[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Job posting: Hood River County Library District director
Howdy Evergreeners, Have I got an opportunity for you! Hood River County Library District seeks a new director to run library and general district operations. We're a part of the Sage Library System, proud users of Evergreen. You can find details on the job here: Job announcement: http://hoodriverlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/Director-search-2016-Job-announcement.pdf Job description: http://hoodriverlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/Job-description-Library-director-2016-05-12.pdf Those of you who came to the 2015 Evergreen conference know and can attest to what an awesome area we're in! The District has a permanent tax base that gives it a stable base of income. It is run by a dynamic and forward-thinking Board of Directors and has a vibrant staff who are constantly thinking of new and better ways to serve our diverse patrons. To boot, we're located right in heart of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area and include part of the Mount Hood National Forest, with some of the best outdoor recreation opportunities in the country and, in some cases, even the world! The application deadline is Friday, June 3, 2016. If you have any questions, please ask me. Please feel free to share this with anyone else you think would be interested. Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Slight conference shuttle changes
Hi everyone, I wanted to make you aware of a couple of small changes to the airport shuttle schedule for next week's conference: The final departure from the airport on Tuesday the 12th will now be around 5.30p rather than 5.00p. Hopefully that should help in case any of you have late flights. There will no longer be a 12.00p pickup from the airport on Wednesday the 13th, since no one signed up for it. The first pickup on Wednesday will be around 2.30p. Please let me know if you have questions. Just as a reminder, here's the shuttle signup: http://goo.gl/bOCcCJ And here's the conference rideshare page: https://erideshare.com/xprs.php?e=seIXzCOI See you next week! Cheers! Buzzy -- Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Slight conference shuttle changes
Excellent question! It'll be in the shuttle area of PDX. There are signs to it. It'll have a sign on it saying Evergreen International Conference. Cheers! Buzzy *** Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR, 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org Original Message From: Lynn Floyd lfl...@andersonlibrary.org Sent: May 7, 2015 12:34:05 PM PDT To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Slight conference shuttle changes Where will the Shuttle pick us up at the Airport? Or will there be a Guy with a Sign? Curious riders want to know! Lynn Floyd lfl...@andersonlibrary.org Anderson County Library 864-260-4500 x181 http://www.andersonlibrary.org http://www.andersonlibrary.org/ From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Buzzy Nielsen Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 2:20 PM To: Evergreen general listserv Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Slight conference shuttle changes Hi everyone, I wanted to make you aware of a couple of small changes to the airport shuttle schedule for next week's conference: · The final departure from the airport on Tuesday the 12th will now be around 5.30p rather than 5.00p. Hopefully that should help in case any of you have late flights. · There will no longer be a 12.00p pickup from the airport on Wednesday the 13th, since no one signed up for it. The first pickup on Wednesday will be around 2.30p. Please let me know if you have questions. Just as a reminder, here's the shuttle signup: http://goo.gl/bOCcCJ And here's the conference rideshare page: https://erideshare.com/xprs.php?e=seIXzCOI See you next week! Cheers! Buzzy -- Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] There's still time to register for the Evergreen Conference, procrastinators!
Are your procrastination skills truly epic? No worries, there's still time to register for the 2015 Evergreen International Conference. It's only $250 for the whole conference, and you get to come to the beautiful Columbia River Gorge! Registration closes on May 6th. You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evergreen-2015-international-conference-tickets-15029293020 Want to check out everything that's happening at the conference? Then pop on over to the conference website: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/ See you in a couple weeks! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Conference Chair -- Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Register now for the Evergreen International Conference!
Only two days left to book rooms! Register and book your rooms now! Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 04/08/2015 11:24 AM, Buzzy Nielsen wrote: Time is ticking away for you to register for this year's Evergreen ILS International conference, being held in Hood River, Oregon, on May 13-16! Rooms at the conference venue, the Hood River Inn, must be booked by April 15th in order to lock in the great conference room rate. There are a lot of great programs at the conference for users, administrators, and programmers alike. Check out the full schedule, including the list of presentations, here: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/schedule/ We're excited to have Joseph Janes, professor and chair of the MLIS program at the University of Washington Information School, as our keynote speaker. Janes has written and spoken extensively on how libraries are evolving and improving. http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/keynote-speaker-joseph-janes/ You can get all that, plus the opportunity to spend some time in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge, for the low, low registration rate of $250. Registration is available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evergreen-2015-international-conference-tickets-15029293020 It's not too late to help out Evergreen by sponsoring the conference. Even individuals can get in on the action; there's a $200 sponsorship level that's just right for individuals who want to support the open source Evergreen ILS community. There are other plenty of other sponsorship opportunities as well. http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/sponsorship-opportunities/ The Conference Planning Committee would also like to thank our conference sponsors. Without their support, we would not be able to make the conference affordable for all of our attendees. Platinum Sponsors - Equinox Software, Inc. Silver Sponsors - Sage Library System Bronze Sponsors - Boopsie for Libraries Hackfest - Equinox Software, Inc. Keynote Speaker - Hood River County Library District A/V Recorded Video Full Day - BC Libraries Cooperative A/V Recorded Video Half Day - BC Libraries Cooperative Ticketing sponsor: EventBrite We're looking forward to seeing you all in Hood River in May! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen -- Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Updated Courier Schedule for the Evergreen ILS 2015 Conference in Hood River
The buses seat 21 people. We're checking into the possibility of a signup list. Stay tuned! Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 04/07/2015 02:42 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote: Yeah, I'd rather take the shuttle but if it's small and I'm likely to have issues ... well, I'd rather pay for a discounted car rental now than get gouged at PDX.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Register now for the Evergreen International Conference!
Time is ticking away for you to register for this year's Evergreen ILS International conference, being held in Hood River, Oregon, on May 13-16! Rooms at the conference venue, the Hood River Inn, must be booked by April 20th in order to lock in the great conference room rate. There are a lot of great programs at the conference for users, administrators, and programmers alike. Check out the full schedule, including the list of presentations, here: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/schedule/ We're excited to have Joseph Janes, professor and chair of the MLIS program at the University of Washington Information School, as our keynote speaker. Janes has written and spoken extensively on how libraries are evolving and improving. http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/keynote-speaker-joseph-janes/ You can get all that, plus the opportunity to spend some time in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge, for the low, low registration rate of $250. Registration is available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evergreen-2015-international-conference-tickets-15029293020 It's not too late to help out Evergreen by sponsoring the conference. Even individuals can get in on the action; there's a $200 sponsorship level that's just right for individuals who want to support the open source Evergreen ILS community. There are other plenty of other sponsorship opportunities as well. http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/sponsorship-opportunities/ The Conference Planning Committee would also like to thank our conference sponsors. Without their support, we would not be able to make the conference affordable for all of our attendees. Platinum Sponsors - Equinox Software, Inc. Silver Sponsors - Sage Library System Bronze Sponsors - Boopsie for Libraries Hackfest - Equinox Software, Inc. Keynote Speaker - Hood River County Library District A/V Recorded Video Full Day - BC Libraries Cooperative A/V Recorded Video Half Day - BC Libraries Cooperative Ticketing sponsor: EventBrite We're looking forward to seeing you all in Hood River in May! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen -- Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Register now for the Evergreen International Conference!
Correction: Rooms must be booked by April 15th. Happy Tax Day! Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 04/08/2015 11:24 AM, Buzzy Nielsen wrote: Time is ticking away for you to register for this year's Evergreen ILS International conference, being held in Hood River, Oregon, on May 13-16! Rooms at the conference venue, the Hood River Inn, must be booked by April 20th in order to lock in the great conference room rate. There are a lot of great programs at the conference for users, administrators, and programmers alike. Check out the full schedule, including the list of presentations, here: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/schedule/ We're excited to have Joseph Janes, professor and chair of the MLIS program at the University of Washington Information School, as our keynote speaker. Janes has written and spoken extensively on how libraries are evolving and improving. http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/keynote-speaker-joseph-janes/ You can get all that, plus the opportunity to spend some time in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge, for the low, low registration rate of $250. Registration is available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evergreen-2015-international-conference-tickets-15029293020 It's not too late to help out Evergreen by sponsoring the conference. Even individuals can get in on the action; there's a $200 sponsorship level that's just right for individuals who want to support the open source Evergreen ILS community. There are other plenty of other sponsorship opportunities as well. http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/sponsorship-opportunities/ The Conference Planning Committee would also like to thank our conference sponsors. Without their support, we would not be able to make the conference affordable for all of our attendees. Platinum Sponsors - Equinox Software, Inc. Silver Sponsors - Sage Library System Bronze Sponsors - Boopsie for Libraries Hackfest - Equinox Software, Inc. Keynote Speaker - Hood River County Library District A/V Recorded Video Full Day - BC Libraries Cooperative A/V Recorded Video Half Day - BC Libraries Cooperative Ticketing sponsor: EventBrite We're looking forward to seeing you all in Hood River in May! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen -- Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Early bird registration for Evergreen Conference extended!
