[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics

[Dan Scott]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:11:50AM -0400, Kelly Drake wrote:
>Dear Evergreen Community,
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>For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of 10
>academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration to
>Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and spoke with
>members of FLO during this year’s annual conference in Boston. Thank you
>for your time, patience and information. All your comments and suggestions
>convinced us to continue pursuing a migration to Evergreen.
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>Our investigation also suggested that it would be helpful to build
>an academic interest group within the larger Evergreen community.  This
>group would be focused solely on academic issues as they relate to the ILS.
>Several existing Evergreen libraries and consortia have already expressed
>interest in the group and we have tentatively called it
>"Academics for Evergreen".
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>To be most effective, Academics for Evergreen would be composed of any
>individuals or institutions that have an interest in enhancing the
>academic-related functions of Evergreen. Once formed, the group will
>identify the academic-related functions that most need attention and work
>to build knowledge, consensus, and resources to move moving these issues
>forward.  So far we have identified a few of the possible issues, such as
>streamlined creation and management of authority records, enhanced search
>and browse by authority, support for multiple subject heading schema,
>improved staff workflows and possible improvements to course reserves
>integration. This list is by no means exhaustive and needs the
>participation of the Evergreen community to improve and refine it.
>
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>Please respond and let us know if you are interested, have suggestions for
>moving these issues forward, or if you have any questions.

Count me in as "interested"!