Use Koha to exercise better control over your library:
Budgets & Spending
With Koha you will set-up budgets and funds for each financial period.
Koha enforces budget limits in order creation screens. Utilization and availability figures are available for viewing at any time.
Vendor, Order, pricing, discounts and invoice data is captured and available for viewring and analysis via reports.
Tracking Purchase Orders & Serial Subscriptions
Koha tracks the status of open purchase orders and Serials subscriptions shipments.
Shipments that are delayed can be viewed easily.
Claim letters can be generated from pre-defined templates and emailed to vendors.
Implementing Membership Policies
With Koha you can create membership or patron types.
For each type you can set policies such as:
Membership duration
Membership fee
Age limits
Guardianship (for minors)
Permissions and access control
Mandatory Information to be captured
Koha then automatically enforces these policies in various modules of the system.
Implementing Circulation Policies
With Koha you can create item and patron types.
For each combination of item and patron type (and library or branch) you can set policies such as:
Loan period
For loan or not
Maximum concurrent check-outs
Maximum concurrent reserves
Fine amount
Fine calcuation period
Advance and Overdue notices
Managing Holdings
Koha makes it easy to manage holdings via several mechanisms:
Unique bar code or accession number
Duplicate checks on ISBN and bar code or accession numbers
Location attributes like shelf, call number, collection or item type
Status attributes like withdrawn, lost or damaged
Copies of the same material are grouped under a common biblio record
Statistical and other reports on catalog or circulation data are available.
