Yeah, I looked at Koha too and sent them an email. Evergreen seems to have more support , which I like. Koha seems like it’d work great for our smaller schools of ~300 students, but our larger middle and high schools of ~800 students it might not work so well with, at least from what I’ve been reading around the ‘net. I figure if everything can work on the same system, it’d be best.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 10:34 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello there :) Hi Dan, Welcome to Evergreen! Hopefully you will get some replies from other people using Evergreen in schools. I don't have any names or organizations to point you to, but I thought it might be worth mentioning another library system worth considering is Koha ( http://koha-community.org/ ). It seems to me that Evergreen is more industrial strength but oriented to consortia (more levers to tweak, more complicated database structure), while Koha is easier to install and run for smaller library systems. It would probably be worth "kicking the tires" on both systems! Brian ________________________________ From: "Daniel Haworth" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 11:05:21 AM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello there :) Hey mailing list! The Evergreen site said I should post an introduction. I’m with the Molalla River School District, and I’m looking to move stuff away from Follette and AutoLibrarian. Hoping Evergreen will be a good option. I’m curious though, does anyone know of some schools around Oregon that use Evergreen? I’d love to see a working implementation and chat with some school district folks about it. ☺ ~Dan
