[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Call for exhibitors and sponsors for Evergreen conference
Is your business or organization interested in supporting an awesome piece of open source software used by over a thousand libraries worldwide? Maybe you're interested in offering your services to the people who design, administer, and use that software? If so, we're interested in hearing from you! The 2015 Evergreen International Conference seeks businesses and organizations who are interested in exhibiting at or sponsoring the conference. Evergreen is an open source software used by over 1,000 libraries worldwide that helps library patrons find library materials, and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries. Annually, over 200 users, administrators, and developers of Evergreen get together for a conference to learn about, discuss, and improve the software. This year, the conference will be held on May 13-16, 2015, at the Hood River Inn in Hood River, Oregon. Businesses and organizations have several ways to get involved. Exhibit at the conference: Dedicated space will be provided at the conference for companies to show what they can do for conference attendees. More information is available here: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/exhibitors-package/ Sponsor the conference: Show your support for libraries, Evergreen, and open source software and receive recognition for your organization by sponsoring the conference. Individual sponsorships start at $200, and business/organization sponsorships start at $500. More information is available here: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/sponsorship-opportunities/ Attend the conference: Send your staff to learn more about Evergreen, network with the Evergreen community, and visit the beautiful Columbia River Gorge. You can register for the conference here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evergreen-2015-international-conference-tickets-15029293020 Interested? Check out our conference website: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/ Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or would like to exhibit and/or sponsor the conference! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen 2015 Evergreen Conference Committee Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reminder for Conference proposals
I could spend the entire conference happily monkeying with SQL with company... just sayin... I am working on collection management reports - not just weeding (this item is x years old, circ'd x times, blah blah) but more interesting data about how materials are being used. I'm also working with fine/billing/money reports. In additional to concrete help with my own queries I'd also love to know what others are doing. I am also interested in talking about data sources, and what sort of care one must take when selecting a specific source, and various report criteria. This is particularly critical in anything money related. A specific query that has me stumped (my SQL is rudimentary) - I want to know, by collection, how many times an item has circulated in the 1st year after purchase, 2nd year, and so forth. I have no idea how to make SQL do the math for a single example, much less account for the collection level view, where bibs/items are continuously added/deleted, etc. Related to circ stats, I am also interested in trying to capture data that indicates the value to the community that free library materials provide. Many libraries have set up You saved $x.xx checking out books from the library today! statements on check out slips, and we want to take that to the next level as some kind of eye catching data point for community reports. Lindsay Stratton Library Automation Services Manager Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rte 21 Canandaigua, NY 14424 585-394-8260 x104 - Original Message - From: Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:52:58 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reminder for Conference proposals If I do a hands on workshop (I threw a rough proposal up) what kinds of sql tasks would folks like to step through as learning examples?
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Show available copies link in the catalog
I would vote for #2 (make X total copies a link), and extend that linkiness to the X copies available at... area, except when X == 0. -- Mike Rylander | President | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Benjamin Kalish bkal...@forbeslibrary.org wrote: I vote for #1. What better place to put a link to all the copies than by the number of total copies? Benjamin Kalish Forbes Library / 413-587-1012 / bkal...@forbeslibrary.org Currently reading:* North and South* by Mrs. Gaskell Just Finished: *The Riddle of the Sands* by Erskine Childers On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org wrote: Hi all, I've periodically heard from our libraries that they would like the show copies link that displays in the available copies area of the public catalog record to display even if there are no copies available. To demonstrate what I'm talking about, if you look at the record-with-available-copies screenshot, there is a link to show all of the available copies, which, when clicked, displays copies owned by all libraries in the consortium. However, if you look at the record-with-no-available-copies screenshot, that link does not display. I believe this is because the intent of this particular section of the screen is to display available copy information, in which case, the Show link wouldn't make sense if there are zero available copies. However, there are many cases when a user may start a search scoped to their own library, but then may want to see all of the copies in the consortium. For example, if there are zero copies available, but only a handful of holds, they may want to see the status of the existing copies to get an idea of whether they are due soon. Or we may have a situation described by one of our libraries where they already have a hold on the title, click to the title from their holds list (carrying along the search scope in the process), and then want to see the status of the copies owned by other libraries in the consortium. I think it's a good idea to add a link to display all copies, but the question is where would be a good place to put. I've thought of a couple of options: 1 - Display a Show link adjacent to the x current holds with x total copies statement. The problem here is that the Show link is a bit redundant if the other Show link is always displaying. 2 - Make the x total copies text in the holds area clickable to show all copies owned by the consortium. The problem with this approach is it is inconsistent with what's happening in the available copies area. 3 - Make the existing Show link display regardless of the current availability status of copies on the record, even if it is a bit incongruous with what that area is supposed to represent. Of course, we could always leave that area as it is if other libraries are happy with the display. What are your thoughts? Thanks! Kathy -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen's UI Style Guide Update - OPW Internship
