And Shirley,<div><br></div><div>If you have your students compare functionality of the two systems (at a point in time), I'd love to see the results of their work. This sort of thing is just what we need at <a href="http://rscel.org">rscel.org</a> and opensource.califa.org...two sites I'm using on open source library system projects. I'm sure I'm not the only one interested!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Lori<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Nicole Engard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nengard@gmail.com">nengard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Shirley,<br>
<br>
I can't tell you how excited this makes me! As a library student we<br>
never saw a real library system!! That's just insane in my opinion and<br>
I love that you're showing at least 2 to your students. You may also<br>
want to have your students pop into an IRC meeting and lurk to see how<br>
we share information and make decisions as a community. The schedule<br>
of these events is on the wiki:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:start" target="_blank">http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:start</a><br>
At each meeting we schedule the next one, so you'll only see 2<br>
scheduled meetings right now.<br>
<br>
Also if you're interested there is the Koha Newsletter<br>
<a href="http://koha.web2learning.net/" target="_blank">http://koha.web2learning.net/</a> and the Koha Social Networks:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=kohasocialnetworks" target="_blank">http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=kohasocialnetworks</a><br>
<br>
Thanks a bunch,<br>
Nicole C. Engard<br>
Koha Documentation Manaager<br>
<br>
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Shirley Lew <<a href="mailto:shirleysue@gmail.com">shirleysue@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I'm new to this discussion list and thought I should introduce myself.<br>
> My name is Shirley Lew and I'm teaching a course, Library Automation &<br>
> Systems, at the School of Library, Archival & Information Studies<br>
> (SLAIS) program at UBC this term - course web site is here<br>
> <a href="http://blogs.ubc.ca/libr551/blog/" target="_blank">http://blogs.ubc.ca/libr551/blog/</a>. The course is using an instance of<br>
> Koha for Class and we also have access to Evergreen for<br>
> learning/teaching purposes. For the majority of students, this is the<br>
> first opportunity for hands-on exploration of an open source ILS and<br>
> they're looking forward to it!<br>
><br>
> The major course assignment this term involves evaluating and<br>
> comparing some of the functionality between Koha and Evergreen. I will<br>
> be encouraging students to subscribe to this listserv, both to observe<br>
> the discussion and to ask questions as they get to know the system.<br>
> The Koha community is clearly a very supportive and collegial one, so<br>
> I thank everyone in advance for any help/support you can offer<br>
> students who may ask questions.<br>
><br>
> Shirley<br>
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