[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software

[Jeff Klapes]

Hi Jeff - It's not free, but very inexpensive: We've been using a 
WordPress plugin called DrawAttention (https://wpdrawattention.com/) and 
it's very easy to use. I think we paid $75 for the full version, and a 
slightly smaller annual maintenance fee.

We're currently using it only on our web site, but we plan to use it in 
the way you describe as soon as our system activates a feature that 
makes copy locations in the OPAC into live links. Then we'll be able to 
link directly to maps that can direct patrons to that location in the 
building.

http://www.wakefieldlibrary.org/building-floor-plans/

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Jeff Klapes <klapes at noblenet.org>
Head of Reference Services 781-246-6334 x6565
Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, 345 Main St, Wakefield, MA 01880
Where Wakefield Connects <www.wakefieldlibrary.org>
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On 7/9/2018 12:54 PM, jeff haskell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the list.
>
> I'm interested in drawing software so patrons and new staff,
> volunteers and student interns can find materials on shelves easily
> and quickly.
>
> Ex. one set of shelves to the far left of the circulation desk would
> be labeled Fiction. Then the next set of shelves named Mystery in the
> shelves bay to the right of the Fiction shelves bay and then to the
> right of that the shelves Bay for Supernatural.
>
> This would be a floor plan so a patron could walk around the library
> and look at this floor plan map and know where Fiction is - where
> Mystery is, Biography, etc. for every collection throughout the
> library.
>
> If I sat with an illustrator they could probably draw it all up in
> about 20-30 minutes and I would just scan what they drew and have a
> map (crude compared to a 3D) but enough so a patron could find items.
>
> But, is there any *free* software which could accomplish that?
>
> Thank you.