Looked like AsciiDoc to me. Justin On 2/18/15 2:54 PM, Benjamin Kalish wrote: Hi, Julia, This is a silly question, but what type of markup is being used in these files? I'd rather read the rendered versions than the markup, but I don't recognize it so I don't know what tool to use. Thanks! - Ben Benjamin Kalish Forbes Library / 413-587-1012 / bkal...@forbeslibrary.org mailto:bkal...@forbeslibrary.org Currently reading:/ North and South/ by Mrs. Gaskell Just Finished:///The Riddle of the Sands/ by Erskine Childers On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Julia Lima julia.lima...@gmail.com mailto:julia.lima...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We have been working very hard in a UI style guide for the Evergreen web staff client and we have made a lot of progress. We are focused, mainly, in ensuring consistency and providing the best user experience we can. Of course it is a working progress, we are still testing some ideas and thinking new solutions for different situations. We still have 3 weeks until my internship is finished so we have a lot of time to try new things. You can find the UI style guide in https://github.com/JuliaLima/Evergreen/tree/patch-1/docs/style_guide, remember that we are working on it, so nothing is definitive; and also you can check my blog for updates about our progress: http://lima-julia.tumblr.com/EG-style-guide. Feel free to contact us and give your opinion and ideas, we need your feedback in order to improve our work, it is very important for us! Thank you! Julia
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Show available copies link in the catalog
Between your three options, I don't have strong feelings one way or another. Any of them seems reasonably serviceable, but none seems ideal. I would prefer either of the following options: Option A Just above the spot where it actually shows the copies is the place where it seems most obvious to me to be able to change the scope of what's displayed. So how about adding links just above the line where the column descriptions for the copy information are? I suggest link text that says something like: Show copies in X consortium and Show copies in X Library system if you you were scoped to the branch level. If you were scoped to the Consortium it would say Show only copies in X branch and Show only copies in X Library system And of course for Library system you would have either Show copies in X consortium or Show only copies in X branch I think having different text than just Show (such as Show only) would be helpful to tip off users that clicking the link will narrow the scope. Perhaps there could even be a Limit to available copies check box near these links, and the Show links where the number of Available copies is displayed could be eliminated. Option B I suggest adding a Total Copies column between the Available Copies and Current Holds columns, and eliminating the with x total copies text from the Current Holds column. I prefer Option A, but I like Option B nearly as well and it would a smaller change. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Sarah Childs sar...@zionsvillelibrary.org wrote: Between your three options, I don't have strong feelings one way or another. Any of them seems reasonably serviceable, but none seems ideal. I would prefer either of the following options: Option A Just above the spot where it actually shows the copies is the place where it seems most obvious to me to be able to change the scope of what's displayed. So how about adding links just above the line where the column descriptions for the copy information are? I suggest link text that says something like: Show copies in X consortium and Show copies in X Library system if you you were scoped to the branch level. If you were scoped to the Consortium it would say Show only copies in X branch and Show only copies in X Library system And of course for Library system you would have either Show copies in X consortium or Show only copies in X branch I think having different text than just Show (such as Show only) would be helpful to tip off users that clicking the link will narrow the scope. Perhaps there could even be a Limit to available copies check box near these links, and the Show links where the number of Available copies is displayed could be eliminated. Option B I suggest adding a Total Copies column between the Available Copies and Current Holds columns, and eliminating the with x total copies text from the Current Holds column. I prefer Option A, but I like Option B nearly as well and it would a smaller change. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org wrote: Hi all, I've periodically heard from our libraries that they would like the show copies link that displays in the available copies area of the public catalog record to display even if there are no copies available. To demonstrate what I'm talking about, if you look at the record-with-available-copies screenshot, there is a link to show all of the available copies, which, when clicked, displays copies owned by all libraries in the consortium. However, if you look at the record-with-no-available-copies screenshot, that link does not display. I believe this is because the intent of this particular section of the screen is to display available copy information, in which case, the Show link wouldn't make sense if there are zero available copies. However, there are many cases when a user may start a search scoped to their own library, but then may want to see all of the copies in the consortium. For example, if there are zero copies available, but only a handful of holds, they may want to see the status of the existing copies to get an idea of whether they are due soon. Or we may have a situation described by one of our libraries where they already have a hold on the title, click to the title from their holds list (carrying along the search scope in the process), and then want to see the status of the copies owned by other libraries in the consortium. I think it's a good idea to add a link to display all copies, but the question is where would be a good place to put. I've thought of a couple of options: 1 - Display a Show link adjacent to the x current holds with x total copies statement. The problem here is that the Show link is a bit redundant if the other Show link is always displaying. 2 - Make the x total copies text in the holds area clickable to show all copies owned by the consortium. The problem with this approach is it is inconsistent with
