Ensuring quality over quantity, addressing the lack of space and inadequate funding as well as the level of support available, questions on jurisdiction and supervision, and exploring possible means of income generation such as the collection fees are merely the tip of the veritable iceberg of issues facing the public libraries and public librarians in the Philippines.
In one year time a total of 247 units of koha servers were deployed to 44 city, 2 congressional, 180 municipal, 20 provincial and 1 regional affiliated public libraries in 25 provinces of the country. Starting from the last quarter of 2010 deployment of Koha Integrated Library System (Koha ILS) was made possible under the 2009-2011 Information System Strategic Plan (ISSP) of the Information Technology Division (ITD) of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP).
In one year time a total of 247 units of koha servers were deployed to 44 city, 2 congressional, 180 municipal, 20 provincial and 1 regional affiliated public libraries in 25 provinces of the country. Starting from the last quarter of 2010 deployment of Koha Integrated Library System (Koha ILS) was made possible under the 2009-2011 Information System Strategic Plan (ISSP) of the Information Technology Division (ITD) of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP).
