I chose Lake Blackshear Regional Library for finding a Wiki for this library assignment. The reason is that I currently work at the library, so I’m familiar with the library. Also, I would like to help the library to better serve the community.
The library is located in Americus, GA, and the population of the community is about 19,000. The library contains about 90,000 materials, and there are three librarians and ten employees at the library. The LBRLS related PINES system and the library has five branch libraries in different locations in GA.
I would use 3F WIKI to meet the library’s requirements. 3F WIKI contains many good features for the public library below:
ü 3F WIKI has been installed with the following database servers so far: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL, SQLite3 and even Microsoft Access.
ü 3F WIKI has been designed to operate as a CGI behind the Apache 2.x Web Server.
ü By leveraging HTML Macro interface, web designers can make Wiki look like any web site on the Internet.
ü The most important aspect of people finding you and your content, our built-in search engine has no equal.3F Wiki have 5 programmable search algorithms making our product work with any language. Our "May we suggest?" feature rivals that of Google's "Did you mean?”
The PINES search engine is well known for being unfriendly to its users, and I always wanted to have a better search system at the library because the current search interface is not efficient. In my opinion, search interface is one of the most significant tools of the library in helping the patrons to effectively save time. It also saves the librarians’ time as well. That’s why I would like to use 3F Wiki for the libray.
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