This presentation was given during the February 2009 Coos Library Directors' meeting to convince them to look into adopting an open source integrated library system (ILS) such as Koha or Evergreen. The Coos County Library Service District is located on the southern Oregon coast.

1. Coos County Library Service District Coos County, Oregon
THE TIME HAS COME
CCLSD and an open source ILS
Proposed by:
Sean Park, Buzzy Nielsen, & Gary Sharp This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United
Directors’ Meeting | February 19, 2009 States License (http://www.creativecommons.org)

2. THE SEASON(S) OF OUR DISCONTENT
The odd search
results and order

3. THE SEASON(S) OF OUR DISCONTENT
The nonsensical
menus and modules

4. THE SEASON(S) OF OUR DISCONTENT
The distinctly
unhelpful manual

5. THE SEASON(S) OF OUR DISCONTENT
“Millennium/system “Keyboard doesn’t
hesitations since 12/8” respond when trying to
key in or update records
in Millennium.”
“Using Millennium and Word
brings PC to its knees”
“Millennium freezes”
“Cannot print from Millennium”
And all of those
other sundry problems *Actual problems taken from the Call Tracker

6. IT’S TIME TO EXPLORE NEW OPTIONS.

7. Reason #1:
FRUSTRATION

8. Reason #2:
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES

9. MORE FLEXIBLE OPACS

10. MORE FLEXIBLE OPACS

11. LEANER, EASIER STAFF MODULES

12. LEANER, EASIER STAFF MODULES

13. Reason #3:
COST

14. NICKEL & DIMING US
Ports
Self-checks
OPAC flexibility
Annual maintenance
Unhelpful tech support

15. OPEN SOURCE ALREADY SAVES US $
Email qmail
Web design WordPress
Online calendar WebCalendar
Internet filtering DansGuardian
Public computing Ubuntu
Instant messaging Pandion
Network monitoring Nagios
$28,300 plus annual fees

16. Reason #4:
PROVEN TRACK RECORD

17. ALMOST ALL OF GEORGIA’S DONE IT
= PINES libraries
= non-PINES libraries
Map source: Georgia Public Library Service

18. SO HAS ATHENS COUNTY, OH

19. AND MANY MORE

20. Reason #5:
OPPORTUNITY

21. OREGON’S ALREADY EXPERIMENTING
2009 LSTA grant:
The Sage
Library System
is investigating
an open source ILS.

22. OUR PROPOSAL

23. APPOINT A COMMITTEE
RECOMMENDED COMPOSITION:
• Library director: Nadine Goodrich (LAK)
• Cataloger: Mary Graham (COQ)
• Researcher: Buzzy Nielsen (NON)
• Tech expert: Sean Park (ESO)
• Frontline staff member: Suzy Piatt (SWO)
• ILS expert: Nancy Price (ESO/BAY)
• Volunteers

24. COMMITTEE INVESTIGATES OPTIONS
TOPICS OF INVESTIGATION:
• Options for systems
• Other libraries’ experiences
• Cost implications
• Technical implications
• Migration needs
• Possibility of neighboring counties joining system

25. REPORT BACK TO DIRECTORS/SYSTEM
REPORT DETAILS
• Contents:
Should address all previously listed topics
• Recommendation:
Should recommend whether/which to adopt.
• Funding sources:
Should preliminarily identify grants and other funds
• Deadline:
July 2009 Directors’ meeting

26. “'Free software' is a matter of you should think
To understand the concept,
liberty, not price.
of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer.'”
Source: Richard Stallman, “The Free Software Definition” (GNU Project)

27. QUESTIONS?