sclends evergreen 2010 conference presentation
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Presenters
Rogan HambySystems Librarian, Florence County Library Systems
Ray McBrideDirector, Florence County Library System
President, SCLENDs
President, South Carolina Association of Public Library Administrators
Catherine MorganDirector, Division of Innovation and Technology, South Carolina State Library
South Carolina
• Population (2008 est) 4,479,800
• 46 Counties (39 county systems, 2 regional)
• 2 Public Library Consortiums (1 Evergreen, 1 Polaris)
• Economic and Educational Challenges
• Libraries are funded by counties and state aide
Florence, June 2008
• Florence was evaluating new ILSes
• Invited Equinox to visit
• Opened the meeting up
• About 15 libraries attended
• Interest was high, many libraries were
already thinking along similar lines
State Library Steps In
• Provided Project Management
• Contract / Finance Management
• Provided LSTA funding
• Wiki / Tier 1 Help Desk
• Director of State Library, David Goble
Migration Environments
Beaufort
State Library
Union
York
Calhoun
Chesterfield
Dorchester
Florence
Anderson
Fairfield
Unicorn
Horizon
TLC
Polaris
Infocentre
Wave I – May 28th, 2009
• Beaufort – 5 locations
• State Library – 1 location
• Union – 1 location
• 504,233 Item / Bib records
• 100,440 Patron records
Wave I - Challenges
• Funding
• Administrative Structure
• Project Management
• Defining ourselves
• Deciding what to share
• Developing the model while building it
Wave I – Lessons Learned
• Front line staff can not get too much training & prep
• Expectations must be managed
• Public relations are critical
• Learn to ‘think green’ when cleaning data
• Learn to ‘think global not local’
WAVE II – Oct 15th, 2009
• Calhoun – 1 location
• Chesterfield – 5 locations
• Dorchester – 2 locations
• York – 5 locations
• 329,278 Item / Bib records
• 194,284 Patron records
WAVE II – Challenges
• Help Desk
• Learning what we don‟t know
• Training for reports, systems
administrators, and catalogers
• Communicating outside the box
• There is no „I‟ in consortium … wait there is
WAVE II – Lessons Learned
• Circ modifiers & Profiles
• SIP
• Humans need prefixes
• The game changes with more players
• Capacity planning is critical
WAVE III – Dec 3rd 2009
• Anderson – 8 locations
• Fairfield – 2 locations
• Florence – 6 locations
• 431,508 Item / Bib records
• 185,066 Patron records
Wave III - Challenges
• Bib record de-duplication
• Intra Consortial Loans
• Courier Expense
• Upgrades
• Future Planning
Wave III – Lessons Learned
• Evergreen is MARC centric
• Libraries will grow together
• The consortium is a continual process
• You will find out how clean your bibs are
SCLENDs as of 2010/04/31
• Patrons 491,687
• Item Records 2,037,567
• Circulation 2,261,526
SCLENDs Circulation
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350000
Jun-09 Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09 Jan-10 Feb-10 Mar-10 Apr-10
Intra Consortium Loans ICLs
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
Jun-09 Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09 Jan-10 Feb-10 Mar-10 Apr-10
ICL Courier Expenses
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
5000
Jun-09 Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09 Jan-10 Feb-10 Mar-10
The Other Side of Statistics
“I‟m still getting used
to it but the staff have
been so wonderful.”
“I love getting these books so fast.”
“There‟s soooo
much more now.”
Questions