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Hi Dave It's an honesty system, card based, the way most community libraries used to work before computers. Because it's unstaffed about 15% of books aren't returned but we get a similar amount of donations. So we have that constant churn to take in and out of a card catalog manually. We need borrowers to be able to check out books. I was thinking maybe with a scanner attached to an iphone running an app. I didn't think librarything could do circulation. I thought it was just a catalog. What do you reckon? Cheers Rowan On 23 September 2011 21:34, David Mayo <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I think it's going to be difficult to find a solution that's entirely cloud > based. > > What functionality do you need? If you have a very limited subset of > ILS/OPAC functions in mind, theoretically a LibraryThing paid account or > similar quasi-library service might suffice. > > I'm having trouble understanding how circulation works/is expected to work > when librarians aren't present. Is there a sign-out sheet? How do you > monitor for lossage? > > - Dave Mayo > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:42 PM, rowan eisner <[log in to unmask] > >wrote: > > > Thanks Esme > > > > No, the library is open all hours but volunteers just come in 2 hrs a > week. > > I'm not sure how it could work but if we leave anything plugged in it > will > > get stolen or struck by lightning. We're in cloud forest. > > > > With koha and open-ils do we have to run the software on a server or do > we > > just get an account on an existing system? Running a system ourselves > might > > take a lot for us to figure out. > > > > Cheers > > Rowan > > > > On 23 September 2011 16:38, Cowles, Esme <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > Rowan- > > > > > > Having a hosted catalog and circ system seems very easy to do. There > are > > > several open source library systems such as Koha and Evergreen that > might > > > suit your needs: > > > > > > http://www.koha.org/ > > > > > > http://open-ils.org/ > > > > > > Are there volunteers present the entire time the library is open to > > > borrowers? Or are you counting on borrowers having smartphones to > > complete > > > self-checkout? > > > > > > -Esme > > > -- > > > Esme Cowles <[log in to unmask]> > > > > > > "I don't need to be forgiven." -- The Who, Baba O'Reilly > > > > > > On Sep 23, 2011, at 3:27 PM, rowan eisner wrote: > > > > > > > Apologies if this is the wrong forum, but if anyone can point me in > the > > > > right direction... > > > > > > > > We have an unstaffed library and can't leave a computer in it. Is > there > > a > > > > way to automate > > > > > > > > 1) with no computer - do circulation and catalog in the cloud. > > Volunteers > > > > bring in laptops to do circulation and clients access catalog with > > > iphones > > > > 2) that doesn't cost a fortune > > > > > > > > Thanks so much > > > > > > > > Rowan > > > > > >