Library Management System

David Boateng dboateng at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 11:23:05 GMT 2008


 DV Book Manager seem quite reasonable but you may need to fundraise to buy
this at 30 USD

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Information_Management/Book_Collection_Managers/DV_Book_Manager_Download.html

2008/11/19 Simón Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com>

> Lt. Davie,
>
> We were looking through comparisons of Open Source LMS software not
> too long ago because our proprietary LMS is starting to show its age
> (and has some painful and inexplicable speed issues) and when we move
> to a new one we're hoping to move to something open and easier to
> support.
>
> I believe the two we came down to were Evergreen and Koha, and I can't
> remember which of the two won our evaluation, but they've already
> evolved a bunch since then and we'll need to re-evaluate when we go to
> do the actual migration.
>
> Best of luck with your chipping! ;-)
>
> Simón
>
> P.S. http://evergreen-ils.org/ and http://www.koha.org/
>
> P.P.S. http://oss4lib.org/ is a site that aggregates info on a BUNCH
> of open source LMS's.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Don Davie <dedavie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Good Morning.
> >
> > I work at a small charter school and we are looking for a library
> management
> > software solution that can be accessed by multipule users.  We have 15
> > teachers, 250 cadets and as we are a small campus we do not have the
> funds
> > for a librarian.  We have a high turn over rate and will go through
> $10,000
> > worth of text books per year from teachers not keeping accurate text book
> or
> > library book inventories.  Does anyone know of a good solution either
> > edubuntu/opensource or MS?  Currently we are running a windows 2000/2003
> > server environment and i am looking at ways of adding an edubuntu
> segment.
> > We have orders from our county office that their networks (and ours) are
> > "Microsoft Products Only".  I have been slowly chiping away at that
> > directive :)  and have had minor success with adding OpenOffice and a few
> > other open source software titles.
> >
> > Any input would be appriciated.
> >
> >
> > LT. Don E. Davie
> >
> > La Sierra Military Academy
> > 1735 E. Houston Ave.
> > Visalia, CA 93292
> >
> > 559-733-6963 - 264
> >
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