Alternately, phpmylibrary (www.phpmylibrary.org). In general, if you can
find a suitable existing open source product you can use, perhaps with
extensive customization, you will probably be a lot better off than doing
your own from scratch. It always ends up being more complicated than you
thought it would be.
>> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
>> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin Kierans
>> Sent: 16 June, 2006 12:00
>> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: [NGC4LIB] TNRDLS Feedback on home grown OPAC?
>>
>> Would this list be the correct place to do the following?
>>
>> We are in the position of creating our own web based OPAC
>> while we save up the $ to buy a "real" ILS.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> If you are already using LAMP then you should seriously
> look at Open ILS at:
>
> <http://open-ils.org/>
>
> and just maybe you will not need to save up as much $$$ :)
>
>
> Andy.
>
Received on Fri Jun 16 2006 - 15:07:59 EDT