[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Some questions about using Evergreen for a private library

[Claire]

Dear Evergreen users/developers,

I have a few questions about using Evergreen to manage a private library
collection. Would anyone do me the favor of advising me about how good of a
match Evergreen is for my needs? So far, if I understand the website
description correctly, most of the features I'm interested in seem
available, but I'm not sure.

These are the basic features I'm looking for:

   - System for a private library. Currently something like 2000-3000
   books, but I would like something with the capacity for at least 10,000
   books to accommodate future growth.
   - Needs to use Library of Congress classification, not Dewey.
   - Be able to search by ISBN, title, author, keywords, and year
   - Be able to print labels/barcodes
   - Be compatible with some kind of bar code scanner that I can buy

Features that are not essential but that I would like to have:

   - A way to access the content online (I could host it on my own website
   if I had the code) so that I or other users could access it elsewhere.
   - If it's possible, a way to access something like Worldcat, Google
   Books or some other database to generate the book's title, author, etc.
   Essentially, I would like to be able to just enter the ISBN and have most
   of the information pop up, to save some of the time getting them all in the
   database. (OPAC?)
   - I would like to host the system on a computer on which I keep PDFs of
   articles on a hard drive. It would be great if the catalog software could
   hold a catalog of articles as well, and if I could simply create a link
   directly from each article's entry to the file on the hard drive.
   (obviously wouldn't be available online unless I host the articles online
   as well, though I could also do that)

I would greatly appreciate any advice you might have. Any chance all of
these features are a possibility in Evergreen?

Thank you!

Claire
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