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Hi, Kyle, I did almost this exact thing several years ago (created an offline library catalog for a prison education program) and wrote it up for the Code4Lib Journal: https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6225 . The code, based on an old version of VuFind, is incredibly outdated by now, but the principles should still hold, and it would work for #2 if you indexed article metadata rather than book metadata. I've indexed JSTOR metadata into VuFind (not for the prison catalog, for a different thing), so I know that works. Somewhere (I think) I still have the mapping I used to do that, and I'm happy to share it, if you want it. You would just need to sign a rider with JSTOR to get them to give you the files of metadata for JSTOR articles. Julia ........................................................................................ Julia Bauder Social Studies and Data Services Librarian Consulting librarian for anthropology, economics, education, political science, sociology, global development studies, and policy studies On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 1:07 PM Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:06 AM Kyle Breneman <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > My university has a program that offers classes at a nearby prison, and > > this program is about to get a bunch of new laptops. As many of you > know, > > prisons are pretty restrictive and inflexible regarding technology... > > > > My gut reaction would be to schedule a meeting with people who decide > what's acceptable. > > Many things presented as security measures are really compliance issues. > This means engaging people can help you avoid problems outright, negotiate > paths through gray areas in ways that pass muster, and make people who'd > otherwise shoot you down part of the solution. > > Many environments subscribe to "checkbox" security model. Failure to meet > required checkboxes or triggering undesirable ones gets you rejected. This > means your goal -- and the goal you present -- is to get all the right > boxes checked. Don't get too hung up on common sense or actual technical > merit. > > You might want to have a couple approaches in your back pocket to propose > if the meeting goes really well. I suspect a more realistic expectation > would be to sent back to the drawing board. I'd avoid anything people might > have trouble processing like the plague. People always say no when they > don't know what's going on, and that can color future interactions with > you. Good luck on your project > > kyle >