[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What are your requirements for Evergreen?

[geoffs at eclibrary.ca]

Quoting Dan Scott:

> "What are the base requirements that have to be in place before we, as
> an academic library, or consortium of academic libraries, can migrate
> to Evergreen?"

Thanks for starting this thread! Here are some others we would need:

1) A z39.50 server (or z39.50 metasearch?)
For us, it wouldn't need to be a full z39.50 implementation at first.  
Most important would be the ability to respond to search requests from  
our consortial ILL z39.50 portal. And really, I'd like to be able to  
plug in results from our OpenURL resolver as well, since we don't have  
our e-journal holdings in the library catalogue. (Okay, okay, the ILL  
portal should be able to look in two places, but it doesn't)

2) Advance booking
Similar to holds, except we would like the ability to reserve  
materials for a specific time in the future (e.g., a professor wants  
to show a video in a class two months from now). So, if the material  
is checked out slightly before the time, the loan period might need to  
be shortened. Also, the ability to create recurring bookings and to  
add many items into one booking (like a shopping cart). It gets a bit  
tricky when we have multiple, identical copies of an item to be  
booked...

Best wishes,
Geoff

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Geoff Sinclair
Manager of Technical Services
Education Centre Library, Nipissing University / Canadore College
Tel: 705-474-3450 x4439
Web: http://www.eclibrary.ca