I have to clarify my request. Although it is a group of High Schools the users are the Sysadmins at each High School not the students. I am looking for a system that will run on one of my Linux boxes that is accessable to all of these admins without jumping through a bunch of hoops.
>>> <[email protected]> 01/20/10 7:27 PM >>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Richard Chycoski wrote: > ISBNs (and ISSN for serial/periodical publicaions) are neither great for > indexing, nor are they good serial numbers for your books (serial numbers are > called acquisition numbers in library systems). It's been many years since I > worked in a library (I've worked in three), but the way that most libraries > deal with books is by Call Number (Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress are > the most common in this country) for indexing nonfiction books, Author/Title > for fiction, and by acquisition number (a unique serial number per book) to > keep track of individual books. the good thing about ISBN is that if it's on the book, it's usually in a bar code so it's easy to input (and if you think that getting a bar code reader is too expensive, you just don't have enough books to deal with ;-) it's also something that your computer can use to go out on the Internet and download a lot of information about the book (title, author, etc) > But if the number of books is small and borrowing is minimal, you could keep > it all in a spreadsheet - columns for author, title, borrower, date borrowed > - you're done! true, but the initial question was looking for something for a school library. That's comparible to your personal collection (I don't know what mine adds up to, but it's a significant number) David Lang > I've meant to get my books (somewhere upwards of 6000 when I counted them for > a move a dozen years ago, but still growing :-) all catalogued and organised > but it always remains as something-to-be-done-later. When you've got all > yours done, you'd be welcome to come and index mine... > > - Richard > _______________________________________________ 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/
