[Koha] The Potential Death of Koha in Pennsylvania Libraries

[Cab Vinton]

Wow, does the State Library really have that much authority over
individual libraries (legal or otherwise)?

I would find that hugely surprising. But then here in NH we don't even
have any county-wide systems. For the most part, it's every town/ city
library for itself ...

Cab Vinton, Director
Sanbornton Public Library
Sanbornton, NH


On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:
> The State Library her in Pennsylvania has started planning for a
> state-wide ILS. My Director, John Brice attended a tech committee
> netting this past Friday, bringing myself and Cindy Murdock as well.
> At the meeting, it was announced that HSLC and Equinox will be
> installing Evergreen in 33 libraries currently using Millennium. In
> all likelyhood, in the future all the libraries in the state will be
> required to switch over to Evergreen. Needless to say, my boss and
> myself are extremely upset by this proposition to say the least.
>
> I would applaud the choice of a FOSS ILS, but the choice would not
> bring any advantage. It appears to me to be a strictly financial
> decision. The idea being pushed at the meeting was to give libraries
> as little choice as possible to keep down costs. If we were forced to
> switch to Evergreen, not only would our huge investment in Koha via
> time and money be thrown away, but we would be forced into a new
> system over which we would be no control or ability to customize. We
> would have no control over the quality of service, as the servers are
> planned to be centralized somewhere within the state. I do not relish
> the idea of our current freedoms being taken away.
>
> Kyle
>
> http://www.kylehall.info
> Information Technology
> Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
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