Yeah Kelly! It will be great to have more academic libraries using Evergreen.
Just off the top of my head, here are some areas that I would like to see refined by academics. Acquisitions: Order Types. Types like firm orders, periodical renewals, standing orders for monographic series, blanket orders, multi-part monographs Acquisitions: EDI periodical renewals. We would really like to see electronic invoicing and ordering work for our EBSCO subscriptions. PAC: Academic flavor. It might be nice to offer a different look to the PAC that defaults to a fuller bibliographic description. PAC: Federated searching I would love to not have to spend many thousands of dollars annually, for EBSCO Discover. Cataloging: Volumes The way that volume numbering is treated in Evergreen needs to be revisited in the light of publications that have Fascicles/Volumes/Parts that need to be reflected on a single call number. Reports: Out of the box reports that deal with the specific kinds of statistics required by Accrediting Agencies. Welcome Aboard! Don On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Kelly Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Evergreen Community, > > > For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of 10 > academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration to > Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and spoke with > members of FLO during this year’s annual conference in Boston. Thank you > for your time, patience and information. All your comments and suggestions > convinced us to continue pursuing a migration to Evergreen. > > > Our investigation also suggested that it would be helpful to build > an academic interest group within the larger Evergreen community. This > group would be focused solely on academic issues as they relate to the ILS. > Several existing Evergreen libraries and consortia have already expressed > interest in the group and we have tentatively called it > "Academics for Evergreen". > > > To be most effective, Academics for Evergreen would be composed of any > individuals or institutions that have an interest in enhancing the > academic-related functions of Evergreen. Once formed, the group will > identify the academic-related functions that most need attention and work > to build knowledge, consensus, and resources to move moving these issues > forward. So far we have identified a few of the possible issues, such as > streamlined creation and management of authority records, enhanced search > and browse by authority, support for multiple subject heading schema, > improved staff workflows and possible improvements to course reserves > integration. This list is by no means exhaustive and needs the > participation of the Evergreen community to improve and refine it. > > > Please respond and let us know if you are interested, have suggestions for > moving these issues forward, or if you have any questions. > > > Thank you, > > > Kelly Drake > Systems Librarian > Fenway Libraries Online > Boston, MA 02115 > 617-442-2384 > > Conference calls: > Boston: 617-989-5050 > Toll-free: 877-532-8229 > Conference ID: 933794 > Web conferencing: > https://join.me/flomeeting > > -- Don Butterworth Faculty Associate / Librarian III B.L. Fisher Library Asbury Theological Seminary [email protected] (859) 858-2227
