[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** ***SPAM*** Re: Equinox Announcement

[Karen Hutchison]

I'm with you JoAnn... 

Karen 

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----- "Babish JoAnn" <JBabish at tcmedc.org> wrote: 
| Brad, 
| The Commonwealth Medical College Library has been part of the AccessPa Millennium group for the past year. Since our involvement in that arrangement is questionable for the future or at least will depend on what state funds are available, we could be interested in migrating to either Evergreen or Koha in the next year or so. We are a small medical school that just admitted its first class last August. 95% of our collection is electronic, we have over 14,000 e resources and a very small print collection (about 300 titles). I would appreciate knowing any more info about your initiative either now or as you have more details. 
| Thanks 
| JoAnn Babish 
| Head, Electronic Resources 
| The Commonwealth Medical College 
| Scranton Pa 
| jbabish at tcmedc.org 
| 
| 
| -----Original Message----- 
| From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Brad LaJeunesse 
| Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:00 PM 
| To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org; open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org 
| Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Equinox Announcement 
| 
| Dear Evergreen Community: 
| 
| Most (if not all) of you have probably heard of Koha. Koha is the other 
| major open source ILS and was initially developed in New Zealand. It has 
| been around for about a decade and has a mature international community 
| surrounding it. It is a different animal than Evergreen in many 
| ways--Koha has a lower barrier to entry and is largely suited for 
| small-to-medium sized libraries. Evergreen, on the other hand, was built 
| with a statewide consortium in mind and its design echoes that environment. 
| 
| Today I am announcing an initiative by Equinox to begin offering Koha 
| support and hosting services targeted at the small-to-medium sized 
| library market. Galen Charlton will be leading the effort within 
| Equinox. The plan is to start small and only build organically as demand 
| for Equinox Koha services warrants. 
| 
| This move plays to Equinox's strengths as a company. We have experience 
| hosting and supporting open source ILS's as well as personnel with Koha 
| expertise. Please know that this move in no way diminishes Equinox's 
| commitment to Evergreen nor does it reduce the resources dedicated to 
| Evergreen within Equinox. 
| 
| We hope this initiative will help promote cross-community cooperation 
| and sharing between the Evergreen and Koha communities. There is so much 
| in common between these two communities and so much to be gained. 
| As always, thanks for your support. 
| 
| -- 
| Brad LaJeunesse, MLIS 
| | CEO 
| | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts 
| | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) 
| | email: brad at esilibrary.com 
| | web: http://www.esilibrary.com 
| 
| Please join us for the Evergreen 2010 International Conference! 
| It is being held April 20 - 23, 2010 at the Amway Grand Hotel and 
| Convention Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 
| http://www.evergreen2010.org/ 
| 
| 
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