Hello all! I am the IT Director of the Nelson Memorial Library in Grafton, MA. After having the responsibility to operate the building moved from the town to a group of trustees, I have been looking at library automation systems - open source system, specifically.
The planned setup was to run the server in a VMWare environment and then have the staff client accessible via 'checkout' computer. Also, public computers would be able to search the catalog via the OPAC system. My questions: a) Currently, the library volunteers have been cataloging donated books in a program named 'BookDB' Does anyone on the list have any experience importing books from BookDB to Evergreen? b) If the answer to a is no or not possible, is there an importing interface where I can write a script to convert the BookDB output to a format that Evergreen will accept. c) Our last-ditch plan is to re-catalog them anew, but I can't find where we can add books to the database. Granted, I haven't looked around the server, but I am looking for a point in the right direction. Thank you
