[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Beginner's Open Source Info and III users

Wed Dec 12 14:05:15 EST 2007

Hi all--First let me make one correction to this since it was posted to the list.  Grand Rapids Public as one of our member is looking at the Evergreen and as you know working on a a test system.  There has as yet been no official notification that they are leaving our III system.  I want to make sure that everyone understands that.  As well as the fact that our ILS study committee has just begun the process of exploring systems and this one one of the options we are also considering.  There is nothing official at this point. 

Sheryl VanderWagen 
System Librarian 
Lakeland Library Cooperative 
616-559-5253 x210 
616-559-4329 (Fax) 
sheryl at llcoop.org

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Deb Bergeron <bergeron at macalester.edu> 
To: LLC Sheryl VanderWagen <sheryl at llcoop.org>, open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org 
Sent: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:34:36 -0600 
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Beginner's Open Source Info and III users

> Sheryl,
> 
> First--Consider yourself included!
> 
> Secondly, the information I shared with this list was information put together after the meeting for handouts to anyone who wanted the information--it is not specific to MNIUG.
> 
> Hope that clears it up.
> 
> Deb
> 
> LLC Sheryl VanderWagen wrote: Deb, We saw this on the list serv and are also interested. We 
have one

library (Grand Rapids Public) this has committed to Evergreen and has

already told us they will pull out of our III system. We also have an ILS

study committee organized recently that has a charge of looking at options

including open 
source.

Any way you would consider including me in a group even though we're not

part of MNIUG? 
Thanks!

Sheryl 
VanderWagen
System 
Librarian
Lakeland Library 
Cooperative
616-559-5253 
x210
616-559-4329 
(Fax)
sheryl at llcoop.org

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From: Deb Bergeron <bergeron at macalester.edu>
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Sent: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:45:49 
-0600
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Beginner's Open Source Info and III 
users

Hi!

In talking with a few of the III sites that are considering moving

to Open Source from this list, I can share the following information

that we put together after having both LibLime (Koha) and Equinox

(Evergreen) folks present at our III Regional User Group Meetings

in Spring and Fall 2007. The information is 
below.

Additionally, there appears to be interest in continuing these

discussions offline. If anyone is interested, we can establish a

Google Group and do 
LiveChat.

I'll be happy to help set up the Google 
Group.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the content 
below.

Deb

The following Fall MNIUG 2007 presentations and addtional Open

Source information is provided for you by popular 
demand!

Thank you all for making the conference a success. We had 140

participants--the highest attendance 
ever!

Please let us know if you have any questions, comments, or would

like more information by sending an email to the MNIUG Steering

Committee <mailto:mniug at googlegroups.com>.

<http://waldolib.org>
<http://liblime.com>

KohaZoom:

* *John Stromquist's* presentation "Waldo Open Source 
ILS
<http://clic.edu/mniug/waldo_OpenSource_ILS-10-30-07v3.ppt>."
* *Joshua Ferraro's* presentation, " Open Source Library

Automation, All Grown Up

<http://liblime.com/resources/open-source-library-automation-
presentation.pdf>," from our Spring 2007 MNIUG conference. *

LibLime at http://liblime.com. o Go to LibLime's 
KohaZoom

<http://liblime.com/products/koha/koha-zoom> 
product.

o Check out the playground at http://liblime.com/demos.

o KohaZOOM has Cataloging, Circulation, OPAC, Acquisitions,

Serials, and currently developing an ILL module. Koha ZOOM

incorporates open source Zebra software, enabling Boolean

searching, relevance ranking, faceted searching, and so on.

o LibLime <http://liblime.com> offers hosted and 
non-hosted

solutions. o LibLime Facts and Stats

<http://clic.edu/mniug/liblime_facts_102807.doc>.

 o MasterKey MetaSearch <http://liblime.com/products/masterkey>
federating searching product 
demo
<http://masterkey.indexdata.com/>.
o WALDO <http://www.waldolib.org> 
Consortium--John

Stromquist, Executive Director. Information about the

consortium and their membership. WALDO

<http://waldolib.org> is moving 
from ExLibris to 
KohaZOOM.

Contact *John 
Stromquist*:
john at waldolib.org <mailto:john at waldolib.org>
p: (800) 326-6495 ext 
3
f: (914) 
729-1985

Contact *Joshua 
Ferraro*:
jmf at liblime.com
<mailto:jmf at liblime.com>p:1(888)KohaILS

<http://esilibrary.com/esi/home.html>

Evergreen:

* *Jason Etheridge*, Equinox 
Software
<http://esilibrary.com/esi/home.html>, 
Enhancement List

Blog post <http://clic.edu/mniug/enhancement_list_102207.doc>.
* *Tim Daniels*, PINES Program Manager, Georgia Public

Library Service <http://www.georgialibraries.org/gpls/gpls.html>
presentation "PINES/Evergreen 
Migration
<http://clic.edu/mniug/VPINES_evergreen_stolaf_deb.ppt>".
* Equinox at http://esilibrary.com.

o Read the blog <http://esilibrary.com/blog/>.

There's a tremendous amount of information about

Open Source. o Evergreen <http://www.open-ils.org/> has

a working Cataloging, Circulation, and OPAC module

working and are developing an Acquisitions and

Serials module. o Equinox

<http://esilibrary.com/esi/home.html> 
offers both

hosted and non-hosted solutions. o FAQ at

http://www.open-ils.org/faq.php. 
o Checkout the

playground at http://demo.gapines.org/.

Contact *Jason 
Etheridge*:
phasefx at gmail.com <mailto:phasefx at gmail.com>
1-877-OPEN-ILS 
(877-673-6457)

Contact *Tim 
Daniels*:
tdaniels at georgialibraries.org <mailto:tdaniels at georgialibraries.org>
p: 
404-235-7151
f: 
404-235-7201

*Overview of Open 
Source:*

* What is Open Source 
Software?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software

* Open Source Initiative provides information on the Open 
Source
Development process and licenses at http://www.opensource.org/.

*Open Source 
Licensing:*

* GPL Licensing at http://www.gnu.org/. Both 
LibLime
<http://www.liblime.com> and Evergreen 
<http://esilibrary.com>

use GPL 
Licensing.

*Open 
NCIP:*

Open NCIP Project <http://openncip.org/>. The site not only

discusses the project, but provides information of the current

protocol. (Joshua Ferraro <mailto:jmf at liblime.com> from LibLime

<http://liblime.com> talked about this at 
the MNLink

<http://www.minitex.umn.edu/mnlink/> 
User Conference Friday,

November 2, 
2007

--

Deb Bergeron <mailto:bergeron at macalester.edu> 
System Admin: User 
Support
CLIC Consortium <http://clic.edu>
1619 Dayton Avenue, Suite 
204A
Saint Paul, MN 
55104
O:*651.644.3878* C:*651.487.7609* 
F:651.644.6258

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