Comments on: little pieces of things that might interest you http://www.librarian.net/stax/2561/little-pieces-of-things-that-might-interest-you/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jon Gorman http://www.librarian.net/stax/2561/little-pieces-of-things-that-might-interest-you/comment-page-1/#comment-121397 Jon Gorman Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:54:08 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/?p=2561#comment-121397 Out of curiosity, are those folks discussing any other systems like Koha? I'm curious now what conceptions folks have about them. I'm a bit surprised that there's folks who have heard of Evergreen but don't know much about PINES....makes me wonder how they are hearing about this and what they think about the other systems... Out of curiosity, are those folks discussing any other systems like Koha? I’m curious now what conceptions folks have about them. I’m a bit surprised that there’s folks who have heard of Evergreen but don’t know much about PINES….makes me wonder how they are hearing about this and what they think about the other systems…

]]> By: evette atkin http://www.librarian.net/stax/2561/little-pieces-of-things-that-might-interest-you/comment-page-1/#comment-121394 evette atkin Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:48:54 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/?p=2561#comment-121394 They way we have Evergreen set up, it appears to each library's patrons that they have just a catalog for their library. We're just sharing bib records, server space, etc. because Michigan already has the Michigan eLibrary, which is used for statewide ILL. Our smallest library has a service population of approx. 100, while the largest, nearly 200,000. It seems to scale really well in both directions! They way we have Evergreen set up, it appears to each library’s patrons that they have just a catalog for their library. We’re just sharing bib records, server space, etc. because Michigan already has the Michigan eLibrary, which is used for statewide ILL. Our smallest library has a service population of approx. 100, while the largest, nearly 200,000. It seems to scale really well in both directions!

]]> By: jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/stax/2561/little-pieces-of-things-that-might-interest-you/comment-page-1/#comment-121382 jessamyn Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:48:44 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/?p=2561#comment-121382 Fixed the broken link! Yeah I think of EG as being really flexible personally but I think some people who don't know the whole Georgia backstory [for some reason people up here don't seem to as often] think of it as being more small-scale? I have no idea why. Fixed the broken link! Yeah I think of EG as being really flexible personally but I think some people who don’t know the whole Georgia backstory [for some reason people up here don't seem to as often] think of it as being more small-scale? I have no idea why.

]]> By: K.G. Schneider http://www.librarian.net/stax/2561/little-pieces-of-things-that-might-interest-you/comment-page-1/#comment-121381 K.G. Schneider Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:24 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/?p=2561#comment-121381 Jessamyn I tend to agree with Jon -- that people assume it can't scale down (even though there are some very small libraries using EG). After all, it runs PINES, and that's a 275-library network. But still, happy to see EG get some Jessamyn-Juice. :) Nice wrapup... I'll add Cory Doctorow's book (funny how we always call him Cory Doctorow, not Cory and not Doctorow) to my reading queue. I chewed through a lot of books recently and it was refreshing to get Back to Print. Jessamyn I tend to agree with Jon — that people assume it can’t scale down (even though there are some very small libraries using EG). After all, it runs PINES, and that’s a 275-library network. But still, happy to see EG get some Jessamyn-Juice. :)

Nice wrapup… I’ll add Cory Doctorow’s book (funny how we always call him Cory Doctorow, not Cory and not Doctorow) to my reading queue. I chewed through a lot of books recently and it was refreshing to get Back to Print.

]]> By: Jason Puckett http://www.librarian.net/stax/2561/little-pieces-of-things-that-might-interest-you/comment-page-1/#comment-121376 Jason Puckett Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:28:48 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/?p=2561#comment-121376 Reading the tech failure report with interest, thanks. Broken link on requesting donated copies of Content? Reading the tech failure report with interest, thanks. Broken link on requesting donated copies of Content?

]]> By: Jon Gorman http://www.librarian.net/stax/2561/little-pieces-of-things-that-might-interest-you/comment-page-1/#comment-121375 Jon Gorman Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:50:26 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/?p=2561#comment-121375 I always got the feeling that the prejudice is the other way around for Evergreen. That it works for large and complicated system but doesn't "scale down" to small libraries. Not that I believe it, but that seems to be what I overhear. I always got the feeling that the prejudice is the other way around for Evergreen. That it works for large and complicated system but doesn’t “scale down” to small libraries. Not that I believe it, but that seems to be what I overhear.

]]> By: Gretchen http://www.librarian.net/stax/2561/little-pieces-of-things-that-might-interest-you/comment-page-1/#comment-121374 Gretchen Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:17:06 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/?p=2561#comment-121374 Thanks for the link to that 'When Technology Fails' report - it's an interesting read. You'd think with all those issues the tech companies would want to provide better support for their customers but that doesn't seem to be the case. Thanks for the link to that ‘When Technology Fails’ report – it’s an interesting read. You’d think with all those issues the tech companies would want to provide better support for their customers but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

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