What if a webpage is provided with a small database in the backend which keeps track of who's owns which book, who's got it now, when it's due, who wants it next..?
If the owners of the books can 'check out' their books to other members it shouldn't require a dedicated person to run it (except to create accounts). If owners don't want to lend out books they simply delete theirs from the list, they can keep their books at home, and decide how they want to be paid (beer, support, donations, slap in the face...). Everyone who lends a book has an account so peoples contact details can be kept track off. If we want it to be really fancy a comments bit can be added to each book for lenders to share what they thought of it. -Bert On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 16:44, Martin Baehr wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:20:05PM +1300, Alan Greenstreet wrote: > > On the subject of a Library... > > Now we all have our favourite books and we are not about to give them > > away to a library (no matter how good it sounds). > > the nice thing about a library is not so much collecting books from > members, but allowing members to try books before they buy their own copy. > > having the opportunity to use a book for a few weeks can be really nice, > if you then still want your own copy, then you can spend the money. > > another interresting aspect could also be to have a registry of books > owned by members, then when you are looking for a book on a certain > topic you can look at that list, if you find a book, you can ask for > comments on it, or maybe even arrange to borrow it for a few days. > > greetings, martin. > -- > interrested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, > sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. > -- > pike programmer working in europe csl-gmbh.net > open-steam.org (www.archlab|(www|db).hb2).tuwien.ac.at > unix bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at > systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) > Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ -- Bert van Brakel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Advance-Enterprise.com
