[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Settings
I was wondering what others are doing in giving their member libraries permissions to change Library Settings. For instance, we can see that it would be good for a library to control their own reshelving period but we don't necessarily want them to be able to change what fields are required in the patron record because there is system wide policies on this. -- Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications tspind...@cwmars.org 508-755-3323 x20 IM: tjspindler (AOL, meebo, google wave) C/W MARS, Inc. 67 Millbrook St, Suite 201 Worcester, MA 01606 http://www.cwmars.org *P** Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.*
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Settings
We assign update permissions to those settings we want library staff to be able to change, then give the staff those permissions at the system level. We don't give them the all settings permission, so they can only change the settings we let them. They can, however, see all the settings and their values (as well as where they are set). If they want something changed that we don't let them change themselves they ask us and we make decisions on a request by request basis. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Tim Spindler tspind...@cwmars.org: I was wondering what others are doing in giving their member libraries permissions to change Library Settings. For instance, we can see that it would be good for a library to control their own reshelving period but we don't necessarily want them to be able to change what fields are required in the patron record because there is system wide policies on this. -- Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications tspind...@cwmars.org 508-755-3323 x20 IM: tjspindler (AOL, meebo, google wave) C/W MARS, Inc. 67 Millbrook St, Suite 201 Worcester, MA 01606 http://www.cwmars.org *P** Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.*
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Settings
Tim, Before PINES moved to Evergreen 1.4 in 2009, the consortium-level settings were set in a separate interface from the Library Settings Editor (or required configuration file changes on the server). Until then, it was very clear what tasks the library could do and which were left to the PINES system administrators. In our 1.4 documentation, we had to carefully delineate which tasks remained at the consortium level and which ones could be decided by individual libraries. Needless to say, the larger that group of settings has gotten, the more complex this task has become. Several of them we have had to put to the PINES Executive Committee (our governance body comprised of library directors) for review. Our rule of thumb is that if the setting is addressed by consortium-wide policy, we control it from our office, if not, the library system may set it locally. We control this carefully via permissions. Hope that helps! Chris - Original Message - From: Tim Spindler tspind...@cwmars.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 8:54:42 AM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Settings I was wondering what others are doing in giving their member libraries permissions to change Library Settings. For instance, we can see that it would be good for a library to control their own reshelving period but we don't necessarily want them to be able to change what fields are required in the patron record because there is system wide policies on this. -- Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications tspind...@cwmars.org 508-755-3323 x20 IM: tjspindler (AOL, meebo, google wave) C/W MARS, Inc. 67 Millbrook St, Suite 201 Worcester , MA 01606 http://www.cwmars.org P Go Green - Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary. -- Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 csh...@georgialibraries.org http://pines.georgialibraries.org/
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Workaround for EG's current lack of automaticsystem generation of authority records?
Sounds good - I know other systems have had this functionality. Big caveat, I think, is that any support for this functionality should come with a way of identifying system generated authority files distinct from the official ones. This would permit better reporting and additional automated actions against these records and/or for cataloguers to be able to better identify, review and then officialize them by changing the 'automated' flag after any updates/review. Our situation is that somewhere a long time ago (DRA / MultiLIS days??), our Unicorn-based records were in a system that had this feature alongside, I believe, an automated keyword generating feature. So we ended up with this HUGE authority list but the majority of them were questionable (generated from automated 650 keywords). I speculate that someone turned the feature on, and there wasn't any follow-up. So years later, we're left wondering if there's any good stuff in the authority records without LC control numbers, etc. but not having any apparent hook into easily determining which ones were cataloguer created vs. those created by the ILS's auto-authority making function. George George Duimovich NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Yamil Suarez Sent: September 29, 2011 21:33 To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Workaround for EG's current lack of automaticsystem generation of authority records? Hello, I was speaking with ESI and was told that EG currently does not automatically create system generated authority records, and I wondered what workarounds might be used out in the EG community? These type of authority records are also know as stub authority records. What I mean is that in some other ILS systems, when I import a new bib record the system will check if there are existing authorities records that matches the one listed in the bib record's authority controlled fields (author, subject,etc). If no match is found in the system, a new system generated authority record is created. For example, if I import a bib with an author, in the 100 field, that was not found in my system already. By the end of the import process, the bib would be imported and there would have been a stub authority record automatically created for that author. I know that right now I can just right-click in the EG MARC editor to create stub authority records by using the create immediately sub-menu in each bib. What concerns me is the several thousand bib records for electronic items for ebooks and streaming audio I need to import this year. Hopefully there are some workarounds out there. Also, I am interested in looking into finding partners to pay for developing this particular feature for EG 2.2 or later. Thanks in advance, Yamil
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Workaround for EG's current lack of automaticsystem generation of authority records?
