On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, John BORIS wrote: > Dave, > Those were the only two that I could actually get info on that told me > anything. All of the suggestions were more than I needed. If I was a > decent PHP programmer I could roll my own for here but I don't have the > time to mess with that. Even these two systems look like they are a bit > involved to install. And even when I delve deeper into these I may not > go with either as they still may not fill the bill.
these two are really designed for library systems, handling inter-library communication, budgeting, book orders, etc. I dug into Koha and it does have a 'single branch' mode, so it may be possible to turn off enough of it's features to make it useable. I'm frustrated by their documentation, it seems to be targeted on professional librarians and assumes a lot of domain specific knowledge of terminology. It also seems to assume that you will be paying someone else to actually setup the software (and so far I haven't found the documentation that those people would use) David Lang > > > John J. Boris, Sr. > JEN-A-SyS Administrator > Archdiocese of Philadelphia > "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel > Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" > >>>> <[email protected]> 1/25/2010 9:52 AM >>> > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, John BORIS wrote: > >> Thanks to all the suggestions. Most of the suggested systems are a > bit >> overkill but there are two that look promising. KOHA and Evergreen. > I >> just have to see which is the easiest to install and maintain. > > heh, I thought that those two were the most overkill ;-) > > the question that I would have for the evergreen developers (and may > still > ask them), is that they state that when they started the project they > looked at all existing systems and found none of them suitable. > > Since Koha had already been around for a couple of years, what is it > with > Koha that the evergreen people found to be so fatally limiting. > > David Lang > >> Thanks again and as always the list is the best place to go for > help. >> >> >> John J. Boris, Sr. >> JEN-A-SyS Administrator >> Archdiocese of Philadelphia >> "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel >> Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" >> >>>>> Simon Lyall <[email protected]> 1/24/2010 5:32 PM >>> >> >> It's probably overkill for you but Koha is an Integrated Library > System >> >> that is open source etc and deployed at real libraries: >> >> http://koha.org/ >> >> Havn't used it myself but I keep hearing about it cause it was >> developed >> locally and gets plugged as a "New Zealand Open Source Success > Story" >> all >> the time. >> >> >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, 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. >> >> > _______________________________________________ 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/
