modules.

14.4 Koha

KOHA is web-based ILS, with a SQL database backend with cataloguing data stored in MARC and
accessible via Z39.50. The user interface is very configurable and adaptable and has been translated
into many languages. KOHA has most of the features that would be expected in an ILS, including:
• Simple, clear interface for librarians and members (patrons)
• Various Web 2.0 facilities like tagging and RSS feeds
• Union catalog facility
• Customizable search
• Circulation and borrower management
• Full acquisitions system including budgets and pricing information (including supplier and
currency conversion)
• Simple acquisitions system for the smaller library
• Ability to cope with any number of branches, patrons, patron categories, item categories,
items, currencies and other data
• Serials system for magazines or newspapers
• Reading lists for members.

Overview

Koha as created in 1999 by Katipo Communications for the Horowhenua Library Trust in New
Zealand, and the first installation went live in January 2000.

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