Kohacon20: Got a hundred dollars? Get an ILS! - Fred King (Day 3)
Channel: Koha
Date: 28/10/2020

This session will take the user through the steps of building a fully-functional ILS using Koha, a Raspberry Pi 4, MarcEdit, and a chicken (option) for a total cost of under $100 USD. The presenter (and chicken) will show how he installed Koha on the Raspberry Pi 4, then used MarcEdit to harvest MARC records using Z39.50. This is not a system for a large library with hundreds of transactions per hour, but might be used by a small library with an extremely limited budget that would like to set up an ILS. The presenter (and chicken) also hope to convince potential users that Koha is a lot easier to use than they might think. He’s a community college drop-out – if he can do it, so can you.


Kohacon2020 will run from Monday 19th - Sunday 25th October. It is the annual conference of the Koha Software Community. Kohacon is attended by Librarians, Software Developers and other contributors to the project from all over the world. All are welcome!

Kohacon runs for 7 days, starting with 3 days of single-track conference. Programme is at https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/programme/