[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Anyone willing to answer some general questions about Evergreen ILS?

[Andrea Buntz Neiman]

Hi Nita,

If it's relevant to your assignment, I have a hair to split: Evergreen is
not in itself a vendor -- it is a software project.  There are vendors who
provide support, development, migration, etc. for Evergreen libraries but
there is no one single Evergreen vendor in the same way there are for
proprietary products like Polaris (III) or Symphony (SirsiDynix), etc.

A current list of Evergreen service providers is here:
https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=faqs:evergreen_companies

Additionally there are groups which -- while not vendors in the traditional
sense -- serve in a vendor capacity for their respective consortia, such as
the Georgia Public Library Service does for Georgia PINES.

That said, I work for one of the Evergreen service providers and I will
answer questions from that perspective if you need information.

Andrea

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 3:43 PM Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> I'm willing to provide answers. It might make sense to just post your
> questions to the mailing list, that way the people who are most familiar
> with particular aspects of Evergreen can answer those questions--for
> example, there might be libraries that use the built-in self-check
> functionality who can answer questions about that, while some of the
> developers can provide detailed answers about API compatibility, etc
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 9:59 AM Nita Dickerson <nita.dickerson at sjsu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>     I am an MLIS student at San Jose State University.  This term I am
>> taking an Intro to Library Automation Systems class.  One of my assignments
>> asks me to do an evaluation of a vendor, I chose Evergreen.
>>     Your "Frequently Anticipated Questions" page gives some good
>> information but wondering if there is someone I can talk with to fill in
>> some of the blanks.
>>
>> Thanks for responding,
>> Nita Dickerson
>>
>

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