[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] online libraries

[Tara Robertson]

Hi Lynda,

I'm not able to fully imagine what kinds of collections your library has
and how you do things.

I'm in a small university library and we just loaded a bunch of MARC
records for ebooks and database titles (which link to our ERMS where
students actually connect through to journal article databases where they
can search for articles). We have some digital collections that are not in
our catalogue (they were in MDID and are now in CONTENTdm)--we don't have
any pointers for those collections in our catalogue.

Can you tell us a bit more information about your library and how things
work?

Cheers,
Tara

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Howell, Lynda <Lynda.Howell at myunion.edu>wrote:

> I'm interested in hearing from anyone using Evergreen in an online (only)
> library.  The whole concept of circulation (patrons, # of copies, due
> dates, holds, availability, fines, etc.) isn't relevant to us, and 1-click
> access to full text from the search results page is essential.  Being able
> to limit searches to particular subsets (or to exclude particular subsets)
> is also important to us.  We're starting to explore open-source options for
> replacing our current ILS.
>
> Is anyone using Evergreen in this kind of environment?  What kinds of
> customization did you do initially, and how much on-going work are you
> finding it takes to keep up with upgrades?  What other ILS/OPACs did you
> consider before choosing Evergreen, and what made you go with Evergreen?
>
> Thanks for any insights you can give.
>
> Lynda Howell
>
> --------------------------------
> Lynda Howell
> Systems Librarian
> Union Institute & University
> 62 Ridge Street, Suite 2
> Montpelier, Vermont 05602
> (802) 828-8618
> lynda.howell at myunion.edu
>
>
>
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