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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.
Managing Bibliographic Records
For managing the bibliographic records exists the following options:
- Add new bibliographic records.
- Modify existing bibliographic records.
- Delete bibliographic records.
- Consult bibliographic records.
a.1. Add, modify and delete users. The information associated to each bibliographic record is divided in 5 blocks:
- General information.
- Translation.
- Preface.
- Physical characteristics.
- Authors and Universal Decimal Classification.
a.1.1. General Information. This section is referred to basic information related with the item and is composed by the following information:
- Number of items. Is referred to the number of items of the work. This number will be used to control loans.
- Type. Are supported the next type of works:
- book
- article
- editorial
- letter
- personal communication
- dissertation
- web address
- Language of the work (according to the ISO-639 norm).
- Title of the work.
- Collection or any other of periodic publication to which the item is included.
- Publishing house (is selected from the database of publishing houses).
- Volume (the number of the book or magazine).
- Pages (number of pages of the book or the article).
- Place where the work was published.
- The edition number (1st, 3er ...).
- The reprint number (1st, 3er ...).
- The date when the work was published, according with the following formats:
- year
- month and year
- day, month and year
- ISBN.
- Bar code.
- Legal deposit
a.1.2. Translation. In this section will be introduced the information closely related with the original work, if the work was originally published in other language than the current version. The fields for this section are the next:
- Original title. It refers to the original title of the work.
- The language of the original publication, following the ISO-639 norm.
- Surname(s) and name of the work's translator. The translator is selected from the database of translators in the database.
a.1.3. Prologue. In this sections will be specified the name of the author who wrote the preface. The name is selected from the database of authors.
a.1.4. Physical characteristics. The fields included in this sectios belong to the physicial properties of the item and its content.
- Height (in millimeters). The height of the work.
- Width (in millimeters). The width of the work.
- Bookbinding. Are considered 6 types: Sewn, Stuck, Stapled on side, Stapled on the center, Picture and CD-ROM/DVD.
a.1.5. Authors and classification UDC. Finally, are included the name of the authors and the classification of the work following the UDC (Universal Decimal Classification). Such as the UDC subjects as the authors are selected from the databases of subjects and authors respectivelly.
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