Hi Mark,
Staffordshire University in the UK is using the Community version of
Koha. Dave Parkes blog includes the announcement in 2010:
http://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/informationlandscape/2010/12/10/staffordshire-university-chooses-koha-for-its-new-library-system/
Also the British Library for Development Studies may be relevant:
http://blds.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/migrating_to_koha_a_BLDS_journey.pdf
There are also some Health libraries that sometimes are seen as
academic. These and the above all use the Koha Community Open Source
Software.
I see others have advised about the history concerning Koha-Community
and Liblime.
I hope this helps.
Ian
On 29/01/2013 12:18, Mark Johnson wrote:
Hello Koha Community
My name's Mark Johnson, and I work for OSS Watch at the University of
Oxford. Recently, we published a document entitled "Open Source
Options for Education"[1] which includes a mention of Koha.
After we announced the document's publication, we received some
feedback from the Koha community via Twitter that we'd given the wrong
link and a misleading example of Koha's usage, so I've come here to
make sure that we can set it right.
We've not changed the link for Koha to point to koha-community.org, as
requested by a message on Twitter[2].
We were also informed that our example of Koha being used at the
University of the West of England was in fact "LibLime Academic Koha",
which "is not FOSS, nor has it ever been"[3]. This is obviously a
misunderstanding on my part. It was my understanding that LibLime was
simply a company providing commercial support for the open source Koha
product. Am I now correct in believing that it (also?) produces a
separate, closed-source product called "LibLime Academic Koha"? Any
background to this would be very much appreciated.
Finally, if anyone would be willing to share an example of the open
source Koha system being used in their educational institution for me
to use in place of the UWE example, particularly if they are based in
the UK, I would be very grateful indeed!
Many Thanks
Mark Johnson
[1] http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/ossoptionseducation
[2] https://twitter.com/nengard/status/293088894000451585
[3] https://twitter.com/KohaAloha/status/293313158410534913
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