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Re: Advice on OPAC for small library?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Hudson)
Mon Nov 3 20:29:19 2003
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:01:26 -0500
From: Bill Hudson <bhudson@LANCASTERLIBRARIES.ORG>
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Hi Noel,
We get this question on a fairly regular basis, i.e. "what can I get for
my small school or church library?" I direct people to the following:
http://www.cslib.org/smalllibstand.htm
It has a pretty good overview of costs associated with the small ILS
market.
Bill
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> On Wed 29 Oct, Noel W Anderson wrote:
> > This Friday I will meet with the library committee of a small
> private
> > school in Dallas, and discuss
> > plans to provide their library with an OPAC. This library has less
than
> 5000
> > volumes, and the school
> > is unlikely to grow beyond 250 students and 25 teachers. Supposedly
I
> am
> > there to add my
> > library expertise.
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