> http://sourceforge.net/projects/isis/ openisis and PHP isis at sourceforge * isis core sites: > http://www.unesco.org/webworld/isis/isis.htm Unesco > http://www.unesco.org/webworld/isis/ new Unesco site > http://www.bireme.br/isis/ Bireme * documentation: > http://www.cindoc.csic.es/isis/indice.htm THE BOOK CDS/ISIS reference manual incl. data formats (en espanol), > http://www.vista.gov.vn/VistaEnglish/VistaWeb/learn/Isis/Eng/ WinISIS manual * standards: - ISO2709 "Information Interchange Format", a.k.a. ANSI/NISO > http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-2.pdf Z39.2 - Machine Readable Catalogues > http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/specrecstruc.html (US) MARC 21 , > http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/ overview , references at the > http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/marc.html Cover Pages - Z39.50 > ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/z3950/official/ official spec , overview at > http://www.oclcpica.org/content/45/pdf/z3950_handbook_paper.pdf OCLC|Pica , links at > http://indexdata.dk/z3950/ indexdata , makers of excellent free Z39.50 software. * people and projects: > http://www.jezuici.krakow.pl/soft/iapi/ Robert Janusz' iAPI , Kafkas Caprazli's > http://members.aol.com/cdsisis/ EVERYTHING about CDS/ISIS > http://www.oss4lib.org/ open source software for libraries > http://web.tiscali.it/javaisis/ javaisis > http://isisonline.lib.itb.ac.id/ Institut Teknologi Bandung IsisOnline in Indonesia * user groups: > http://www.bib.wau.nl/isis/ Netherlands / international > http://www.axp.mdx.ac.uk/~alan2/isisplus.htm UK (ISIS PLUS) > http://www.isisnetz.de/ Germany (isisnetz) * non-ISIS If you do not care for ISIS compatibility but need a fully integrated library system, then > http://koha.org/ koha might be for you. Unlike OpenIsis, which provides flexible tools and components to be used in a wide variety of applications, koha is strictly focused on everything a library needs, including circulation and the like. However, it has a plain table structure based on MySQL, which can not support sophisticated queries as ISIS can. There are > http://www.zlb.de/bibliothek/fachbereiche/infdienste/fremdspr/englisch/ lots of mailinglists on library issues in many languages. * yet other ways to find a book Not all books are living in libraries! You may try to > http://bookcrossing.com/ catch one that has been set free. * and don't forget ... ... to visit the > http://moffem.de/ Museum of Faulty Error Messages :)