I can give a plus 1 to what Buzzy said about Libki and papercut. We are
currently using libki and a home grown solution built on top of CUPS. I
have played with papercut and plan to migrate us to that at some point.
I would recommend both to anyone looking to make a change.
The one caution I would give about Libki is that the integration with
Evergreen did not work out of the box for us.
I had a volunteer working with me on the latest version, and he had to
rewrite a portion of the code for libki, switching from socket
connections to a telnet connection for the SIP2 back to Evergreen. I
don't know if that's because of how our Evergreen is configured or an
incompatibility with how SIP2 was written into Libki.
That said, if you go with libki and the stock server does not work, he
has created a fork of the libki-server that works with evergreen at
https://bitbucket.org/bak688/libki-server-sipviatelnet .
Also, I can give a plus 1 to avoiding PCCop. We migrated away from it
to libki a few years ago when Libki was much rougher and less feature
rich than it is today and we'd have been happy with that decision even
if Libki had cost money.
Best of luck.
Joe
Joseph Knueven
Director
Germantown Public Library
51 N. Plum St.
Germantown, OH 45327
937-855-4001
[email protected]
On 3/19/2014 1:14 PM, Elisabeth Keppler wrote:
Having worked in one library system running Envisionware and my
current library running SAM from Comprise, I can confidently say don't
use SAM. Wish we had Envisionware instead.
Thanks,
Lise
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Buzzy Nielsen
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Libki is a nice option. It's open source and you can roll your own
installation (http://libki.org/) or get it from a vendor
(http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-libki/).
Papercut is an easy-to-use, very inexpensive print management
program. http://www.papercut.com/.
My last library used those two systems, and they worked quite well.
Cheers!
Buzzy
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Library Director
Hood River County Library District
502 State Street
Hood River, Oregon 97031
541-387-7062 <tel:541-387-7062>
http://hoodriverlibrary.org
On 03/19/2014 07:20 AM, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Anyone on Evergreen have a PC reservation system for the public
they would recommend or recommend against? It should have print
management software too and we would prefer it to run with
Windows PCs.
Thanks,
John
Director
Perry County Public Library
2328 Tell Street
Tell City, IN 47586
www.tcpclibrary.org <http://www.tcpclibrary.org>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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Lise Keppler
Forsyth County Public Library
660 W 5th St
Winston Salem NC 27101
336-703-3070
