You may want to take a look at:
http://librarysupportstaff.com/4automate.html
There are several free and low cost solutions but I don't know if there is one
that will be a viable solution for you. Sounds like you need a self checkout
system like the 3m unit that connects to III although that
From the person in a position to know: We have not yet figured out
pricing. We are definitely considering the needs of the developing
nations but don't have answers yet. At this point we are most focused
on the feature set that can be activated with no human intervention.
Looking for the
Hello All,
I have been contracted to do a book on the future of automation in the
academic library by IGI Publishers. The working title is “Robots in
Academic Libraries: Advancements in Library Automation,” and it will be
part of the book series, Advances in Library Information Science (ALIS).
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unit of the library organization that advances the University's teaching and
Here's an example of the kind of thing I'm talking about when I say
micro-development board:
http://technabob.com/blog/2011/02/03/dreamplug-mini-power-plug-computer/This
isn't the best example - it's obviously being sold to a certain extent
as novelty hardware, and it shows, but something like
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 3:14 PM, rowan eisner rowaneis...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, I tried to sign up for WSSL and you have to be in US. Also, if it will
cost 'a cup of coffee a day' am I right that would be at least $700 a year?
That's our entire annual budget. So probably only for first world
Is anyone leading this session or is a free for all? Code4lib site is down
- so I can't see whats on the wiki.
We use Git very heavily with the engineering of Serials Solutions' Summon
and we'd be happy to have an engineer do a session on some of the ways we
use it on a fairly large
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Andrew Nagy asn...@gmail.com wrote:
Is anyone leading this session or is a free for all? Code4lib site is down
- so I can't see whats on the wiki.
I believe ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com volunteered to lead it. Have
your engineer contact him(?)
Kevin
Yup, for better or worse, I'll help shepherd this preconference along.
Anyone interested in sharing their knowledge and experience is welcome to
contact me directly, or put something up on the wiki when it returns. I'm
personally quite interested in the different workflows groups have set up
Wow, that's amazing. That certainly opens up possibilities. It would be
quite a challenge to get it all working buy they reckon it takes 3 years to
barcode the books anyway, so it might keep me busy trying to figure it out.
I signed up for WSSL and just said I was in Philadelphia and emailed them
Hi Kyle
Our collection is over 13,000 and we have several thousand more waiting to
be processed that we just can't get on top of. We could expand the library
by a third or so if we had a more efficient system. We get 100-200 returns a
week about half of which have been taken out. About 15-20% of
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Thanks Thomas. I had a look through what they are suggesting last night. It
looks like you would have to run the software on a system in the library. I
find it amazing that it's cheaper for 1000s of libraries to all run their
own computers and software than for us to have accounts on a central
Aha, the plot thickens! This sounds very promising. I'll sound very keen
when they email me back!
Thanks so much Roy.
-Rowan
On 26 September 2011 08:24, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:
From the person in a position to know: We have not yet figured out
pricing. We are definitely
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