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Sr. No |
Features |
Koha |
Egranthalaya |
SLIM |
Libsys |
1 |
Webbased |
Yes |
Not |
Not |
Yes |
2 |
Marc 21 |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
3 |
Modules |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
4 |
Opensource |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
5 |
Cloud based |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
6 |
Price |
Tailormade |
3-11,000/- |
125,000 |
150.000 |
7 |
Maintenance |
As per requirements |
500/- per visit |
15% of first year |
15% of first year |
8 |
Data Security |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
9 |
Revision of version |
Every 6th Months |
Four to Five year |
Four to Five year |
Four to Five year |
10 |
Modular/Customisable |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
11 |
Local Support |
AMC |
per visit |
AMC |
AMC |
12 |
Manual |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
13 |
Community Groups |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
14 |
NCP 2 for RFID |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
15 |
Vendor Lock |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
16 |
International Standards |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
17 |
Cost of Hardware and Software |
Lowest |
Highest |
Highest |
Highest |
18 |
Z3950 Protocol |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
19 |
Unicode Support |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
20 |
Company Ownership Type |
OpenSource |
Central Government NIC |
Private |
Private |
21 |
Union catalogue of Branch Libraries |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Thank you
Tags:
I have a concerned staff of informatics in my organisation itself for KOHA. He is the one who gave me the comparative figures. What I would like to know is, if it is as popular in an academic institution like the one I have mentioned? Any academic users who can comment on this please?
thank you Mr.Pushparaj Naik will check SOUL too . Is it free?
Dear Ma'am
Koha is a Best software for academic libraries.............
NewGenLib is the best.
1. Open source and free
2. Meets all standards
3. All facilities of koha
4. Support
5. Can run on windows as well as on linux
6. Has librarian's interface (Koha does not have - the biggest drawback of koha)
7. Easy installation and maintenance (I will be available)
explain librarian's interface please. Also give me your contact details too with mail id plz
Library staff members carry out library operations in librarian's interface whereas users will access library catalogue and see their accounts through web based OPAC. In Koha only web-based HTML interface is given both for library staff members as well as for users.
Ganesh Singh Kushwah
09425120618
ganeshmlib@gmail.com
Thank you Mr. Kushwah
Dear Ganesh Singh,
I agree that NewGenLib is open source but the migration of data from one platform to other is not possible.
Dear Ms. Satya P Shetty,
As you said that you have a good IT backup for koha and this is very must for KOHA s/w to run on linux platform and we people are also migrating the Alice backup to koha and its almost done in our library and very soon we will be having a union catalogue on this koha s/w. In the coming years we will be shifting ourselves to open sources as the license fees for these properity software(s) are increasing every year.
I will suggest you to go for koha and every day u will learn a new feature in it.
SOUL is a software of inflibnet and is not free of cost. They have a demo version available on their website for nearly housekeeping operation of 250-300 books only.
Dear Ajit
You agree only upon open source feature of newgenlib and ignored other features.
Does koha have a single click to migrate other software's data into it or according to koha various formats of data in excel sheets have to be prepared ?
Migration of data is possible in newgenlib too.
Does koha have librarian's interface ?
I would like to suggest Ms shetty to have some work experience in koha as well as in newgenlib and only on the basis of convenience of operation take unbiased decision.
Dear Ganesh,
Pl read
Parameter |
Koha |
NewGenLib |
Remarks/Differences |
System preferences |
Provides links to set-up global parameters as well as those specific to functional modules. |
Provides tabs in the librarians interface to set up global (general system) parameters and those specific to functional modules |
|
Global system parameters |
Defines these under several tabs which includes both the functional modules as well as specific headings such as Patrons, OAI-PMH, I18/L1ON (internationalization), z39.50 targets etc. |
Defines these under several tabs which include both the functional modules as well as specific headings, patrons, z39.50 targets. |
|
Cataloguing |
Authority values, types, MARC templates |
Authority values, types, MARC templates |
|
Patrons and Circulation |
Patron categories and types, circulation privileges and fine rules with respect to item types. |
Patron categories and types, circulation privileges and fine rules with respect to item types, departments and courses |
|
Acquisitions (books and serials) |
Funds, budgets, vendors, currencies and exchange rates |
Funds, budgets, vendors, currencies and exchange rates, fiscal year, fund allocations. |
|
nice intellectual reply
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