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| Library Management Software |
| Author: | Constantin Cazan |
| Date: | Tuesday, 27th Jul 2004 12:14 |
| Views: | 1,806 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Computers and Software | | URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b29455 |
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Dear all
who have participated in the LMS software round to which I came across by William Hannīs Bar Review.
Being a librarian for 20 years and heavily interested in this topic I am always surprised of the ever and ever returning same discussions on topics that should be core-knowledge for this community.
But there seems to be a lot of fluctuation within the community loosing this important knowledge.
I have checked in 2002 the LMS info of the German OPL directory and it turned out that as far as I remember about 60 (!) different software packages were used.
So it seems to be an international problem.
To make it simpy clear:
Everyone who has plenty of resources and enthusiasm may use MS-Access or any othe relational DBMS (Database Management System) to re-invent the wheel of an LMS.
Aside the issue that all of these systems are not really ideal for this purpose there are plenty of packages available in the world from zero cost to several thousand Euros/$/Pds. Costs not even depending on the number features, platforms and user-seats or interfaces strictly.
In 2004 there is really no need to code an LMS from the scratch with a RDBMS (relational Database Management System).
Searching through Google using terms like Library System, Bibliographic control, Reference Manager, will discover a number of tools with all features in need and plenty more with the satisfaction that within a few hours or a few days You can have a running system able to take over 99% of available information from where ever it may come AND being sure that You will also get it out again thus saving all Your investement and work to Your next system when it will be necessary once.
As far as I have quickly reviewed the discussion strings
there have been named some known names of which
Micro/CDS-Isis would not be my first choice because it needs some special knowledge nonetheless it is very powerful and is cheap for NPOs or organizations who do not have much financial resources.
INMAGIC is more than 20 years on the market and will fullfill
al things in need in th angloamerican world.
Reference Manager, ProCite or Endnote may serve perfect if there is no special need for lending-administration and password protection.
Alephino, the small sister of Aleph is around since a couple of years as a library system for smaller entities.
In the german area there is Allegro for NPOs. Faust and Lidos,
IMDAS for Museums, Bibliotheca 2000 etc.
There are even solutions available for those who have a Lotus Notes/Domino Environment but these are not so cheap.
To come to an end. The MS-Access approach to this issue
seems a never ending approach - but is not ideal.
Neither in aspect of costs neither in aspect of functionality.
Hope this helps.
"Please accept my contribution as a proposal" (K.Popper)
Greetings
Constantin Cazan |
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who have participated in the LMS software round to which I came across by William Hannīs Bar Review.
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Constantin Cazan |
27/07/04 12:14 |
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bernard |
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