Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] congrats Natural Resources Canada
Thanks Tara! Yes, we are now 100% Evergreen ILS, having migrated from both Unicorn and more recently Millennium in the context of our department's library amalgamation (we used to be a consortium of 3 library networks serving different sectors, but now operate as single business unit). Our contributions to the French language edition (working with Dan Scott) should pick up later on for the new content strings (e.g. Acquistions module, etc.) as the migration itself was a bit of a handful especially going from Millennium. But it feels good not to be working all those late hours! Next on deck: our Drupal launch this Spring, so I'd be interested in hearing from anybody working on Drupal + Evergreen integration. More updates from NRCan in one of the upcoming EG newsletters. Thanks to all for making this community rumble!! George Duimovich NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan http://catalogue.nrcan.gc.ca/ From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Tara Robertson Sent: January 26, 2010 00:28 To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] congrats Natural Resources Canada I didn't see an announcement on this list, but stumbled across this on the page of Evergreen libraries (http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_libraries) Natural Resources Canada Library migrated their locations across Canada in two phases. Nine of their 13 libraries migrated to Evergreen as of June 8, 2009, and the rest went live on January 15th, 2010. Awesome! Congratulations! I can only partially imagine how much work it would've been to migrate from two different systems, in two official languages, across 5? (5.5?) time zones, for a government department that was also overhauling their cataloging processes. tara
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] congrats Natural Resources Canada
Hi George, Any rumblings in other federal government department libraries about what you've done? Are folks supportive, do they still think you're nuts? Having all the federal departmental libraries on the same ILS would make it much easier to move things around when the departments are rejigged. Not only would it be cheaper (and therefore better stewardship of taxpayer money) it would be much more practical, easier (and cheaper) for library staff to make the libraries reflect the new department boundaries. Good luck with the Drupal stuff too! Tara On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Duimovich, George george.duimov...@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca wrote: Thanks Tara! Yes, we are now 100% Evergreen ILS, having migrated from both Unicorn and more recently Millennium in the context of our department's library amalgamation (we used to be a consortium of 3 library networks serving different sectors, but now operate as single business unit). Our contributions to the French language edition (working with Dan Scott) should pick up later on for the new content strings (e.g. Acquistions module, etc.) as the migration itself was a bit of a handful especially going from Millennium. But it feels good not to be working all those late hours! Next on deck: our Drupal launch this Spring, so I'd be interested in hearing from anybody working on Drupal + Evergreen integration. More updates from NRCan in one of the upcoming EG newsletters. Thanks to all for making this community rumble!! George Duimovich NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan http://catalogue.nrcan.gc.ca/ -- *From:* open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Tara Robertson *Sent:* January 26, 2010 00:28 *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group *Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] congrats Natural Resources Canada I didn't see an announcement on this list, but stumbled across this on the page of Evergreen libraries ( http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_libraries) Natural Resources Canada Library migrated their locations across Canada in two phases. Nine of their 13 libraries migrated to Evergreen as of June 8, 2009, and the rest went live on January 15th, 2010. Awesome! Congratulations! I can only partially imagine how much work it would've been to migrate from two different systems, in two official languages, across 5? (5.5?) time zones, for a government department that was also overhauling their cataloging processes. tara
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] congrats Natural Resources Canada
Hello Tara, I can't comment in any detail about other department interest (I'm liable to put foot in mouth), but let's just say that there's some interest, and I'm willing to bet that at least one other shop comes on board with either a silo or shared EG implementation within 2 years or sooner. IMHO, the big challenges in the federal system relates to the relative sense of disempowerment that many libraries seem to have vis a vis their technology decision-making, as well as the relative lack of support offered to those who see business justification for using open source. Add to that the usual faulty pre-suppositions about risk and other fear factors PLUS a challenging procurement environment, and you have lots of gridlock and/or 'default' commitment to the existing ILS in use. [1] We have some unique circumstances here at NRCan that have helped us along more than other shops, but I am feeling pretty confident that much is and will be changing in how GC.CA uses open source. I think that there's a cultural shift in the works, but also think that all of the social and collaborative software that has been implemented across departments in the last few years has got to have changed some minds (hey, free software works!). The proliferation of wiki's blogs and the like are all on OSS platforms, Drupal is taking off in several *big* departments (including DND and here at NRCan) and we have our social platform for all Federal government employees ( GCConnex) now running running on open source Elgg - http://elgg.org/. [see also 2] There's even some very interesting - but still nascent -- moves toward government-wide computing platform infrastructure and cross department collaboration projects being implemented. And open source figures prominently in every one that I'm aware of (e.g. GCConnex, GCpedia, IRCan.gc.ca, etc.). But still a long way to go IMHO... Cheers, George -- [1] FYI - there are 4 departments with *active* ILS RFPs nearing completion. IMHO, open source ILS will not figure into any of those shops selection for reasons I won't get into here. [2] eg. http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/fap-paf/oss-ll/position-eng.asp http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/02/canadian-government-eyes-open-sources-asks-for-feedback.ars http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3659/196/ From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Tara Robertson Sent: January 26, 2010 12:50 To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] congrats Natural Resources Canada Hi George, Any rumblings in other federal government department libraries about what you've done? Are folks supportive, do they still think you're nuts? Having all the federal departmental libraries on the same ILS would make it much easier to move things around when the departments are rejigged. Not only would it be cheaper (and therefore better stewardship of taxpayer money) it would be much more practical, easier (and cheaper) for library staff to make the libraries reflect the new department boundaries. Good luck with the Drupal stuff too! Tara On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Duimovich, George george.duimov...@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca wrote: Thanks Tara! Yes, we are now 100% Evergreen ILS, having migrated from both Unicorn and more recently Millennium in the context of our department's library amalgamation (we used to be a consortium of 3 library networks serving different sectors, but now operate as single business unit). Our contributions to the French language edition (working with Dan Scott) should pick up later on for the new content strings (e.g. Acquistions module, etc.) as the migration itself was a bit of a handful especially going from Millennium. But it feels good not to be working all those late hours! Next on deck: our Drupal launch this Spring, so I'd be interested in hearing from anybody working on Drupal + Evergreen integration. More updates from NRCan in one of the upcoming EG newsletters. Thanks to all for making this community rumble!! George Duimovich NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan http://catalogue.nrcan.gc.ca/ From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Tara Robertson Sent: January 26, 2010 00:28 To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] congrats Natural Resources Canada I didn't see an announcement on this list, but stumbled across this on the page of Evergreen libraries (http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_libraries) Natural
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine Label Printers?
