We use Envisionware and it works very well with Evergreen.
Cheryl Middleton, Librarian/Branch Manager
South Asheville/Oakley Branch Library
Buncombe County Public Libraries
749 Fairview Road
Asheville, NC 28803
828-250-4754
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:19:30 -0700
From: Buzzy Nielsen <[email protected]>
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:14:01 -0400
From: Elisabeth Keppler <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
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Having worked in one library system running Envisionware and my current
library running SAM from Comprise, I can confidently say don't use SAM.
Wish we had Envisionware instead.
Thanks,
Lise
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Buzzy Nielsen
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Libki is a nice option. It's open source and you can roll your own
> installation (http://libki.org/) or get it from a vendor (
> http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-libki/).
>
> Papercut is an easy-to-use, very inexpensive print management program.
> http://www.papercut.com/.
>
> My last library used those two systems, and they worked quite well.
>
> Cheers!
> Buzzy
>
> ************************************
> Library Director
> Hood River County Library District
> 502 State Street
> Hood River, Oregon 97031
> 541-387-7062
> http://hoodriverlibrary.org
>
> On 03/19/2014 07:20 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Anyone on Evergreen have a PC reservation system for the public they would
> recommend or recommend against? It should have print management software
> too and we would prefer it to run with Windows PCs.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> Director
> Perry County Public Library
> 2328 Tell Street
> Tell City, IN 47586
> www.tcpclibrary.org
> [email protected]
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>
>
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Lise Keppler
Forsyth County Public Library
660 W 5th St
Winston Salem NC 27101
336-703-3070
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:54:53 -0400
From: Mark Ehle <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
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If you can afford it, Envisionware is great. Stay very far away from PCCop
by www.CMSDiginet.com. Their product is crap and their service is worse.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:20 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyone on Evergreen have a PC reservation system for the public they would
> recommend or recommend against? It should have print management software
> too and we would prefer it to run with Windows PCs.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> Director
> Perry County Public Library
> 2328 Tell Street
> Tell City, IN 47586
> www.tcpclibrary.org
> [email protected]
>
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:30:54 +0000
From: Holly Brennan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
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Our library has run Cybrarian (barely has features, continued to bill us two
years after we quit using it).... then we moved to Envisionware, which I LOVED.
At some point last year during an upgrade, our IT staff declared it unusable
and refused to continue using it. I was very sad. I researched everything else
out there and chose CASSIE. It seems to be the most advanced option out there
after Envisionware. It works great, is very stable and doesn't crash, ever, but
I continue to bug their support team to make it act like Envisionware since we
lost some features that both staff and patrons were used to.
If I had the choice, I would return to Envisionware. It's just lovely. You'll
probably pay more for it, but it just does EVERYTHING. If you aren't already
spoiled, CASSIE is nice. And we migrated our patron info to it easily.
-Holly
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Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
Anyone on Evergreen have a PC reservation system for the public they would
recommend or recommend against? It should have print management software too
and we would prefer it to run with Windows PCs.
Thanks,
John
Director
Perry County Public Library
2328 Tell Street
Tell City, IN 47586
www.tcpclibrary.org<http://www.tcpclibrary.org>
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:26:38 -0400
From: Joe <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
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I can give a plus 1 to what Buzzy said about Libki and papercut. We are
currently using libki and a home grown solution built on top of CUPS. I
have played with papercut and plan to migrate us to that at some point.
I would recommend both to anyone looking to make a change.
The one caution I would give about Libki is that the integration with
Evergreen did not work out of the box for us.
I had a volunteer working with me on the latest version, and he had to
rewrite a portion of the code for libki, switching from socket
connections to a telnet connection for the SIP2 back to Evergreen. I
don't know if that's because of how our Evergreen is configured or an
incompatibility with how SIP2 was written into Libki.
That said, if you go with libki and the stock server does not work, he
has created a fork of the libki-server that works with evergreen at
https://bitbucket.org/bak688/libki-server-sipviatelnet .
Also, I can give a plus 1 to avoiding PCCop. We migrated away from it
to libki a few years ago when Libki was much rougher and less feature
rich than it is today and we'd have been happy with that decision even
if Libki had cost money.
Best of luck.
Joe
Joseph Knueven
Director
Germantown Public Library
51 N. Plum St.
Germantown, OH 45327
937-855-4001
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On 3/19/2014 1:14 PM, Elisabeth Keppler wrote:
> Having worked in one library system running Envisionware and my
> current library running SAM from Comprise, I can confidently say don't
> use SAM. Wish we had Envisionware instead.
>
> Thanks,
> Lise
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Buzzy Nielsen
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Libki is a nice option. It's open source and you can roll your own
> installation (http://libki.org/) or get it from a vendor
> (http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-libki/).
>
> Papercut is an easy-to-use, very inexpensive print management
> program. http://www.papercut.com/.
>
> My last library used those two systems, and they worked quite well.
>
> Cheers!
> Buzzy
>
> ************************************
> Library Director
> Hood River County Library District
> 502 State Street
> Hood River, Oregon 97031
> 541-387-7062 <tel:541-387-7062>
> http://hoodriverlibrary.org
>
> On 03/19/2014 07:20 AM, [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone on Evergreen have a PC reservation system for the public
>> they would recommend or recommend against? It should have print
>> management software too and we would prefer it to run with
>> Windows PCs.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>> Director
>> Perry County Public Library
>> 2328 Tell Street
>> Tell City, IN 47586
>> www.tcpclibrary.org <http://www.tcpclibrary.org>
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Lise Keppler
> Forsyth County Public Library
> 660 W 5th St
> Winston Salem NC 27101
> 336-703-3070
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