The purpose of this paper is to look at how the library sector might benefit from open source, from the point of view of the current vendor/owner of Koha, an open source library…
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to look at how the library sector might benefit from open source, from the point of view of the current vendor/owner of Koha, an open source library management system.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on the author's experience in the library systems market.
Findings
The paper finds that increasing numbers of libraries are migrating from the major proprietary vendors to both Evergreen and Koha.
Originality/value
The vendor viewpoint supplies the value of this paper.
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Utilising BRS/Search software, hypertext search facilities are offered by Sirsi's UNICORN system through the standard OPAC and provide powerful retrieval capabilities even when…
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Utilising BRS/Search software, hypertext search facilities are offered by Sirsi's UNICORN system through the standard OPAC and provide powerful retrieval capabilities even when accessing external databases which do not themselves offer hypertext searching. The fields and sub‐fields available for hypertext retrieval can be defined by the user. The article describes the hypertext functionality offered by the system.
While the eighties were years of much research into automated library housekeeping systems they were years of consolidation rather than innovation. The early ‘online’ circulation…
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While the eighties were years of much research into automated library housekeeping systems they were years of consolidation rather than innovation. The early ‘online’ circulation systems came of age with the addition of other basic modules such as MARC cataloguing and acquisitions. The degree of integration of many of these systems in the early part of the decade ranged from the ridiculous to the not so ridiculous, with sublime not even appearing in the system supplier's dictionary.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a unicorn as a fabulous (ie mythical) animal with horse's body and single straight horn. There is, however, nothing mythical about the…
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines a unicorn as a fabulous (ie mythical) animal with horse's body and single straight horn. There is, however, nothing mythical about the Unicorn Collection Management System which is well established in the United States and is now being marketed in Europe. Unicorn is a fully integrated searching and library housekeeping system running under UNIX and incorporating BRS/SEARCH—the powerful information retrieval system—as its searching facility.
Sylvia Fitzgerald and John Flanagan
The implementation of the UNICORN Collection Management System from Sirsi Ltd is described, showing its adaptation to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's particular needs, for books…
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The implementation of the UNICORN Collection Management System from Sirsi Ltd is described, showing its adaptation to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's particular needs, for books, art, archives and other materials; and the inter‐relationship of management and system factors.