Guides

Practical guides to Koha, cataloguing, circulation and moving your library.

Start here

Understand Koha and find your way around BibOS.

• Getting started with BibOS
• Understanding Koha
• Library and Koha glossary

Catalogue & discovery

Records, imports and a catalogue people can use.

• Catalogue records and items
• Preparing a MARC import
• Preparing your public catalogue

Daily operations

Practical guides for the work behind the desk.

• Checkouts, returns and holds
• Patron accounts and staff access
• Orders, budgets and acquisitions
• Journals and serial subscriptions
• Useful reports and reliable counts

Setup & migration

Prepare your data, policies and team for a move.

• Branches, locations and item types
• Planning loan and hold rules
• Planning a move to Koha
• Troubleshooting BibOS

Official Koha manual