[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and LTFL

[Mike Rylander]

On Feb 1, 2008 10:58 AM, Forest, Jon <Jon.Forest at maine.gov> wrote:
> I spoke to Tim Spalding, founder of LibraryThing, a couple months ago &
> asked the same question.  The answer at that point was no, and somehow I
> feel like we would have heard about it if anyone had started using it.
> I remember that he said he was very interested in Evergreen in general
> and would like to develop LTFL for Evergreen, but had not been
> approached by anyone using it yet.

It's just a matter of production interest, really.  I'd be happy to
work with LT on tight integration with Evergreen, and judging by the
code quality of both projects, it should be next to trivia.

That being said, there are somethings that Evergreen and LTFL both do
today (oISBN and thingISBN, for instance) and some features planned
for Evergreen that LTFL already does.  I think there are ways that
even the competing features can cooperate, all to the patrons' and
staff members' benefit.

--miker

>
> Jon Forest
> Library Automation Manager
> Maine InfoNet
> http://www.maine.gov/infonet
> jon.forest at maine.gov
> 207-557-0072
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
> Deb Bergeron
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:23 PM
> To: Valerie Piechocki
> Cc: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and LTFL
>
> Valerie,
>
> I'm so sorry--It's LibraryThing For Libraries.
> http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries/
>
> Here's a blurb from the website:
>
>
>
> *       Give your patrons exciting new content, including
> recommendations and tag clouds.
> *       Let your patrons take part, with reviews, ratings and tags. Keep
> the control you want.
> *       Enhance your catalog with just a few lines of HTML. Works with
> any OPAC and requires no back-end integration. Really.
> *       Draw on the collective intelligence of your patrons and
> LibraryThing members.
>
> It's great for OPACs that don't have tagging.  LTFL offers a
> cost-effective solution.  If anyone using Evergreen has, is, or is
> planning to use LTFL, I'd like to hear about it.
>
> Thanks,
> Deb
>
>
> Valerie Piechocki wrote:
>
>         pardon my ignorance but what is LTFL.  I tried searching it on
> What-is-what, but came up blank.
>
>         Deb Bergeron wrote:
>
>
>                 Hi,
>
>                 Is anyone using LTFL with the Evergereen OPAC?
>
>                 Thanks,
>
>                 Deb
>                 --
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>                 Deb Bergeron <mailto:bergeron at macalester.edu>
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>
> --
>
>
> 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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>



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Mike Rylander
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