Hello, One of our member libraries is looking at a new campus card system. Please see her message below. She is wonderiing if any other Evergreen libraries in an academic library has run into any issues.
Tim ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Beth, Amy <[email protected]> Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:38 PM Subject: Fwd: campus card compatibility with Evergreen Library installation To: Tim Spindler <[email protected]>, "Noel, Kim" <[email protected]> Greetings. Hoping you can help. We are working with the following consultant/vendor http://www.allcampuscard.com/ to implement an All Campus Card system at our institution Springfield Technical Community College). The representative, Bob Huber, claims he never contacts the ILS vendors to determine compatibility. I am, of course, at a loss as to determining if our upcoming installation of Evergreen (we are a C/W Mars academic library in Massachusetts due to migrate on May 31st) will interface well with this magnetic strip one card platform or not. Our campus card would go into effect by Fall. No other C/W Mars libraries use a magnetic strip card on their sites-- but that doesn't indicate anything since the overwhelming libraries participating in this consortium are small public libraries and we are an outlier as an academic campus. I have already asked the staff at C/W Mars to vet this and they state it is beyond their scope for this project (which is focused on an ILS migration for a majority of public libraries) Please direct me to an Evergreen community member or developer or a client who could assist. I would be extremely grateful. All best, ab -- *Amy Beth Dean of Library Services* Springfield Technical Community College 1 Armory Sq. Springfield, MA 01105 Phone: 413 755-4531 http://library.stcc.edu/ email: [email protected] -- *Amy Beth Dean of Library Services* Springfield Technical Community College 1 Armory Sq. Springfield, MA 01105 Phone: 413 755-4531 http://library.stcc.edu/ email: [email protected] -- Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications [email protected] 508-755-3323 x20 C/W MARS, Inc. 67 Millbrook St, Suite 201 Worcester, MA 01606 http://www.cwmars.org *P** Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.*
