NBLUG Library ?

[Ron Wickersham]

hi Augie,

if you're up for consideration of an existing open-source library automation
system that meets most of your requirements, conisder: http://www.koha.org

in order of your requirements on your web page:

1). Koha is web-based, but also has a curses interface so you get both.

2). you'd have to compromise on this one, sorry.  Koha is perl.

3). the data is stored in a RDBMS. (although there has been discussion on
    the Koha lists to consider other data-base systems - the relational
    model is not a close fit to library data).  the current stable release
    of Koha has some MySQL extensions hard coded in it but the development
    branch is extracting to be DBI based.

4). Koha imports MARC records (MAchine Readable Catalog) and can pull the
    data from the Library of Congress or most any other library as this
    data format has been standardised.   and the system is much more complex
    than your outline.

5). there are two interfaces, OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) and 
    intranet.  intranet runs on a separate virtual (or real) Apache server
    and is for the administrative functions.

Koha is on a bit grander scale than you've proposed but it's also ready to
run and includes a lot more advanced features that are useful and would
take a long time to write from scratch.

(for instance the concept of braches could be used by members to list their
personal books and their willingness to loan books to other members without
transferring ownership and storage to the group library).

-ron


On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, augie wrote:

> fellow nblug'ers, recently there has been some talk (and even some
> organization) about creating an nblug library. the library would be a
> repository of items, such as books, media, or software, that we would
> all be able to check-out and use, and thus share, and spread
> knowledge.
> 
> the library would be mostly modeled after the lugod library, so any of
> you out there who have some experience with that system speak up, and
> share your opinions.
> 
> but mostly i was hoping to get a consensus from the nblug community
> about whether this was something that is needed, or wanted, or if it's
> a good idea, or bad idea. either way reply back to the list and let me
> know what you think.
> 
>  -augie
> 
> ps...if we do go ahead with the project we will probably need some
> developers, so if you are looking to get your feet wet in the open
> source software development world this may be a good opportunity. a
> brief list of requirements, and design ideas about the project can be
> found here:
> 
> http://www.nblug.org/augie/nblug-lib.html
> 
> 
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