[Koha] Introductions and spin-offs

[ed sharpe]

yes museum support would be good!

Please check our web site at
 http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means  when in Arizona drop in and see us.

address:

 coury house / smecc
5802 w palmaire ave
glendale az 85301

thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Jenkins" <trevor.jenkins at suneidesis.com>
To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 8:10 AM
Subject: [Koha] Introductions and spin-offs


> 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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