[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems

[Joe]

I can give a plus 1 to what Buzzy said about Libki and papercut.  We are 
currently using libki and a home grown solution built on top of CUPS.  I 
have played with papercut and plan to migrate us to that at some point.  
I would recommend both to anyone looking to make a change.

The one caution I would give about Libki is that the integration with 
Evergreen did not work out of the box for us.
I had a volunteer working with me on the latest version, and he had to 
rewrite a portion of the code for libki, switching from socket 
connections to a telnet connection for the SIP2 back to Evergreen.  I 
don't know if that's because of how our Evergreen is configured or an 
incompatibility with how SIP2 was written into Libki.

That said, if you go with libki and the stock server does not work, he 
has created a fork of the libki-server that works with evergreen at 
https://bitbucket.org/bak688/libki-server-sipviatelnet .

Also, I can give a plus 1 to avoiding PCCop.  We migrated away from it 
to libki a few years ago when Libki was much rougher and less feature 
rich than it is today and we'd have been happy with that decision even 
if Libki had cost money.

Best of luck.

Joe

Joseph Knueven
Director
Germantown Public Library
51 N. Plum St.
Germantown, OH 45327
937-855-4001
knuevejo at oplin.org

On 3/19/2014 1:14 PM, Elisabeth Keppler wrote:
> Having worked in one library system running Envisionware and my 
> current library running SAM from Comprise, I can confidently say don't 
> use SAM.  Wish we had Envisionware instead.
>
> Thanks,
> Lise
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Buzzy Nielsen 
> <buzzy at hoodriverlibrary.org <mailto:buzzy at hoodriverlibrary.org>> wrote:
>
>     Libki is a nice option. It's open source and you can roll your own
>     installation (http://libki.org/) or get it from a vendor
>     (http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-libki/).
>
>     Papercut is an easy-to-use, very inexpensive print management
>     program. http://www.papercut.com/.
>
>     My last library used those two systems, and they worked quite well.
>
>     Cheers!
>     Buzzy
>
>     ************************************
>     Library Director
>     Hood River County Library District
>     502 State Street
>     Hood River, Oregon 97031
>     541-387-7062 <tel:541-387-7062>
>     http://hoodriverlibrary.org
>
>     On 03/19/2014 07:20 AM, jmundy at tcpclibrary.org
>     <mailto:jmundy at tcpclibrary.org> wrote:
>>
>>     Anyone on Evergreen have a PC reservation system for the public
>>     they would recommend or recommend against? It should have print
>>     management software too and we would prefer it to run with
>>     Windows PCs.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     John
>>
>>     Director
>>     Perry County Public Library
>>     2328 Tell Street
>>     Tell City, IN 47586
>>     www.tcpclibrary.org <http://www.tcpclibrary.org>
>>     jmundy at tcpclibrary.org <mailto:jmundy at tcpclibrary.org>
>>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Lise Keppler
> Forsyth County Public Library
> 660 W 5th St
> Winston Salem NC 27101
> 336-703-3070

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