chris hammond-thrasher

i am a librarian

fantasy

borrowers books loans

borrowers items loans titles authors subjects

reality

front office finding

front office finding getting

front office finding getting who has what when?

back office inventory

back office inventory decision support

back office describing inventory decision support

back office describing inventory customer lists decision support

back office describing buying inventory customer lists decision support

back office describing buying inventory customer lists decision support money

the main USP library system has 200+ tables in its database, runs on a pair of quad-core powered IBM servers with 6 drives each, and manages all major functions of the library

open source library software PacINET 2008

koha

koha is an integrated library management system for managing all major functions of a physical library

greenstone

greenstone is a digital library management system – essentially a document management system for final, catalogued, electronic publications.

what's the diff?

front office GK G K finding getting who has what when?

back office K K GK K K K describing buying inventory customer lists decision support money

koha facts koha means “gift” similar to Fijian “savusavu” license: gpl Technologies: apache (others are ok), perl, zebra (index data), yaz (index data), MARC::Record, Net::Z3950::ZOOM, MySQL (or PostgreSQL), OAI support client: web server: linux with a delayed windows port Pacific installs: CINL, www.nelsonlibrary.ws

koha means “gift” similar to Fijian “savusavu”

license: gpl

Technologies: apache (others are ok), perl, zebra (index data), yaz (index data), MARC::Record, Net::Z3950::ZOOM, MySQL (or PostgreSQL), OAI support

client: web

server: linux with a delayed windows port

Pacific installs: CINL, www.nelsonlibrary.ws

greenstone facts named after “New Zealand jade” license: gpl driven by the Waikato comp sci department technologies: apache (others are ok), perl, java, mg/mg++, ghostscript, assorted open source conversion tools, OAI support client: web, java applet or application server: linux or windows or mac Pacific installs: SPC library, PADDLE, USP Pacific governance portal

named after “New Zealand jade”

license: gpl

driven by the Waikato comp sci department

technologies: apache (others are ok), perl, java, mg/mg++, ghostscript, assorted open source conversion tools, OAI support

client: web, java applet or application

server: linux or windows or mac

Pacific installs: SPC library, PADDLE, USP Pacific governance portal

Links www.koha.org www.greenstone.org www.indexdata.dk www.nelsonlibrary.ws www.paddle.usp.ac.fj chris hammond-thrasher usp library systems manager [email_address] [email_address] http://dfiji.blogspot.com/

www.koha.org

www.greenstone.org

www.indexdata.dk

www.nelsonlibrary.ws

www.paddle.usp.ac.fj