Dear Colleagues,
We have been an Innovative Library forever. However, with the recurring
costs associated with new servers and maintenance, I think it is only
prudent that we investigate other alternatives to Innovative. State Law
Schools, especially small ones like ours, are constantly struggling to
best allocate funds to serve our patrons. Most of these funds are fixed
costs with large vendors, leaving just a small portion of our budgets
each year for flexible spending. It is in this flexible area where all
the pressure arises, and when the costs of new servers for an OPAC is
thrown into the mix every few years, it really can take away from other
important initiatives and purchases.
So, we are seriously considering moving our OPAC to the Washington
Research Libraries Consortium (wrlc.org), a Voyager shop, where the
annual costs to the Law Library would be significantly reduced.
I have never used anything except Innovative.
I am looking for opinions from those that either have made the move from
Innovative to Voyager, gone from Voyager to Innovative, only use
Voyager, or prefer some other system entirely.
Please, I want to hear what you have to say about these systems. Don't
be shy.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Brian
Brian L. Baker, JD, MLS
Director of the Law Library
& Assistant Professor of Law
UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
Charles N. and Hilda H.M. Mason Law Library
E: bbaker@udc.edu V: 202-274-7354 F: 202-274-7311
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of
change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of
the darkness.
Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75)
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