Open Source Library Implementation
Karen Kohn and Eric McCloy are both from Arcadia University, explained in detail how they were able to pull off switching from Sirsi to Koha.
Koha runs on Linux, takes very little space and is fast.
This session was mainly about how the Arcadia University library got ready to implement Koha from Sirsi.
Who should be on board?
IT
Library Staff
Facilitating Faculty
Motivation for Migration
- No access to data
- Website design
- Unresponsive customer service
- Hard to upgrade and modify
Pros
- 12% cost savings
- Broke project into chunks
- Able to see some improvements quickly, faster federated search
Cons
- Staff time for testing (expensive)
- Could not pay for overlap support
- Delay in catalog changes being displayed
How it was implemented?
- Dropped Sirsi
- Used Savings to get Master Key working
- Dumped nightly from Sirsi to Koha
- Did a Z39.50 search from site to Koha
- Tested and debugged frequently
Issues to consider
- STRONG IT vs. Librarians relationships (working together)
- Staff and Faculty knowledge is important
Here is Arcadia's Landman Library looks like with the Open Source software Koha as their Integrated Library System.
I love this library catalog. It feels like you're on Amazon.com!
What do you guys think?
Session 3- Unconferences
Unconferences
Speakers: Steve Lawson, Kathryn Greenhill, John Blyberg, Stephen Francoeur
This session was a little "different". Most people already knew about this subject. I was totally lost.
But I did take notes:
Planning an Unconference
What is an Unconference?
These are very informal conferences that are often called "Library Camp" or Podcamps, Barcamps, XCamps, depends on the field of interest.
Difference between traditional conference and unconference
- Planned and facilitated by participants
- Sometimes completely virtual
- Less costly
- Sometimes does not require travel
- Open Source Sharing
Library Unconferences- How to create an Unconference (taken directly from CNN… they told us :))
1) Create a wiki – for sign up and topic choosing
See BarCamp.org and BrainJams.org for help with wiki setup.
2) Find sponsors that won’t interfere
3) Post author Harrison Owen's Law of Two Feet: Any person neither learning from nor contributing to a group discussion must walk to another one. (This is the motto of Unconferences.)
What goes on at an Unconference?
Participants post topics on boards, consolidate and do discussion groups.
Participants are the facilitators, this makes for more information exchange and diversity of topics.
Okay, gotta go, next session starting now.
Speakers: Steve Lawson, Kathryn Greenhill, John Blyberg, Stephen Francoeur
This session was a little "different". Most people already knew about this subject. I was totally lost.
But I did take notes:
Planning an Unconference
What is an Unconference?
These are very informal conferences that are often called "Library Camp" or Podcamps, Barcamps, XCamps, depends on the field of interest.
Difference between traditional conference and unconference
- Planned and facilitated by participants
- Sometimes completely virtual
- Less costly
- Sometimes does not require travel
- Open Source Sharing
Library Unconferences- How to create an Unconference (taken directly from CNN… they told us :))
1) Create a wiki – for sign up and topic choosing
See BarCamp.org and BrainJams.org for help with wiki setup.
2) Find sponsors that won’t interfere
3) Post author Harrison Owen's Law of Two Feet: Any person neither learning from nor contributing to a group discussion must walk to another one. (This is the motto of Unconferences.)
What goes on at an Unconference?
Participants post topics on boards, consolidate and do discussion groups.
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| From Computers in Libraries 2009 Conference |
Participants are the facilitators, this makes for more information exchange and diversity of topics.
Okay, gotta go, next session starting now.
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