Re: Inventory of Web OPAC Replacements

Thanks for the suggestions, Owen.

Both Zoom and Evergreen are geared towards much bigger libraries/ systems
than ours, and are priced accordingly.

Still happy to hear about other options from others.

Many thanks again,

Cab Vinton, Director
Sanbornton Public Library
P.O. Box 88
27 Meetinghouse Hill Rd.
Sanbornton, NH  03269
603-286-8288
spl_at_metrocast.net

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[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Stephens, Owen
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:31 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Inventory of Web OPAC Replacements

> 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
>

Encore (III) - http://www.iii.com/encore/main_index2.html
Fac-Back-OPAC (Open Source) - http://code.google.com/p/fac-back-opac/
Evergreen (Open Source) - http://open-ils.org/ and
http://esilibrary.com/esi/home.html

Your approach sounds fine in theory. I've no idea how much Koha ZOOM costs,
but I would have thought that would be at the cheap end of the market in
terms of the available products with support.

Evergreen seems to incorporate at least some of the NGC features you'd
expect to see in it's default web interface, so you could look at using
Evergreen for both admin and OPAC. Evergreen support is offered by Equinox
and LibLime I think, but it would be suprising (to me) that this would be
less than Koha + Koha ZOOM.

Owen