Greetings,

At the March Field Air Museum, we have been working on transitioning from an MS Access database to Koha library database (http://koha-community.org/). I like the program because Koha gives us the ability to operate the library more professionally, e.g. it automatically creates a public interface to the collection which the last database was missing. A couple other open source library software that you might want to look into is LibLime Koha* (http://www.koha.org/) and Evergreen (http://evergreen-ils.org/).

Sincerely,

Sterling Jenson

Collections Manager

March Field Air Museum

*If you do not know, one of the elements of Open Source is that individuals can create a new "fork" for a program in order to develop the ideas of how they believe the project should go. Therefore, LibLime Koha is a separate program.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Korri Krajicek <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Good afternoon,

My museum library has been using Folett-Learning Software’s Athena for years. It is an old, legacy software unsupported on desktops above Windows XP and servers about Windows Server 2003. We’ve learned that Folett-Learning is discontinuing all support as of June 2016.

A bit about the library: We have a strong but underutilized circulating collection (books and resources may only be checked out by museum members and local college students) and our reading room is open to all visitors.

What library software system does your museum collection use? Do you have any recommendations (or warnings)?

Thank you,

Korri

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