[Web4lib] An Analysis Of Open Source ILS Market Penetration

[Marshall Breeding]

lib-web-cats currently shows:

202 libraries running Koha worldwide
110 total libraries in the U.S.
61 of these are public libraries (including branches)
41 of these are public library organizations (not including 
branches)

Crawford Federated Library System is coded as a consortium, which 
means it counts as 10 separate library organizations.

For Evergreen:
264 public libraries (including branches)
52 public library organizations (not including branches)



-marshall


--On Tuesday, October 16, 2007 1:58 PM -0500 "Joshua M. Ferraro" 
<jmf at liblime.com> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> I was very surprised at the numbers you gave, and still a bit
> unclear about where you got them from ... especially on the Koha
> side. What is your definition of a library? library system? For
> instance, the Crawford County Federated Library System is a group
> of 10 libraries, each with their own directors, though they run a
> single installation of Koha. Similarly, there are 46 libraries in
> PINES, which run under a single installation of Evergreen.
>
> Could you clarify where you're getting the data from and what your
> definitions are? (just looking at Marshall's site for instance,
> doing a search on Public Libraries in the US running Koha I come
> up with 61, and I know for sure Marshall's site isn't up to date
> with all the US Koha libraries in the US).
>
> Cheers,
>
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Marshall Breeding
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Vanderbilt University Library
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