Koha initially developed by Katipo Communications for Horowhenua Library Trust in New Zealand in 2000. Joshua Ferraro was at Nelsonville Public Library when it was adopted there in 2001.
Demonstration of OPAC at Nelsonville -- good searching capabilities (try "it"
and "o") -- great sorting features -- "refine your search" faceting.
Everything is over the web. Not just OPAC, but all staff modules.
NEU Grand Library has image maps to books in the library.
Koha allows any encoding, but uses unicode internally. See http://opac.liblime.com "change language" dropdown for translation examples.
KohaZOOM OPAC demo at http://zoomopac.liblime.com/.
Koha's OPAC is just a Z39.50 client, and the backend is a Z39.50 server, which is why it's easy to integrate with Masterkey.
We might have difficulty laying KohaZOOM over III because III's Z39.50 server is slow and unstable. Most likely we'll need to pull everything out of the catalog and drop it in an indexer -- probably either Zebra or Solr.
We tossed around ideas for global updates. Cataloging interface fills in
field defaults upon select.
Uses HTML::Template for templates.
Many thanks to Nicole Engard for putting the event together.