Sounds good, but I have talked to many librarians / catalogers who run their software on 486s and Win 98 , because they would rather spend the money on books that the majority of their patrons would use.
IT sounds like a great Idea and all. But it just wouldn't fit the needs of modern libraries. Maybe for a very small library with not many patrons.
And I think the biggest thing of all would be support. A library who can't afford a commercial automation system probably isn't going to have a tech on staff, and the local tech frolm "Bob's Computer's" isn't going to know jack about the software. If anything happens (corrupt DB, server crash,...) the library will most likely be down for days if not weeks.
If you are saying you grew up in the lower class, and we had no public education, where your parents could not afford to send you to school where do you think you would be now?
I would like to know where they are all hiding when I call. Working for a company that sells Dell computers with its software I have had to make enough calls there to get a good variety of them. I spend a week with one customer and six different Dell techs trying to get her computer fixed. Being hung up on (and no calls logs so they insisted on troubleshooting again), telling her to go the device manager in NT 4, saying the CDs were bad, sending out he wrong Cds then telling me that I called too many times and needed to speek with the persistent problems department (or whatever they called it) after a few more hours ended up having the computer shipped to me to be completed.
Don't get me wrong, a few khow their stuff but most if it isn't in their FAQ you are SOL. I dread calling them more than going to the dentist
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Sounds good, but I have talked to many librarians / catalogers who run their software on 486s and Win 98 , because they would rather spend the money on books that the majority of their patrons would use.
IT sounds like a great Idea and all. But it just wouldn't fit the needs of modern libraries. Maybe for a very small library with not many patrons. And I think the biggest thing of all would be support. A library who can't afford a commercial automation system probably isn't going to have a tech on staff, and the local tech frolm "Bob's Computer's" isn't going to know jack about the software. If anything happens (corrupt DB, server crash, ...) the library will most likely be down for days if not weeks.
If you are saying you grew up in the lower class, and we had no public education, where your parents could not afford to send you to school where do you think you would be now?
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I would like to know where they are all hiding when I call. Working for a company that sells Dell computers with its software I have had to make enough calls there to get a good variety of them. I spend a week with one customer and six different Dell techs trying to get her computer fixed. Being hung up on (and no calls logs so they insisted on troubleshooting again), telling her to go the device manager in NT 4, saying the CDs were bad, sending out he wrong Cds then telling me that I called too many times and needed to speek with the persistent problems department (or whatever they called it) after a few more hours ended up having the computer shipped to me to be completed. Don't get me wrong, a few khow their stuff but most if it isn't in their FAQ you are SOL. I dread calling them more than going to the dentist