Library Cataloging

Intranet for Public Libraries

Some libraries might find Brushtail a useful tool to organize the information on their intranet. It provides:

Content Management
Calendars
Casual staff list
Email forms
IT Jobsheet
Hours available noticeboard
Keyword Search
Events Bookings
PC Bookings
Room Bookings
Reference Database
Social Noticeboard

Brushtail requires a PHP enabled webserver and the MySQL database server. It is free and released under the GPL open source license.

- Moai Server For Institutional Repositories
Repository rats and OAI folks might be find this useful. The MOAI Server 1.0 has been released. Infrae is pleased to announce the first public release of the MOAI Server. MOAI is a platform that aggregates input from disparate sources and republishes...

- Museum Collection Management Tool
Specify 6 is an open-source tool for the museum community to organize their holdings.Specify is a client-server database platform for museums and herbaria which processes specimen information for computerizing holdings, managing collection management...

- Iwf Metadata Harvester
Posted to Code4lib. I'd like to announce the publication of the IWF Metadata Harvester. This package reads data from servers, writes it to databases, implements various kinds of searches, and writes HTML files to display the results. It currently...

- Mysql In A Nutshell
Much of our work, as catalogers, deals with databases. MySQL in a Nutshell is a new book from O'Reilly about the Open Source database.After introductory information on installing and formatting queries to MySQL, the book presents a reference listing...

- Public Library Geographic Database
The Public Library Geographic Database (PLGDB) is a useful research tool. It could also be used by school libraries to find demographic data for their service regions.The database includes the locations of America?s 16,000 public libraries, population...

Library Cataloging