Lindsay, Evergreen will work for this just fine as far as I can tell, but since your library is a small one you may also want to look into Koha ( http://www.koha.org) if you haven't already -- since it looks like you don't need the features that make Evergreen a prime choice for big systems, I'd say take a look at Koha too and then pick the one that works the best for you.
jf On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Lindsay Negrello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am writing in hopes of getting some good advice regarding using Evergreen > for the project that I am currently working on. I am organizing and > cataloging the personal library (which is still just a huge pile of 3000 > books with no rhyme or reason) of a very well-known philanthropist/art > collector here in the SF Bay Area. The books are in two locations, her > office and her home. Thusfar the office books are all art books and > exhibition catalogs. > > I have Connexion Client and am doing some of the copy and all of the > original cataloging myself, though the majority of the copy has been > sub-contracted out to OCLC's custom cataloging department. I am also adding > 655s using the Getty AAT and am also adding some provenance notes. The > reason I am doing "proper" cataloging using OCLC is that she plans to > eventually donate the collection and she wants the receiving institution to > be able to add the collection without having to do much processing. > > Once I have finished cataloging everything and have received all of the > MARC records from OCLC (they send them in batches in an email), I need a > place to put them! I would like the database to be very user-friendly for > the owner of the collection (no one else will use this database), it must > also be private as she is a very high-profile person and does not want > anyone contacting her to borrow the books. In fact, we had to work out a > deal with OCLC so that when users mouse over the holdings for books that she > owns, no information would come up under the acronym for her library. She > would also like the database to be web-based so that she can access it from > anywhere (she travels a lot), and above all, it must actually display the > information that I am taking so much time to add to the MARC records. > Would Evergreen be a good choice? Can I upload MARC records with relative > ease to Evergreen? I apologize if I seem really ignorant, but I am a student > and this is the first project of this kind that I have ever undertaken. > > If Evergreen doesn't seem like it will fit our criteria, I would be > eternally grateful for any other web-based application you can suggest. OCLC > suggested EOS web enterprise, but the owner of the collection does not want > to pay $3500 per year just so that the records for her own books can be > accessible to her. > > Thanks so much for your time! > Lindsay -- http://libgrunt.blogspot.com -- library culture and technology.
