Good morning, y'all. We are currently working on selecting a new ILS for our library to replace our Dinosaur Dynix system and are leaning heavily toward Koha. I am not nearly tech savvy enough to migrate and install it myself so we will definitely need a good vendor to handle that for us. Because of the limitations of our particular jurisdiction, we will need to do a Request For Proposals and go through a bidding process. My problem is I have been asked to come up with the specifications for our RFP and have no clue where to start. It occurred to me to draw on this Brain Trust and ask my fellow US systems folks on here for assistance. Why "reinvent the wheel", as the cliche' goes. So, if it isn't too much trouble and doesn't violate your system's confidentiality, would some of you mind forwarding to my private email (storypage at gmail.com) any specifications and/or RFPs you used when you switched to Koha? It would save me an awful lot of work and headaches. Alternately, could you give me a few hints on how to get started? We are primarily looking at contracting out server setup, migration, training and support. We will no doubt have very different needs from yours, but it will at least give me a starting point and some ideas. Thanks from the clueless, --Jim Maroon -- ================================================== "The man, who, by his own and his family's labour, can provide a sufficiency of food and raiment and a comfortable dwelling place, is not a poor man."--William Cobbett, *Cottage Economy*, 1826.