Dear Colleagues and thanks for the great work,<br><br>Below is content of a mail I posted to the koha list (<span class="gI"><a href="mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz">Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</a></span>) but I have not been advised about the right and best way to go about this. I am sorry for posting this to this forum. Could someone kindly advise me on this. I need this advise in order to be certainly sure that I am doing things right.<br>
<br>I am setting up a federated library system using
 koha where each of the libraries needs to have its own look and feel 
and also should be able to search its own collection and also be able to
 search the collection of the other libraries in the federation by the 
users choice. I have also integrated koha into a CMS &quot;joomla&quot; in order 
to handle non koha pages.<br>
<br>In my koha set up I have created the different libraries as branches
 and activitated the IndependantBranches preference in koha. You can see
 this at <a href="http://koha.apkn.org/" target="_blank">http://koha.apkn.org</a>
 (koha in Joomla) or <a href="http://koha.apkn.org:81/" target="_blank">http://koha.apkn.org:81</a>
 (Koha pure) or <a href="http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainug.pl" target="_blank">http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainug.pl</a>
 and <a href="http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainke.pl" target="_blank">http://koha.apkn.org:81/cgi-bin/koha/opac-mainke.pl</a>
 (Independent libraries).<br>
<br>However, I am not sure whether this is the right way to set up 
federated libraries using koha. Could someone kindly advise me about the
 right way to set up federated libraries using koha?<br><br>Thanks