Koha is a library cataloging application, originally created for the Horowhenua Library Trust by Katipo, a small company in New Zealand. It has always been under the Gnu Public License, and today is installed as a production system in at least 4 countries indexing thousands of individual library items, and currently supports users in 2 languages. New features and support are handled by a variety of international volunteers.
This document is copyrighted (c) 2002 The Koha Project and is distributed under the same terms as the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) license, stated below.
Unless otherwise stated, Koha documents are copyrighted by their respective authors. Koha related documents may be reproduced and distributed in whole or in part, in any medium physical or electronic, as long as this copyright notice is retained on all copies. Commercial redistribution is allowed and encouraged; however, the author would like to be notified of any such distributions. Please check your local laws on copyright.
If you have any questions about the documentation, please contact <info@koha.org>. If you have any questions about Koha releases, please contact <info@koha.org>.
No liability for the contents of this documents can be accepted. Use the concepts, examples and other content at your own risk. As this is a new edition of this document, there may be errors and inaccuracies, that may of course be damaging to your system. Proceed with caution, and although damage is highly unlikely, the author(s) do not take any responsibility for that, or anything else that occurs.
All copyrights are held by their by their respective owners, unless specifically noted otherwise. Use of a term in this document should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark.
Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as endorsements.
You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system before major installation and backups at regular intervals.
This is the third release.
This document's home page is www.koha.org.
The latest version number of this document can be obtained from www.koha.org.
This HOWTO will always be made available on the koha website, and will eventually have a variety of formats:
Since paper sizes vary in the world, this documentation is available in universal format (8.27x11in; 210x279mm). More or less :0.
In this version I have the pleasure of acknowledging:
Mike Mylonas, Rachel Hamilton-Williams, Pat Eyler, and Jo Ransom in particular for either their specific contributions to the manual, or their support for the editing. Rosalie Blake is the true, peerless guru of proofreading, and saved you the reader, and I from numerous ugly sentences and errors. Naturally, I (and the entire community) are also indebted to all of the Koha contributors collectively.-- Nick, The Sometime Documeister, Koha
The entire project is indebted to Katipo and HLT for opening the source in the first place.
Feedback is most certainly welcome for this document. Without your submissions and input, this document wouldn't exist. Please send your additions, comments and criticisms to the following email address : <info AT koha.org>.
Translations are or should soon be available in the following languages: