Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
We run Envisonware’s PCReservation and LptOne currently on all of our public machines running Windows 7 both 32bit and 64bit. Would not run anything else. Like the integration with Evergreen, and the integration between the two products. We are currently looking at adding their Wireless Print on Demand functionality to our Main library. Lynn Floyd lfl...@andersonlibrary.org Anderson County Library 864-260-4500 x181 http://www.andersonlibrary.org http://www.andersonlibrary.org/ From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of jmu...@tcpclibrary.org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:21 AM To: evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov; e...@tcpclibrary.org; open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org 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 jmu...@tcpclibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
Out of courisity, what features does Envisionware have that CASSIE doesn't? I'm at the Evergreen conference this week, then on vacation for a bit. If you can wait, my brain will work better when I'm... at work. I can get you all the differences between CASSIE and Envisionware that I've noticed, and really missed. I literally can not think of one thing right now! Ahh, jet lag brain. I return to work April 4. -Holly From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] on behalf of Aaron Z [aar...@pls-net.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 12:00 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Cc: e...@tcpclibrary.org; evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems Out of courisity, what features does Envisionware have that CASSIE doesn't? If its something that our libraries could use I might ask them for it from our end as well :D Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111 From: Holly Brennan haderh...@ci.homer.ak.us To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org, evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov, e...@tcpclibrary.org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:30:54 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems 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 From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] on behalf of jmu...@tcpclibrary.org [jmu...@tcpclibrary.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:20 AM To: evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov; e...@tcpclibrary.org; open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org 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.orghttp://www.tcpclibrary.org jmu...@tcpclibrary.org
[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 [http://www.tcpclibrary.org] www.tcpclibrary.org jmu...@tcpclibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
Many of the PINES systems in Georgia use PC Reservation and LPT:One by Envisionware. Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org - Original Message - From: jmu...@tcpclibrary.org To: evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov, e...@tcpclibrary.org, open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:20:37 AM 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 jmu...@tcpclibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
We use PcReservation and LPTone by Envisionware. David M. Daniels Technology Support Georgia Download Destination Helpdesk Sara Hightower Regional Library Rome Georgia 706-236-4621 Office 706-409-1082 Cell mailto:ddani...@romelibrary.org ddani...@romelibrary.org If they say it cannot be done, then they quit too soon! Quote by me. From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of jmu...@tcpclibrary.org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:21 AM To: evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov; e...@tcpclibrary.org; open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org 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 jmu...@tcpclibrary.org mailto:jmu...@tcpclibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
We have several libraries running CASSIE ( http :// www . librarica .com) which does PC reservations, print management, etc. It also does a fairly good job of tracking user statistics ( ie : wait time, average session length, etc). The biggest issue that we have run into is if you are running Windows 7x64 public machines, the computer sharing the printers needs to run Windows 7 as well or printers wont install due to a lack of drivers and no way to manually specify drivers. Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111 - Original Message - From: jmundy @ tcpclibrary .org To: evergreenresources @lists.in.gov, ever@ tcpclibrary .org, open-ils-general@list. georgialibraries .org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:20:37 AM 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 jmundy @ tcpclibrary .org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
Fontana Regional Library uses the Envisionware product called PC Reservation. Feel free to contact me at my contact info below.. John On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:20 AM, jmu...@tcpclibrary.org 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 jmu...@tcpclibrary.org -- John Tyndall (jtynd...@fontanalib.org) Manager, IT Services Fontana Regional Library www.fontanalib.org 33 Fryemont St. Bryson City, NC 28713 Voice 828-488-2382/4500 ext.25 Fax 828-488-2638 Opinions expressed in this message may not represent the policy of my agency. All e-mail sent to or from the Fontana Regional Library e-mail systems is subject to monitoring and disclosure to third parties, including law enforcement personnel. Nothing can be perfect, things can be better.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
We also use CASSIE and haven't had any issues with it. We haven't tried their wireless service yet (SPOT). Right now we don't allow direct wireless printing. The price for CASSIE is very reasonable for a smaller or more cash-strapped library, and the interface is really simple for staff. Kate Butler Technology Librarian Rodgers Memorial Library (Hudson, NH) http://www.rodgerslibrary.org/ From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] on behalf of Aaron Z [aar...@pls-net.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:47 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems We have several libraries running CASSIE (http://www.librarica.com) which does PC reservations, print management, etc. It also does a fairly good job of tracking user statistics (ie: wait time, average session length, etc). The biggest issue that we have run into is if you are running Windows 7x64 public machines, the computer sharing the printers needs to run Windows 7 as well or printers wont install due to a lack of drivers and no way to manually specify drivers. Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111 From: jmu...@tcpclibrary.org To: evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov, e...@tcpclibrary.org, open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:20:37 AM 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.orghttp://www.tcpclibrary.org jmu...@tcpclibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
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, jmu...@tcpclibrary.org 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 jmu...@tcpclibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
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 From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] on behalf of jmu...@tcpclibrary.org [jmu...@tcpclibrary.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:20 AM To: evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov; e...@tcpclibrary.org; open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org 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.orghttp://www.tcpclibrary.org jmu...@tcpclibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
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 knuev...@oplin.org 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 bu...@hoodriverlibrary.org mailto:bu...@hoodriverlibrary.org 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, jmu...@tcpclibrary.org mailto:jmu...@tcpclibrary.org 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 jmu...@tcpclibrary.org mailto:jmu...@tcpclibrary.org -- Lise Keppler Forsyth County Public Library 660 W 5th St Winston Salem NC 27101 336-703-3070
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
Out of courisity, what features does Envisionware have that CASSIE doesn't? If its something that our libraries could use I might ask them for it from our end as well :D Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111 - Original Message - From: Holly Brennan haderh...@ci.homer.ak.us To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org, evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov, e...@tcpclibrary.org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:30:54 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems 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 From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] on behalf of jmu...@tcpclibrary.org [jmu...@tcpclibrary.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:20 AM To: evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov; e...@tcpclibrary.org; open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org 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 jmu...@tcpclibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC Reservation systems
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 cheryl.middle...@buncombecounty.org From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] on behalf of open-ils-general-requ...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-requ...@list.georgialibraries.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:35 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 93, Issue 29 Send Open-ils-general mailing list submissions to open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-general or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to open-ils-general-requ...@list.georgialibraries.org You can reach the person managing the list at open-ils-general-ow...@list.georgialibraries.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Open-ils-general digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: PC reservation systems (Buzzy Nielsen) 2. Re: PC reservation systems (Elisabeth Keppler) 3. Re: PC reservation systems (Mark Ehle) 4. Re: PC reservation systems (Holly Brennan) 5. Re: PC reservation systems (Joe) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:19:30 -0700 From: Buzzy Nielsen bu...@hoodriverlibrary.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 5329c392.8080...@hoodriverlibrary.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/attachments/20140319/5bb76856/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:14:01 -0400 From: Elisabeth Keppler keppl...@forsyth.cc Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: capzk7mukkluezub83j9+fcv2mwx_xmdy-vrvtthw9+rv7aw...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 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 bu...@hoodriverlibrary.orgwrote: 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, jmu...@tcpclibrary.org 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 jmu...@tcpclibrary.org -- Lise Keppler Forsyth County Public Library 660 W 5th St Winston Salem NC 27101 336-703-3070 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/attachments/20140319/3a1fece4/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:54:53 -0400 From: Mark Ehle marke...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: CAP3oLuBS1vnG7UF0hUeCUvYXfZ4wnH5du5cgTgA3k7n-+=m...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 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, jmu...@tcpclibrary.org 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 jmu...@tcpclibrary.org -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http
