[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Why Evergreen?

[Mary Toma]

In my 11 year tenure as head librarian we are now on our 4th ILS.  The only
one who knew anything about the first ILS died suddenly, the second one was
sold to a company that wasn't interested in the concerns of a regional
library and didn't have Z39, which became a grant requirement, the 3rd one
couldn't figure out how to co-ordinate loans between a multi-branch system
so we switched to Evergreen and have never regretted it.  No one person can
die and take all the information with them, it can't be sold and Evergreen
was originally set up as a consortium.  We considered Koha but as we are a
multi-branch regional Evergreen suited our needs much better.

 

Mary Toma 
South Central Regional Library 
160 Main Street 
Box 1540 
Winkler, MB R6W 4B4 
204-325-5864 
204-822-4092 
headlib at scrlibrary.mb.ca 

 

 

 

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[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
Buster
Sent: March 1, 2011 8:22 AM
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Why Evergreen?

 

Hello, group. My system is currently evaluating both Koha and Evergreen as
our open source alternatives. We are installing both on computers here in
our library in order to test them out, visiting other libraries, reading
this list as well as the one for Koha, and speaking to other librarians
using one of these systems.

It occurred to me that it might useful to know why other library system
chose one system over the other.

So, why did you choose Evergreen, and are you happy with your choice? Was it
a difficult decision?

You may write to me off-list if you are more comfortable with that. 

Thanks in advance,
--Jim Maroon

storypage at gmail.com <http://gmail.com/> 

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