At 12:34 PM 1/11/2013 -0800, Daniel Grobani wrote:
Dear Koha kommunitarians,
I'm harvesting news for this month's newsletter. Please send me by the 20th anything you think your fellow community members might like to know about.
Based on our news release, 11 January 2013 <http://navalmarinearchive.com/news/opac_jan2013.html>: Our Library "Online Public Access Catalogue" or OPAC ---------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce that our library catalogue is now online at <http://opac.navalmarinearchive.com>. It currently contains over 20,000 books - all that remains to be done is to catalogue the remaining 15,000 books, 250,000 magazines and journals, 2,000 charts, several hundred paintings and engravings, and all the other documents, files and manuscripts at "The Victory." Importantly, we are now formally accepted as an international library (CaOPIACS) and have access to major libraries for automatic retrieval [Z39.50] of their bibliographic records. Reciprocal use of our records by other libraries is planned in the near future. This online library project has been achieved by an investment of about 1,400 hours of volunteer time into designing and implementing the system (including limited import of some of our spreadsheets), and continues with between 20 and 40 volunteer hours per week in cataloguing. In-house testing continues to make progress on the very complex matters surrounding efficient cataloguing of our periodicals; we tentatively plan on putting these fully on-line by mid-2013, but in the meanwhile all work stations in the library have access to this work-in-progress. Technically, it involves a new 64-bit web server on our premises with enhanced internet connectivity, running a Linux operating system. This has allowed us to develop a customized version of the Koha open-source library system. Naval Marine Archive : The Canadian Collection "The Victory", 205, Main Street, Picton, Ontario, K0K 2T0, Canada Telephone: 1 613 476 1177 http://navalmarinearchive.com and http://ultramarine.ca Canadian Charitable Organization 88721 9921 RR0001 --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>