[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: campus card compatibility with Evergreen Library installation

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

What a bizarre response by Bob Huber!  And looking at the website they
offer no information about the "allcampuscard" so there's no way for anyone
to know how it interfaces with the ILS or any other program for that
matter.....bizarre.

I just sent a note to Bob to see if he'd give us some info about any
standards or interfaces they might rely upon.

Is he just selling the product and counting on writing a custom interface
for whomever buys it?

Lori

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Tim Spindler <tspindler at cwmars.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> One of our member libraries is looking at a new campus card system.
>  Please see her message below.  She is wonderiing if any other Evergreen
> libraries in an academic library has run into any issues.
>
> Tim
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Beth, Amy <abeth at stcc.edu>
> Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:38 PM
> Subject: Fwd: campus card compatibility with Evergreen Library installation
> To: Tim Spindler <tspindler at cwmars.org>, "Noel, Kim" <knoel at stcc.edu>
>
>
>
> Greetings.  Hoping you can help.
>
> We are working with the following consultant/vendor
> http://www.allcampuscard.com/ to implement an All Campus Card system at
> our institution Springfield Technical Community College).  The
> representative, Bob Huber, claims he never contacts the ILS vendors to
> determine compatibility.  I am, of course, at a loss as to determining if
> our upcoming installation of Evergreen (we are a C/W Mars academic library
> in Massachusetts due to migrate on May 31st) will interface well with this
> magnetic strip one card platform or not.  Our campus card would go into
> effect by Fall.  No other C/W Mars libraries use a magnetic strip card on
> their sites-- but that doesn't indicate anything since the overwhelming
> libraries participating in this consortium are small public libraries and
> we are an outlier as an academic campus.  I have already asked the staff at
> C/W Mars to vet this and they state it is beyond their scope for this
> project (which is focused on an ILS migration for a majority of public
> libraries)
>
> Please direct me to an Evergreen community member or developer or a client
> who could assist.  I would be extremely grateful.
>
> All best,  ab
> --
> *Amy Beth
> Dean of Library Services*
> Springfield Technical Community College
> 1 Armory Sq.
> Springfield, MA  01105
> Phone: 413 755-4531
> http://library.stcc.edu/
> email: abeth at stcc.edu
>
>
>
>
> --
> *Amy Beth
> Dean of Library Services*
> Springfield Technical Community College
> 1 Armory Sq.
> Springfield, MA  01105
> Phone: 413 755-4531
> http://library.stcc.edu/
> email: abeth at stcc.edu
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Tim Spindler
>
> Manager of Library Applications
>
> tspindler at cwmars.org
>
> 508-755-3323 x20
>
>
> C/W MARS, Inc.
>
> 67 Millbrook St, Suite 201
>
> Worcester, MA 01606
> http://www.cwmars.org
>
>
>
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