First post from a new subscriber --
As a small rural public library in New Hampshire (2.2 FTE's, budget @
$100k), we're looking to automate for the first time, ideally with a hosted
solution that will minimize the workload/ skill-sets demanded from our "sys
admin" (i.e., me).
Given the costs of full-fledged ILS's from the major vendors, I'm thinking
that it may make sense to go with an open source solution such as Koha,
supported by a third party, with a web OPAC replacement to give us the next
gen features that we'd love to have.
(Koha ZOOM has much of the functionality we'd like, but appears to be
cost-prohibitive at this point.)
I've seen the futurelib wiki (http://futurelib.pbwiki.com/), but it does not
seem to have a comprehensive listing of the ILS-independent "overlay"
products that I'm talking about.
Here are the ones I have heard about so far:
Primo (Ex Libris); http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/primo.htm
AquaBrowser (TLC); http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/pdf/aquabrowser.pdf
VuFind (open source); http://www.vufind.org
Scriblio (Casey Bisson/ Plymouth State U.); http://about.scriblio.net/about
Can folks help me fill in the gaps, and/ or comment on our general approach?
Thanks in advance,
Cab Vinton, Director
Sanbornton Public Library
P.O. Box 88
27 Meetinghouse Hill Rd.
Sanbornton, NH 03269
603-286-8288
spl_at_metrocast.net
Received on Tue Oct 23 2007 - 14:37:20 EDT