Pioneer's Progress presentation at NLA/NEMA Conference, October 15, 2010, Grand Island, NE

1. Pioneer’s ProgressIt’s Like Finally Reaching Chimney Rock!Pioneer Consortium presentation NLA/NEMA 2010

2. Extinction?

4. Access to the source code is available for customization

5. A large community of developers and users collaborate to continually enhance the systems History of Pioneer - Part 1

6. A 2009/10 Library Improvement Grant was awarded to seven public libraries that represented about 45% of Nebraska’s public library users A consortium was formed to find out if an open source ILS was a viable alternative to the current ILS systems being used by the member libraries History of Pioneer – Part 2

7. What we determined in our grant study: Between the two main open source products – Evergreen or Koha – we selected Koha A scoping study gave us data to compare Koha to our existing ILS systems Set up a data center (servers, staff) to implement the ILS or have operations and maintenance hosted? – we chose the latter! History of Pioneer – Part 3

8. Five of the original seven libraries elected to implement Koha and chose LibLime/PTFS as the service provider Our contract includes: Setup, installation and configuration of a union catalog Provide the latest and most robust version of Koha Data migration and de-duping Training Host the system Provide software maintenance, help desk support, and development History of Pioneer – Part 4

9. http://vimeo.com/10958452 - Introduction http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=580 - introduction http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=598 – OPAC demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc-5Z_CCy3k&feature=related – basic searching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk9UZPAvWIg – advanced searching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tu_qu4ABGc&videos=zHq9pG8v-l8&feature=BF – navigating search results http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3h62ziPD9c&feature=related – log into account http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3t4KLWKzco&playnext=1&videos=zHq9pG8v-l8&feature=mfu_in_order – leaving comments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1Eiwq1XvU&feature=related – creating lists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivfReYObvUw&videos=zHq9pG8v-l8&feature=BF – adding tags http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz-B3xBoBq4&videos=zHq9pG8v-l8&feature=BF – virtual browsing Koha OPAC Features & Modules

10. http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=615 – importing marc records http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=617 – copy cataloging http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=630 – fast cataloging http://bywatersolutions.com/?p=590 – printing spine label batches Samples of Koha Cataloging Features & Modules

11. http://www.screencast.com/users/neklstraining/folders/Jing/media/11c9fd10-ff51-4036-8885-6e90c712674e -checking items in http://www.screencast.com/users/neklstraining/folders/Jing/media/23bf25d7-3b39-41f2-805d-a79d7834e61c - checking items in with holds http://www.screencast.com/users/neklstraining/folders/Jing/media/24858bf2-8924-4272-9ebe-4a1fb0bf8855 - checking items out http://www.nexpresslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/Nov09CheckOutvideo.swf - patron account features in staff client http://www.screencast.com/users/neklstraining/folders/Jing/media/a8b7934a-6f0d-48c9-897e-85a53f926207 - run and pull holds pick list Koha Circulation Features & Modules

12. See plenty of demo sites and OPAC websites at http://www.liblime.com/demos LibLime in Action

13. Only the five founding libraries will migrate in the first implementation Letters of Interest from accredited public libraries can be sent now for review starting in mid-2011 Non-public library additions starting in 2012 Send letters of interest to Steve Fosselman, Grand Island Public Library Call for Additional Members

14. Initial $250 orientation $750-$1,500 one-time setup charges 15 cents per bib migration Annual Maintenance Formula based on LSA, Revenues, Collection Size and Circulation Minimum of $350 or 1% of Consortium budget Basic Membership Costs

15. For More InformationSteve Fosselmansf@gi.lib.ne.usGreg Mickells g.mickells@lincolnlibraries.org