[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Site considering Ever Green

[Rogan Hamby]

I'll slightly disagree with Jason in that I think you should pay more.
 True, you can hire someone to manage your migration to a F/OSS system (and
there are some good ones in the community) just as you can hire a
commercial vendor but going F/OSS is a chance to have more control over
your data which I have always argued is one of a library's most valuable
assets.  So, even if you hire a migration manager taking the chance to be
involved and learn as much as you can will benefit your library greatly
long term because no matter how great an outside migration team is there is
not substitute for the persons who know the library best also knowing how
the tools work.  That's true with reference books and it's true with ILSes.

P.S. I do agree that you should look at Koha and Evergreen.  They're both
solid projects and in the course of due diligence you should consider both.


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Jason Stephenson <jstephenson at mvlc.org>wrote:

> On 10/08/2013 10:03 AM, Brian McNally wrote:
>
> Evergreen is not small, neither is Koha, and has many moving parts. You
> should treat moving to a F/OSS ILS with the same due dilligence that you
> would moving to any other ILS, proprietary or F/OSS.
>
>
>
> --
> Jason Stephenson
> Assistant Director for Technology Services
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
>



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Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
York County Library System

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me."
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