Hello: Just a heads-up that I created some training materials for Evergreen 2.0 for a library earlier this week from scratch. It was probably foolish to do it from scratch, but I knew what I wanted to talk about and had to step through the screens to capture the correct labels anyway and ensure correctness, so it didn't seem like I would save much time by working with existing materials.
The materials cover: * Intro to the staff client * Intro to the catalogue * Intro to basic cataloguing * Intro to basic circulation The materials include a number of hands-on exercises (it's training, after all, not just documentation). It took me about 12 hours to pull this content together, and I'm pretty happy with the shape it took; delivering the training took a full day, and we were able to use a number of the basic exercises to jump into more advanced aspects of Evergreen. The materials are available from http://bzr.coffeecode.net/2011_boreal (in a bzr repository, if you're inclined to fork and develop the content) in HTML "Slidy" format, PDF, and ePub, and they are licensed under a CC-BY-SA license (so if anything fills in a gap in the existing documentation, it can be integrated without a licensing problem). The source is AsciiDoc, naturally, and my intention was to create materials that could stand alone if necessary but which would benefit from having an instructor to guide through & provide more context. One caveat: I was delivering the training to a French library, so all labels come from the French translation of the staff client. However, it would take only a few minutes to switch these to English. I did a quick search this morning and found PLS had training materials for 1.6.0.3, and some PINES training materials from 2008/2009 are on the wiki, but there doesn't seem to be very much current content available. Would this be something that the DIG would be interested in adopting? Or perhaps we could start by simply creating a "Training" namespace in the wiki and pulling together links to as many existing sources of content as possible. Dan
