In 1999 a website on OSS for libraries (OSS4lib – www.oss4lib.org) was launched at Yale Medical Library in the USA with a mission of “building better and free systems for use in libraries” and this contains links to useful information on developments, mainly in the USA, for OSS and libraries. Also in 1999 work began in New Zealand on the first OSS library management system Koha (www.koha.org) which has, according to the Koha developers wiki (http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id = kohausers), been implemented in various types of library in the following geographic areas: Africa (9); Asia (30); Australia and New Zealand ((16); Canada and the USA (34); Central America
(1); Europe (37); and South America (7). Unesco continues to support OSS and its portal covering OSS and digital libraries has links to 13 software systems, including
Koha (www.unesco.org/cgi-bin/webworld/portal_freesoftware/cgi/page.cgi?d =
1&g = Software/Digital_Library/index.shtml).