The Public Library as an (Almost) Open-Source Institution

Evergreen or Koha are both open-source ILS that provide functions to catalog and check out materials, register people, and search for things that are in the library or the community.

With the right degree, you can be trained as a librarian, or hire some, so that all of the things you've built have staff to maintain them and answer questions and such things. Presto, instant library, yes?

Well...