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Duimovich, George | 13 Dec 17:39
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Re: Laundry list for NGC (long post)

Thank-you for your "long post" and also to Joshua Ferraro and others for following up on comparing your list to Koha's capabilities. I'm sure a similar comparison with Evergreen would hold up too...
 
I'm sympathetic with your reference to "too much theory and questioning/doubt behind everything" although for different reasons. Admitedly, it is a necessary part of moving forward, but personally I find reading this list often frustrating because too many of us remain unable (for a variety of reasons) to re-world test the various proposals, wish-lists and funky ideas that come out of here.  It's really crazy that not enough of us are better positioned to say "hey, great idea, let's check it out." The OSS folks are exceptional in this regard, as we saw a small example of this with Joshua's reply to Dan Mullineux's post earlier.
 
I won't argue the point in any detail, but the innovative folks at Koha & Evergreen, the numerous other library-related efforts around open source (e.g http://researcher.sfu.ca/), and most critical of all, our current vendor marketplace realities, should point many of us towards seriously challenging our arrangements with the "COBOL Cartel" and supporting & building upon OSS efforts whenever possible.
 
I hope to see more practical reference points on this list to balance the talk about what we want **with what will help us get there.**  Because in my mind, who care's what we want if our ability to explore "getting there" remains so limited (in reference of course to those of us stuck with one of the Big 3).
 
BTW, here's a related rant here where I say: "Vendors keep merging!!!" in regards to the recent Ex Libris/Endeavor merger:
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