Hello, George brings up good points. My current system does identify if an authority record was created by a human or the system. Also we do end up having to keep an eye on our authority records to do clean up when necessary to cut down on any noise. Since our alphabetical searching is based on mostly authority record data (author, subject, etc), it is in our best interest in our old ILS to keep an eye on our records. I guess that for the most part the EG OPAC does it searching and faceting by only looking at that originated in the bib records and not in data found in authority records? Is this correct? Thanks in advance, Yamil On Sep 30, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Duimovich, George wrote: Sounds good - I know other systems have had this functionality. Big caveat, I think, is that any support for this functionality should come with a way of identifying system generated authority files distinct from the official ones. This would permit better reporting and additional automated actions against these records and/ or for cataloguers to be able to better identify, review and then officialize them by changing the 'automated' flag after any updates/review. Our situation is that somewhere a long time ago (DRA / MultiLIS days??), our Unicorn-based records were in a system that had this feature alongside, I believe, an automated keyword generating feature. So we ended up with this HUGE authority list but the majority of them were questionable (generated from automated 650 keywords). I speculate that someone turned the feature on, and there wasn't any follow-up. So years later, we're left wondering if there's any good stuff in the authority records without LC control numbers, etc. but not having any apparent hook into easily determining which ones were cataloguer created vs. those created by the ILS's auto-authority making function. George George Duimovich NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Workaround for EG's current lack of automaticsystem generation of authority records?
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Yamil Suarez ysua...@berklee.edu wrote: Hello, George brings up good points. My current system does identify if an authority record was created by a human or the system. Also we do end up having to keep an eye on our authority records to do clean up when necessary to cut down on any noise. Since our alphabetical searching is based on mostly authority record data (author, subject, etc), it is in our best interest in our old ILS to keep an eye on our records. I guess that for the most part the EG OPAC does it searching and faceting by only looking at that originated in the bib records and not in data found in authority records? Is this correct? Correct. Aside from the authority cross-reference performed on low-hit searches, everything (except authority browse, of course) is done using bib data -- there's more of it, it's what the user sees, and it's sure to give you a hit, filters and scoping not withstanding. -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com On Sep 30, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Duimovich, George wrote: Sounds good - I know other systems have had this functionality. Big caveat, I think, is that any support for this functionality should come with a way of identifying system generated authority files distinct from the official ones. This would permit better reporting and additional automated actions against these records and/or for cataloguers to be able to better identify, review and then officialize them by changing the 'automated' flag after any updates/review. Our situation is that somewhere a long time ago (DRA / MultiLIS days??), our Unicorn-based records were in a system that had this feature alongside, I believe, an automated keyword generating feature. So we ended up with this HUGE authority list but the majority of them were questionable (generated from automated 650 keywords). I speculate that someone turned the feature on, and there wasn't any follow-up. So years later, we're left wondering if there's any good stuff in the authority records without LC control numbers, etc. but not having any apparent hook into easily determining which ones were cataloguer created vs. those created by the ILS's auto-authority making function. George George Duimovich NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Possible Password Stealing Virus on Google's Chrome Website?
Hello Everyone, I am new to the Evergreen Community, our system went live on Sept 1st of this year. I was setting up a public use windows XP laptop for access to our Evergreen Opac server (http:system_name.nccardinal.org) and was installing the Google Chrome Add-In for IE8 when our Enterprise AV (Msft ForeFront) alerted to and removed a password stealing bot (PWS:Win32/ZBot). It is affecting numerous opacs in our system. Has anyone else seen this? Regards, Gary W. Bay Buncombe County IT Asheville, NC (O): 828-250-4747 (C): 828-775-6712
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Settings
Hi Tim In our small consortium of three libraries, we have set various password levels. Circulation staff have one password limited to circulation transactions and changing shelving locations. Catalogers can edit bib records. And we set up three branch-level administrative passwords which can change anything. The Admin password is limited to three people (one for each library) who understand the system policies and will assure compliance. If something needs changed, like reshelving period, then that change needs to go through the branch administrator. Limiting access by password seems to work for us. I hope this helps! Maggie Buckholz Library Director Burlington Public Library 820 E Washington Avenue Burlington, WA 98233 Phone: 360-755-0760 Fax: 360-755-0717 www.burlington.lib.wa.us From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Tim Spindler Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 5:55 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Settings I was wondering what others are doing in giving their member libraries permissions to change Library Settings. For instance, we can see that it would be good for a library to control their own reshelving period but we don't necessarily want them to be able to change what fields are required in the patron record because there is system wide policies on this. -- Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications tspind...@cwmars.org mailto:tspind...@cwmars.org 508-755-3323 x20 IM: tjspindler (AOL, meebo, google wave) C/W MARS, Inc. 67 Millbrook St, Suite 201 Worcester, MA 01606 http://www.cwmars.org http://www.cwmars.org/ P Go Green - Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Why won't these bibs overlay?
Hi all, I hope someone can shed some light on what I'm missing. I have a group of bib records, all with OCLC numbers in the TCN. They were brief Level 3 records that have been upgraded on OCLC. I want to load the newer records and overlay the ones in our catalog. I've tried checking Auto Merge/Overlay Exact Matches. They match but won't overlay. I've tried checking Auto Merge/Overlay When Exactly 1 Match is Found. Again, matches found but no overlay. I've tried checking the matches as Overlay targets, then loading again from the queue. No overlay with either Auto Merge/Overlay selection. All I want is for a file of records to match on the TCN/OCLC number and replace without my having to target anything. Can Evergreen do this? If so, what am I missing to make it happen? Help! Mary Mary Llewellyn Database Manager Bibliomation, Inc. Middlebury, CT mllew...@biblio.org