I have templates for OpenOffice.org Calc for printing both material barcodes and spine labels on an ordinary printer. Because we migrated from Winnebago and had leftover spine label stock (6X5 on 8 1/2X11 sheets), that's the format I chose for now. Another library in Indiana has an Excel template for a 5X6 layout (but without the links I use to avoid retyping data already in Evergreen). The procedure is fairly simple: Dump the items needing labels into a copy bucket, pick them up on the clipboard as CSV, and paste into the first page of the spreadsheet. The second page of the spreadsheet links to the data on the first sheet and formats it. I generally try to do enough at a time to avoid running a sheet of 30 labels through the laser printer more than twice but that's a fairly simple workflow issue. Having developed a preference for OpenOffice.org Calc, I haven't tried the templates with Excel but compatibility is generally excellent. I'll be glad to share my template with anyone who is interested. It would take some time and effort to reformat for a different spine label layout but would be time well invested and save the cost of a non-standard printer. Marsha Marsha Lynn Director Odon Winkelpleck Public Library 812-636-4949 odonlibrar...@aol.com In a message dated 1/21/2010 11:46:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, terl...@biblio.org writes: Hi all— What is your library system using to print your spine labels with Evergreen? One of our libraries (going live in March) is looking for a low-cost spine label printer recommendation and we’d like to hear the good (and bad) experiences out there … Thanks! Amy === Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 (203)577-4070 x101 _http://www.biblio.org_ (http://www.biblio.org/)
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Catalog questions : limiters and wildcards
We're in the process of setting up a test catalog, and have a couple of questions about the advanced search screen and the use of limiters. We notice that the catalog lets you limit a search to audiobooks and nonfiction, which is a perfectly logical search, but it returns 0 hits. This looks like the system is saying the library doesn't own any nonfiction audiobooks about Italy (or whatever) rather than that audiobooks records are not indexed with this limiter. Does anyone have their data indexed to include fiction/nonfiction for audiobooks? And does anyone have their Advance Search screen set up so that the user can't choose invalid combinations of limiters (if the user clicks on Audiobooks, the Fiction/Nonfiction options wouldn't appear)? The other thing we're interested in is having users be able to do a search on a combination of limiters with no search term, and get a set of results. For example, I might want to see all the Braille books or all the Russian language children's videorecordings. Does anyone have a way to do that? Thanks in advance! -- Elizabeth Thomsen, Member Services Manager NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange 26 Cherry Hill Drive Danvers MA 01923 Blog: http://www.noblenet.org/ethomsen/ E-mail: e...@noblenet.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Permissions wrong?
We're still running Evergreen 1.4, and for some reason the circulators group is unable to set the profile group when a new patron is registered. I've tried to add the appropriate permissions, but I could have sworn this was working when the databases were first set up. What permission do I need to set? CREATE_USER doesn't seem to cut it. -- Victoria Bush Opscan Evaluation Manager Center for Teaching, Learning Technology vb...@ilstu.edu
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] congrats Natural Resources Canada
On Jan 26, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Duimovich, George wrote: IMHO, the big challenges in the federal system relates to the relative sense of disempowerment that many libraries seem to have vis a vis their technology decision-making, as well as the relative lack of support offered to those who see business justification for using open source. Obviously not just federal libraries, this is common. Add to that the usual faulty pre-suppositions about risk and other fear factors The article I wrote in Library Journal a while ago was with the motive of trying to get people not to be irrationally afraid of the risk of open source -- especially when the open source is supported by a reputable support vendor who you trust, it's no more risky (and in some ways less) than a proprietary solution. Speaking to the converted here, but maybe my article will be helpful to some in showing to administrators/colleagues/decision makers. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6611591.html
