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From Voyager to Conifer

From Voyager to Conifer. The University of Windsor’s Experience. Art Rhyno & Grace Liu Leddy Library University of Windsor October 8, 2009. NISO Forum – Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities. What is Conifer?.

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From Voyager to Conifer

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  1. From Voyager to Conifer The University of Windsor’s Experience Art Rhyno & Grace Liu Leddy Library University of Windsor October 8, 2009 NISO Forum – Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities

  2. What is Conifer? • Conifer is the joint project of Algoma, Laurentian, NOSM, and Windsor to adopt Evergreen as our common library system • One union catalogue • One shared set of servers • One step towards greater cooperation among Ontario libraries for ILS functions

  3. What is Conifer? From Google Map

  4. University of Windsor • Ontario: pop. 13million, home to about 1/3 of Canadians • Windsor: southernmost city in Canada, 323,342 • University of Windsor: 16,000 full-time students

  5. Leddy Library • Staff: 94 • Systems staff: 6 • Member of Ontario Council of University Libraries • Strong commitments to Knowledge Ontario, the cross-sector partnership of 4500 library organizations in Ontario • Legacy Voyager site • >1million bib records

  6. Art’s trip to here… 1989-1993 worked on a SPIRES-based ILS at Memorial University and wrote his first MARC editor 1993-1995 joined Windsor, a beta partner in the development of Notis Horizon, one of the first client/server library systems 1995-1997 scrambled when Ameritech pulled the plug on Notis initiative with less than 24 hours notice, scraped what was left of the budget to go back to the marketplace and became one of the first customers of Endeavor Voyager

  7. Art’s trip to here… 1999-2002 spent side hours developing java-based library system called PYTHEAS, some of the mappings ended up in Koha via work with a developer in BC, wrote his second MARC editor 2005 highly problematic Voyager upgrade, IBM hardware costs squeeze budget, agree in strategic planning to look for new ILS options 2006 operational strategic plan targets one day symposium on the State of the ILS

  8. The ILS Symposium - Nov. 15, 2006

  9. PINES - a very big challenge for OSS solutions

  10. A Shocking Slide from the ILS Symposium… PINES Cost Comparison

  11. An ILS with a growing track record for consortia

  12. An ILS also for academic libraries

  13. OpenSRF and Evergreen

  14. Achieving Agility it’s not about saving money (although we do save money) it’s not about creating another consortium for finding common work flows (although it is happening) it’s not about doing what we already do with OSS tools (although we still have to do a lot of the same things) it’s about agility and flexibility on an increasingly networked planet (and we can’t afford to stumble right now)

  15. UW and Conifer 2007 Officially join forces with Evergreen, work with Evergreen coders on beginnings of acq/ser layer, participate in a "meeting of the interested" university libraries in Guelph, Project Conifer is born! 2008 Establish test server environment, start mapping out priorities 2009 Go live on May 4th

  16. The New OPAC

  17. OPAC Customizations P. Zimmerman, 2009

  18. Workflow Modifications “Lack of Serials/Acquisitions/Reserves modules provided (demanded) a modified workflow. All solutions aren't necessarily code!” Grant Johnson, UPEI, 2009

  19. Integrating with SFX

  20. Uniting All Formats of Holdings in SFX

  21. Links • Conifer UW OPAC: http://windsor.concat.ca/opac/en- CA/skin/uwin/xml/ • Conifer Discuss Group: http://groups.google.ca/group/conifer-discuss • Evergreen Wiki: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/wiki.php • Equinox: http://esilibrary.com

  22. Thank you! Contact: Art Rhyno: arhyno@uwindsor.ca Grace Liu: gliu@uwindsor.ca

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