TinyCat
Koha
DSpace
Invenio
FOLIO
BiblioteQ
Atoll Digital Library
Greenstone Digital Library
Evergreen ILS
Koha
DSpace
Invenio
Greenstone Digital Library
BiblioteQ
FOLIO
Atoll Digital Library
TinyCat| Categories |
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| Website | librarycat.org |
| Pricing URL | Official TinyCat Pricing |
| Details $ | - |
Evergreen ILS| Categories |
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| Website | evergreen-ils.org |
| Pricing URL | - |
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Based on our record, Evergreen ILS should be more popular than TinyCat. It has been mentiond 6 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I second the suggestion of exploring tinycat as a management option, since it would offer you a way to catalog and track usage of your holdings. Source: almost 3 years ago
On the harder side of the world, there are entire open source products like Koha (https://koha-community.org) and Evergreen (https://evergreen-ils.org) that are capable of running large libraries, but require installation and systems maintenance. On the easier, something like Librarycat (https://www.librarycat.org) might work fine for your needs (and if you end up using it, lmk...the developer is a friend) or... Source: over 1 year ago
We use PINES which is based on Evergreen, which is open-source. I believe there are vendors you can pay to help you set it up and run it, and there's a volunteer community that will help, too. Of course, this is at the expense of having someone else run it *for* you, but my understanding is that we (Georgia libraries that use PINES) decided to make the software to address limitations in existing ILSs. So, if your... Source: over 1 year ago
I’ve thought about using a self-hosted library management system like evergreen to manage everything. But, I’ve got 20,000 other small projects to complete before then. Source: over 1 year ago
My last library used Evergreen and I really loved it, buy I didn't do any of the back end stuff. Source: over 1 year ago
It sounds like you're looking for a ILS - an Integrated Library System. There are a couple of open source options - I believe the most popular is Evergreen, and here's a list with seven more. Source: about 2 years ago
Koha - Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS).
DSpace - DSpace open source software enables open sharing of content that spans organizations, continents...
Invenio - Invenio is a free, open-source software to run a digital library or document repository on the web.
FOLIO - Simple version control app for designers based on Git
Greenstone Digital Library - Greenstone is a suite of software tools for building and distributing digital library collections...
BiblioteQ - BiblioteQ strives to be a professional cataloging and library management suite. The SRU and Z39.
