…and it just might be Evergreen.
The University of Windsor is listed as one of the organizations involved with this open source ILS so if anybody who did a co-op there has thoughts (or anybody else who's familiar with Evergreen via other channels), I'd love to hear what you think.
Useless trivia of the day: the combined number of Web 2.0 savvy people who are also library patrons in North America dwarfs the number of people participating at sites like Facebook, Amazon and YouTube.
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I did co-op there but before they got involved with Evergreen. But it didn't take long for me to realize that Art Rhyno was a genius of a systems librarian. (I mean, for awhile I even considered heading that direction :-p I'm not quite techie enough though)
You missed out on a lot of Evergreen talk at OLA last January.
i'm doing a contract with the BC implementation and i'm really excited about Evergreen.
at Access 2007 in Victoria Brian Owen (SFU) and 3 others presented on ILS options for academic libraries. Brian talked about the recent history of the ILS marketplace. it was really interesting, check out the slides:
http://access2007.uvic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ils_options_for_academic_libraries.pdf
I heard there was a lot of Evergreen coverage at OLA. Wish I'd been there! And every impression I get of the University of Windsor – from the coop students they have (not trying to flatter you!) to the librarians they have on staff that I've met to the direction they're heading in general indicates to me that they are one kick-ass library system.
Why does it not surprise me that you find yourself involved with a project like this? Do you know Ben Hyman? He's who presented at the meeting I was at – seemed like a great guy. Thanks for the link – good info!
he's the big boss and a great guy. did he bust out with goat pictures in his ppt?
The funny thing is, when I read your comment, I wasn't paying too much attention to which thread it was in so I thought it was somebody trying to tell me that my boss had a thing for pictures of goats! The fact that the comment was anonymous made it even more suspicious!! But yes, Ben did break out the “I'm a goat farmer” routine complete with pictures. (Not sure how it goes over in the big city but kind of an easy sell in Saskatchewan actually!)