On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Tom Perrine wrote: > 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.
I've looked at readerware in the past, the one problem that I have had with it is that it indexes everything by the ISBN, which doesn't work if you have multiple copies of the same book (or if you have a book without a ISBN in it) I would love to find something that supported using my own item ID (it's easy to print barcode stickers and find readers to read them) David Lang _______________________________________________ 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/
