[LM_NET] Automation System-without yearly fee

[Dale Dancis <ddancis@NYC.RR.COM>]

Date:  Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009
From:  Dale Dancis@ddancis@nyc.rr.com
Subject:  Library automation systems without yearly fee


Dear Fellow Librarians,

Our library has finally been automated and we use Follett Destiny.
I love it, but our principal is objecting to the yearly fee.  He also  
wants
our records to be stored locally on a school computer and not on the  
web.

Several of his concerns are the expense of a web based automation  
system and
if the company goes bankrupt, all of our records would be lost.

Does anyone have a recommendation of a good automation system we
could use that it as powerful as Follett Destiny, without the yearly  
fee...

and where the records are kept within a school computer and not on
the web?

Thanks for your advice.

Dale Dancis
Media Specialist
MS 254
Bronx, NY
ddancis@nyc.rr.com

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