Koha by adnanali.dev

A school library anyone can search from a phone

Koha is the open-source library system used by thousands of libraries around the world. We host it for your school, set it up for Indian and international curricula, and give it a clean modern look and an Android app, so students and teachers actually use the catalogue.

Live demo: Savoira Central School Library, 156 titles in English, Hindi and Urdu.

Koha catalogue home page with shelves for textbooks, stories, Hindi and Urdu, biographies and reference The catalogue on a phone
  • Koha 26.05current release, kept updated
  • Hosted for youno server at school
  • Open cataloguesearch without logging in
  • Android appKoha Library for phones
  • Any languageEnglish, Hindi, Urdu titles

Two sides of one library

Students and teachers use the catalogue; the librarian works in the staff side. Both are in your browser and on phones.

Catalogue for students and teachers

koha.adnanali.dev, or your school's own address

Search everything
Title, author, subject or class, with filters for availability, language and type of book.
Browse the shelves
Home page tiles for textbooks, stories, Hindi and Urdu, biographies and reference.
My account
Members log in to see what they have borrowed, when it is due, renew it and place holds.
Lists and reading
Teachers make reading lists for a class; students save books for later.

Staff side for the librarian

koha-staff.adnanali.dev

Check out and check in
Scan a member card and a book barcode; due dates follow your loan rules.
Cataloguing
Standard MARC 21 records; copy records from other libraries instead of typing them.
Members
Students, teachers, staff and parents, imported from the school's student list.
Overdues and reports
Overdue lists, most-borrowed books, inventory checks and ready-made reports.

See it working

Screens from the demo library, Savoira Central School Library.

Search results with Hindi and Urdu titles
Search in any script. Premchand in Hindi, Ghalib and Iqbal in Urdu, filtered by author and availability.
Book detail page with copies and availability
Every copy on the shelf. Call number, copies and whether each is available or on loan.
Staff home page in the adnanali.dev design
The librarian's desk. Circulation, patrons, cataloguing and reports, one click away.
Overdue loans list
Overdues at a glance. Who has which book, since when, with the due date in red.

Set up for schools

Koha is built for every kind of library. We set it up for how a school library actually works.

Loan rules that fit

Books for 14 days with two renewals, textbooks for the whole term, more for teachers, reference books kept in the library.

Members from your student list

Students and teachers come straight from Savoira or a spreadsheet, with class and card number. No self sign-up.

Your curriculum's books

NCERT, state board and Cambridge textbooks catalogued by class, alongside fiction, Hindi and Urdu literature.

Your school's look

Your name and logo on the catalogue, in a clean design that works on any phone.

Indian settings

Dates as dd/mm/yyyy, Indian Rupee for fines and purchases, your holidays in the calendar.

Works with Savoira

Schools on Savoira school management get one student list for both, and the same people in the library.

Koha Library app

The catalogue as an Android app: search, check loans and renew from the phone, without typing an address.

  • Opens your school's library with a code or a QR link
  • Stays logged in; back button and offline screen work as expected
  • Android 10 and newer, no ads, no tracking
Koha Library app showing the catalogue home page

Hosted and looked after

You get the library, not a server to manage.

  • Secure address with SSL for the catalogue and the staff side.
  • Nightly backups of the database and settings, kept for 14 days.
  • Monitored: the catalogue and search engine are checked every 2 minutes and restarted automatically if they stop.
  • Kept up to date with Koha's monthly bug-fix and security releases.
  • Your data stays yours: export your catalogue (MARC) and members (CSV) at any time.
  • Staff training and support by e-mail from someone who has run a school library system for years.

Questions

We already have our books in a spreadsheet or another library program. Can we move?

Yes. A spreadsheet with title, author, barcode and call number is enough to start; we convert it into catalogue records. From other library programs we import MARC records and members.

Do we need barcodes and a scanner?

No, but they make check-out much faster. Koha prints barcode labels and member cards; any USB barcode scanner works.

Is the catalogue public?

By default anyone can search it, like a public library, which is useful for parents and alumni. Loans and member details are only shown after login. We can also make the whole catalogue login-only.

Can we use our own web address?

Yes, for example library.yourschool.edu.in, with SSL included.

What does it cost?

It depends on the number of books and members. Send a quote request and you will get a fixed yearly price.

See your library on Koha

We show you the demo library with your questions in mind, then set up your own.