Archive: 2008 July 26

How to Create a Public Library

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-26T03:33:47Z in Library Science, with these tags: barcoding, computer science, computers, creativity, internet, librarianship, new, openbiblio, php, programming, 1 Comment. 5,613 words.

I’ve disappeared for the last few days because I’ve been working on The Thripp Public Library. While I can’t open it to the public yet (Dad won’t open our house to the world), I’m working on it now because I have time off and Dad’s generously donated lots of his books. Though I wanted to use Evergreen or Koha, I picked the simple and obscure OpenBiblio as my library system, because it’s the only thing I could find that would run on shared hosting. I was disappointed by the lack of features to start, but I’m starting …