[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Can Evergreen do this

[Sally Fortin]

Hi Jim,

It sounds like you're working on an interesting project!  Steve just 
made an interesting suggestion for working with digital content, and I 
have a few general questions that might help as you search for software 
to administer your church library:

1. What type of special collections do you have, e.g. photographs, 
objects, etc?

2. Do you have digital content to make available?

3. What kind of access do you want to provide to these items? Do you 
want to loan any of your collection(s) out to church members, the 
community, etc.? Or do you simply want to make these items "findable?"

4. Outside of special collections, what is your library collection like? 
It sounds like you have traditional books in addition to your special 
collections?

Thanks,
Sally



On 3/28/2012 1:17 PM, Steve Wills wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> One option that you might want to take a look at encorporates 
> Evergreen-ils with a Digital Asset system is the Discovery Garden 
> product; lib2o which you can view at http://discoverygarden.ca/lib2o
> I would be very interested in hearing a impartial evaulation of this 
> solution for your case.  I have a similar set of cases in several 
> rural towns up in Massachusetts and Maine that are item rich and 
> technology poor.
>
> Best
> Steve Wills
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* Jim Hall [mailto:volunteer.jim at gmail.com]
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:39 AM
>     *To:* open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
>     *Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Can Evergreen do this
>
>     At the moment I am researching for my church. Our library (small)
>     is looking for different software. Evergreen and Koha would both
>     work well. Additionally, our Heritage Committee is looking for a
>     database for our historical material. Our congregation is 175
>     years old, that's a lot of "stuff"! What the committee wants to
>     know is if Evergreen has a "Special Collections" kind of usage? If
>     so, could we use Evergreen for both projects? I'm sorry to be so
>     vague, but I don't know what questions I need to ask. If we can
>     have a dialog, I may be able to get more specific. Thank You 
>


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