Well, welcome to the community. I love seeing the larger international community embracing Evergreen.
Rogan -----Original Message----- From: Nick Dimant <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:59:30 +0000 Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen comes to the UK > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; > charset=ISO-8859-1"> > </head> > <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> > <font face="Arial">I would like to introduce ourselves to the > list. > I am pleased to be able to say that we will be helping to > implement Evergreen for a consortium of public libraries in > Scotland. This is the first site in the UK to choose > Evergreen so > is quite a milestone for us. The consortium comprises 16 > libraries at Stirling Council and 8 at East Dunbartonshire. > Both > systems are migrating from Horizon. We hope the consortium > will > grow as time goes by. <br> > </font><font face="Arial"><br> > More info at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" > > href="http://www.ptfs-europe.com/?p=988";>http://www.ptfs-europe.com/?p= > 988</a><br> > <br> > </font><font face="Arial">Apart from providing the full range of > implementation services we will be carrying out two software > developments for them. One will be to do an integration > with the > Scottish National Entitlement Card. This is a single > smartcard > used throughout Scotland to access a whole range of services > including bus travel, leisure centres and libraries. This > card > holds a variety of personal information. With regard to > Evergreen > this will involve developing the capability to read the patron's > barcode off the card and if they do not already have a record in > Evergreen it will extract their user details from the smartcard > and create a user record on the Evergreen system.<br> > <br> > We will also be developing a stock rotation facility which might > be of more general interest to the Evergreen community. > This is > where multiple collections of books move from library to library > on a scheduled basis, staying for a set period of time at each > library before being automatically moved on according to > predefined rotas. This is all aimed at making the stock > work > harder and refresh the collections at all of the libraries on the > rota.<br> > <br> > We have already had some great support from Equinox and are > looking forward to working on this exciting project. <br> > <br> > Nick </font><br> > <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- > Nick Dimant > Managing Director > PTFS Europe Ltd > mobile: +44 (0)7966 571704 > skype: nick.dimant > <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</ > a> > <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" > href="http://www.ptfs-europe.com";>www.ptfs-europe.com</a> > > > > </pre> > </body> > </html>
