from voyager to conifer
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From Voyager to Conifer. The University of Windsor’s Experience. Art Rhyno & Grace Liu Leddy Library University of Windsor October 8, 2009. NISO Forum – Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities. What is Conifer?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
From Voyager to Conifer
Art Rhyno & Grace LiuLeddy Library
University of Windsor
October 8, 2009
NISO Forum – Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities
The University of Windsor’s Experience
What is Conifer?
Conifer is the joint project of Algoma, Laurentian, NOSM, and Windsor to adopt Evergreen as our common library systemOne union catalogueOne shared set of serversOne step towards greater cooperation among Ontario libraries for ILS functions
What is Conifer?
From Google Map
University of Windsor
Ontario: pop. 13million, home to about 1/3 of Canadians
Windsor: southernmost city in Canada, 323,342
University of Windsor: 16,000 full-time students
Leddy Library
Staff: 94Systems staff: 6Member of Ontario Council of University
LibrariesStrong commitments to Knowledge Ontario, the
cross-sector partnership of 4500 library organizations in Ontario
Legacy Voyager site>1million bib records
Art’s trip to here…
1989-1993 worked on a SPIRES-based ILS at Memorial University and wrote his first MARC editor
1993-1995 joined Windsor, a beta partner in the development of Notis Horizon, one of the first client/server library systems
1995-1997 scrambled when Ameritech pulled the plug on Notis initiative with less than 24 hours notice, scraped what was left of the budget to go back to the marketplace and became one of the first customers of Endeavor Voyager
Art’s trip to here…
2005 highly problematic Voyager upgrade, IBM hardware costs squeeze budget, agree in strategic planning to look for new ILS options
2006 operational strategic plan targets one day symposium on the State of the ILS
1999-2002 spent side hours developing java-based library system called PYTHEAS, some of the mappings ended up in Koha via work with a developer in BC, wrote his second MARC editor
The ILS Symposium - Nov. 15, 2006
PINES - a very big challenge for OSS solutions
A Shocking Slide from the ILS Symposium…
PINES Cost Comparison
An ILS with a growing track record for consortia
An ILS also for academic libraries
OpenSRF and Evergreen
Achieving Agility
it’s not about saving money (although we do save money)
it’s not about doing what we already do with OSS tools (although we still have to do a lot of the same things)
it’s not about creating another consortium for finding common work flows (although it is happening)
it’s about agility and flexibility on an increasingly networked planet (and we can’t afford to stumble right now)
UW and Conifer
2007 Officially join forces with Evergreen, work with Evergreen coders on beginnings of acq/ser layer, participate in a "meeting of the interested" university libraries in Guelph, Project Conifer is born!
2008 Establish test server environment, start mapping out priorities
2009 Go live on May 4th
The New OPAC
OPAC Customizations
P. Zimmerman, 2009
Workflow Modifications
“Lack of Serials/Acquisitions/Reserves modules provided (demanded) a modified workflow.
All solutions aren't necessarily code!”Grant Johnson, UPEI,
2009
Integrating with SFX
Uniting All Formats of Holdings in SFX
Links
Conifer UW OPAC: http://windsor.concat.ca/opac/en- CA/skin/uwin/xml/
Conifer Discuss Group:http://groups.google.ca/group/conifer-discuss
Evergreen Wiki: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/wiki.php
Equinox: http://esilibrary.com
