Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Setting up a two library consortia system between US and Europe
Hi Yamil, Wow, that sounds like it would be pretty cool to implement! I'd definitely be careful about how your policies were configured, circ transits and hold requests across the ocean might come off a bit complicated, heh... I would worry about latency over such a great distance, wherever your server isn't, you'd get some slowness. I'm not sure if it's possible to get better performance if you had Evergreen servers at either end talking to a single database server. Your performance might still suffer for the Evergreen frontend server that had further to reach the database. Still, interesting idea! Hope you get more feedback from others on this. -- Ben On 11/18/2010 01:01 PM, Yamil Suarez wrote: Hello all, I would like some ballpark EG configuration advice from the veterans EG users of the list. I am hoping for just a rough idea, and I can provide more info on or off the list if necessary about my situation. I work for a small U.S. music college library, with 58,000 titles and all in one building. We are currently planning to migrate to EG sometime after next summer, and we have a rough migration plan from ESI. My college has plans to create a small study abroad program with 400 students in Spain. This future Spain site will include its own small library. I was just asked to figure out what additional needs I will have to support this remote library using our future Evergreen installation. So far I am planning, perhaps naively, of taking a consortia approach of having a single EG system. For example, the single system should have separate circulation rules and catalogers for each country. Does this approach seem reasonable to you guys? Of the top of your heads, should I stick to the single server I was planning to use in the US, or should I plan on getting an additional server to live in the US or Spain? In general the US library does not have high circulation rates, and that is why ESI recommended only one server for a US only library. I also do not expect a lot of circulation activity from the library in Spain. Thanks in advance, Yamil P.S. should this be posted to the dev list instead? -- Benjamin Shum Open Source Software Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070, ext. 113
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Setting up a two library consortia system between US and Europe
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: Hi Yamil, Wow, that sounds like it would be pretty cool to implement! I'd definitely be careful about how your policies were configured, circ transits and hold requests across the ocean might come off a bit complicated, heh... I would worry about latency over such a great distance, wherever your server isn't, you'd get some slowness. I'm not sure if it's possible to get better performance if you had Evergreen servers at either end talking to a single database server. Your performance might still suffer for the Evergreen frontend server that had further to reach the database. Still, interesting idea! Hope you get more feedback from others on this. A local transparent caching proxy (tuned specifically to cache just static content, and not the main page or XHR content, that's critical!) could mitigate many of the latency issues. --miker -- Ben On 11/18/2010 01:01 PM, Yamil Suarez wrote: Hello all, I would like some ballpark EG configuration advice from the veterans EG users of the list. I am hoping for just a rough idea, and I can provide more info on or off the list if necessary about my situation. I work for a small U.S. music college library, with 58,000 titles and all in one building. We are currently planning to migrate to EG sometime after next summer, and we have a rough migration plan from ESI. My college has plans to create a small study abroad program with 400 students in Spain. This future Spain site will include its own small library. I was just asked to figure out what additional needs I will have to support this remote library using our future Evergreen installation. So far I am planning, perhaps naively, of taking a consortia approach of having a single EG system. For example, the single system should have separate circulation rules and catalogers for each country. Does this approach seem reasonable to you guys? Of the top of your heads, should I stick to the single server I was planning to use in the US, or should I plan on getting an additional server to live in the US or Spain? In general the US library does not have high circulation rates, and that is why ESI recommended only one server for a US only library. I also do not expect a lot of circulation activity from the library in Spain. Thanks in advance, Yamil P.S. should this be posted to the dev list instead? -- Benjamin Shum Open Source Software Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070, ext. 113 -- Mike Rylander | VP, Research and Design | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Setting up a two library consortia system between US and Europe
You may encounter some issues with the time zone discrepancy. We at SITKA have encountered some somewhat minor issues with the handful of sites on Mountain Time versus the bulk of our sites on Pacific Time. I don't have the specifics off hand, but my understanding is that because it is only a one hour difference, the problems are only small inconveniences, such as offsetting library closed dates by an hour. You may have more problems with a greater time difference. ~James Fournie BC SITKA On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Yamil Suarez ysua...@berklee.edu wrote: Hello all, I would like some ballpark EG configuration advice from the veterans EG users of the list. I am hoping for just a rough idea, and I can provide more info on or off the list if necessary about my situation. I work for a small U.S. music college library, with 58,000 titles and all in one building. We are currently planning to migrate to EG sometime after next summer, and we have a rough migration plan from ESI. My college has plans to create a small study abroad program with 400 students in Spain. This future Spain site will include its own small library. I was just asked to figure out what additional needs I will have to support this remote library using our future Evergreen installation. So far I am planning, perhaps naively, of taking a consortia approach of having a single EG system. For example, the single system should have separate circulation rules and catalogers for each country. Does this approach seem reasonable to you guys? Of the top of your heads, should I stick to the single server I was planning to use in the US, or should I plan on getting an additional server to live in the US or Spain? In general the US library does not have high circulation rates, and that is why ESI recommended only one server for a US only library. I also do not expect a lot of circulation activity from the library in Spain. Thanks in advance, Yamil P.S. should this be posted to the dev list instead?
