Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RFPs for system development

2010-05-17 Thread Almond, Emily
Experience has taught me that an open-source RFP would do well to include the elements George and Lori are talking about. I structure mine the following way: -- Requirements - as Lori mentioned, there needs to be a priority metric in place. What makes one priority more important? The

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RFPs for system development

2010-05-17 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi George, In our case, our initial testing was done over the summer as part of the selection process for a new system. We have since worked with library staff to evaluate workflows and have created use cases on how the system behaves as it responds to different requests. We are now testing

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RFPs for system development

2010-05-17 Thread Deanna Frazee
Alpha-G Consulting of Orem, Utah, does. You can contact them at j...@alphagconsulting.com. Deanna Frazee Director of Library Services Killeen City Library System 205 E. Church Ave. Killeen, TX 76541 254-501-8995 dfra...@ci.killeen.tx.us From:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RFPs for system development

2010-05-17 Thread Rogan Hamby
I've had good working experiences with Alpha-G both on Horizon and now on Evergreen. -Original Message- From: Deanna Frazee dfra...@ci.killeen.tx.us To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 08:42:01 -0500 Subject: Re:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 47, Issue 14

2010-05-17 Thread scrlheadlib
Patron comes in and wants a list of all juvenile space books for a science project. We want to be able to run a list in bibliographic format including call numbers for the patron. Mary From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM***

2010-05-17 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Leslie, Here's the URL for changing your subscription (including unsubscribing): http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-general http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-general On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Leslie A. Markey

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RFPs for system development

2010-05-17 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
The key players are Equinox, PTFS/Liblime, and ByWater Solutions for migration, support, hosting and development. As others have mentioned, AlphaG is also in there for development but I'm not sure if they are doing any migration or hosting or contracting for ongoing support. Maybe someone else

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RFPs for system development

2010-05-17 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Emily, This is a great description of how to do evaluation and selection. Can you package this up (I bet you have some handy documents you could append by way of example) and submit it to the the RSCEL.or site for the ILS to OSLS Arc of Resources (http://www.rscel.org/arc)? Use the Share a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RFPs for system development

2010-05-17 Thread Rod Schiffman
Since it was brought up. Alpha-G does not do a lot in hosting at the moment, but has done it. The bread and butter operations at Alpha-G are migrations and ongoing support. --Rod Schiffman On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.comwrote: The key players are

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Alpha-G

2010-05-17 Thread Amy Terlaga
Alpha-G does offer migration services if you're interested in migrating from Horizon to Evergreen. I'm not sure about the other ILSes. Amy Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:05:09 -0700 From: Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RFPs for system development To: