Posts filed under 'ILS'
Our big news at MLC this week is that we signed a contract with Equinox to provide consulting and data conversion/migration services for the Michigan Evergreen project. Click here for Equinox’s press release.
This is an exciting step for us, because we’re now ready to start the real work of converting the pilot libraries’ data for migration to the Evergreen shared system (soon-to-be-installed on servers at Grand Rapids Public Library). Our MLC team has trips lined up in April and May to visit each pilot library to begin mapping out timelines. We hope to have the pilot libraries up on the system by mid-summer.
April 16th, 2008
The Michigan Library Consortium is pleased to announce that Elaine Ross joined the MLC staff on March 17 as our new ILS Training & Support Librarian. Welcome Elaine!
Elaine brings a wealth of experience to her new position at MLC. Before joining us at MLC, she worked for Gale/Cengage (previously IAC) for 13 years as a Customer Systems Support Engineer, Manager of RFP/Bids Administration, and Senior MARC Record Specialist. Prior to that she designed and built CAVALIR Online, a statewide union catalog for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Elaine’s experience also includes training and support for VTLS, Inc., onsite in the U.S. and Europe and remotely for countries in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim, faculty teaching positions at universities in North Carolina and Virginia, and seven years at Richmond Public Library in Virginia.
In her new position as ILS Training & Support Librarian, Elaine will join Evette Atkin on the Michigan Evergreen Team. Elaine and Evette will work with Grand Rapids Public Library to migrate the pilot libraries to Evergreen, an open-source integrated library system. After the initial pilot project is completed, Michigan Evergreen will be opened up to other libraries who wish to join the shared catalog.
For information on the Michigan Evergreen project, please feel free to contact Evette Atkin, Elaine Ross, or Ruth Dukelow at MLC. See also the Michigan Evergreen blog.
March 19th, 2008
The Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) is hosting a seminar in Second Life on Tuesday, February 12, 4pm SL time (that’s 7pm EST - Michigan time). The seminar will focus on Evergreen ILS open-source software. Our speakers will be Don McMorris from Equinox and Tim Daniels from one of the Georgia libraries using Evergreen.
The seminar will be held at MLC’s virtual building in Second Life. For SL coordinates and other information, please contact Evette Atkin, atkine@mlcnet.org or 800-530-9019 x152.
February 11th, 2008
MLC has posted a job opening for an ILS Training & Support Librarian to work on the Michigan Evergreen project. For links to the complete job description and application form, go to:
http://mlcnet.org/cms/sitem.cfm/news__announcements/job_posting/
January 22nd, 2008
Marshall Breeding’s article, “Perceptions 2007: an International Survey of Automation,” was posted yesterday by Library Technology Guides.
Marshall writes:
“The year 2007 saw considerable upheaval in the library automation industry. To get some sense of the aftermath of the recent rounds of mergers, acquisitions, product consolidations, and to gauge interest in open source automation systems, I created and executed a survey that aims to measure the prevailing perceptions in libraries.
… The survey results indicate major differences in satisfaction in the products and companies from which libraries acquire their automation systems. Dissatisfaction and concern prevail, yet some companies maintain exceptional levels of satisfaction from the libraries that use their products.”
Click here for the complete article. Click here to view the interactive version of the survey’s statistical results.
January 10th, 2008
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has named the Georgia Public Library Service as one of 10 recipients of the second annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration. The $50,000 grant recognizes GPLS for the development and release of the Evergreen open-source library automation system.
The Mellon Awards honor not-for-profit organizations for leadership in the collaborative development of open-source software tools with particular application to higher education and cultural heritage not-for-profit activities. The awards were presented Dec. 10. Click here for the full story.
MLC is partnering with Grand Rapids Public Library on a Michigan Evergreen project to develop a shared library system using Georgia’s Evergreen software. For information, please see our Michigan Evergreen blog.
Congratulations to Georgia! And a big “thank you†for making Evergreen available to the rest of us via open source!
December 12th, 2007
Karen Schneider has written a pretty good overview of open source software and the reasons why it’s gaining in popularity among librarians. She follows up her TechSource column with another on her own blog.
September 6th, 2007
