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I am librarian with a 5 year old college which has jr. college, degree college, hospitality college and management college in its complex with only one library catering to all the institutes. Now we are planning to go for library automation. Following table was provided to me as comparision of library softwares. I would like to know the institutes that are similar to where I am placed what softwares they are using and whether this comparision is ok.
Sr. No |
Features |
Koha |
Egranthalaya |
SLIM |
Libsys |
1 |
Webbased |
Yes |
Not |
Not |
Yes |
2 |
Marc 21 |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
3 |
Modules |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
4 |
Opensource |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
5 |
Cloud based |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
6 |
Price |
Tailormade |
3-11,000/- |
125,000 |
150.000 |
7 |
Maintenance |
As per requirements |
500/- per visit |
15% of first year |
15% of first year |
8 |
Data Security |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
9 |
Revision of version |
Every 6th Months |
Four to Five year |
Four to Five year |
Four to Five year |
10 |
Modular/Customisable |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
11 |
Local Support |
AMC |
per visit |
AMC |
AMC |
12 |
Manual |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
13 |
Community Groups |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
14 |
NCP 2 for RFID |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
15 |
Vendor Lock |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
16 |
International Standards |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
17 |
Cost of Hardware and Software |
Lowest |
Highest |
Highest |
Highest |
18 |
Z3950 Protocol |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
19 |
Unicode Support |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
20 |
Company Ownership Type |
OpenSource |
Central Government NIC |
Private |
Private |
21 |
Union catalogue of Branch Libraries |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
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Permalink Reply by Abilash Achuthan on
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Demo for LibLime Academic Koha
For Academic Librarians, By Academic Librarians
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Hosted in LibLime's cloud computing data center and distributed via Software as a Service (SaaS) - hundreds of libraries worldwide are able to alleviate their internal IT support needs
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Permalink Reply by Surajit on
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Dear Mam,
Here i found all the suggesetions are valuable and effective..I only want to add 'after sale serivice' or 'customer care service' of the product is the another vital element to choose a lib softwr..We all librarians are usualy busy with huge works and houskpg jobs..Its difficult for a librarian to manage the software reltd problems which may occur any time. that time. the vendor support is very essential...otherwise it creates a big problem for the librarian. in case of open source software, i think there r no vendor service available during those situation...I think, before going to purchase a lib software, you should think abt this thing also...
Suvo Bijoya to u and all lis freinds...
Surajit.
Kolkata.
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Permalink Reply by Sudhir Gandotra on
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Koha is undoubtedly the best LMS available.
Now, Koha's services have been taken to new level and the Platform for Libraries has been created that provides Koha services like Implementation-Hosting, AMC and Upgrades free of cost for ever.
Yes, you can get your Koha implemented on Cloud free of cost and you do not have to pay even for Maintenance or Upgrades.
You get standard Koha features, without having to worry about the daily maintenance issues with your I.T. team and you can spend all your time to improve and enhance your library, helping students to learn better.
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