[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RE: Initial inquiry: migrating

[Karen Collier]

Jason,

Our library has contracted with Equinox (http://esilibrary.com/) for our post-migration support.  Equinox does their own migrations in most cases, but in our case, they partnered with Alpha-G (http://www.alphagconsulting.com/), a company specializing in Horizon, to do our migration from Horizon to Evergreen.  We're in the process of working with John from Alpha-G to do a test migration to smooth out the process before we do the actual migration.  I've been very impressed by the people from both companies, and the prices they charged were very reasonable.

LibLime (http://www.liblime.com/) also advertises migration and support for Evergreen, though in our case, they heavily pushed the product they have more experience with, Koha, saying that we were not large enough to warrant Evergreen.  The price they quoted us for Evergreen was indeed well outside of the range a small library like us could afford.  But small or not, we love Evergreen.  This is just our experience.  Perhaps others have had more favorable experiences with LibLime.

There may be other companies out there offering migration and support for Evergreen as well, but these are the ones that I'm aware of at this time.  Hope this helps.

Karen

Karen Collier
Public Services Librarian
Kent County Public Library
408 High Street
Chestertown, MD 21620
410-778-3636

----- "Jason M. Burds" <JBurds at dubuque.lib.ia.us> wrote:
> I am currently in a position that I would love to fix by moving to
> Evergreen.  If someone could  post a list of vendors who do the
> migration from Horizon 7.3.4 to Evergreen.  It would help out a ton.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason Burds
> Carnegie-Stout Public Library
> jburds at dubuque.lib.ia.us
> w. 563.589.4225x2229
> c. 563.451.2873
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf
> Of McGranahan, Jamen (Library)
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:20 PM
> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Initial inquiry: migrating
> 
> I am new to this list (just signed up today), but with some serious
> budget cuts coming down the pike, I'm looking for other ways that we
> might be able to cut expenses.  One thought is to migrate from our
> current automation system to Evergreen.  My question is thus:
> 
> Has anyone on this list migrated from an Innovative system to
> Evergreen?
> If so, would you mind contacting me off-list?  I would greatly
> appreciate it.  Thank you!
> 
> Jamen McGranahan
> Library Automation Specialist
> Nashville Public Library
> 615 Church Street
> Nashville, TN  37219
> Jamen.McGranahan at nashville.gov
> (615) 862-5726