With Koha you can publish your catalog records to the outside world via the Z39.50 protocol. This will allow any Z39.50 compliant client software to search and copy records from your catalog. Some applications of this feature are:
Allow other libraries to copy records from your catalog
Include your catalog data in results of a Z39.50 compliant federated search tool in use in your organization
Configuring your Koha to be a Z39.50 server is not that hard; we cover the steps below.
We edit the koha-conf.xml file to configure the public Z39.50 server:
koha@li190-245:~/kohaclone$ vi /etc/koha-dev/etc/koha-conf.xml
The listen directive controls the network protocol, the IP address and the port that our public server will be available on.
To set up the listen directive for the public server, remove the comment tags on the listen directive for the public server:
<!-- public server runs on tcp --><listen id="publicserver" >tcp...