John BORIS wrote: > Has anyone on the list seen or heard of any light weight software that > can be used as a small Library management system. By library I mean just > a catalog system that would be browsable (is that a word) and you can > track who has the book. Each of our High Schools has a System > Administrator and I sit in the middle as a quasi Senior Admin since I am > at the District level. While working on a issue today I noticed I had an > older edition of a book. I also had the latest version. So I got the > idea that many of the Schools Techs might be in the same boat and the > books just sit there until the need arises. I figure if I had small > repository that would be able to track the books (publications etc) and > then the Admins could "check them out" when needed. > > I think RT might be able to handle that with the Asset Tracker add on > but I am no wiz at Perl programming, thus the search for something > somebody has already wrote. I am currently searching Sourceforge. > Preferably something that lives in LINUX and uses MySQL.
Readerware is quite nice, and has Windows, Mad and Linux versions. It has the checkout/checkin feature, tracks location, etc. There's also a client/server version. Not free, but certainly inexpensive. I use it to track upwards of 1500 books at our home. (Too many years of SF, Fantasy and tech books :-) ) It can also take book info via barcode readers, and can often auto populate book date from just a title, certainly from any ISBN. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
