[Imc] inquiry about ISEN library

[jacobs]

Hi all,

I am one of the librarians at the IMC, just down the street from you in 
Urbana. I'm just wondering how the online project for your collection is 
coming? I just checked your website which said "coming soon" and had a July 
date. I'd like to have a link to your site from our website 
(urbana.indymedia.org/library) if that'd be ok.

In addition, I'd also like to propose a cooperative electronic catalog be 
created listing ISEN, IMC and other progressive orgs' collections in one 
database. Along those lines, what database software are you using? Currently 
we have a bare-bones, flat-file database with a search interface written in 
Perl/CGI (http://urbana.indymedia.org/library/mlibsearch.html).

One piece of software that I've been looking at is the OpenBook library 
software (circulation, cataloging and search interface) at 
http://www.trfoundation.org/projects/koha_w.html. It's completely open source, 
uses a MySQL backend database with PHP and PERL interfaces to its three key 
modules: a user or patron interface to the catalog (OPAC), a circulation 
module and a cataloging module.

Is anyone at ISEN interested in pursuing a cooperative catalog? Please get 
back to me at either the imc-librarians or at my personal email. In addition, 
please forward to other orgs that have libraries that may be interested. 
Together we can make a great information resource for our community!

in solidarity,

James Jacobs
Radical Librarian

James R. Jacobs 
Graduate Reference Assistant 
Education/Social Science Library
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign                        
Home: 303B1 Paddock Drive  
Savoy, IL 61874           
(217)359-9283
jacobs at uiuc.edu
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