[Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

[Rogan Hamby]

Hi Chris,

These are good questions.  Since this was posted to the Open-ILS list for
discussion, would you mind if we moved the conversation back over there for
discussion?

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Sharp, Chris <csharp at georgialibraries.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wasn't officially on the Board when this subject was discussed, so I
> didn't feel that it would be appropriate for me to speak up during the last
> meeting.  However, I do have a couple of questions/concerns about this
> proposed policy:
>
> Is there a particular situation that makes this proposed requirement
> something people feel is necessary?  Why doesn't the description on the
> wiki page suffice, assuming that an interested party would contact the
> vendor for more information, allowing the vendor themselves to determine
> how their potential customers would be able to receive that information?
> I'm working from a position that we probably don't want to get into the
> business of micromanaging vendor websites.
>
> I'm also working under the assumption that the vendor listing page is
> intended to be a handy finding aid for people seeking paid support or
> development from companies/entities that provide such support.  Isn't the
> onus of reviewing such companies on potential customers seeking
> support/development work?  I realize not all libraries/potential
> Evergreen-using entities have good RFP-style processes in place, so I would
> go more towards the direction of educating people about *that* rather than
> policing the entities that add entries to the wiki page.  Are my
> assumptions off base?  Maybe there's more information about this situation
> than I'm aware of?
>
> Thanks for listening!
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> > From: "Rogan Hamby" <rogan.hamby at yclibrary.net>
> > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <
> open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 7, 2014 9:24:36 PM
> > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy
> >
> >
> > We (the Evergreen community) have had the vendor listing policy on
> > the Evergreen community web site for a little over a year now. In
> > discussing possible changes one proposed change that we (the
> > Evergreen Board) was favorable to was one that I have proposed. I
> > have proposed that on the vendor listings we require a link back
> > from the vendor listing on our site to their description of
> > Evergreen related services.
> >
> >
> > I see this as a positive feature so that when community members are
> > browsing the vendor listings they can easily link through to the
> > most up to date information on the vendor's site as to what they
> > offer, success stories, whatever marketing they want to use beyond
> > the brief they give us for the listing.
> >
> >
> > However, like the original vendor listing policy we didn't want to
> > make this decision without involving everyone the community as a
> > whole.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> >
> > Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
> > Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
> > York County Library System
> >
> >
> > “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to
> > suit me.”
> > ― C.S. Lewis
>
> --
> Chris Sharp
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