[LM_NET] Automated catalog for a tiny library

[Jennifer Webb <JWebb@MINLIB.NET>]

Hello! I've been searching your wonderful archives, which have been helpful,
but I have a slightly unusual situation and I'm hoping to draw on your
expertise. I'm volunteering to help a small, start-up private high school
drag their library into the 21st century. They would like an online catalog
that students could search to see what materials they have, but they don't
want automated check-out. The main reason is that they want to keep
different subject collections in the classrooms where the subjects are
taught. Automated check-out would require students to take books from the
classroom and walk them to the library room to check-out, which seems like
asking for trouble. I don't think they could afford to have a computer in
every classroom, either.

Does anyone know of a library using a simple program or a home library
cataloging program to create a catalog? Are we crazy not to automate all the
way?

Thanks,

Jennifer Webb
Library Technician and soon to be MLS
Cary Memorial Library
Lexington, MA 02420
jwebb@minlib.net

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