We started lurking on the Koha LIST about a YEAR ago, though now I don’t remember how Koha first came to our attention. In January of this year, I’d seen enough to pull together a “tech team” consisting of me, the assistant director, our webmaster, our SYSTEMS administrator, and our circulation software supervisor. We decided to embark on an experiment: Could we switch all of our automation software, from operating systems to web TOOLS, to Open Source by the end of this year? We decided that there was no “SUCCESS” or “failure” involved, just a simple research question with a “yes” or “no” answer. No matter the outcome, we would have gathered a lot of information, and we made plans from the very beginning to share this information with the library community.

We started lurking on the Koha list about a year ago, though now I don’t remember how Koha first came to our attention. In January of this year, I’d seen enough to pull together a “tech team” consisting of me, the assistant director, our webmaster, our systems administrator, and our circulation software supervisor. We decided to embark on an experiment: Could we switch all of our automation software, from operating systems to web tools, to Open Source by the end of this year? We decided that there was no “success” or “failure” involved, just a simple research question with a “yes” or “no” answer. No matter the outcome, we would have gathered a lot of information, and we made plans from the very beginning to share this information with the library community.