Hi Georgette,
You may also find valuable information on getting started with Evergreen
in the presentations that were offered at the 2010 Evergreen
Conference. You can find these at:
http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=eg10#presentation_slides
Best,
Sally
Georgette Rogers wrote:
Thank you so much Cynthia, I will use this and take all the
information to those who have the authority to make the decisions. I
am the fact gatherer.
Smiles,
Georgette
/Georgette Rogers/
/Circulation Supervisor/
/Liberty Lake Municipal Library/
/23123 E Mission Ave/
/Liberty Lake, WA 99019/
/509-435-0778/
/1-866-729-8507/
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*From:* [email protected]
[[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Cynthia Williamson [[email protected]]
*Sent:* Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:23 AM
*To:* Evergreen Discussion Group
*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] <mailto:[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/
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*From:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] On
Behalf Of Deanna Frazee [[email protected]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>
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*From:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> on
behalf of Georgette Rogers
*Sent:* Mon 6/14/2010 5:39 PM
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[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
--
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Educational Services Manager
Equinox Software Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
Tel: 770-709-5572
Email: [email protected]
Fax: 1-866-497-6390
Please come by and visit the Equinox team and learn more about
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