Pinakes
A small library deserves real library software, not a spreadsheet with aspirations: Pinakes runs the whole operation, from the barcode on the spine to the reminder in a reader's inbox. Catalogers add a book by ISBN and watch metadata and covers arrive from Open Library and Google Books, then file it under Dewey categories with barcodes for every physical copy. Circulation handles requests, approvals, pickups, renewals, and returns, with FIFO reservation queues that notify the next reader the moment a copy frees up, and due dates that respect the library's own closure calendar. Patrons browse a public catalog with instant search and filters, reserve from home, renew loans, read ebooks and listen to audiobooks in the browser, and get due-date reminders automatically. The same installation can describe archives to ISAD(G) standards, exchange records through MARC, SRU, Z39.50, and OAI-PMH, and present digitized pages through IIIF viewers. Sixteen bundled plugins, custom staff roles, a homepage editor, and ten themes make it feel like your library, and it installs on ordinary shared hosting with a guided setup. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.
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