Library Cataloging
Christopher Harris at Infomancy has an OPAC replacement, a FISH. FISH: Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler. Using freely available tools has put together a system to replace the catalog. Seeing what he has done is fascinating and inspiring.With all the work being done by the Koha and Evergreen folks and the SOLR/Lucene crowd, and the eXtensible Catalog, it seems like open-source solutions for the OPAC will become more attractive options to the large commercial products.
OPAC
- Open Source Opac
Rapi is yet another open-source OPAC project. It uses Lucene and Ruby like most of the projects do.Rapi is an open-source project of the WING group in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore licensed under the MIT license. Rapi provides...
- Koha News
Koha 2.2.4 is here. Koha 2.2.4 should be the last release of the 2.2 branch with new features. Koha 2.2.5 should contain only bugfixes. However, Koha 3.0 is already on the way and should give libraries a new great experience Koha is the first Open-Source...
- Enhanced Opacs
Does your OPAC provide services or tools beyond the norm? If so Steven Cohen, at Library Stuff, want to hear about it. Once he has had a few replies it might be a good place to get ideas for improving your own OPAC. OPAC...
- Koha & Librarylookup
There is now a LibraryLookup bookmarklet for Koha, the open source library system.I've added a tenth OPAC vendor to the LibraryLookup generator, and this one is kind of special. It's an open source product called Koha, commissioned by the HLT...
- Catalogs
Folks are always looking for low cost alternatives in cataloging software. Small church libraries, clubs, and departments are just a few who find the cost of even the smaller PC systems out of their budget. Well, there are a few alternatives.Koha is an...
Library Cataloging
OPAC Replaced by FISH
Christopher Harris at Infomancy has an OPAC replacement, a FISH. FISH: Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler. Using freely available tools has put together a system to replace the catalog. Seeing what he has done is fascinating and inspiring.With all the work being done by the Koha and Evergreen folks and the SOLR/Lucene crowd, and the eXtensible Catalog, it seems like open-source solutions for the OPAC will become more attractive options to the large commercial products.
OPAC
- Open Source Opac
Rapi is yet another open-source OPAC project. It uses Lucene and Ruby like most of the projects do.Rapi is an open-source project of the WING group in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore licensed under the MIT license. Rapi provides...
- Koha News
Koha 2.2.4 is here. Koha 2.2.4 should be the last release of the 2.2 branch with new features. Koha 2.2.5 should contain only bugfixes. However, Koha 3.0 is already on the way and should give libraries a new great experience Koha is the first Open-Source...
- Enhanced Opacs
Does your OPAC provide services or tools beyond the norm? If so Steven Cohen, at Library Stuff, want to hear about it. Once he has had a few replies it might be a good place to get ideas for improving your own OPAC. OPAC...
- Koha & Librarylookup
There is now a LibraryLookup bookmarklet for Koha, the open source library system.I've added a tenth OPAC vendor to the LibraryLookup generator, and this one is kind of special. It's an open source product called Koha, commissioned by the HLT...
- Catalogs
Folks are always looking for low cost alternatives in cataloging software. Small church libraries, clubs, and departments are just a few who find the cost of even the smaller PC systems out of their budget. Well, there are a few alternatives.Koha is an...