Dear All, Is there anyone who is working on a Chinese version of Evergreen? We are a non profit organization (also named Evergreen) supporting a number of rural libraries in rural China and are in need of finding a good workable software like Evergreen. Thanks, Faith Chao President, Evergreen Education Foundation ________________________________________ From: Open-ils-general <[email protected]> on behalf of McCanna, Terran <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 7:07 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Discussions on Evergreen search
Thank you for coordinating this, Kathy!!! Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Lussier" <[email protected]> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 5:54:11 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Discussions on Evergreen search Hi all, During the dev hack-a-way in November, we had a discussion regarding Evergreen search. The discussion happened at the request of MassLNC after we had some local discussions regarding what our overall goals for Evergreen search are. We view search as one of the most important pieces of the ILS, if not the most important. It's what allows our users to find those resources we spend so much time cataloging so that they can then place holds on them, check them out from the library, or access them in some other way. I left the hack-a-way with an action item to start a larger community discussion where we could identify some high-level goals for what we want Evergreen search to be and where we could define what we consider to be important factors in search relevance. I would like to start this discussion with some focus-group-like discussions in IRC where community members could identify the features they like about the current search and where they see room for improvement. My hope is that these discussions can help us define what we consider to be an ideal search system for Evergreen and allow the dev community to explore options for making that ideal search system happen. I think the discussions will work best if they are not too large, so I anticipate scheduling two or three or more depending on interest. If you are interested in participating, please fill out the Doodle at http://doodle.com/poll/hkdy3u5255u3rpmr. I'll try my best to schedule these discussions so that anyone who shows interest through the Doodle poll has a chance to participate. I have also talked to Yamil Suarez about scheduling some "Intro to IRC" sessions ahead of time so that people who are unfamiliar with IRC have a chance to learn about it before the scheduled search discussions. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions! Kathy -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 [email protected] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
