On Wed, 25 May 2011 12:01:23 +0300, Olli-Antti Kivilahti <olli-antti.kivilahti@jns.fi> wrote:
...We are planning to create a consortium of minimum of a ~20 libraries, I have been hard pressed to find answers to the hardware requirements of Koha and Evergreen and have been instructed to ask here on devel-list by your library managers.
I cannot answer your hardware questions yet, maybe in a month. But surely by then you'll have your answer. But I can comment on this:
Could every library host their own databases or should they be centralized?
If you have data centralized then your libraries would have to share some common policies among *ALL* libraries. AFAIK there's no bibliographic/system separation in koha, so you cannot have a separate centralized database for your bibliographic data and individual databases for the rest of the stuff. Here (UNCuyo, Mendoza, Argentina) we're about to implement a centralized koha for ~20 libraries, but all of them share the same rules, they must obey a central organism which dictates the policies. I believe trying to centralize data from libraries which have separate rules might give you major headaches. -- Fernando Canizo (a.k.a. conan) - http://conan.muriandre.com/ GCS d? s:+ a C++ P--- L++++ E--- W+++ w--- M-- PE-- !tv b+++ h---- y+++