Many small libraries (up to 5,000 books) are using the small-library
interface provided by LibraryThing. See
https://www.librarything.com/organizations.php for more details.

Martha Katz-Hyman
Curator
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
Williamsburg, Virginia

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Sterling Jenson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
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