[Koha] Introductions and spin-offs

[Trevor Jenkins]

Like many others recently I came across Koha as a result of the article in
February 2003 Linux Journal. Whilst I have library catalogue issues with
all the books, journals, papers, CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, videos and such in my
study (aka home) the article was more of a provocation to thinking about
other applications. A similar market sector to library automation is
museum inventory systems; they're not identical but enough synergy exists
that many of the proprietary library systems have museum modules. Also
there is additional stimulus as my wife works for one the national museums
here in Great Britain. The stories she tells me of the inflexibilty of
their in-house system would turn your stomach.

So since the publication of the LJ paper I've been musing on how Koha
might be used as a base for a museum system. For the last 30 years my role
has been programmer/consultant of text retrieval systems. A cross industry
product that I've deployed in research libraries and museums. Including a
recent bid to a museum-come-library for cataloguing and loan management of
a non-book collection.

Wonder whether there is any interest from others in such a museums module?

Regards, Trevor

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