On the harder side of the world, there are entire open source products like Koha (https://koha-community.org) and Evergreen (https://evergreen-ils.org) that are capable of running large libraries, but require installation and systems maintenance. On the easier, something like Librarycat (https://www.librarycat.org) might work fine for your needs (and if you end up using it, lmk…the developer is a friend) or…
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almost 2 years ago
We use PINES which is based on Evergreen, which is open-source. I believe there are vendors you can pay to help you set it up and run it, and there’s a volunteer community that will help, too. Of course, this is at the expense of having someone else run it *for* you, but my understanding is that we (Georgia libraries that use PINES) decided to make the software to address limitations in existing ILSs. So, if your…
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almost 2 years ago
I’ve thought about using a self-hosted library management system like evergreen to manage everything. But, I’ve got 20,000 other small projects to complete before then.
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about 2 years ago
My last library used Evergreen and I really loved it, buy I didn’t do any of the back end stuff.
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about 2 years ago
It sounds like you’re looking for a ILS – an Integrated Library System. There are a couple of open source options – I believe the most popular is Evergreen, and here’s a list with seven more.
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over 2 years ago
Maybe overkill, but you could run Evergreen ILS at home, maybe on a spare Pi. https://evergreen-ils.org/.
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almost 3 years ago
