Tom, If you can manage it on such short notice I'd highly recommend the Evergreen conference, which is right around the corner.
https://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg16/ Sitting down with a group of people at the conference and chatting for a while would save you many, many hours of email :-) Cheers, Justin On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Ben Shum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Welcome and cheers to your new installation! This mailing list can be > a great place to ask questions, so do not worry about asking them. > Though, I will caveat that by saying we may not always have the answer > to your question and as a project of volunteers it can take a little > time too (especially on weekends) ;) > > Re: 1) edit default landing page -- presuming you mean the main > catalog itself, there is some general documentation available in the > official Evergreen docs. I'll point you to a link like > http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.10/_designing_your_catalog.html , > there are probably other pages that may prove useful too. > > I'll leave the ISBN/MARC/migration-like questions for some other folks > to attempt answering if they can. Your questions sound like you're > trying to jumpstart your collection into Evergreen data doesn't sound > unreasonable in theory, but I don't have as much practical experience > on those approaches. Getting a good source for "quality" MARC data > can be interesting, depending on how your catalogers feel about it... > > As far as community interaction goes, the mailing list is definitely > the most visible communication method we have other than IRC. Social > media is used sometimes for dispensing project announcements, but I do > not know how often the community uses it for actual interactions. > > Hope this helps a little, > > -- Ben > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:49 PM, tom <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I have successfully installed evergreen 2.10.1 and the staff client on a >> box I set up for the purpose. Now that I've achieved this particular >> success, I have a gazillion random, stupid, off-topic, and potentially >> rtfm-worthy questions about evergreen and library management. I hope I don't >> become unbearably annoying. >> >> First, I'd like to edit the default landing page to change colors, logos, >> etc. Are there guidelines? I shouldn't have any problems with html or css, >> but I was wondering if it was documented somewhere. >> >> This may be wishful thinking, but can I add titles using nothing but a list >> of isbns? I would love to generate shelf-ready spine and barcode labels >> based on such a list. I've investigated marc records and the application >> "marcedit", but gads, it's alot to process, and I was hoping evergreen could >> help. >> >> How about patron and title import from follette-destiny? >> >> I'd like to put every existing book in my library's inventory into a list by >> hand--title, author, description, and whatever else--and then get that list >> into evergreen. Many books are old enough that there is no isbn barcode to >> scan for the info. >> >> That's enough for now. Are there places other than this list and irc for >> community interaction? I'm following evergreen on google plus, but I >> couldn't find much else. I don't do facebook or twitter. >> >> Thanks, and thanks for your patience. -- Regards, Justin
