Acceptance of Koha Open Source System among Librarians in the Malaysian Academic Libraries: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

Mohideen, Zainab Ajab; Sheikh, Arslan; Kaur, Kuldip; Tahira, Muzammil

doi:10.1080/00987913.2019.1680248

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“…For circulation the respondents highly adopted Koha ILS for checking-in/checking-out of library materials, while there was moderate adoption for renewal/reservation of items for users, generating circulation report and printing borrower's transactions. This is consistent with the findings of Mohideen, Sheikh, Kaur and Tahira (2019) that the acceptance level of accepting Koha ILS in Malaysia was high. For serials, the respondents moderately adopted Koha ILS for, serial cataloguing and obtaining subscription suggestions from users, while they rarely adopted Koha ILS for placing purchase order and making payment for serials' subscription.…”

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“…In Pakistan, Asim and Mairaj (2019) found in their study that, Koha was adopted by librarians due to features such as Web-based public access catalogue and MARC21 provision for standard cataloguing. In Malaysia, Mohideen et al (2019) investigated the "acceptance of Koha open source system among librarians in Malaysian academic libraries: an exploratory qualitative study" and found that the acceptance level of accepting Koha ILS was high and that its perceived usefulness was one of the major requirements for accepting Koha. This is an indication of the influence perceived usefulness would have on Koha adoption.…”

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Perceived usefulness and adoption of Koha integrated library systems by librarians in universities in Southern Nigeria

Jamogha

Owoeye

Godwin

2021

DLP

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Purpose This paper aims to study the perceived usefulness and adoption of Koha Integrated Library System (ILS) by librarians in universities in Southern Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a survey method. The researchers designed a structured questionnaire using Google form and shared it online. Data were gathered from respondents whose libraries had adopted Koha. Findings Koha was highly perceived useful in acquisition, cataloguing, circulation and serials operations. There was moderate adoption of Koha generally. However, it was rarely adopted for making payment and placing of orders for book purchases and serial subscriptions. Perceived usefulness had positive influence on Koha’s adoption. Inadequate training of library staff on Koha use was a major challenge to Koha adoption. Hence, it was recommended that there should be regular training on the use of Koha and strategic decisions that would enhance the useful objectives behind the gunning for Koha, should be taken and implemented by the management of libraries. Originality/value The study highlighted the perceived usefulness of Koha and the extent to which it has been adopted by librarians in the university libraries under study. It will avail the management of these libraries the opportunity to re-evaluate if the ILS is well maximized in terms of adoption and usefulness.

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Perceived usefulness and adoption of Koha integrated library systems by librarians in universities in Southern Nigeria

Jamogha

Owoeye

Godwin

2021

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“…The opensource Integrated Library Management Software (ILMS) provides a planning system and various attractions for libraries. The open-source or the ILMS is used as Public license GPL according to their needs [4][5][6]. It is an effective source for developing countries to save money and balance the library budgets conversely, and proprietary library management software costs too much money for yearly maintenance.…”

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confidence: 99%

KohaILS:AnEfficientOpenSourceApplicationof Integrated Library System

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2021

TURCOMAT

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Most public and private libraries are inclined to adopt using Koha ILS around the globe. However, several Arab schools could not implement the Koha ILS application to automate their school libraries for ease of use. Deploying technology in managing libraries can solve several identified issues in public and private schools. This provides efficiency, ease and improves the performance of library services. Therefore, this paper is based on qualitative research that implements an efficient open-source application known as Koha ILS in two Arab schools, namely Baseerah International School (BIS) and International Modern Arab School (IMAS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In our analysis, we consider analyzing the proposed Koha ILS by providing backend accessibility so as library consumers can make a further enhancement to upgrade the application. The proposed Koha presents several positive impacts such as an efficient cataloging system, remote management of library consumer records such as books or room reservations and customizable searching interface for efficient usage. The application also presents multiple operating system support for a user’s flexibility. In our results, an analysis was made by comparing the two schools based on gender, position/ranks available in the school library, and IT gadgets. Toward this end, some limitations were noted and recommended as a future research direction.

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“…Since the early days of OSS in libraries, studies on OSS have focused on the librarian's view or acceptance of OSS (Asim and Mairaj 2019;Mohideen et al 2019), comparisons between OSS with proprietary software (Pruett and Choi 2013), comparisons of various OSS (Bwalya 2021;Deshmukh, 2017), and obstacles in the use or implementation of OSS (Thacker 2016).…”

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A study on the implementation of Koha cataloguing module in Malaysian academic libraries

(Corresponding Author),

Sa’adah,

Nurul Aini

2023

MJLIS

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The study explores the experiences of the Malaysian academic libraries’ cataloguers in their use of the cataloguing module of Koha Open Source Software (OSS). The purpose of this study is to shed light on issues concerning Koha cataloguing module and the local practices in policy and procedure while utilising the module. An exploratory sequential research design was adopted for the study involving an online focus group interview and a questionnaire survey as the data collection techniques. Twenty-two academic libraries from public and private universities in Malaysia were purposively sampled. A total of six academic libraries participated in the focus group, whereas 41 participants took part in the survey. The study highlighted academic libraries in Malaysia embrace Koha for two main reasons - popularity as and OSS and budget constraints for a proprietary library system. The findings of the study revealed that missing records is a significant issue that cataloguers will have to deal with and there is a lack of certain features available in the Koha cataloging module, such as the label creator and search feature. Apart from that, using Koha for cataloguing does not affect the cataloguing practices in terms of policy, but it does affect the cataloguing procedure. Satisfaction level with Koha cataloguing module is high. Other academic libraries in Malaysia that have not yet made a move to Koha or are in the midst of doing so would benefit from this study.

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Acceptance of Koha Open Source System among Librarians in the Malaysian Academic Libraries: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

Cited by 6 publications

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Perceived usefulness and adoption of Koha integrated library systems by librarians in universities in Southern Nigeria

Perceived usefulness and adoption of Koha integrated library systems by librarians in universities in Southern Nigeria

KohaILS:AnEfficientOpenSourceApplicationof Integrated Library System

A study on the implementation of Koha cataloguing module in Malaysian academic libraries

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