Lance and others, Having very recently read vendor responses from the 28 page of RFP for the library automation software (my eyes are still blurry), this software looks like it might work for your home collection, but I would NOT recommend it for the library automation software - there are FAR too many things that it cannot do.
And, just for Lance, there is that Mac limitation. 8-) More information will be forthcoming about the Joint Library Automation Project. For right now, the latest update is that we have signed a letter of understanding with TLC- The Library Corporation. No financial or legal obligation at this time, but an acknowledgement that TLC is the selected vendor for the project. If you have any questions, please contact Scott or myself as we are both on the committee! Harriet ----- Original Message ----- From: Lance Lennon To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:37 PM Subject: [info-tech] Media Software Not sure if anyone out there is looking at new media center software. But I am on another list serv and the topic came up. I had been looking at a piece of software (Thanks to a conversation with Karl) for personal use and started wondering if it would work as a media Catalog. After contacing the creator, he says that is one of the very reasons that he created it. It is Delicious LIbrary. It is Mac only, but it is cool as all get out. IT uses the iSight camera to scan barcodes and then uses that bar code to get images and info of the media item from Amazon.com. Really really cool. http://www.delicious-monster.com/ The database is web accessible. Not sure about the check out feature (ease of use) but there is that feature. -- "We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. " ~ Charles Darwin -- Lance L. Lennon District Technology Director Eagle Grove Community School District 515-448-4749
