Library Management Systems

[Oops_my_bad]

Could I ask what everyone is using for their library management system (LMS)? We are currently having a VI form built with a "resource" centre (books/periodicals and what not). In our existing library we use Eclipse2 which is OK but not much cop. We are considering Oliver from Softlink but I notice some of you seem to be getting rid of this!? Whatever we get would be used to cover both libraries

There is also Talis but their products may be a little overkill for our needs!?

Thanks

[elsiegee40]

Cardboard tickets

The other half of my job is being the school librarian. I have 6000 books and no computerised system... I keep trying for Junior Librarian, but no luck yet

[mb2k01]

I use Eclipse2 too. It's "ok". Does the job well enough. I've used Junior Librarian at a primary too - basically Eclipse2 with a nice cartoony front end.

Looking in to Eclipse.Net (essentially SharePoint) - looks ok, good deals on to try and convince us to upgrade too.

While I've not been too blown away by the product, I have to say the makers (Micro Librarian Systems) have been excellent on the phone if I've ever needed them.

[meastaugh1]

Looking in to Eclipse.Net (essentially SharePoint)

It's worth noting that Eclipse.net is not Sharepoint, but Sharepoint web parts for Eclipse.net are available as an optional extra.

[Sylv3r]

We don't have a library as such here never mind a library system, but I do like the look of the eclipse webparts if we did need it.

[mb2k01]

It's worth noting that Eclipse.net is not Sharepoint, but Sharepoint web parts for Eclipse.net are available as an optional extra.

Lol well now I'm confused! Got one more term day left to annoy them - first job tomorrow!

[nephilim]

access 2007 built in database...

[elsiegee40]

access 2007 built in database...

You've got this going now?

Any chance of an updated version please?

[nephilim]

its a default one on the access 2007 version. I gave up with mine as when I asked our librarian to test it, she found about 60 bugs in 1 week. Was too much for me to continue with seeing as I have over 150 machines to cope with by myself

[MatthewL]

We use Heritage for our stuff at work.

[Soulfish]

Just bought eclipse.net here to install over the summer. Looks quite nice (certainly compared to the Alice system we're currently running!), but I haven't seen the competition so can't really comment

The librarian did mention that the one school in the local area running Oliver is looking at moving to Eclipse.net.

[rh91uk]

While I've not been too blown away by the product, I have to say the makers (Micro Librarian Systems) have been excellent on the phone if I've ever needed them.

Totally agree with this, and also the Sharepoint Web Parts made us switch to Eclipse and we got this rather than the Acquisitions module included (as our librarian will not use the acquisistions module!)

[teejay]

Eclipse.net here, was on Eclipse before and moved to .net a year ago. There has been a few minor glitches, but the Librarian does really like some of the extra features.

[Crispin]

I would seriously consider taking a look at softlinks products, namely Alice and Oliver.

Webby: Softlink Europe - Home


We use oliver at the moment and the librarians find it pretty easy to use and we very rarely have any trouble with it.

Kids seem to use it aswell which is rather astonishing.

We did have one issue with a process maxing out the server when oliver ran its end-of-day tasks, got on to tech support, a friendly chap remoted in and solved the problem within half an hour.

Great customer/technical support. Highly recommended.

[oalcock]

Why not try Eclipse, they provide extreamly good technical support services, you can purchase all the top gizmos like barcode scanner and fingerprint reader, the eclipse software is based for use in a school library environment. It comes with something called searchstar which enables pupils to interact with whats going on within the library i.e. write reviews and see when their books are due back etc. Also it gives reports on who is reading the most books and what the most popular books are for the librarians personal market research purposes so that he/she knows what books to purchase next budget year.