Kent County’s Quest, or, The Evergreen Fairytale
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Kent County’s Quest, or, The Evergreen Fairytale Karen Collier, Public Services Librarian Andrea Buntz Neiman, Technical Services Librarian
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Kent County’s Quest, or, The Evergreen Fairytale. Karen Collier, Public Services Librarian Andrea Buntz Neiman, Technical Services Librarian. Once upon a time…. But What About…?. Consortial Capabilities Support & Hosting Costs Hardware Costs. $. Matthew, Birth and 1 Year. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Kent County’s Quest,or, The Evergreen
FairytaleKaren Collier, Public Services Librarian
Andrea Buntz Neiman, Technical Services Librarian
Once upon
a time
…
But What About…?
Consortial Capabilities Support & Hosting Costs Hardware Costs
Matthew, Birth and 1 Year
The story behind the fairytale
We can’t make this stuff up! Money is tight for everyone
Administrators need to do more with less Private software firms have tried to expand profit
margins (guess who pays for that?) Our budget was a large factor in deciding to
go with Evergreen
Open Source in Libraries
Howard County (MD) Public Library – makes wide use of Open Source in several areas
The Open Source movement and libraries share many concepts & ideals Information access = free Public domain = a good thing Public knowledge = a better thing Collaborative projects = go team! More with less = par for the course
Common myths about Open Source Too much of a “techie” thing
Truth : even beginners can do it! Too fractured
Most OSS projects have standard versions Too much work
Global community of support Too “different”
“The way we’ve always done it” is no excuse
Advantages of OSS for Libraries Cost savings vs. proprietary software Flexible, user-centered development Staff ownership of open source software Giving back Freeeeeeeeeeeeeedom!
Catalogers & OSS : a love story? They say we’re compulsive, but we really just
like things to be in order, and make sense Many ILSs currently on the market are based
on ideas & structures that are 20 or more years old (MARC is even older)
OpenGovInfo.net – 04/27/2009 – “Ten reasons why cataloging librarians make natural programmers”
Happiness (my personal version)
Thick book
Comfy pillows Cat 1, Miu
Cat 2, George
Happiness (my professional version) Evergreen 1.4
Modern architecture that’s completely scalable, built using the Mozilla engine & OpenSRF
Intuitive staff interface that supports workflow FRBR-ization (edition rollup) Sophisticated & powerful context menus Bookbags – for personal & professional use Native z39.50 that doesn’t make me crazy Importer that can handle batches Batch deletes that don’t crash the system
Search results in Evergreen
Basic staff interface in Evergreen
Cataloging interface in Evergreen
Holdings maintenance in Evergreen
Native Z39.50 interface in Evergreen
MARC import/export interface
Changes in Evergreen 1.6
More highly customizable search interface Scoped searches for electronic resources Z39.50 holdings support Holdings export on all record formats Administrative UI improvements Serials support & MFHD support Acquisitions module preview
Open Source in KCPL’s future Open Office GIMP (photo editing software) Groovix PAC (PC management) Drupal (content management) LibraryFind (federated search) Maybe even full Linux!
Some of our favorite OS sites
Open-ILS, home of Evergreen http://www.open-ils.org/
Equinox Software http://esilibrary.com/esi/
oss4lib (Open source systems for libraries) http://www.oss4lib.org/
Open Sense Solutions http://open-sense.com/
Howard County PL Open Source Blog http://hclibrary.org/opensource/
Thank you!
http://catalog.kentcountylibrary.org Karen Collier, [email protected] Andrea Buntz Neiman, [email protected]
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