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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">First of all, thank you to all those who responded! I got a far greater response than I expected, I really appreciate it.
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Quite a few people expressed interest in this, so I'm sending the complied info on free or low cost library systems to the whole list. I've attached it as a doc for easier reading, but also dropped it all in the body
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<div style="margin:0;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="3">Maren Kroening</font><font size="3"><br>
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Warren Public Library</font><font size="3"><br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b>Cataloging Software for Small Libraries</b></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding:0;border-style:none;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Compiled 12/14/17. Please feel free to forward any questions to
</span></font><a href="mailto:mkroening@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">mkroening@cityofwarren.org</span></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I use LibraryThing's TinyCat at North Star Academy, a public charter school, and am pretty happy with it. It's designed for small libraries.
Here's the link: </span></font><a href="https://www.librarycat.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">https://www.librarycat.org/</span></font></a></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding:0;border-style:none;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">If you want to see a live example, here's North Star's catalog:
</span></font><a href="https://www.librarycat.org/lib/NorthStarAcademyMQT" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">https://www.librarycat.org/lib/NorthStarAcademyMQT</span></font></a></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Librarika may be a option for you. You can place up to 2,000 records for free before paying, but you can have unlimited patron accounts.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Plus it is all accessed online. We have used it for our cooperative for a small maker space collection and it has worked well.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><a href="https://librarika.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">https://librarika.com/</span></font></a></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding:0;border-style:none;"><font color="black">I used to work for a small parachioal School but not one that small. I would suggest that they contact the Michigan Catholic Library Association, I used to be president
/member long time ago when I was at De La Salle. There are many great school librarians in the association who would be willing to give their expertise and help them out. I don't know of any free open source but I do have a less expensive catalog now at
Royal Oak Twp we use Verso. </font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:12pt;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Our library is quite small. When I arrived almost 6 years ago, we only had state aid, penal fines, and municipal contributions (different
now). Basically, no budget. The board wanted to automate. We went with VERSO from Auto-Graphics. The system is on their server - we always have the most recent version of the software and they are responsible for the server and backups. Initial costs were
about $4000 (fundraisers and a grant and donations). Annual fee is $750.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Good luck to them</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding:0;border-style:none;"><a href="http://www.northadamscml.michlibrary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.northadamscml.michlibrary.org/</a></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">When I worked for the Colorado Department of Corrections, we used EOS.Web as our ILS. Here's the link:</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><a href="http://www.sirsidynix.com/products/eos-web" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">http://www.sirsidynix.com/products/eos-web</span></font></a></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I liked it because it was very user friendly and the support was great. We were able to use it to track our patrons, their checkouts and holds,
and it also sent overdue notices. I wasn't involved in the pricing but it never hurts to ask. :-) Let me know if you have further questions.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I would recommend Tinycat from Librarything. It is free to small libraries, and the folks there are great to work with.
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><a href="https://www.librarycat.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">https://www.librarycat.org/</span></font></a></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font color="#1F497D">Have you considered Library Thing?
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding:0;border-style:none;"><font color="black">Hi Maren, in a different lifetime when I was a media specialist, Alexandria used to give away one copy of their software to small libraries. She might try there: </font><a href="http://www.goalexandria.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.goalexandria.com/</a><font color="black">. </font></div>
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I'm involved with a small K-8 parochial school library that my kids attend. They use LibrarySoft for this <a href="http://www.librarysoft.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.librarysoft.com/</a> It does allow checkouts but my school doesn't
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font color="#1F497D">This may be helpful:</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><a href="http://listoffreeware.com/best-free-library-management-software-for-windows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;">http://listoffreeware.com/best-free-library-management-software-for-windows/</span></font></span></font></a><font color="#1F497D">
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">We are on an open source software called KOHA. For us, it is hosted by ByWater Solutions and we pay $7800 a year for that.
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">However, I believe, you can just download KOHA and not have a vendor host it. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding:0;border-style:none;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I am going to try this for my personal catalog as well as to catalog my brother's books, as soon as I retire. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Evergreen <</span></font><a href="https://evergreen-ils.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">https://evergreen-ils.org</span></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">>
is open source, and if they have someone in-house that can set up a server and provide tech support, they'll be set. There's also a Michigan Evergreen group that has about eight public libraries, and it may be worth seeing if the expenses (covers tech support
mainly) would be low enough to make it worth joining. I used it at my last library and would be happy to dig up group contact information if that's the route they'd like to go.
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">That being said, right now I'm using the free version of Libib <</span></font><a href="https://www.libib.com/library/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">https://www.libib.com/library/</span></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">>
for my personal catalog at home, and the pro version may be more reasonably priced and user-friendly for what they need <</span></font><a href="https://www.libib.com/pricing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">https://www.libib.com/pricing</span></font></a><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">>. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Cheers -</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Heather</span></font></div>
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have about 30 students so they probably could use a spreadsheet for that. </div>
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<div>This is not something I’m at all familiar with, but if anyone out there is working in a small school/small library of any type using a free or very low priced ILS or even has heard of suggestions I can pass on to this teacher, I’d be grateful if you could
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<div>Please email me directly. If anyone is interested in this topic, I can compile any possible results. </div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Maren Kroening</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">5460 Arden, Suite 303</span></div>
<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Warren, MI 48092</span></div>
<div style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">586.751.5377</span></div>
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