KohaCon 2019 – Dublin

Dublin Business School Library, Interleaf Technology and PTFS Europe are delighted to share their proposal to arrange and host KohaCon in Dublin in 2019. Dublin Business School is an early adopter of the Koha Library Management System nationally, launching the system in September 2013.
Interleaf Technology and PTFS Europe are the leading suppliers of Koha implementation, development, support and hosting services in Ireland and the UK respectively.
Over 300 libraries ranging from primary schools to universities, corporate libraries and national health services use Koha in these islands.

Dublin Business School

Dublin Business School is the largest private higher education institution in Ireland with a student body of 9000 students. Dublin Business School (DBS) specialises in the provision of career focused business and law education as well as the delivery of contemporary programmes in the areas of arts, media, librarianship, social science, humanities and psychology. In 2018, Dublin Business School won the Excellence in Teaching and Best Business College awards at the National Education Awards. The College comprises several campuses in the heart of Dublin’s city centre which have state-of-the-art computer laboratories, workshops, modern lecture theatres and auditoriums.

Company Overview

Founded in 1998 and based in Bray, Co Wicklow, Interleaf Technology, with a locally based support team, provides technical solutions for organisations of all sizes.

Although Interleaf Technology has long been associated with technology for libraries we have expanded our product set to include Wi-Fi Solutions, PC Booking systems, Open Source and Cloud consultancy and Legal Information Databases.

Interleaf Technology supports and promotes Open Source technology where possible.

Customer Support is our key driver and Interleaf Technology provide a personal rather than a Call Centre style of support operation.

Dublin Business School Library

Voted Best Library Team at the National Education Awards, DBS Library is recognised nationally as an innovative library service. Several staff members lecture on the College’s MSc in Information and Library Management which is accredited by the Library Association of Ireland. The Library has extensive digital and print resources as well as newly refurbished facilities. In 2018, the DBS Library Publishing Press was launched which publishes two international peer reviewed journals: Studies in Arts and Humanities and DBS Business Review. Both journals are indexed on international databases and on the Directory of Open Access Journals.

The DBS Library was an early adopter of Koha in Ireland, launching the system in September 2013. In addition to being an active contributor to the Koha User Group, open source software is taught in the curriculum of the MSc in Information and Library Management at DBS, with students deploying and configuring the software in the computer laboratory setting, ensuring that new graduate librarians are familiar with Koha as they start their careers.

About PTFS Europe

PTFS Europe provides a wide range of products and services to the library market. These include the open source library management system Koha, RT: Request Tracker for enquiry management, CORAL for electronic resource management, Booked for resource booking and the Knowvation enterprise content management system. An ISO27001 company, PTFS Europe provides the full range of services needed to implement, develop, host and support these products.