[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen in Finland

[Yamil Suarez]

I would also be curious to see copied of those templates, specifically  
the music related ones.

Thanks,
Yamil

On Apr 18, 2012, at 3:32 PM, melanie at farmington.lib.me.us wrote:

> 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