[Web4lib] Electronic Library

[Peter MacDonald]

If your library is an OCLC FirstSearch Base Package subscribe you can 
upload your theses to a hosted version of CONTENTdm for free.

You get 2000 records hosted in a CONTENTdm database stored on servers at 
OCLC. You can upload the theses and CONTENTdm indexes the full text. See...

http://www.oclc.org/ContentDM/about/default.htm

http://www.oclc.org/services/brochures/213700usf_FSBasePkg.pdf

Peter


Suelzer, Elizabeth wrote:
> Hi all-
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> My library would like to create a full-text online database for our
> senior design papers and master's theses. We currently have about 200
> senior design projects and 300 masters theses.  We don't have a lot
> (any) money to spend on this, so I was looking at either creating one
> from scratch or using an open source option such as Greenstone.
> Greenstone seems the most feasible for me since it works pretty much
> out-of-the-box. 
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> Theoretically, it seems like building our own database shouldn't be too
> difficult, but since I have virtually no programming skills, I don't
> know what programming languages I will need to know to write it. I'm
> very comfortable using MS Access- can I use this as the backend of the
> database, or would SQL be the better option?  
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> I am looking for advice about whether to a)build my own database or use
> open source and b)if I build my own, what programming languages I should
> use. I realize that these are vague questions, but I'm not sure how to
> start this project.
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> Thank you in advance,
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> Liz
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> Elizabeth Suelzer
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> Interlibrary Loan and Generalist Librarian
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> (414)277-7182
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