Hi Jim,
It sounds like you're working on an interesting project! Steve just
made an interesting suggestion for working with digital content, and I
have a few general questions that might help as you search for software
to administer your church library:
1. What type of special collections do you have, e.g. photographs,
objects, etc?
2. Do you have digital content to make available?
3. What kind of access do you want to provide to these items? Do you
want to loan any of your collection(s) out to church members, the
community, etc.? Or do you simply want to make these items "findable?"
4. Outside of special collections, what is your library collection like?
It sounds like you have traditional books in addition to your special
collections?
Thanks,
Sally
On 3/28/2012 1:17 PM, Steve Wills wrote:
Hi Jim,
One option that you might want to take a look at encorporates
Evergreen-ils with a Digital Asset system is the Discovery Garden
product; lib2o which you can view at http://discoverygarden.ca/lib2o
I would be very interested in hearing a impartial evaulation of this
solution for your case. I have a similar set of cases in several
rural towns up in Massachusetts and Maine that are item rich and
technology poor.
Best
Steve Wills
-----Original Message-----
*From:* Jim Hall [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:39 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Can Evergreen do this
At the moment I am researching for my church. Our library (small)
is looking for different software. Evergreen and Koha would both
work well. Additionally, our Heritage Committee is looking for a
database for our historical material. Our congregation is 175
years old, that's a lot of "stuff"! What the committee wants to
know is if Evergreen has a "Special Collections" kind of usage? If
so, could we use Evergreen for both projects? I'm sorry to be so
vague, but I don't know what questions I need to ask. If we can
have a dialog, I may be able to get more specific. Thank You
--
Sally Fortin
Director of Education
Equinox Software Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
Tel: 770-709-5572
Email: [email protected]
Fax: 1-866-497-6390
