[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Help for a tiny library?

[Mark Ehle]

Not at all dubious, Rogan. We run Sirsi Symphony as a VM and have been for
years. We pretty much don't run our servers on anything else *but* VM's.
It's just how things are done now. I've run Evergreen in Virtual Box
(totally free) on my PC to play with it and it works just fine. Given a
decent enough PC,mainly enough memory, I'm sure you could run Evergreen on
a VM for a few clients for a small library.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at yclibrary.net>
wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> This was alluded to but to be clear, Evergreen isn't Windows software.
> Evergreen was built to run on Linux and is commonly run on Debian though I
> know it's used successfully on other distributions as well.  Honestly, as
> much as I love to spread the love of Evergreen from what I can infer from
> your post I don't think this would be the right direction for you.
>
> Running a production system on a VM is dubious though possible but then
> connecting clients, doing the configuration, etc... these are going to
> require a big investment of time and energy on the part of staff.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Ben T. <t.ben38 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I volunteer for a tiny library that is growing.  At this point we're
>> looking for a way to manage our check-outs/returns some way more efficient
>> than paper and pencil.  Evergreen seems like it could be a good solution
>> for us, however we are not able to afford a server at this point nor a
>> subscription (we basically have no money).  Is there any way (hopefully a
>> simple one) to run Evergreen just on a single Windows (7) machine, keeping
>> the catalog and patron information locally?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Ben
>> Librarian Volunteer
>> Kendall Clawson Library
>>
>> p.s. I am decently tech savvy, but not VERY tech savvy.  I won't be able
>> to do any major amount of coding on my own.
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
> Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
> York County Library System
>
> “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit
> me.”
> ― C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis>
>
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