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Show available copies link in the catalog
I suggested this in IRC, but thought it would be beneficial here as well: My recommendation is to change the left column to show X of Y copies in Consortium/Region/Branch/etc. (Show) I feel like this would be the simplest and cleanest solution to the issue, and it would also make both columns a bit more in sync with each other. Thanks, Geoff Sams Library Manager Roanoke Public Library -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:29 AM To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Show available copies link in the catalog Hi all, I've periodically heard from our libraries that they would like the show copies link that displays in the available copies area of the public catalog record to display even if there are no copies available. To demonstrate what I'm talking about, if you look at the record-with-available-copies screenshot, there is a link to show all of the available copies, which, when clicked, displays copies owned by all libraries in the consortium. However, if you look at the record-with-no-available-copies screenshot, that link does not display. I believe this is because the intent of this particular section of the screen is to display available copy information, in which case, the Show link wouldn't make sense if there are zero available copies. However, there are many cases when a user may start a search scoped to their own library, but then may want to see all of the copies in the consortium. For example, if there are zero copies available, but only a handful of holds, they may want to see the status of the existing copies to get an idea of whether they are due soon. Or we may have a situation described by one of our libraries where they already have a hold on the title, click to the title from their holds list (carrying along the search scope in the process), and then want to see the status of the copies owned by other libraries in the consortium. I think it's a good idea to add a link to display all copies, but the question is where would be a good place to put. I've thought of a couple of options: 1 - Display a Show link adjacent to the x current holds with x total copies statement. The problem here is that the Show link is a bit redundant if the other Show link is always displaying. 2 - Make the x total copies text in the holds area clickable to show all copies owned by the consortium. The problem with this approach is it is inconsistent with what's happening in the available copies area. 3 - Make the existing Show link display regardless of the current availability status of copies on the record, even if it is a bit incongruous with what that area is supposed to represent. Of course, we could always leave that area as it is if other libraries are happy with the display. What are your thoughts? Thanks! Kathy -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen's UI Style Guide Update - OPW Internship
Hi, Julia, This is a silly question, but what type of markup is being used in these files? I'd rather read the rendered versions than the markup, but I don't recognize it so I don't know what tool to use. Thanks! - Ben Benjamin Kalish Forbes Library / 413-587-1012 / bkal...@forbeslibrary.org Currently reading:* North and South* by Mrs. Gaskell Just Finished: *The Riddle of the Sands* by Erskine Childers On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Julia Lima julia.lima...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We have been working very hard in a UI style guide for the Evergreen web staff client and we have made a lot of progress. We are focused, mainly, in ensuring consistency and providing the best user experience we can. Of course it is a working progress, we are still testing some ideas and thinking new solutions for different situations. We still have 3 weeks until my internship is finished so we have a lot of time to try new things. You can find the UI style guide in https://github.com/JuliaLima/Evergreen/tree/patch-1/docs/style_guide, remember that we are working on it, so nothing is definitive; and also you can check my blog for updates about our progress: http://lima-julia.tumblr.com/EG-style-guide. Feel free to contact us and give your opinion and ideas, we need your feedback in order to improve our work, it is very important for us! Thank you! Julia
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen's UI Style Guide Update - OPW Internship
That's it, thanks. In case anyone else finds it helpful, you can paste the markup into this webapp to get a rendered version: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/try_asciidoc_online.php Benjamin Kalish Forbes Library / 413-587-1012 / bkal...@forbeslibrary.org Currently reading:* North and South* by Mrs. Gaskell Just Finished: *The Riddle of the Sands* by Erskine Childers On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org wrote: Looked like AsciiDoc to me. Justin On 2/18/15 2:54 PM, Benjamin Kalish wrote: Hi, Julia, This is a silly question, but what type of markup is being used in these files? I'd rather read the rendered versions than the markup, but I don't recognize it so I don't know what tool to use. Thanks! - Ben Benjamin Kalish Forbes Library / 413-587-1012 / bkal...@forbeslibrary.org Currently reading:* North and South* by Mrs. Gaskell Just Finished: *The Riddle of the Sands* by Erskine Childers On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Julia Lima julia.lima...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We have been working very hard in a UI style guide for the Evergreen web staff client and we have made a lot of progress. We are focused, mainly, in ensuring consistency and providing the best user experience we can. Of course it is a working progress, we are still testing some ideas and thinking new solutions for different situations. We still have 3 weeks until my internship is finished so we have a lot of time to try new things. You can find the UI style guide in https://github.com/JuliaLima/Evergreen/tree/patch-1/docs/style_guide, remember that we are working on it, so nothing is definitive; and also you can check my blog for updates about our progress: http://lima-julia.tumblr.com/EG-style-guide. Feel free to contact us and give your opinion and ideas, we need your feedback in order to improve our work, it is very important for us! Thank you! Julia
