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Functional Aspects
This web application is designed for managing one or more libraries of medium size with the following needs:
In Administration (click on each option to get more information):
At the moment, is not supported the economic managing of the library or the interlibrary loans, although, this can be do creating new users as libraries -not physical individuals- to which can be borrowed works as other users.
For the users of the library (click on each option to get more information):
For Selling Books:
Some libraries could have a service of publications or a little bookstore where can be brought works produced by the own institution or other specialized books. Thinking on this fact, has been keeping in mind the possibility to include a module for managing the process of the online selling and the in situ selling.
Portal management:
The portal lets you to change of the front end aspects:
- Multilingual support. Can be easily added or deleted new languages.
- Personalisation of the skin according to the needs of each library.
- Management of sections.
- Can be easily add new modules, as could be a forum.
Technical Requirements
The basic requirements are:
- Operative system: Linux or Windows.
- Web server: Apache for both operative systems, but this will works too with IIS under Windows with PHP and Perl as FastCGI.
- Server Side Script languages: PHP (version 5.x) and Perl.
- Database: PostgreSQL 7.3.4 or higher for Linux and PostgreSQL 8.0 for Windows. This application works too with MySQL, but is not recommended. Oracle 8 or highers is theoretically supported too but it has not been tested.
- Mail Server for Windows and Linux.
The web pages of the application are HTML 4.0 compliant and can be viewed under the following browsers:
- Mozilla Firefox >=3.x
- Microsoft Internet Explorer >=5.0.
- Opera
- Safari
- Konqueror.
The implementation diagram bellow shows how the system would be disposed:
On this configuration could be made changes and have in the same machine: the web server, the database server and the mail server. Regarding the access of the library users, can be made some changes (according to the previous diagram):
- The access of the users and administrator in the same LAN.
- Mixed access (show in the diagram), that is, the users could access the library from any external point to the LAN (internet), or from inside the library LAN.
- External access. In this configuration, the users will access the library from any point of Internet but ever outside the LAN of the library.
More information
Please, for any further information, don't hesitate to send your questions to the following e-mail address: contact@library-online.co.uk.
Exporting the Data
The data exported by the application is: authors, subjects, users, publishing houses and the library properties. The formats supported are the followings:
- Standard SQL statements.
- XML format for the database.
- MARC 21 or MARCXML for groups of records.
Regarding the library properties, not explained in any previous sections, includes the next fields:
- Name of the Library. The name of the library is presented as a readonly information, since when the library is configured, this value is set and can't no be change later.
- The library administrator(s). It contains the name of the person who manage the administrative aspects of the library.
- Electronic address. Is the email address to which the users will send their enquires.
- Library web address. Is the web address for the library.
- City.
- The maximun time that one item can be borrowed (in days). Usually, the libraries allow external loans, and in that cases is set a maximum time that a user can held a book.
- The maximun number of books that can be borrowed at once for one user.
- Other basic information related with the library. This field was think for include the information that not fit in the previous fields.
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