Any good go live plan will have a fallback option. But apart from
that, I'd say that's a whole lotta FUD (or wishful thinking). I've
been involved in this KCLS process for over a year and have never
heard anything about running parallel systems. The whole point is to
make everything easier--especially for staff. And running two systems
is not easy.
Once they pull the switch and have it fully in production, I cannot
imagine a scenario in which they'd choose to go back. If you heard
Bill Ptacek at Evergreen 2010, you'd know how committed they are to
this process.
Lori Ayre
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 1, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Bill Hudson
<bhud...@lancasterlibraries.org> wrote:
Greetings all,
We recently had a visit by one of the senior executives of our
current ILS vendor. We’ve made it quite clear to them that we are cl
osely following the development of the Evergreen system and can defi
nitely envision joining an effort to deploy Evergreen statewide in PA.
During the conversation, the exec said that King County plans to run
their current ILS (Millennium) in tandem with the Evergreen system
they are bringing online in September, AND that it was not a given
that King County would deploy Evergreen as their sole ILS in the
near term. I wasn’t sure if this was FUD or if King County is (contr
ary to what I’d heard) not planning to migrate from their current IL
S to Evergreen in the near term.
Can someone on this list provide any additional info as to what King
County plans to do? Because they are one of the largest library
systems in the country, many of us on the sidelines are watching
this situation as a harbinger of how well or poorly the current
Evergreen incarnation works for a really big consolidated system .
Thanks,
BH
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Library System of Lancaster County
1866 Colonial Village Lane, Ste. 107
Lancaster, PA 17601
717-207-0500 ext. 1269
http://www.lancasterlibraries.org
