[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen comes to the UK

Tue Feb 22 13:53:36 EST 2011

Well, welcome to the community.  I love seeing the larger international 
community embracing Evergreen.

Rogan

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Dimant <nick.dimant at ptfs-europe.com>
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:59:30 +0000
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen comes to the UK

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>     <font face="Arial">I would like to introduce ourselves to the
> list.&nbsp;
>       I am pleased to be able to say that we will be helping to
>       implement Evergreen for a consortium of public libraries in
>       Scotland.&nbsp; This is the first site in the UK to choose
> Evergreen so
>       is quite a milestone for us.&nbsp; The consortium comprises 16
>       libraries at Stirling Council and 8 at East Dunbartonshire.&nbsp;
> Both
>       systems are migrating from Horizon.&nbsp; We hope the consortium
> will
>       grow as time goes by.&nbsp; <br>
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>       More info at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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> href="http://www.ptfs-europe.com/?p=988">http://www.ptfs-europe.com/?p=
> 988</a><br>
>       <br>
>     </font><font face="Arial">Apart from providing the full range of
>       implementation services we will be carrying out two software
>       developments for them.&nbsp; One will be to do an integration
> with the
>       Scottish National Entitlement Card.&nbsp; This is a single
> smartcard
>       used throughout Scotland to access a whole range of services
>       including bus travel, leisure centres and libraries.&nbsp; This
> card
>       holds a variety of personal information.&nbsp; With regard to
> Evergreen
>       this will involve developing the capability to read the patron's
>       barcode off the card and if they do not already have a record in
>       Evergreen it will extract their user details from the smartcard
>       and create a user record on the Evergreen system.<br>
>       <br>
>       We will also be developing a stock rotation facility which might
>       be of more general interest to the Evergreen community.&nbsp;
> This is
>       where multiple collections of books move from library to library
>       on a scheduled basis, staying for a set period of time at each
>       library before being automatically moved on according to
>       predefined rotas.&nbsp; This is all aimed at making the stock
> work
>       harder and refresh the collections at all of the libraries on the
>       rota.<br>
>       <br>
>       We have already had some great support from Equinox and are
>       looking forward to working on this exciting project.&nbsp; <br>
>       &nbsp;<br>
>       Nick&nbsp; </font><br>
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> Nick Dimant
> Managing Director
> PTFS Europe Ltd
> mobile: +44 (0)7966 571704
> skype: nick.dimant
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