[Koha] Fwd: [Web4lib] Request to participate in 2010 Library Technology Guides automation survey

[Breeding, Marshall]

MJ,

Does the 2010 edition split ILS from suppliers yet?  I think we advised our libraries to list as "Koha - Independent" last year in order to avoid the "not enough responses" silliness.  Also, we're not the sole support provider to some of our libraries.

-With Koha, unlike the other ILS products, I have an association between the product and the support provider.  I'm open to either aggregating them together or to treat the ILS / Vendor pairs separately.   I've already had one inquiry suggesting that they not be aggregated.  

How common is it that a library will sign with multiple support vendors for Koha support?  I'm not aware that this is a common arrangement at all.


Is there an Independent option for RFID?

-This survey does not address RFID products.  I've recently added RFID products and vendors to what lib-web-cats tracks, but there is not sufficient data to support this kind of a survey yet.  There are many categories of products libraries use for technology support, this one focuses on the ILS and discovery products.

Are the anonymised responses available under Creative Commons BY, ODbL or other broadly FOSS terms?

-No.  I publish the statistics as openly as I can, including the redacted comments.  I reveal the totals of all numeric responses.   It would be a great deal of work to sanitize the data in a way that would ensure the privacy of respondents.   

Can someone help me get a reply from Marshall Breeding? ;-)

-Yes. I responded.  Just like I did last year to your concerns.  

-I do hope that all libraries running Koha will respond to the survey.  Many libraries are considering moving to open source ILS products and they deserve to benefit from the knowledge of the libraries that have already implemented Koha.

Best regards,

-marshall


Marshall Breeding
Editor, Library Technology Guides
http://www.librarytechnology.org
marshall.breeding at librarytechnology.org
http://twitter.com/mbreeding





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Subject: Re: [Koha] Fwd: [Web4lib] Request to participate in 2010 Library Technology Guides automation survey

> Please respond to the 2010 library automation perceptions survey.
> This page describes how to participate:
>  http://www.librarytechnology.org/blog.pl?ThreadID=184&BlogID=1

Does the 2010 edition split ILS from suppliers yet?  I think we advised our libraries to list as "Koha - Independent" last year in order to avoid the "not enough responses" silliness.  Also, we're not the sole support provider to some of our libraries.

Is there an Independent option for RFID?

Are the anonymised responses available under Creative Commons BY, ODbL or other broadly FOSS terms?

Can someone help me get a reply from Marshall Breeding? ;-)

Regards,
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MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op.
Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster.
In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html
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