New library software development project.

[Ed Sharpe]

Hi Richard!

I am going to build the RH 7.1 system tomorrow and load the beta of open
book, Bette was at  ALA in san Francisco and saw it running  at the open
source library meeting that was held there and she was very impressed by it.

Yes I know how you feel on development time, I had thought I would code
something out too... but my! they have all done such nice work! Think I will
be content being and end user and also someone to help implement some of
these systems in small libraries around the state..

The museum has in the past given out grants for computer equipment and this
would be a nice thing to see go with the hardware.

Have a great rest of the weekend!

ed sharpe archivist for smecc

There is also a fellow in Canada doing  some  enhancements to koha in the
way of making it conform to marc 21 ( very important)
Richard Snow <snowrichard at earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Ed Sharpe" <esharpe at uswest.wet> wrote in message
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> > there are already things like this out there....
> snip...
> > Richard Snow <snowrichard at earthlink.net> wrote in message
> > news:3B3601BE.3C84E49A at earthlink.net...
> > >
> > > A brief description of the project: An open source library circulation
> > > system written in Python and running
> > > on Linux. Handles patron records, book records, and checkouts
> > > currently.  We might add other types of
> > > records such as videos, audio tapes, and so on later.
> > >
> > > The web page at http://richardsnow.bizland.com/opendev describes the
> snip...
> > > If you are interest in helping out or in using the code, please see
the
> > > web page and email me from there.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard Snow
> > > http://richardsnow.bizland.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> Ed: I've done a minor update to the web site mentioning koha and
> openbook.
> When I get more time and details I'll add some more to my site.
> Thanks for
> pointing out these other projects.  It would have taken me a long time
> to get
> mine to the point that Koha is now.  I haven't seen the Open Book beta
> yet.
>
> I have offered to help write some docs for Koha, and I will start on
> that
> as soon as I have time to get all my software installed that it needs
> and
> actually install Koha on my system.  Rough drafts will be on a new
> page on
> the above mentioned site before I send them to koha.
>
> By the way I'm posting this message from my sister's computer using
> the new Google Groups system (new to me anyway).  Good Job, Google.
>
> Richard