Library

One of the problems with establishing a lending library has been keeping track of the inventory. Recently I asked freshmeat about relevant applications. Here are the top contendors:


 * Koha: Used by real public libraries in the actual New Zealand in the present day. Web and curses interfaces written in Perl.
 * Open Media Lending Database: aka OpenDB. Shows signs of reasonably recent development.  Web interface written in PHP.
 * Alexandria: Seems targeted at much smaller installations than Koha, more like a personal collection manager that happens to also have a field for who the book is lent to. Under current development.  Gnome interface written in Ruby.
 * Tellico: Like Alexandria in scope, but with a KDE interface written in C++. Under current development.