[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello there :)

[Chris Cormack]

On 2 February 2012 07:47, Daniel Haworth
<daniel.haworth at molallariv.k12.or.us> wrote:
> Yeah, I looked at Koha too and sent them an email. Evergreen seems to have
> more support , which I like.
>
Hmm didn't see your message, maybe you didn't find actual Koha which
lives at www.koha-community.org ... but perhaps stumbled onto a fork.

> Koha seems like it’d work great for our smaller schools of ~300 students,
> but our larger middle and high schools of ~800 students it might not work so
> well with, at least from what I’ve been reading around the ‘net.
>
Yeah, can't let this stand I'm afraid, this is demonstrably false. A
school of 800 students is   one of the smallest Koha installs. There
are reasons to choose Evergreen over Koha and Koha over Evergreen. The
difference between 300 and 800 students is definitely not one of them.

(FWIW Koha runs for much much (think orders of magnitude) more users
than 800. Including libraries like Delhi public.

Chris

> I figure if everything can work on the same system, it’d be best.
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> Hi Dan,
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> Welcome to Evergreen!  Hopefully you will get some replies from other people
> using Evergreen in schools.  I don't have any names or organizations to
> point you to, but I thought it might be worth mentioning another library
> system worth considering is Koha ( http://koha-community.org/ ).  It seems
> to me that Evergreen is more industrial strength but oriented to consortia
> (more levers to tweak, more complicated database structure), while Koha is
> easier to install and run for smaller library systems.
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> It would probably be worth "kicking the tires" on both systems!
> Brian
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> From: "Daniel Haworth" <daniel.haworth at molallariv.k12.or.us>
> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 11:05:21 AM
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello there :)
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> Hey mailing list! The Evergreen site said I should post an introduction.
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> I’m with the Molalla River School District, and I’m looking to move stuff
> away from Follette and AutoLibrarian. Hoping Evergreen will be a good
> option.
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> I’m curious though, does anyone know of some schools around Oregon that use
> Evergreen? I’d love to see a working implementation and chat with some
> school district folks about it.  J
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> ~Dan