[CoLoCo] Ubuntu Library System

[Ringo Kamens]

I decided to end up using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koha_%28software%29
It looks really good and I'll be meeting with our tech guy this week. Thanks
for all the help.
I'll keep you updated as the situation progresses.
Comrade Ringo Kamens
On Jan 8, 2008 12:15 PM, Bryan Gartner <Bryan.Gartner at hp.com> wrote:

> FYI,
>
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:28:02AM +0000, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> > On Jan 7, 2008 3:09 PM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am an aid in my school library and we are re-designing the book
> > > > catalog system. This means we are starting fresh, cataloging them,
> and
> > > > organizing them as well as providing a "book look up" kiosk for
> > > > students. Of course, I'm advocating that we use Ubuntu for this but
> I
> > > > don't know of any good applications for it. Does anybody know of any
> > > > book cataloging applications that we could use to catalog, keep
> track
> > > > of, and loan books with or even a place from which we could launch
> > > > such a project? Any help would be appreciated.
> > > >
> >
> > As a high school librarian, this is right up my alley. As much as I'd
> > like to say use an open source product, I don't think there is
> > anything out there yet that will give you a good solution. There is a
> > project going on with state libraries but I really don't know anything
> > about it (http://www.plinkit.org/). Bryan Gartner knows more about
> > this. I'd check with him.
>
> Actually, plinkit is mostly about sharing web site services among multiple
> libraries (and it turns out that they are not really ready to share
> as freely with *all* libraries, but it wouldn't hurt to ask).
>
> That said, there are several library applications out there that you
> might be interested in.  The following reference hints at some
> preferences:
>
>        http://groups.google.com/group/open-source-co-libraries
>
> and their "Articles" link has some further info as well.
>
> HTH,
>
> bryang
>
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