[Koha-devel] Convincing City IT Dept.

[Michael Hafen]

I would start by pointing them at the MARC standard:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/ , and tell them to start there.  If that
doesn't dissuade them then look up the z39.50 protocol, and tell them
that that is the next step.  Then point them at IndexData's Zebra
engine, and that's the next step.

Then tell them "or we can use Koha which has already done all this work
for you".

Good luck.

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:31 -0500, Ed Veal wrote:
> I have an interesting situation here. We had LibLime come and give us
> a presentation last week and I thought it would be best to invite the
> city IT staff to take a look so that they could be onboard with any
> decision that we make.  However, what has happened is that they seem
> to think that they have the expertise to do this on their own. I
> shudder at the thought. They have already set up a server and are
> wanting my advice and guidance in migrating data. My advice is to
> contract it out, we don't have the resources or the expertise to
> accomplish this. 
>  
> So my question is how do I convince the IT department of this? I can't
> seem to get it through to them that this is not just any old SQL
> database.
>  
>  
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