Presented by

  • Aleisha Amohia

    Aleisha Amohia
    @https://www.twi
    https://www.aleisha.nz/

    Aleisha Amohia (Te Ātihaunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Hāua, Cambodia, India) (she/her) is a Technical Lead and Software Developer for Rōpū Kohinga at Catalyst IT in Wellington, New Zealand. She has been working on Koha library system since 2014 and is familiar with other open source collections software such as VuFind and DSpace. Aleisha graduated in 2020 from Victoria University of Wellington with a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Management and Information Systems).

Abstract

Since its conception, Koha has never been a traditional library system. After its release in 2000, when it became the first open source library system, one of the first installations of Koha was for cataloguing car manuals for a manufacturer in Detroit, USA. Koha has continued to push the boundaries on what a library system can do, what problems it can solve, and how different types of organisations can put it to use.