enterprise.linux.com— A group of librarians at the Georgia Public Library Service has developed an open source, enterprise-class library management system that may revolutionize the way large-scale libraries are run.
Dec 21, 2006View in Crawl 4
for quite some time, i've been looking for a open source or cheap low-end library management system for my church's small library. something that would let people create an account, log in and then check out books themselves. (there's no librarian sitting there) Then, send them email reminders when a book is due. Other cool things would be: browse the collection on the library computer or online; if a book is checked out, you can send a message to whoever has it; reserve books online; book data input from Amazon or other sources. The dream solution would be if people could enter their own book/video/etc. collections that they are willing to share and those become extensions of the library. If you want an item from a private collection, email them and see if they can loan it to you (with checkout and reminders registered in the library computer, of course). Anybody know of anything close to this or at least could provide the first level of functionality (without the cool features)?The systems for "real" libraries like Koha and evergreen are overkill for something like this.
Also check out www.collectorz.com they have a program you can purchase for books that will allow you to check out things, not necessarily email updates but ppl can check it out, and you enter everything via ISBN (or other search terms) - I also have a LibraryThing and I love that - such a cool feature. Oh and yes, Librarians are on Digg :-) We gotta be in the know!
collinongDec 22, 2006
for quite some time, i've been looking for a open source or cheap low-end library management system for my church's small library. something that would let people create an account, log in and then check out books themselves. (there's no librarian sitting there) Then, send them email reminders when a book is due. Other cool things would be: browse the collection on the library computer or online; if a book is checked out, you can send a message to whoever has it; reserve books online; book data input from Amazon or other sources. The dream solution would be if people could enter their own book/video/etc. collections that they are willing to share and those become extensions of the library. If you want an item from a private collection, email them and see if they can loan it to you (with checkout and reminders registered in the library computer, of course). Anybody know of anything close to this or at least could provide the first level of functionality (without the cool features)?The systems for "real" libraries like Koha and evergreen are overkill for something like this.
ishmalDec 22, 2006
Thanks for the link. I followed it until i got to koha.org . Its development history is a fascinating read.
Closed AccountDec 23, 2006
I hate Libyans anyways.
tech42erDec 23, 2006
Yeah. Ubuntu is a nice beginner distro. I use it and I like the forums and the fact it's based on Debian.
tech42erDec 23, 2006
Oh, librarians? Did anyone else see this as "Libertarians stake their future on Open Source"?
librarianannaDec 23, 2006
Also check out www.collectorz.com they have a program you can purchase for books that will allow you to check out things, not necessarily email updates but ppl can check it out, and you enter everything via ISBN (or other search terms) - I also have a LibraryThing and I love that - such a cool feature. Oh and yes, Librarians are on Digg :-) We gotta be in the know!
collinongDec 24, 2006
@whereisian: any link to your drupal module? i'm planning to implement drupal as the cms for the main site so a integrated solution would be ideal.
chrislerchDec 24, 2006
Add me to this list. I'm the Director of technology for a University Library and we have and will continue to implement open source solutions. For example, Check out:<a class="user" href="http://www.cni.org/tfms/2006b.fall/abstracts/PB-open-frumkin.html">http://www.cni.org/tfms/2006b.fall/abstracts/PB-open-frumkin.html</a><a class="user" href="http://www.dspace.org/">http://www.dspace.org/</a><a class="user" href="http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11133/">http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11133/</a>
newgenlibMay 23, 2009
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