Stop Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Cynthia Williamson <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:23:48 To: Evergreen Discussion Group<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Costs
Hi Georgette - Like Deanna said, cost is different for everyone. We spent @ $7500CAD on our server, 2 full-time people worked on getting things up and going for the better part of a year - that allowed us to keep up other parts of our jobs. We went live well before our support contract with our former ILS vendor expired - that allowed us to do a very soft launch and do lots of troubleshooting/tweaking and some more staff training. We did contract with Equinox for some programming (booking module @ $8000USD) but did not spend any money on training or migration. The EG community has been a big help, I can't really say that we did it on our own. I've attached a list that I've shared with some other folks that gives some details of our process, please use it/share it as needed. Cheers, Cynthia Mohawk College, Hamilton, ON On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Georgette Rogers <[email protected] > wrote: > Thank you so much for the reply. I am not authorized to send out an RFP, > but I will pass the information to my director and she will take it from > there. I really appreciate all the information that has been coming to me > from the list serve. I will probably have more questons. > > Thanks again > > Georgette > *Georgette Rogers* > *Circulation Supervisor* > *Liberty Lake Municipal Library* > *23123 E Mission Ave* > *Liberty Lake, WA 99019* > *509-435-0778* > *1-866-729-8507* > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [ > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Deanna > Frazee [[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, June 14, 2010 7:07 PM > *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group > *Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** RE: Costs > > There really isn't a set cost. We bought a server, paid Alpha-G for > migration services and have self-trained. But it has not been a simple > process. There have been numerous delays as I dealt with issues that left > us too short-staffed to cope with a migration at times and as we have worked > with Alpha-G to get things right so that we can go live with as few > interruptions to service for our patrons as possible on the go-live day > (next Monday). > > There has been some training out there for Evergreen, but much of what you > will need to do is look at the manuals that other libraries have created > in-house. From there, you may have to just experiment with it to see how it > works. > > Since this is not an out-of-the-box solution, the price will be unique to > your situation. Your best bet is to send out an RFP with the details you > mentioned below as well as infornation on your current ILS. > > Evergreen offers a lot of flexibility, but it is for those intrepid > enough to take on an ILS without formal documentation and without the sort > of full-time training staff that you often get with an established > proprietary system. These things will come with time, but they aren't here > now. > > Deanna Frazee > Killeen City Library System > Killeen, TX > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] on behalf of > Georgette Rogers > *Sent:* Mon 6/14/2010 5:39 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Costs > > Could anyone tell me the cost for implementation, self hosting, maitence > and training for the Evergreen system. We are a 9,000 square foot library, > we have 28,000 items and about 5,000 patrons. > > Thank you > > Georgette > > *Georgette Rogers* > *Circulation Supervisor* > *Liberty Lake Municipal Library* > *23123 E Mission Ave* > *Liberty Lake, WA 99019* > *509-435-0778* > *1-866-729-8507* > -- “Many a man stumbles across the truth, then picks himself up and hurries on as though nothing had happened.” Winston Churchill
