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| Time | Nick | Message |
|---|---|---|
| 10:14 | timing | Are the koha masters in the house |
| 10:14 | needing to kno if any K-12 school districts are using koha | |
| 10:15 | paul | hi timing. |
| 10:15 | what is a K-12 school ? | |
| 10:15 | (/me french, sometimes don't understand US-isms) | |
| 10:15 | timing | Kindergarten thru 12th grade |
| 10:16 | paul | (and 12th grade is what ?) |
| 10:16 | timing | Senior last grade before a student graduates High School |
| 10:17 | Public school goes from Kindergarten 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 | |
| 10:17 | paul | (how old ? I know that specifically in schools, terms does not have the same meaning. For example, in france, High School means "school for >18 years old students) |
| 10:17 | timing | then off to college |
| 10:17 | paul | (and the most famous ones) |
| 10:17 | (while college is for childrens between 10 and 14 !) | |
| 10:18 | timing | wow |
| 10:18 | Ok 12th is 18 at the most | |
| 10:18 | Kindergarten is 5yrs | |
| 10:18 | old that is | |
| 10:20 | paul | in France there are some schools for sutdents >18 that uses Koha. But none that I know for smaller ones. |
| 10:21 | Koha is too complex to install for small schools (I mean without system admin and pro librarian) | |
| 10:21 | timing | Well we use Follett on 11 schools right now |
| 10:22 | and we do not have a unified database | |
| 10:22 | we are looking for a solution to put them all together | |
| 10:23 | but when a students searches the data or marc records he/she gets that school first | |
| 10:23 | then gets a choice to search on other campus's if not at their campus | |
| 10:23 | kados | morning folks |
| 10:23 | timing | morning |
| 10:24 | kados | timing: there's a K-12 in Seattle using Koha IIRC |
| 10:24 | timing: let me find a link | |
| 10:24 | timing | alrighty then |
| 10:28 | kados | shoot ... the Koha world map still hasn't come back online |
| 10:29 | paul | ('morning joshua) |
| 10:29 | (do you have some news from the "super MARC editor" project ?) | |
| 10:30 | kados | paul: nothing just yet |
| 10:30 | paul | means "nothing has been done" or "nothing to announce" ? |
| 10:30 | kados | nothing to announce yet ;-) |
| 10:30 | we're hoping to have a demo running within a couple weeks | |
| 10:31 | timing: Coast Mountains School District | |
| 10:31 | timing: it's in BC | |
| 10:32 | timing | OK not link |
| 10:33 | I can look it up | |
| 10:33 | I think what you guys called what I need a consortium | |
| 10:33 | kados | yep |
| 10:33 | timing | and you would be willing to work on it for a cost maybe |
| 10:33 | kados | absolutely! ;-) |
| 10:33 | timing | I might have you a job if the price is right |
| 10:34 | kados | timing: http://old.koha.org/about/map/northamerica.html# |
| 10:34 | timing: that's the Koha world map (finally found it ;-)) | |
| 10:34 | timing: there are a few K-12 schools listed there | |
| 10:35 | timing | alrighty then |
| 10:36 | kados | timing: note that Steve Tonnesen has dropped off the map |
| 10:40 | timing | So back to the pricing for consortium for 11-15 libraries |
| 10:40 | kados | ok |
| 10:40 | well the first step is to define exactly what we need | |
| 10:41 | so how many libraries are we talking about? | |
| 10:42 | timing | we have 11 right now but will be adding 2-3 in the next few years |
| 10:42 | kados | ok ... and these are all school libraries right? |
| 10:42 | and the schools are separate? | |
| 10:43 | morning owen | |
| 10:43 | timing | yes |
| 10:43 | all schools and all seperate | |
| 10:43 | kados | timing: ok ... so what will they want to share and what will they want to be locally defined? |
| 10:43 | timing | 2 high school 2 middle schools 7 elementaries |
| 10:44 | kados | i.e., will they share patrons? |
| 10:44 | (students)? | |
| 10:44 | share the catalog? | |
| 10:44 | timing | no share of students just books |
| 10:45 | kados | share in cataloging ? |
| 10:45 | how about reports, etc? | |
| 10:45 | timing | well we have a messed up system right now and lots of questions from me to |
| 10:45 | the librarians | |
| 10:46 | I will have to get some more details from them | |
| 10:46 | I understood us to want a single database | |
| 10:46 | with all schools in it | |
| 10:47 | kados | right |
| 10:47 | timing | but when a student searches for a book at Kerr Middle School |
| 10:47 | he sees kerr middle school first and then gets a option to search others schools | |
| 10:48 | but we don't want for a student to search and see all schools first | |
| 10:49 | kados | edsu: right |
| 10:49 | timing: right | |
| 10:49 | autocompletion woes ;-) | |
| 10:50 | timing: what about cataloging? | |
| 10:52 | timing | ok what exactly are we talking about with cataloging like marc records |
| 10:52 | we use follett with opac right now | |
| 10:53 | paul | hello owen |
| 10:53 | kados | timing: yes MARC records |
| 10:54 | timing: so do you have a cataloger in each library? | |
| 10:55 | timing | yes we have all 11 libraries with separate catalogs |
| 10:56 | kados | ok ... so if you move to a single system those catalogs will likely become merged ... and the cataloging practices of each library will need to be normalized |
| 10:56 | unless you want to keep them independent | |
| 10:57 | i.e., we need to decide exactly what things they will be sharing (like searching) and what things they will still do separately (like borrowing) | |
| 10:58 | timing: it's good that they are all on Follett now | |
| 10:59 | timing: as that means the migration will be smoother | |
| 10:59 | timing: and they are likely to have similar workflows | |
| 10:59 | timing: did you say you were meeting with the librarians soon? |
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