Sarah,

ContentDM is prohibitively expensive for a small organization.

Check out Open Collection, which is open source and web-based and 
pretty neat:  http://www.opencollection.org/

Best,
Suzanne Fischer

HCMC History Museum
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis

Date:    Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:46:44 -0800
From:    Amber Neville <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Cataloging historic photos and documents

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Sarah,

Check out Greenstone - it's open source (free!) and the web site has 
lots of example of how it is being used. http://www.greenstone.org/

Also, ContentDM is a great software package. I'm not sure how much it 
costs, but I've used it in the past with great results. 
http://www.contentdm.com/

The Iowa Digital Library uses ContentDM for a lot of digital collection 
projects.
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/

Amber Neville
Research Librarian
Pearson
Coralville, IA 52241

Sarah Griswold <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I am undertaking a project to catalogue the historical collection of 
our town's public library (town population about 9800). Nearly 
everything in the collection has been scanned, and the library director 
wants to get a software program that will be able to index the scans 
and make them available to the public. I am familiar with Past Perfect, 
but wonder if there is any other program out there that would be better 
for the library's purpose?

Thanks for any insights you might have.
Sarah Griswold
Woodbury, CT

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