Nice looking site. Congrats! Kind Regards, Chris
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Paul <pau...@aandc.org> wrote: > At 12:34 PM 1/11/2013 -0800, Daniel Grobani wrote: > >> Dear Koha kommunitarians, >> >> I'm harvesting news for this month's newsletter. Please send me by the >> 20th anything you think your fellow community members might like to know >> about. >> > > Based on our news release, 11 January 2013 <http://navalmarinearchive.** > com/news/opac_jan2013.html<http://navalmarinearchive.com/news/opac_jan2013.html> > >: > > Our Library "Online Public Access Catalogue" or OPAC > ------------------------------**---------------------- > > We are pleased to announce that our library catalogue is now online at < > http://opac.**navalmarinearchive.com <http://opac.navalmarinearchive.com>>. > It currently contains over 20,000 books - all that remains to be done is to > catalogue the remaining 15,000 books, 250,000 magazines and journals, 2,000 > charts, several hundred paintings and engravings, and all the other > documents, files and manuscripts at "The Victory." > > Importantly, we are now formally accepted as an international library > (CaOPIACS) and have access to major libraries for automatic retrieval > [Z39.50] of their bibliographic records. Reciprocal use of our records by > other libraries is planned in the near future. > > This online library project has been achieved by an investment of about > 1,400 hours of volunteer time into designing and implementing the system > (including limited import of some of our spreadsheets), and continues with > between 20 and 40 volunteer hours per week in cataloguing. In-house testing > continues to make progress on the very complex matters surrounding > efficient cataloguing of our periodicals; we tentatively plan on putting > these fully on-line by mid-2013, but in the meanwhile all work stations in > the library have access to this work-in-progress. > > Technically, it involves a new 64-bit web server on our premises with > enhanced internet connectivity, running a Linux operating system. This has > allowed us to develop a customized version of the Koha open-source library > system. > > Naval Marine Archive : The Canadian Collection > "The Victory", 205, Main Street, Picton, Ontario, K0K 2T0, Canada > Telephone: 1 613 476 1177 > http://navalmarinearchive.com and http://ultramarine.ca > Canadian Charitable Organization 88721 9921 RR0001 > > --- > Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, > research and education through the written word and the arts. > <http://NavalMarineArchive.com**> and <http://UltraMarine.ca> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/**mailman/listinfo/koha<http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha> > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha