Re: Beltane

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Gwyn Ryan <gwynhefar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heh -- Workflows is what LSU has and Millenium is what BU will be
> moving away from when we switch to Alma.  Personally I found Millenium
> to be pretty comparable to Workflows when I was trying to learn it,
> but then again, I'm Reference and Selection, so I never have to deal
> with the nitty gritty Acquisitions and Cataloguing sides of it.

Yeah, the learning part is probably the easy bit! My staff are pretty
happy with the change, since the OPAC is much better (we purchased the
Encore package) and the staff-facing stuff is at least marginally
better. My older staff report that it's easier to read the screens,
which is a bonus. I suspect we'll probably migrate to Innovative's
Sierra in a few years, if we continue to be happy with III. I'm not at
all familiar with Alma; they didn't respond to our RFP. Do they do
more with academic libraries?

> Yeah -- I forget, where do you work?

I'm at Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City. It's a little coastal
library with big ideas. ;) I took over as director in January when my
predecessor retired, and right now I'm the only MLIS-holidng member of
the staff. My circ supervisor and adult services manager, Hobbes, is
awesome, but we're both feeling a bit overworked. I'm looking forward
to hiring a third brain.

Kirsten