Wow, does the State Library really have that much authority over individual libraries (legal or otherwise)?
I would find that hugely surprising. But then here in NH we don't even have any county-wide systems. For the most part, it's every town/ city library for itself ... Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > The State Library her in Pennsylvania has started planning for a > state-wide ILS. My Director, John Brice attended a tech committee > netting this past Friday, bringing myself and Cindy Murdock as well. > At the meeting, it was announced that HSLC and Equinox will be > installing Evergreen in 33 libraries currently using Millennium. In > all likelyhood, in the future all the libraries in the state will be > required to switch over to Evergreen. Needless to say, my boss and > myself are extremely upset by this proposition to say the least. > > I would applaud the choice of a FOSS ILS, but the choice would not > bring any advantage. It appears to me to be a strictly financial > decision. The idea being pushed at the meeting was to give libraries > as little choice as possible to keep down costs. If we were forced to > switch to Evergreen, not only would our huge investment in Koha via > time and money be thrown away, but we would be forced into a new > system over which we would be no control or ability to customize. We > would have no control over the quality of service, as the servers are > planned to be centralized somewhere within the state. I do not relish > the idea of our current freedoms being taken away. > > Kyle > > http://www.kylehall.info > Information Technology > Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > k...@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
