[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Evergreen is a pretty serious ILS and is probably quite a bit more
complicated than you need.  Have you checked out Koha (
http://www.koha-community.org)?

Lori

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Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen
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<Lori.Ayre at galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID,
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM, G. T. Stresen-Reuter <
tedmasterweb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere but I can't find what I'm
> looking for (read the FAQs, searched the list) and hope someone can help.
> Part of the problem is I'm not sure what to search for...
>
> I'm the IT guy at a small school in the Canary Islands. I'm trying to find
> a new ILS for our tiny library and looking at Evergreen.
>
> Personally I own a book cataloging system (Delicious Library 2) that can
> read the ISBN number via my built-in laptop camera, look up the book on
> Amazon.com, and fill in the database automagically. It's a wonderful system
> and I'm wondering if anything like that exist for Evergreen (even if it
> means buying an external bar code reader).
>
> I've seen references to Z39.50 but it's my impression that that's not
> exactly the same thing.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ted Stresen-Reuter
> http://tedmasterweb.com
>
>
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