Adam Bower wrote:

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:57:45AM +0000, Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:

...

Re. the library - I have the ALUG copy of "Cathedral and Bazaar" still. Wat does the librarian job involve?

wearing glasses and going "Sssshhhhhhh!" lots

:)

actually it means going to lots of meetings and taking books and making sure who says they have a book has it, and tracking them down etc. Bit like running a library really but more distributed. I don't mind being librarian now, as I will actually be coming to meetings again, (i promise not to move outside East Anglia again for at least a month or two ;)) unless you want to do it.

Adam

I thought about a very simple database up on the website with a catalogue of books in one table and the ins and outs by different people in another, but this requires a server with postgres enabled. (I've got one, as it happens, but it would end up being a separate entity from the main alug site). Also my attendance at meetings has been low recently due mostly to house renovation, so I wouldn't be so good at the being there behind the book counter hissing when you speak and frowning. And I don't wear glasses. I'll whisk up a database if it would be useful,though. Let me know. Jenny.