[Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

Barton Chittenden barton at bywatersolutions.com
Wed Jul 18 07:20:17 NZST 2018


There are a couple of good open source drawing packages that should be
available on Windows, Mac or Linux:

OpenOffice has a package called 'draw' that works quite well

For vector graphics, I would look at inkscape: https://inkscape.org/en/

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:40 PM, jeff haskell <jeffdothaskell at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  I'm new to the list and grateful to be here.
>
>  I'm interested in drawing software so patrons and new staff,
>  volunteers and student interns can find materials on shelves easily
>  and quickly.
>
>  Ex. one set of shelves to the far left of the circulation desk would
>  be labeled Fiction. Then the next set of shelves named Mystery in the
>  shelves bay to the right of the Fiction shelves bay and then to the
>  right of that the shelves Bay for Supernatural.
>
>  This would be a floor plan so a patron could walk around the library
>  and look at this floor plan map and know where Fiction is - where
>  Mystery is, Biography, etc. for every collection throughout the
>  library.
>
>  If I sat with an illustrator they could probably draw it all up in
>  about 20-30 minutes and I would just scan what they drew and have a
>  map (crude compared to a 3D) but enough so a patron could find items.
>
>  But, is there any *free* easy to learn / easy to use software which
> could accomplish that?
>
>  Thank you!
>
> J.
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