I agree with this sentiment. Do talk to your IT department. That's what they are there for, after all. Right?

And I'm also of the mindset of "do it right the first time". Budgets being what they are, it's better to spend 20% more up front for a better system/product than to go cheap and spend more down the line, both in terms of dollars and time spent to fix/upgrade. It will almost always cost you more. Or aggravate the hell out of your users. :)

--Joel

Joel Richard
IT Specialist, Web Services Department
Smithsonian Institution Libraries | http://www.sil.si.edu/
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On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Bill Dueber wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> You can probably find an curious intern to do it.
>> 
> 
> Oh, for the love of god, please don't go this route. This is why libraries
> tend to be a huge mishmash of unsupported, one-off crap that some outgoing
> student did for extra credit six years ago.
> 
> To ask the obvious question: You're at a real,
> honest-to-god prestigious college. Why are you trolling code4lib for cheap
> hosting environments? If IT won't give you a piece of a machine somewhere,
> or at least set up a Mac running OSX, they're failing to support a critical
> mission of the college and someone needs to be up in arms about it. If you
> haven't even asked them, well, maybe you should.
> 
> -Bill, who spent his first two years in a library dealing with crappy old
> PHP code from long-gone students
> 
> -- 
> Bill Dueber
> Library Systems Programmer
> University of Michigan Library