NBLUG Library ?

augie schwer at sonic.net
Fri Oct 25 08:07:30 PDT 2002


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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:08:11AM -0700, Ron Wickersham wrote:
> it is used in large libraries, and also some people on the mailing list have
> used it with 50 books at home.  but consider that it's easy to install and 
> ready to use.  it takes less than an hour to install.   use koha version 
> 1.2.2 on an existing linux system.  (there is also kohacd which is a 
> bootable ISO image demo version).  http://sourceforge.net/projects/koha/

well now you've piqued my intrest again, so i'll download the source
and mess around with it a little. but i still do have some concerns,
and would love to hear from those of you who do use this at home.

i'm concerned that i, and others would get bogged down in the huge
list of features, since what we want to do is relatively simple.

from the demo koha looks like it wants a lot of info about its patrons
before it loans books out to them, this could be good or bad.

no offense, but those that use it for 50 odd books, may not be valid
test cases for what we want to do. since we'll actually be using it in
its full library mode, where as the casual home user probably just
uses it to catalog things, and not really dealing with the checking in
or out of items. but maybe i'm wrong, if so i'd like to hear.

 -augie


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