Dr. Ahsan Ullah
Chief Executive Officer, Koha Solutions. PhD, Institute of Information Management, University of the Punjab
Dr. Ahsan Ullah is the Chief Executive Officer of Koha Solutions. He completed his PhD at the Institute of Information Management, University of the Punjab, Lahore, with a dissertation on the use of research methodology in library and information science. He has completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad. His research interests are library management, research methods, repositories and legal informatics.
- Library management
- Research methods in library and information science
- Institutional repositories
- Legal informatics
Knowledge base articles
Blog posts
- What Does a Healthy Library Catalog Look Like?Most libraries have never had a single number for catalog quality — just a general sense that "cataloging could be better." Here is what actually counts, and how to measure it instead of guessing.
- Koha Union Catalogs and Consortium Lending ExplainedOne shared catalog or several catalogs with search over the top? The two models, what each costs, and the governance questions that decide success.
- Koha for Schools: Is It the Right Fit for a School Library?Koha can run a school library well. Whether it should is decided by one question — who will look after it. An honest guide for school librarians.
- Koha for Universities: Does It Scale to Academic Libraries?Koha runs million-record academic catalogues and national consortia. The real constraints are electronic resources and discovery — not scale. An honest assessment.
- Koha and MARC21: A Cataloger’s Guide to Fields and FrameworksHow Koha stores and uses MARC21 — the essential fields, the 942 and 952 fields that are Koha’s own, frameworks, and how to fix records that import badly.
- What Is Koha Library Management System? A Complete GuideKoha is the world’s most-deployed open-source library management system. Here is what it does, who runs it, what it really costs, and how to get started.