Hi Rose.
Yes, you can track budgets using Funds in acquisitions. The
documentation is available here -
http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.3/_managing_funds.html
Basically, you can set up funding sources, which I think of as the
different places from which you get your funds (municipal allocation,
trustees funds, etc.) You can then allocate money from those funding
sources to specific funds that line up with your budgets. Tags can also
be added to funds to help with reporting. For example, if you have a
fund for Children's DVDs, you can give it a tag for children and for
dvd. You can then create a report for spending on all funds that have
the children's tag, which will include the Children's DVDs fund as well
as children's fiction, children's non-fiction, etc. You can also
generate a report for spending on all funds that have the dvd tag, which
might also include, adult DVDs, documentaries, etc.
I hope this helps!
Kathy
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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On 2/13/2013 4:51 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote:
1. I'll allow an acquisitions person to answer this one but I'm
pretty confidant the answer is 'yes.'
2. Aquabrowser - I heard of a library integrating it but haven't seen
it myself. I know it's doable. Automatic Phone Notifications - it
depends on how it's done. I've recently looked at one that uses a
delimited output and showed the users how to setup a report to feed to
it. You could go a step further and on the backend (in linux not
Evergreen itself) then setup a cron job that renames the file and FTPs
it to a box that does the phone notification. But, again that's that
one, it depends on the requirements of the product.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Schooff, Rose (LVA)
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
I have some questions from a public library that is considering
Evergreen. We are currently on 2.2 but will be upgrading to 2.3
before this particular library joins.
1.Does the acquisitions module allow for budget tracking?
2.How well will Evergreen work with thinks we might want to add in
the future (should we ever be able to afford them (for example,
Aquabrowser, an automatic phone notification system, etc.)?
Thanks for your help.
Rose M. Schooff
Virginia Evergreen Project Manager
The Library of Virginia
800 E. Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
(804) 692-3772 <tel:%28804%29%20692-3772>
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Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
York County Library System
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to
suit me."
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