Hello all, Evergreen seems like a great solution for what I'm trying to do, but I have a few questions -- hopefully I can get an answer from someone who understands it better than I do.
I'm the technical contact/sysadmin for a small housing cooperative (about 40 members in 4 houses). We're looking to move to a more robust library management system for our library, which has about 4,000 volumes. Our network and most of our workstations run Linux, and most users are comfortable with open source software. I want to create a system that will allow members to check books out of our central library with a barcode scanner. Since all of our holdings are owned by individual members, I want a system that can send an automated email message to the owner of a book when it is checked out (with information about the patron who has taken the book) so that it can be retrieved if necessary. Search by author/title is also important, but not as critical as the above requirement. Most members of the coop take a book out of the library because it interests them, not because they searched for it (as I said above, we don't have many books availalble) Can Evergreen handle this? Any ideas about equipment needed or estimates of roll-out time would be helpful. I'm very comfortable with linux and have managed several other networks in the past. Is there a specific skillset that I need beyond basic networking / scripting experience that I might need? Thanks, Graham
