[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 226 subscribers

[Okotoks Library]

Hi everyone

I am the Director of a large rural public library in Southern Alberta. Open
source has recently become an interest of mine as I am the "techie" type
person at the library. We expanded our library considerably a year ago and
decided to use Linux based "Discover Stations" running open source programs
for public access as opposed to regular Windows based machines. We have 12
of these and they are awesome! They are supported by an external company at
a minimal fee, and are just great for this kind of environment. Since the
upgrade to Horizon by Sirsi/Dynix in our region seems to be fading into
oblivion, Evergreen would be an interesting alternative I think.

I am enjoying reading this listserv and trying to decipher some of the
queries/comments!

 

Tessa

 

 

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[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
Grace Liu
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:56 AM
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Subject: RE: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 226 subscribers

 

 
Hope the introduction is still going on. I'm Grace Liu, a systems librarian
in a Canadian academic library. Before library school, I'd been a DBAdmin in
a securities company for many years. At that time, under that kind of
intense environment, nobody thought of open source. Library is a shared
world where open source probably is a good fit. I would like to look into
the Evergreen system from both as a librarian and an engineer. 
 
Grace

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> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:44:44 -0500
> From: bradl at georgialibraries.org
> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 226 subscribers
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> You know, there are 226 subscribers to this list. That's really amazing. 
> So, anyone care to break the ice and introduce themselves? It's awfully 
> quiet in here. I'm sure someone has something more interesting to say 
> than I do. :)
> 
> Well, ok, fine, twist my arm... I'll go first and introduce myself. I'm 
> Brad LaJeunesse, one of the instigators behind the Evergreen project 
> here at the Georgia Public Library Service. I'm not a software 
> developer, but rather a systems administrator type, and I am primarily 
> responsible for the servers that support the PINES consortium's 
> installation of Evergreen. I'm also a degree-toting professional
librarian.
> 
> In addition to my sys-admin duties, I also act as a project manager for 
> the Evergreen software development project, yet I will readily admit 
> that kind of work is not exactly my forte. There's just some sort of 
> similarity between being a 'project manager' and a 'cruise coordinator' 
> that I just can't get my head around. (Trust me, you never want to be on 
> a cruise that I've coordinated.) Thankfully I have a great team to work 
> with.
> 
> So, with my introduction out of the way, why are we all here? Well, ok, 
> you're all here because you've heard of Evergreen, are interested in 
> Evergreen, something like that... or you're just in the wrong place. :) 
> I'm here because this was my crazy idea, so I'm stuck. But the rest of 
> you-- what do you want to talk about? What questions do you have? What 
> do you want to see on this mailing list?
> 
> If you wish to remain anonymous and send questions/comments directly to 
> me, I'd be happy to post them back to this list for you.
> 
> Look forward to hearing from ya'll. If no one speaks up, I'll be forced 
> to resort to more devious measures, such as singing karaoke.
> 
> --Brad
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