Hi,
Just a general question...
We are currently using another ILS and might be looking to switch to Ever
Greenand were wondering how hard it is going to be to get our data migrated?
We are small site with very limited computer programming expertise.
Any advice and suggestions would be mo
On 10/08/2013 10:03 AM, Brian McNally wrote:
> We are currently using another ILS and might be looking to switch to
> Ever Green….and were wondering how hard it is going to be to get our
> data migrated?
That's an impossible question to answer the way that it is phrased. In
order to answer it, we
Brian,
A big factor will be what your current ILS is. Some have much cleaner data
than others. I usually recommend that you hire a specialist to do it for
you.
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Brian McNally wrote:
> Hi,
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> Just a general question...
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> We are
Hi Brian,
It depends. I work with three consortia who all handled their own
migrations. It did take quite a bit of time to work out all of the
details of the migration. There were several practice runs before
the actual migrations and, during each run, they
I'll slightly disagree with Jason in that I think you should pay more.
True, you can hire someone to manage your migration to a F/OSS system (and
there are some good ones in the community) just as you can hire a
commercial vendor but going F/OSS is a chance to have more control over
your data whic
On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 10:03:59 AM "Brian McNally"
wrote:
> Just a general question…
> We are currently using another ILS and might be looking to switch to
> Ever Green….and were wondering how hard it is going to be to get our
> data migrated?
> We are small site with very limited compute
Depends on what you're using right now. Most ILS's have the ability to
export your records. Importing into Evergreen isn't terribly difficult
(says someone who had a computer geek to export our records). The problem
usually is getting your records out of the old system.
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at
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would click the drop down box). When it goes into Misc it
