Pioneer Consortium Presentation

Pioneer’s Progress

It’s Like Finally Reaching Chimney Rock!

Pioneer Consortium presentation NLA/NEMA 2010

Extinction?

April 2007 – All types of libraries met to discuss the merits of Open Source and explore the possibilities for Nebraska libraries

The merits of Open Source Integrated Library Systems

o Open Source software is available to anyone to download and use

o Access to the source code is available for customization

o A large community of developers and users collaborate to continually enhance the systems

History of Pioneer - Part 1

A 2009/10 Library Improvement Grant was awarded to seven public libraries that represented about 45% of Nebraska’s public library users

A consortium was formed to find out if an open source ILS was a viable alternative to the current ILS systems being used by the member libraries

History of Pioneer – Part 2

What we determined in our grant study:

◦Between the two main open source products – Evergreen or Koha – we selected Koha

◦A scoping study gave us data to compare Koha to our existing ILS systems

◦Set up a data center (servers, staff) to implement the ILS or have operations and maintenance hosted? – we chose the latter!

History of Pioneer – Part 3

Five of the original seven libraries elected to implement Koha and chose LibLime/PTFS as the service provider

Our contract includes:◦ Setup, installation and configuration of a

union catalog◦ Provide the latest and most robust version of

Koha ◦ Data migration and de-duping◦ Training◦ Host the system ◦ Provide software maintenance, help desk

support, and development

History of Pioneer – Part 4

http://vimeo.com/10958452 - Introduction http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=580 - introduction http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=598 –

OPAC demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc-5Z_CCy3k&feature=related – basic

searching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk9UZPAvWIg – advanced searching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tu_qu4ABGc&videos=zHq9pG8v-l8&fe

ature=BF – navigating search results

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3h62ziPD9c&feature=related – log into account

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3t4KLWKzco&playnext=1&videos=zHq9pG8v-l8&feature=mfu_in_order – leaving comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1Eiwq1XvU&feature=related – creating lists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivfReYObvUw&videos=zHq9pG8v-l8&feature=BF – adding tags

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz-B3xBoBq4&videos=zHq9pG8v-l8&feature=BF – virtual browsing

Koha OPAC Features & Modules

http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=615 – importing marc records http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=617 – copy cataloging http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=630 – fast cataloging http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=590 – printing spine label batches

Samples of Koha Cataloging Features & Modules

http://www.screencast.com/users/neklstraining/folders/Jing/media/11c9fd10-ff51-4036-8885-6e90c712674e -checking items in

http://www.screencast.com/users/neklstraining/folders/Jing/media/23bf25d7-3b39-41f2-805d-a79d7834e61c - checking items in with holds

http://www.screencast.com/users/neklstraining/folders/Jing/media/24858bf2-8924-4272-9ebe-4a1fb0bf8855 - checking items out

http://www.nexpresslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/Nov09CheckOutvideo.swf - patron account features in staff client

http://www.screencast.com/users/neklstraining/folders/Jing/media/a8b7934a-6f0d-48c9-897e-85a53f926207 - run and pull holds pick list

Koha Circulation Features & Modules

See plenty of demo sites and OPAC websites at http://www.liblime.com/demos

LibLime in Action

Only the five founding libraries will migrate in the first implementation

Letters of Interest from accredited public libraries can be sent now for review starting in mid-2011

Non-public library additions starting in 2012 Send letters of interest to Steve Fosselman,

Grand Island Public Library

Call for Additional Members

Initial◦ $250 orientation◦ $750-$1,500 one-time setup charges◦ 15 cents per bib migration

Annual Maintenance◦ Formula based on LSA, Revenues, Collection Size

and Circulation◦ Minimum of $350 or 1% of Consortium budget

Basic Membership Costs

For More Information

Steve Fosselman sf@gi.lib.ne.us

Greg Mickells

g.mickells@lincolnlibraries.org