@libraries I'm giving a nonprofit some free tech consulting on a somewhat unique problem that managing a large library of so-called "dead" physical media (not books). I think an open source book library system like #Kona might be a good starting point for their needs but I don't have any prior experience with this sort of system myself. Any library techies out there who have used one of these platforms I could chat with?
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@mossyfoot hello. Do you mean Koha open source library system? As a user - there's a bit of overhead in setting up templates for records, and for items, but once thats done its pretty nice to use. It uses MARC. Do they already have catalogues? If they have spreadsheets you can map the field in a spreadsheet to a field on Koha.
Do they lend these things?
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@exlibrarykris @libraries Yes, thank you, that was the one I was thinking of. And yes, they need to be able to keep track of this media just like books, including lending.
They do have this in a system today and it's already cataloged and barcoded. The system is very old and basically unmaintained, and I'm trying to help them modernize.
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