Dear Evergreen users/developers, I have a few questions about using Evergreen to manage a private library collection. Would anyone do me the favor of advising me about how good of a match Evergreen is for my needs? So far, if I understand the website description correctly, most of the features I'm interested in seem available, but I'm not sure.
These are the basic features I'm looking for: - System for a private library. Currently something like 2000-3000 books, but I would like something with the capacity for at least 10,000 books to accommodate future growth. - Needs to use Library of Congress classification, not Dewey. - Be able to search by ISBN, title, author, keywords, and year - Be able to print labels/barcodes - Be compatible with some kind of bar code scanner that I can buy Features that are not essential but that I would like to have: - A way to access the content online (I could host it on my own website if I had the code) so that I or other users could access it elsewhere. - If it's possible, a way to access something like Worldcat, Google Books or some other database to generate the book's title, author, etc. Essentially, I would like to be able to just enter the ISBN and have most of the information pop up, to save some of the time getting them all in the database. (OPAC?) - I would like to host the system on a computer on which I keep PDFs of articles on a hard drive. It would be great if the catalog software could hold a catalog of articles as well, and if I could simply create a link directly from each article's entry to the file on the hard drive. (obviously wouldn't be available online unless I host the articles online as well, though I could also do that) I would greatly appreciate any advice you might have. Any chance all of these features are a possibility in Evergreen? Thank you! Claire
