[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen in Finland

[melanie at farmington.lib.me.us]

Hi Evergreen List~

Our library doesn't collect music/music scores, etc. This morning I  
got the following message and I thought I would pass it on to the  
list. Hopefully some of you may have templates that might be a better  
fit.

Thanks, Melanie (Farmington PL, Maine)

Dear Librarian,



I am working at Joensuu Regional Library in Finland  
http://www.jns.fi/Resource.phx/sivut/sivut-kirjasto/english/index.htx  
and we are interested in using Evergreen as our new library system. I  
found a lots of information by Google, for example "Cataloging with  
Balsam Libraries' Evergreen". On page 13 there is a list of cataloging  
templates and I wonder if it is possible to get some your templates as  
an example? The most interesting of those templates are  
OWA_computer_file, OWA_maps, OWA_Music_scores, OWA_Sound_recordings  
and OWA_Videorecording_DVD. If you cannot send me those templates,  
could you please send my message to someone who is capable to do that?



In Joensuu we are using now a Finnish library system called PallasPro,  
which has Finmarc-format as a cataloging format. In Finland we have to  
move to Marc21-format in near future and we are not satisfied with the  
Finnish library system Aurora, which is using Marc2, so we are looking  
for other solutions. There are translators translating Evergreen into  
Finnish at the moment and we are working to figure out what other  
things we have to do, if we want to use Evergreen as our library system.



I hope you have time to answer my message or send it to someone else,  
who may answer.

My best regards


Päivi Knuutinen
kirjastovirkailija / library assistant
Joensuun seutukirjasto / Outokummun kirjasto
+358 50 441 2247
paivi.knuutinen at jns.fi