[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Can Evergreen be used as a stand-alone Resource Discovery environment?

[Pascal Vincent Calarco]

Thanks Don -- this is very helpful to have feedback on someone who has 
tried this before!

  Very best,

   - pascal

Don Hamilton wrote:
> Hi Pascal.
>  
> I had a quick look at this a few months back, shortly before our 
> 3-library consortium decided on Primo. The biggest drawback I found 
> was the problem of loading lots of records in one big hit. I think 
> I've seen discussion of late on the -DEV list that shows some 
> improvements in this area, but I was stuck loading batches of (at 
> most) 40,000 records at a time, and didn't see a way to easily, 
> regularly, automate the loading of our 4,000,000 bib records.
>  
> don
>  
> ps... as I finished typing this, I saw Mike's response...  ++mike 
>  
>
> >>> Pascal Vincent Calarco <pcalarco at nd.edu> 04-Mar-2008 12:27 PM >>>
> Hi folks --
>
> Hopefully this hasn't been asked a lot before on the list; I scanned the
> threads in the archive and didn't see anything obvious, so here goes.
>
> We have a small, four-library consortium that is looking for a separate
> resource discovery environment to supplement our existing Aleph 18.01
> ILS.  We aren't looking for a replacement ILS at this point.  Other
> solutions we are evaluating include VUFind, Primo, Endeca, Encore,
> Koha.  What is not obvious from looking at the Evergreen information
> that is available is whether it is easy to strip off the indexing engine
> and the web interface, and feed Evergreen a variety of MARC, DC, and
> other data.
>
> Has anyone tried this, how hard is it, and any other information you
> might suggest is most welcome.
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
>   - pascal
>
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> Pascal V. Calarco, MLIS
> Head, Library Systems
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> Michiana Academic Library Consortium
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Pascal V. Calarco, MLIS
Head, Library Systems
University Libraries of Notre Dame/
Michiana Academic Library Consortium
Notre Dame, IN USA 46556-5629 
http://www.library.nd.edu/
tel.: 574-631-3409  fax: 574-631-6772
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