Any suggestions for library administration software please?

[Mike Marchywka]

On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 08:14:49PM +0000, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 12:08:43PM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Sat, 16 Nov 2019 14:53:38 +0000 dave at thefletchers.net, "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > My girlfriend is in Kathmandu at the moment. She's been trying but
> > > failing to get a laptop set up with database software for a new
> > > community library that's being built in an area to the north that's
> > > been ravaged by earthquakes. The building is up, books are being
> > > delivered, and she's carried a pack of 1000 serial numbered membership
> > > cards and other materials there.
> > > 
> > > Apparently internet connections in the community are sketchy to say the
> > > least.
> > > 
> > > I've been doing a little searching with Google and discovered projects
> > > such as Evergreen, BiblioteQ??and Koha but can't locate anything in the
> > > repositories, which would be ideal.
> > 
> > There is not likely to be anything in the repos for that.
> > 
> > It should be possible to install any of the above on a LAMP server. I believe 
> > that they are all "Web Based" -- they should work on an "IntraNet" (eg a 
> > private LAN with a LAMP server on it), but I don't know for sure.  The above 
> > mentioned packages are meant for a fairly "big" library or library "system" 
> > (collection of libraries) and might be overkill for a small, isolated library.

I was curious though if there are highly scaled down related packages for
personal use or authors to track their own library of documents?
For example, if you get beyond social media factoids and write short
essays or letters or "citizen scientist" papers or DIY projects,
how can you track and organize these things? I wrote some scripts
to generate "technicalreport" bibtex entries as I come up with
new topics and want to organize notes and I have seen browser plugins
for citation downloads. Not sure though what command line utilities
may exist- I guess something that tracked documents in latex
with version control using just command line utilities. 
And intead of "check out" perhaps a list of where the documents were sent
or if possible downloaded from other servers and collate feedback 
as is now common on scientific papers. 

Thanks. 


> 
> Any idea if the html asset management stuff would be suitable?
> I've posted a few times on the joomla forums looking for interest
> in modified bibtex files to use for "bill of materials" to help
> get more web pages to include citation buttons. AFAICT, they have
> lots of users ( they claim 10,000 views for many forum posts on diverse
> topics). Maybe someone there would have an idea.
> 
> This is their "extensions" forum where people tend to ask about specialized
> applications and experienced users may be able to point you to existing
> widgets,
> 
> https://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=715&sid=78c9f57ba119d07f22927166cd97c2ed
> 
> fwiw, my BoMTeX threads,
> 
> https://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2019-October/thread.html#24072
>  
> 
> > 
> > One option that I know will work on an isolated "IntraNet" Web Server is
> > WordPress with the WebLibrarian plugin. But you will have to download the Zip
> > files (for WP and WebLibrarian) to a thumb drive if there is no Internet
> > available. And yes, if the Laptop is running Ubuntu, it can be set up as a
> > LAMP server. (The AMP bits are in the repo: Apache, MySQL, and PHP).
> > 
> > > 
> > > Please, does anybody know of any solutions?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Dave
> > > 
> > 
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