InfoTech: NEKLS Installing LibLimes’s Koha ZOOM Open Source Solution

Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 4/24/2008 12:46:00 PM

• Multitype regional library system serving 116 libraries in a 14-county region
• LibLime also contracted for data migration, support, and training services
• Koha Zoom includes a search engine that can read structured records in multiple input formats

LibLime is the choice of the Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS), which is installing a Koha ZOOM hosted system and union catalog. NEKLS is a multitype regional library system serving 116 libraries in a 14-county region. NEKLS will be using Koha ZOOM to run ‘NExpress,’ its regional shared ILS and courier service. LibLime said the Koha installation will be hosted off-site at one of its secure data centers. NEKLS has also contracted with LibLime for data migration, support, and training services. NEKLS provides a spectrum of services including training and consulting, technology services, advocacy, recognition of library service improvement, and grants to libraries.

Koha ZOOM is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source integrated library system. The vendor said it includes a search engine that can read structured records in multiple input formats (email, XML, MARC) and “allow access to them through exact boolean search expressions and relevance-ranked free-text queries. It supports large databases (more than ten gigabytes of data, tens of millions of records) as well as incremental, safe database updates on live systems.”