[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Announcement of FulfILLment testing pilot project

[Suzannah]

The Pacific Library Partnership, consisting of three libraries in 
California, has contracted with Equinox Software, Inc. to test 
FulfILLment.  The partnership consists of Los Gatos Public Library, 
Peninsula Library System (the city of San Mateo only), and Santa Cruz 
Public Library.  These libraries currently use Koha, Millennium, and 
Evergreen as their ILS.  Lori Bowen Ayre, The Galecia Group, is serving 
as a consultant on this project as part of the Open Source - Open 
Libraries project.  The partners will be testing FulfILLment to see if 
it can meet their requirements for managing physical item resource 
sharing between independent library systems.  FulfILLment was developed 
by Equinox developers with funding from OHIONET and other development 
partners including:  the State Libraries of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
South Carolina, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and WiLS.  It is anticipated 
that FulfILLment version 1.0-RC1 will be available in the spring/summer 
of 2013.

FulfILLment is generally described as an open source ILL software, but 
it is so much more.  It is an open source, regional resource-sharing 
system between disparate ILS.  It was designed to bridge otherwise 
incompatible software products so that different libraries can continue 
to use their current ILS while obtaining many benefits enjoyed by 
libraries using Evergreen in resource-sharing consortia.  The 
development of LAIs (Local Automation Integrator) in FulfILLment makes 
this possible by allowing the participating libraries to obtain 
bibliographic and other relevant information from each library's current 
automation system and making this information accessible over the 
internet.  FulfILLment is also scalable.  If necessary, new custom LAIs 
can be developed in future versions of FulfILLment to allow even more 
libraries to join and enjoy all that FulfILLment has to offer.


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Suzannah Lipscomb
Project Manager
Equinox Software, Inc.
877. OPEN. ILS (877. 673. 6457)
Direct:  770-709-5590