Australia & New Zealand
Koha for Libraries in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
Koha began in a New Zealand public library in 1999, and libraries here know it well. We host it, upgrade it, support it and train your team, so a small library does not need its own IT department to run it.
What we hear
The problems libraries here bring us
“Our Koha is several versions behind, and the upgrade keeps being put off because nobody wants to lose a weekend.”
“We are a school or special library with no IT team, and Koha needs a server somebody has to look after.”
“Daylight saving moves our clocks twice a year, and overnight notices went out an hour off.”
“Our support provider is asleep during our working day.”
How we set it up
Configured for where your library is
Whether we install a new Koha, migrate you onto one, host it, or support the Koha you already run.
Your languages, set up and checked
Koha’s community translations include New Zealand English and te reo Māori, and for the Pacific, French, Tahitian and Tuvaluan. Māori titles keep their macrons in the record, and we test search with and without them before go-live.
Your time zone, calendar and currency
Australia has three standard zones, and only some states change clocks: Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Adelaide do, Brisbane, Perth and Darwin do not. New Zealand changes too. Each library gets its named zone, so the change happens on the right night, in Australian or New Zealand dollars.
Upgrades without losing a weekend
On Koha Cloud, upgrades, security patches and backups are ours and happen without your staff. If you keep your own Koha, we upgrade a copy first, check it with your staff, and only then upgrade the live system.
Across the region
Configured for your state or country
| Where | Time zone | Koha interface languages |
|---|---|---|
| NSW, Victoria, ACT, Tasmania | Australia/Sydney, Australia/Melbourne, Australia/Hobart (UTC+10, daylight saving) | English |
| Queensland | Australia/Brisbane (UTC+10, no daylight saving) | English |
| South Australia | Australia/Adelaide (UTC+9:30, daylight saving) | English |
| Northern Territory | Australia/Darwin (UTC+9:30, no daylight saving) | English |
| Western Australia | Australia/Perth (UTC+8) | English |
| New Zealand | Pacific/Auckland (UTC+12, daylight saving) | English (NZ), te reo Māori |
| Fiji, Tuvalu | Pacific/Fiji, Pacific/Funafuti (UTC+12) | English, Tuvaluan |
| Papua New Guinea | Pacific/Port_Moresby (UTC+10) | English |
| Samoa, Tonga | Pacific/Apia, Pacific/Tongatapu (UTC+13) | English |
| French Polynesia, New Caledonia | Pacific/Tahiti (UTC−10), Pacific/Noumea (UTC+11) | French, Tahitian |
Sessions and support are scheduled in your time zone. Translation completeness varies by language; we check yours before go-live.
Included
What we look after
Daylight saving handled
Named zones, never fixed offsets, so due dates and notices stay right when clocks change.
No server to look after
Hosted Koha for a school or special library with no IT team on site.
Te reo Māori
Māori interface for staff and patrons, and macrons kept and searchable.
MARC21 and Z39.50
Copy cataloguing from national and university catalogues instead of typing records.
Backups you keep
Automated backups, plus a full copy of your data you can download any time.
Your currency
Fines, fees and acquisitions in Australian or New Zealand dollars.
More in Koha Cloud, not in standard Koha
Tamper-evident records
Every book’s movements and every fine, payment and waiver in an append-only history. Any change is detected and flagged.
Audit-ready recordsGate register and footfall
Members and walk-ins check in and out; time spent, peak hours and daily trends are reported.
Visitor managementMembership plans
As many paid plans as you sell, with freezes, grace days, study-only passes and renewals.
Membership plansPartner-library loans
Lend to and borrow collections from libraries outside the system, with agreements, deposits and due dates tracked.
How partner loans are trackedAI built into Koha Cloud
Advanced library automation, with an AI assistant for your staff and readers
Koha Cloud is more than hosting. On any plan, your library can add an AI assistant inside the librarian panel that catalogues, audits and reports alongside your staff. Write to it in English or te reo Māori, and it answers in the same language. It proposes; a librarian approves every change.
Copy cataloguing from every source
Give it an ISBN or a title. It searches your own Z39.50 and SRU servers in the order you rank them, then Google Books and Open Library, and brings back the 10 best matches, each labelled with its source. You pick one; the record is drafted for you to confirm.
DDC numbers and author marks
Suggests a Dewey number and a Cutter-style author mark worked out from cataloguing rules and your library’s own convention, for one book or every record missing one. A librarian approves each change.
Catalogue health score
40 checks rolled into one score out of 100: missing marks, invalid ISBNs, likely duplicates, records with no copies. It ranks the worst problems first, tracks the score over time, and fixes them in reviewed batches.
Stock audits and registers
Accession register, stocktake summary, missing items, item history, holdings as of any date and reconciliation, asked for in a sentence instead of built as a report.
Reports on request
Most-borrowed titles, dormant stock, overdues, fines, branch comparisons: 28 ready reports, asked as a question and saved for next time.
Patrons search in plain words
On your public catalogue a reader can type “books on climate change in Urdu published after 2015” or “Agatha Christie novels on the shelf right now”, and the AI turns it into a catalogue search with the right filters.
The same assistant also runs the circulation desk, acquisitions, patron registration, labels and your library's public website by chat, within each staff member's own permissions.
Koha Cloud pricing
Hosted Koha from $30 a month
Or $300 a year, saving $60. Up to 5,000 titles and 10,000 copies, 5 staff and 1,000 patrons, with hosting, a subdomain, data migration, the public catalog, cataloguing, circulation, acquisitions, administration and training. The same price in every country; larger libraries get a tailored quote.
Not ready to change your library system? Put just your catalogue online from $10 a month, from your spreadsheet, SLiMS export or register.
Already running Koha?
We support and fix the Koha you have, on your own server, and train your team in live sessions.
Koha supportMoving to Koha?
From another library system or a spreadsheet, validated and reconciled before go-live.
Koha data migrationYour team needs training?
Private live sessions for your staff on your own Koha, in your working hours.
Koha staff trainingFAQ
What libraries in the region ask us
Do you support libraries during the Australian and New Zealand working day?
Yes. Training sessions and support are scheduled in your own time zone, whether that is Perth, Sydney or Auckland.
Our Koha is several versions behind. Can you upgrade it?
Yes. We upgrade a copy first, check it with your staff, and only then upgrade the live system, so nothing changes under your users without warning. Moving to Koha Cloud ends the problem: upgrades and security patches are then ours.
Does Koha work in te reo Māori?
Yes. Koha has a te reo Māori translation for staff and patron screens, and Māori titles keep their macrons in the record. We test search with and without macrons before go-live.
How is it priced?
Koha Cloud's Basic plan has a published price in US dollars, the same in every country, with the first three months free. Support, migration and training for a Koha you run yourself are quoted.
Related reading
Background reading
Koha hosting guide
On-premise, VPS or managed: what each really costs.
Read the guideKoha SIP2 integration
Self-check and RFID equipment with Koha.
Read the guideKoha backup and restore
A backup that actually restores, and how to prove yours does.
Read the guideOther regions
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