[WBEL-users] Library Management Software

[Vicki Reeves]

Daniel J. Summers (or someone in this discussion) wrote:
>>> I know of at least one library that uses WBEL.  :)  Do any of you 
>>> know what software package they (or any other library) would use 
>>> under Linux?  I'm working on setting something up for a school.  

For many years, we've been using a homegrown automation package using 
the Unify RDBMS.  It's a bunch of SQL scripts tied together with shell 
commands. We wrote it PJ (pre-John) so it's not real purty... but it 
works.  In fact, our staff is very, very, very spoiled to having a 
system that does what they ask for and not completely happy that we're 
talking change.

Unify is now very expensive, our version is seriously outdated, and we 
need a higher level of MARC compliance so we've been looking at other 
solutions for a few years.  It looks like both Koha and Athena have 
potential.  If either of them were working with PostgreSQL we'd probably 
be heading that direction.  Both John and I would like to work on an 
open source library automation system.

But what we'd like to work on and what is realistic for our library are 
sometimes two different things.  We're a very busy, multi-branch library 
system.  Our info tech dept is small and we have lots of projects going.

So, we've found what we feel is a good compromise.  We'll soon be doing 
beta testing with BookSystem's Atriuum Software.  While the system is 
not open source, Atriuum's database engine is PostgreSQL.  And, of 
course it runs on WBEL :)

http://www.booksys.com/products-atriuum.php

If anyone gets involved in an open source library automation system, 
please let us know.

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