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

[Rogan Hamby]

Just a a quick follow up from what Andrea said, if your assignment is
specifically to talk to a vendor (which it sounds like) look carefully at
that page and you may want to talk to some community members about vendors
first to make sure you good a good representative one.  Even better I'd
recommend talking to multiple.  Unlike a proprietary ILS vendors for
Evergreen don't offer a uniform slate of services.  One may only offer
development while another may offer hosting and another may offer those and
training and migration services.

full disclaimer: I work for Equinox, one of said providers on that page



On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:54 AM Andrea Buntz Neiman <
abneiman at equinoxinitiative.org> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Andrea Buntz Neiman
> Project Manager for Software Development
> Equinox Open Library Initiative
> abneiman at equinoxinitiative.org
> 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) x5583
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>
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