Lindsay,
I can't really answer your Evergreen questions - I am beginning to look at it for a certain library myself, but I wondered given the parameters of what you outlined, if Library Thing might be basic enough for her needs. That, or there is a really basic, but inexpensive program called Resource Mate. It is in The Library Store's catalog, or you can look it up on the web. Our church library uses it. It's pretty basic, but might do the trick for you. Jacque Gage Barton County Library 300 W. 10th Lamar, MO 64759 417-682-5355 - voice 417-682-3206 - fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindsay Negrello Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 4:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SPAM: Is Evergreen the right choice for myproject? 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
