On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:04 AM, atiqse <atiqse@hotmail.com> wrote:
At the moment we don't have any library system for our library so On the one hand we want to implement a complete integrated library system (ILS) to manage the library for example Full catalog, circulation and acquisitions system for library stock management, Print own barcodes, Serials management, Web based OPAC system and other library mangement related modules.
Whereas on the other hand we also want to digitize all the books into pdf and tiff format to make a digital repository so that these books can be searched, viewed and read online (using the same Webbased OPAC module).
In the light of above scenario what could be the best potential solution? I really appreciate your feedback and your expert opinion.
I think you definitely have to deploy Koha as your ILS. For the digital content, I like DSpace flexibility and standards compliance. You can think of it as a storage back-end for what you've got catalogued in Koha. If you plan to provide one file for each record, then it can be easily achieved using standard 856$u MARC21 field pointing to the file's URL. If you want to point to a page where the user can download several related files, then point to the DSpace record directly. As I said before, there are other use cases than can be more complex. To+