Kent County

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Kent Countys Quest,or, The Evergreen Fairytale

• Karen Collier, Public Services Librarian
• Andrea Buntz Neiman, Technical Services Librarian

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Once upon a time
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But What About?

• Consortial Capabilities
• Support Hosting Costs
• Hardware Costs

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Matthew, Birth and 1 Year
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The story behind the fairytale

• We cant make this stuff up!
• Money is tight for everyone
• Administrators need to do more with less
• Private software firms have tried to expand
  profit margins (guess who pays for that?)
• Our budget was a large factor in deciding to go
  with Evergreen

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Open Source in Libraries

• Howard County (MD) Public Library makes wide
  use of Open Source in several areas
• The Open Source movement and libraries share many
  concepts ideals
• Information access free
• Public domain a good thing
• Public knowledge a better thing
• Collaborative projects go team!
• More with less par for the course

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Common myths about Open Source

• Too much of a techie thing
• Truth even beginners can do it!
• Too fractured
• Most OSS projects have standard versions
• Too much work
• Global community of support
• Too different
• The way weve always done it is no excuse

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Advantages of OSS for Libraries

• Cost savings vs. proprietary software
• Flexible, user-centered development
• Staff ownership of open source software
• Giving back
• Freeeeeeeeeeeeeedom!

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Catalogers OSS a love story?

• They say were compulsive, but we really just
  like things to be in order, and make sense
• Many ILSs currently on the market are based on
  ideas structures that are 20 or more years old
  (MARC is even older)
• OpenGovInfo.net 04/27/2009 Ten reasons why
  cataloging librarians make natural programmers

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Happiness (my personal version)
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Happiness (my professional version)

• Evergreen 1.4
• Modern architecture thats completely scalable,
  built using the Mozilla engine OpenSRF
• Intuitive staff interface that supports workflow
• FRBR-ization (edition rollup)
• Sophisticated powerful context menus
• Bookbags for personal professional use
• Native z39.50 that doesnt make me crazy
• Importer that can handle batches
• Batch deletes that dont crash the system

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Search results in Evergreen
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Basic staff interface in Evergreen
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Cataloging interface in Evergreen
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Holdings maintenance in Evergreen
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Native Z39.50 interface in Evergreen
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MARC import/export interface
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Changes in Evergreen 1.6

• More highly customizable search interface
• Scoped searches for electronic resources
• Z39.50 holdings support
• Holdings export on all record formats
• Administrative UI improvements
• Serials support MFHD support
• Acquisitions module preview

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Open Source in KCPLs future

• Open Office
• GIMP (photo editing software)
• Groovix PAC (PC management)
• Drupal (content management)
• LibraryFind (federated search)
• Maybe even full Linux!

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Some of our favorite OS sites

• Open-ILS, home of Evergreen
• http//www.open-ils.org/
• Equinox Software
• http//esilibrary.com/esi/
• oss4lib (Open source systems for libraries)
• http//www.oss4lib.org/
• Open Sense Solutions
• http//open-sense.com/
• Howard County PL Open Source Blog
• http//hclibrary.org/opensource/

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Thank you!

• http//catalog.kentcountylibrary.org
• Karen Collier, kcollier_at_kent.lib.md.us
• Andrea Buntz Neiman, aneiman_at_kent.lib.md.us

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