[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen on a Bookmobile

[McCanna, Terran]

I don't think any of our libraries are currently trying to run the staff client live on their bookmobiles - they typically use the standalone client for circulation and then process the offline transactions when they get back to their base. 

We have not yet tested how well the web client will work on a cell connection, but hopefully it will be a lot more usable.

Terran McCanna 
PINES Program Manager 
Georgia Public Library Service 
1800 Century Place, Suite 150 
Atlanta, GA 30345 
404-235-7138 
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Thomas" <scott at albright.org>
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2015 7:53:00 AM
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen on a Bookmobile

Hi,
   We run Evergreen live on our Bookmobile. Our county has fairly good cell coverage and the laptops get 3G or LTE at most stops. Despite this, the staff client runs poorly on the Bookmobile (slowness, error messages etc.). Equinox provided us with a  technical explanation of why this is so which is reasonable. Are any other libraries out there running Evergreen on a Bookmobile using a cell connection? If so, are you experiencing latency? If yes, how do you work around it?

Thank you,
Scott


Scott  Thomas, MLS
Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services
Scranton Public Library
Lackawanna County Library System
2006 N. Main Ave.
Scranton, PA 18508
Ph: 570-207-2379
Fx: 570-348-3020
Email: scott at albright.org<mailto:scott at albright.org>