[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SPAM: Is Evergreen the right choice for my project?

[John Fink]

Lindsay,

Evergreen will work for this just fine as far as I can tell, but since your
library is a small one you may also want to look into Koha (
http://www.koha.org) if you haven't already -- since it looks like you don't
need the features that make Evergreen a prime choice for big systems, I'd
say take a look at Koha too and then pick the one that works the best for
you.

jf

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Lindsay Negrello <rcsplib at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I am writing in hopes of getting some good advice regarding using Evergreen
> for the project that I am currently working on. I am organizing and
> cataloging the personal library (which is still just a huge pile of 3000
> books with no rhyme or reason) of a very well-known philanthropist/art
> collector here in the SF Bay Area. The books are in two locations, her
> office and her home. Thusfar the office books are all art books and
> exhibition catalogs.
>
> I have Connexion Client and am doing some of the copy and all of the
> original cataloging myself, though the majority of the copy has been
> sub-contracted out to OCLC's custom cataloging department. I am also adding
> 655s using the Getty AAT and am also adding some provenance notes. The
> reason I am doing "proper" cataloging using OCLC is that she plans to
> eventually donate the collection and she wants the receiving institution to
> be able to add the collection without having to do much processing.
>
> Once I have finished cataloging everything and have received all of the
> MARC records from OCLC (they send them in batches in an email), I need a
> place to put them!   I would like the database  to be very user-friendly for
> the owner of the collection (no one else will use this database), it must
> also be private as she is a very high-profile person and does not want
> anyone contacting her to borrow the books. In fact, we had to work out a
> deal with OCLC so that when users mouse over the holdings for books that she
> owns, no information would come up under the acronym for her library. She
> would also like the database to be web-based so that she can access it from
> anywhere (she travels a lot), and above all, it must actually display the
> information that I am taking so much time to add to the MARC records.
> Would Evergreen be a good choice? Can I upload MARC records with relative
> ease to Evergreen? I apologize if I seem really ignorant, but I am a student
> and this is the first project of this kind that I have ever undertaken.
>
> If Evergreen doesn't seem like it will fit our criteria, I would be
> eternally grateful for any other web-based application you can suggest. OCLC
> suggested EOS web enterprise, but the owner of the collection does not want
> to pay $3500 per year just so that the records for her own books can be
> accessible to her.
>
> Thanks so much for your time!
> Lindsay




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