TECH: Library software

[Librarian <library@ksc8.th.com>]

Colleagues,
Please excuse the double posting on this.

A librarian setting up the LMC in a new school has asked for suggestions
on how to set up her library software.

She will be using Winnebago on a MAC platform, and there will be tow
separate libraries, in differeent buildings but on the same campus.
She anticipates that in the future there will be two separate librarians,
and that they will want to be able to produce independent reports. So it
must be possible for the various lots of statistics to be kept separate in
eacah of the libraries.

It is best for her to buy two different servers and two separate Winnebago
software packages, thereby running them like two completely different
libraries? This means neither library will have a record of the other's
holdings, except, she's told, through a two or three step procedure by
which she can tap into the data on the other listserv. Does this
matter?How useful is it to have access to the other library's records,
quickly? (Apparently using MAC she cannot have the Union catalogue
feature)

Or is it possible to just use one server and use holdings and material
types to distinguish materials from the two sites, and still be able to
produce separate reports?

She is trying to think long term, and would really appreciate advice from
anyone in a similar position. I will pass it on to her.

Regards, and many thanks


Yvonne Davidson
Librarian
New International School of Thailand
Bangkok