A panel of speakers presented on different aspects of the Evergreen ILS during today’s session. Speakers were:
- Ben Hyman, Managing Director, BC Libraries Cooperative
- Jed Moffitt, Director of Information Technology Services, King County Library System (KCLS)
- Steven Chan, Sitka Project Team
- Matt Carlson, ILS Administrator, King County Library System
- Grace Dunbar, COO, Equinox
The Sitka Perspective
- 54 libraries in BC
- consortia model
- think about the end user first
- multi-faceted selection criteria
- check with your colleagues about your ideas
- every ILS is a work in progress
- got equinox to teach them to fish
- now they teach others to fish
Why Open Source? The Community
- community is a powerful thing and driven by the community
- vibrant, growing community
- who do you want to be involved with?
- plus you can have control
Examples
- centralized policy and way to push out to staff computers
- localize view for search results
- easy to access data and pull data for reports and visuals
- mobile OPAC using an open web services API to add My Account functions (still in development)
Sneak Peak to Evergreen 2.2
- increased flexibility for MARC match set editor
- authority control sets, ability to customize control set
Join Us!
- Evergreen 2013 in Vancouver!