[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Setting up a two library consortia system between US and Europe

[James Fournie]

You may encounter some issues with the time zone discrepancy.  We at
SITKA have encountered some somewhat minor issues with the handful of
sites on Mountain Time versus the bulk of our sites on Pacific Time.
I don't have the specifics off hand, but my understanding is that
because it is only a one hour difference, the problems are only small
inconveniences, such as offsetting library closed dates by an hour.
You may have more problems with a greater time difference.

~James Fournie
BC SITKA

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I would like some ballpark EG configuration advice from the veterans EG
> users of the list. I am hoping for just a rough idea, and I can provide
> more info on or off the list if necessary about my situation.
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> I work for a small U.S. music college library, with 58,000 titles and all
> in one building. We are currently planning to migrate to EG sometime after
> next summer, and we have a rough migration plan from ESI. My college has
> plans to create a small study abroad program with 400 students in Spain.
> This future Spain site will include its own small library. I was just
> asked to figure out what additional needs I  will have to support this
> remote library using our future Evergreen installation. So far I am
> planning, perhaps naively, of taking a consortia approach of having a
> single EG system. For example, the single system should have separate
> circulation rules and catalogers for each country. Does this approach seem
> reasonable to you guys?
>
> Of the top of your heads, should I stick to the single server I was
> planning to use in the US, or should I plan on getting an additional
> server to live in the US or Spain? In general the US library does not have
> high circulation rates, and that is why ESI recommended only one server
> for a US only library. I also do not expect a lot of circulation activity
> from the library in Spain.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Yamil
>
> P.S. should this be posted to the dev list instead?
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