Robert Heller

Open-ILS/Evergreen is a full fledged ILS system and includes the whole library system. I doubt that it integrates into WordPress. It might be a bigger system than you might be looking for. You say you want to manage a ‘university’ library — what exactly do you mean by that? ‘University’ to me makes me think if UMass, with its 25 story high rise *main* library on its *main* campus. Plus its numerious branch libraries on its *main* campus, plus the libraries on its various *other* campuses. Maybe what *you* mean by ‘University’ is something much smaller…

For some reason, you have the content wrapped in a
<pre> block. That is probably causing formatting isues. I don’t know if that is a function of your theme or something else.

I’ve updated the AWS interface to use the additional locales. If you update to version 3.2.9.7 it will have the Amazon Italian domain/locale.

The pubdate format should be MM-DD-YYYY (ex: 01-10-2013 would be January 10, 2013).

Last time I checked AWS does not have a .it domain, but I will check again later today or tomorrow.

Messing with the DB fields is possible, if you know PHP well enough. I wrap the database access with classes, one for each table. The code does make assumptions about column names in other places though, so column renaming could have strange effects and could break things badly. Which column do you want to rename or add?

Yes if you had 10 *physical copies* available for lending, you will have to list all ten with separate bar codes. Do you really have ten copies of a given book? Seems like a lot. More full-fledged library management systems (like OpenILS / Everygreen) handle this differently — they understand about multiple copies of a given specific work and group the multiple copies (which might be at different libraries) as a single search result and allow the idea a placing a hold on a *title* rather than a specific (physical) *copy*. Web Librarian cannot at present do that.

This is strange. The only thing I can think of is that there is something wrong with your AWS setup — one of the fields is set wrong. But this is only a guess.

Warning: Using the ISBN as a barcode can be a problem if you ever have multiple copies of a given book. Each *physical* copy should have a unique (separate) barcode and ISBN’s are not unique across all physical copies. Libraries normally don’t use the ISBN barcode because of this. (The ISBN barcodes are great for a bookstore, since the ISBN can be used to looking the *price* of the book and a store does not have to keep track of each physical copy as a unique instance.)

To supress barcode generation, you supply a barcode when you enter the book. The barcode is only autogenerated if it is ommited (or invalid).