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Koha, a seven-year old project, was the first open-source [[ILS ]] and is licensed under the [[GPL]]. It's developed on the L.A.M.P. (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl) platform though it also runs on Windows. Basic features include circulation, borrower management, cataloging, and a powerful OPAC. Advanced features include budget-based acquisitions, serials management and MARC authorities control ([[MARC21 ]] and [[UNIMARC]]). It also supports spell checking, enriched bibliographic content (jacket covers, "read inside", reviews, ratings and descriptions from Amazon.com), RSS feeds of searches and borrower account data, E-book integration, patron-initiated reservations and renewals as well virtual shelves (lists) for organizing collections of records. Notably, recent versions of Koha's OPAC include a powerful standards-based search engine built around [http://indexdata.dk/zebra Zebra], the high-performance indexing and retrieval database. [[Zebra ]] supports large databases (more than ten gigabytes of data, tens of millions of records) as well as incremental, safe database updates on live systems. Zebra also brings native support for important library standards such as [[Z39.50 ]] and SRW/SRU. Koha supports multiple formats for bibliographic records including several flavors of MARC (UNIMARC, MARC21, [[KORMARC]], ESMARC, etc.), MARCXML, MODS and [[Dublin Core]].