[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] congrats Natural Resources Canada

[Tara Robertson]

Hi George,

Any rumblings in other federal government department libraries about what
you've done? Are folks supportive, do they still think you're nuts?

Having all the federal departmental libraries on the same ILS would make it
much easier to move things around when the departments are rejigged. Not
only would it be cheaper (and therefore better stewardship of taxpayer
money) it would be much more practical, easier (and cheaper) for library
staff to make the libraries reflect the new department boundaries.

Good luck with the Drupal stuff too!

Tara


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Duimovich, George <
George.Duimovich at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> wrote:

>  Thanks Tara!
>
> Yes, we are now 100% Evergreen ILS, having migrated from both Unicorn and
> more recently Millennium in the context of our department's library
> amalgamation (we used to be a consortium of 3 library networks serving
> different sectors, but now operate as single business unit).
>
> Our contributions to the French language edition (working with Dan Scott)
> should pick up later on for the new content strings (e.g. Acquistions
> module, etc.) as the migration itself was a bit of a handful especially
> going from Millennium. But it feels good not to be working all those late
> hours!
>
> Next on deck: our Drupal launch this Spring, so I'd be interested in
> hearing from anybody working on Drupal + Evergreen integration.
>
> More updates from NRCan in one of the upcoming EG newsletters.
>
> Thanks to all for making this community rumble!!
>
> George Duimovich
> NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan
> http://catalogue.nrcan.gc.ca/
>
>
>
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>  *From:* open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:
> open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Tara
> Robertson
> *Sent:* January 26, 2010 00:28
> *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group
> *Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] congrats Natural Resources Canada
>
> I didn't see an announcement on this list, but stumbled across this on the
> page of Evergreen libraries (
> http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_libraries)
>
> Natural Resources Canada Library migrated their locations across Canada in
> two phases. Nine of their 13 libraries migrated to Evergreen as of June 8,
> 2009, and the rest went live on January 15th, 2010.
>
> Awesome! Congratulations! I can only partially imagine how much work it
> would've been to migrate from two different systems, in two official
> languages, across 5? (5.5?) time zones, for a government department that was
> also overhauling their cataloging processes.
>
> tara
>
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