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VALENJ: PINES & the Evergreen Open Source ILS

Started by nengard · 10 months ago

Elizabeth McKinney de Garcia, Program Director of Georgia PINES talked to us about how PINES decided to develop their own open-source ILS, Evergreen. Georgia PINES is made up of 49 public library systems which equates to 275 facilities and bookmobiles sharing a joint bibliographic database of ne ... Continue reading »

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  • Jill

    1 year ago

    Using the owning vs. renting analogy... when the hot water heater goes out, you just pick up the phone and your landlord sends some one out to fix it. When it's time for a new roof, that expense comes out of my landlord's pocket. Renting is great when you've got a great landord. Most ILS vendors are really bad landlords, but not all of them.
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  • Nicole C. Engard

    1 year ago

    Jill, very true! But I still would have liked to paint my apartment whatever colors I wanted and hung pictures all over and not worried about how my customizations were going against the rules.
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