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Special Meeting to discuss Reorganizing Documentation
Hi Evergreen, Just a reminder that tomorrow at 1:00 PM EST we will have a special meeting on IRC to discuss how the Evergreen documentation is organized. All are welcome to join or share ideas at this wiki pagehttp://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:reorg_2014. Thursday, Feb 19, 2015, at 1:00 PM EST All questions and ideas are welcome. Remington -- Remington Steed Electronic Resources Specialist Hekman Library, Calvin College http://library.calvin.edu/ From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Remington Steed Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 11:17 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Special Meeting to discuss Reorganizing Documentation Hi Evergreeners, The Documentation Interest Group (DIG) invites you to join a special meeting on IRC to discuss how the documentation is organized. All are welcome to join or share ideas at this wiki pagehttp://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:reorg_2014. Thursday, Feb 19, 2015, at 1:00 PM EST All questions and ideas are welcome. Remington -- Remington Steed Electronic Resources Specialist Hekman Library, Calvin College http://library.calvin.edu/ From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Remington Steed Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 9:33 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Special Meeting to discuss Reorganizing Documentation Hi Evergreeners, There's still time to vote on the meeting date for discussing reorganizing the docs. Since I didn't send a reminder, I'll extend the timeframe until 11am EST today. You can use the link below: http://doodle.com/bt69e4b4ui6zx3w4 (closes at 11am EST today) Or if you prefer, you can email me (r...@calvin.edumailto:r...@calvin.edu) off-list with your preferred meeting times. Here are the choices: Friday, 2/13: 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM Monday, 2/16: 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM Tuesday, 2/17: 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM Wednesday, 2/18: 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM (skipped 1pm because of Web Team meeting) Thursday, 2/19: 1:00 PM, 3:00 PM (skipped 2pm because of Oversight Board meeting) Thanks for participating! Remington -- Remington Steed Electronic Resources Specialist Hekman Library, Calvin College http://library.calvin.edu/ From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Remington Steed Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 9:45 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Special Meeting to discuss Reorganizing Documentation Hi Evergreen, Let's have a special meeting to share ideas about how to best organize the Evergreen documentation. All are welcome to join or share ideas at this wiki pagehttp://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:reorg_2014. Please tell us your open meeting times by using this Doodle poll: http://doodle.com/bt69e4b4ui6zx3w4 (closes at 5pm EST, Tuesday, 2/10) Or if you prefer, you can email me (r...@calvin.edumailto:r...@calvin.edu) off-list with your preferred meeting times. Here are the choices: Friday, 2/13: 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM Monday, 2/16: 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM Tuesday, 2/17: 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM Wednesday, 2/18: 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM (skipped 1pm because of Web Team meeting) Thursday, 2/19: 1:00 PM, 3:00 PM (skipped 2pm because of Oversight Board meeting) Thanks for participating! Remington -- Remington Steed Electronic Resources Specialist Hekman Library, Calvin College http://library.calvin.edu/
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Show available copies link in the catalog
I vote for #1. What better place to put a link to all the copies than by the number of total copies? Benjamin Kalish Forbes Library / 413-587-1012 / bkal...@forbeslibrary.org Currently reading:* North and South* by Mrs. Gaskell Just Finished: *The Riddle of the Sands* by Erskine Childers On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org wrote: Hi all, I've periodically heard from our libraries that they would like the show copies link that displays in the available copies area of the public catalog record to display even if there are no copies available. To demonstrate what I'm talking about, if you look at the record-with-available-copies screenshot, there is a link to show all of the available copies, which, when clicked, displays copies owned by all libraries in the consortium. However, if you look at the record-with-no-available-copies screenshot, that link does not display. I believe this is because the intent of this particular section of the screen is to display available copy information, in which case, the Show link wouldn't make sense if there are zero available copies. However, there are many cases when a user may start a search scoped to their own library, but then may want to see all of the copies in the consortium. For example, if there are zero copies available, but only a handful of holds, they may want to see the status of the existing copies to get an idea of whether they are due soon. Or we may have a situation described by one of our libraries where they already have a hold on the title, click to the title from their holds list (carrying along the search scope in the process), and then want to see the status of the copies owned by other libraries in the consortium. I think it's a good idea to add a link to display all copies, but the question is where would be a good place to put. I've thought of a couple of options: 1 - Display a Show link adjacent to the x current holds with x total copies statement. The problem here is that the Show link is a bit redundant if the other Show link is always displaying. 2 - Make the x total copies text in the holds area clickable to show all copies owned by the consortium. The problem with this approach is it is inconsistent with what's happening in the available copies area. 3 - Make the existing Show link display regardless of the current availability status of copies on the record, even if it is a bit incongruous with what that area is supposed to represent. Of course, we could always leave that area as it is if other libraries are happy with the display. What are your thoughts? Thanks! Kathy -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
