[eIFLfoss] Call for Participation: eIFL-FOSS ILS project

[Randy Metcalfe]

Dear All,

I am pleased to announce a Call for Participation in the eIFL-FOSS ILS
project [1].

eIFL-FOSS country coordinators are currently passing this call to
their national library consortia, and thence onward to individual
institutions and libraries that may wish to participate in this
project. If your country does not yet have an eIFL-FOSS country
coordinator [see 2], do please pass this along to your colleagues in
eIFL.net member countries yourself.


The Project:

eIFL-FOSS ILS is a project of the eIFL-FOSS program supporting
evaluation of and migration to free and open source (FOSS) integrated
library systems (ILS). It is an opportunity for librarians in eIFL
member countries to engage directly with the Koha [3] or Evergreen [4]
development communities and to contribute to that ongoing development.
In particular it is an opportunity for pilot institutions, in
conjunction with the active participation of the eIFL-FOSS country
coordinators, to identify and draft support documentation to aid
themselves and other libraries that may wish to pursue this FOSS ILS
path.


Call for Participation:

At this time we invite any eIFL.net library that is interested in
participating in a pilot of either Koha or Evergreen to make
themselves known to the eIFL-FOSS Program Manager, Randy Metcalfe
randy.metcalfe[@]eifl.net , by no later than 28 February 2008. An
initial meeting of pilot institutions will take place as soon after
that date as is feasible. Please be sure to identify which ILS you are
most interested in piloting. The full application details along with
further details of what is involved in piloting are available here
[1].


[1] http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/ils/call-for-participation
[2] http://www.eifl.net/cps/workspaces/eifl-foss/people
[3] http://www.koha.org/
[4] http://www.open-ils.org/

Best wishes,

Randy

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Randy Metcalfe
eIFL-FOSS Program Manager