Thanks Joe! Definitely helpful, and I'll add Openbiblio to my list. Being able to retrieve information quickly from a database is definitely important, as it would save a lot of time. For the installation of Evergreen, if I decide to go with that, I have access to a system administration who would be happy to help me out if I run into any trouble during the installation, so that would be alright!
Cheers, Claire On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Claire. > > The good news is that I am fairly certain that all of your must have and > would like to have features are possible in Evergreen. > My one question for you would be, how is your experience level with > linux/unix? Getting Evergreen installed and configured requires a fairly > robust knowledge of a command line unix type environment and Postgre SQL. > > Another program you may want to consider if the installation process for > Evergreen looks too daunting is Openbiblio. The primary advantage of it > over Evergreen is that if you are already familiar with a Windows > environment and have a computer running it you can install it very quickly > on such a system and be up and running with a minimal amount of hair > pulling. That said, some features that are integrated into Evergreen are > add-ons for Openbiblio, so it's possible that some of the functionality you > are looking for would not work as well in openbiblio as in Evergreen. > An important example of this is z39.50 integration. z39.50 is the > protocol by which you can search other catalogs and download their records > for items you own rather than writing up records by hand. (a necessity in > my mind for anything more than a handful of items..). I believe this is a > core feature in Evergreen, where as in openbiblio it is an add-on package. > > I hope this has helped in some small way. > > Have a good day. > > Joe > > Joseph Knueven > Director > Germantown Public Library > 51 N. Plum St. > Germantown, OH [email protected] > > On 6/15/2013 2:39 AM, Claire wrote: > > 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 > > >
