Presentation on Evergreen/Conifer for Access 2008 in Hamilton, ON.

1. Evergreen and Conifer or... How to amaze your friends and astound your enemies by building a union catalogue on the cheap(ish) John Fink Digital Technologies Development Librarian McMaster University

2. My relationship with the ILS, 1995-2008:

3. ...

6. Break the shell and you'll find magic.

13. At the risk of sounding like this guy:

14. Or (maybe) worse yet:

17. tl;dr If you can't open it, you don't own it.

19. Because it's not cheap – there are hardware and opportunity costs involved, and just about any change means at least some modicum of training, and a whole lot of headache.

20. But we at least have one advantage.. We (McMaster) are not planning on changing our patron interface – Endeca – and any reasonable discovery layer ought to function without too much hacking.

21. Ten years on?

22. One year later, they went out of business.

23. Image credits: Uncle Karl image courtesy of Wikipedia Stallman image courtesy of gnu.org love/hate photo courtesy of [email_address] @ flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiji_art/2414595461/ Coherent image courtesy of mrbill @ flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/mrbill/29870228/ EG install image courtesy of G. Hill, K. Thornley: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/59.php