The Pacific Library Partnership, consisting of three libraries in
California, has contracted with Equinox Software, Inc. to test
FulfILLment. The partnership consists of Los Gatos Public Library,
Peninsula Library System (the city of San Mateo only), and Santa Cruz
Public Library. These libraries currently use Koha, Millennium, and
Evergreen as their ILS. Lori Bowen Ayre, The Galecia Group, is serving
as a consultant on this project as part of the Open Source - Open
Libraries project. The partners will be testing FulfILLment to see if
it can meet their requirements for managing physical item resource
sharing between independent library systems. FulfILLment was developed
by Equinox developers with funding from OHIONET and other development
partners including: the State Libraries of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
South Carolina, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and WiLS. It is anticipated
that FulfILLment version 1.0-RC1 will be available in the spring/summer
of 2013.
FulfILLment is generally described as an open source ILL software, but
it is so much more. It is an open source, regional resource-sharing
system between disparate ILS. It was designed to bridge otherwise
incompatible software products so that different libraries can continue
to use their current ILS while obtaining many benefits enjoyed by
libraries using Evergreen in resource-sharing consortia. The
development of LAIs (Local Automation Integrator) in FulfILLment makes
this possible by allowing the participating libraries to obtain
bibliographic and other relevant information from each library's current
automation system and making this information accessible over the
internet. FulfILLment is also scalable. If necessary, new custom LAIs
can be developed in future versions of FulfILLment to allow even more
libraries to join and enjoy all that FulfILLment has to offer.
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Suzannah Lipscomb
Project Manager
Equinox Software, Inc.
877. OPEN. ILS (877. 673. 6457)
Direct: 770-709-5590