Good news, Evergreen aficionados! We've extended the early bird registration price to Sunday, March 15th. Early bird registration costs $200. The price increases to $250 after March 15th. The 2015 Evergreen International Conference will be held on May 13-16 in Hood River, Oregon. We're very pleased to have Joseph Janes as our keynote speaker. Janes is Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School and program chair of their MLIS program. More information about Janes can be found here: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/keynote-speaker-joseph-janes/ Stay tuned to hear about the great program proposals soon! More information about the conference, including how to register, is available on the conference website: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/ See you in Hood River! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Don't miss early bird registration for the 2015 Evergreen International Conference
Don't miss out on early bird registration for the 2015 Evergreen International Conference, to be held on May 13-16 in Hood River, Oregon. Early bird registration of $200 goes through February 28, 2015, and increases to $250 afterward. We're also very pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be Joseph Janes, Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School and program chair of their MLIS program. More information about Janes can be found here: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/keynote-speaker-joseph-janes/ And don't forgot to submit your conference proposals by February 27th: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/proposals/ More information about the conference, including how to register, is available on the conference website: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/ See you in Hood River! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org Forwarded Message Subject: Registration open for the 2015 Evergreen International Conference Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:46:44 -0800 From: Buzzy Nielsen bu...@hoodriverlibrary.org Organization: Hood River County Library District To: Libs-or libs...@listsmart.osl.state.or.us, Sage listserv sage-lib-gr...@eou.edu, ARSL_Membership arsl_members...@listserv.amrms.com Hi everyone, I'm very pleased to say that Hood River, Oregon, is hosting the 2015 Evergreen International Conference this year. It will be held on May 13-16. The conference focuses the widely-used open source ILS Evergreen (http://evergreen-ils.org/), but it might also be useful to people interested in library and open source technology generally. You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evergreen-2015-international-conference-tickets-15029293020 The conference venue is the Best Western Plus Hood River Inn (http://www.hoodriverinn.com). Booking information is available here, as well as suggestions for other lodging: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/venue/ More information can be found on the conference website. Pages will be updated as information comes available. http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/ Stay tuned for information about submitting proposals, sponsoring the conference, and exhibiting at the conference. Please let me know if you guys have any questions. We're looking forward to seeing many of you in Hood River this spring! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
[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
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Booking rooms for the conference
Hi everyone, When booking a room at the Hood River Inn, the 2015 Evergreen conference venue, please do not book online; you will not be able to get the conference rate for the rooms that way. Instead, call their reservations number at 1-800-828-7873 and mention that you're booking for the Evergreen conference. Nightly conference hotel rates are as follows: Standard value room: $109 Standard one bed: $129 Standard two queen: $129 Riverview one bed: $149 Riverview two queens: $149 Executive level standard one queen: $129 Executive standard one king: $129 Suite: $225 Please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** EG 2015 conference registration available
Good question, Rogan. We are working on getting shuttles going to and from the airport on Tuesday and Saturday. I'm discussing that with shuttle companies now. Stay tuned! Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 01/13/2015 01:37 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote: Hi Buzzy, A few logistical questions. I'm assuming that PDX is the closes airport to fly in, correct? As that is a fair distance from Hood River I'm assuming that the hotel doesn't operate a shuttle there (also none listed on their web site that I could find). What are our best options for ground travel?
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** EG 2015 conference registration available
I'm very pleased to say that registration is open for the 2015 Evergreen International Conference, to be held on May 13-16 in Hood River, Oregon, USA. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evergreen-2015-international-conference-tickets-15029293020 The conference venue is the Best Western Plus Hood River Inn (http://www.hoodriverinn.com). Booking information is available here, as well as suggestions for other lodging: http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/venue/ More information can be found on the conference website. Pages will be updated as information comes available. http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg15/ Stay tuned for information about submitting proposals, sponsoring the conference, and exhibiting at the conference. Please let me know if you guys have any questions. We're looking forward to seeing you all in Hood River this spring! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Save the date: 2015 Evergreen Conference
I'm sure you could get some folks to join you in that, Terran. It's about 50 miles from the conference hotel, but it's a mostly straight shot on the interstate. Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 12/23/2014 06:05 AM, McCanna, Terran wrote: An excursion to the McMenamin's Edgefield would also be fabulous :D Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org - Original Message - From: "Mary Llewellyn" mllew...@biblio.org To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 4:21:06 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Save the date: 2015 Evergreen Conference Great news, Buzzy! I was wondering if there's any way to organize a excursion to St. Mary's Church in Hood River for Thursday, May 14 to attend Mass for the Feast of the Ascension? Or at least, are there some other Catholics who would like to share a cab with me that morning? Looking forward to May! Mary Bibliomation, Inc. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Buzzy Nielsen bu...@hoodriverlibrary.org wrote: Hi everyone, I know that everyone has been eagerly anticipating information about the 2015 Evergreen Conference. The conference will be held on May 13-16, 2015, in beautiful Hood River, Oregon, USA, in the Columbia River Gorge. Registration and hotel information will be available by the end of this year. Stay tuned in early January for a call for program proposals, too! We're looking forward to seeing your great ideas for programs! While we of course will have plenty of fun at the conference itself, you might want to check out some of the other great things you can do while in the area. The Columbia River Gorge is a National Scenic Area, with plenty of hiking, biking, and watersports. Hood River is only 30 minutes away from Mount Hood, a big skiing and snowboarding destination. The area also is well know for its craft breweries, wineries, and hard cideries. You can see the range of things you can do at http://hoodriver.org/. We look forward to seeing you at the conference! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen 2015 Conference Committee ** Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Save the date: 2015 Evergreen Conference
Hi everyone, I know that everyone has been eagerly anticipating information about the 2015 Evergreen Conference. The conference will be held on May 13-16, 2015, in beautiful Hood River, Oregon, USA, in the Columbia River Gorge. Registration and hotel information will be available by the end of this year. Stay tuned in early January for a call for program proposals, too! We're looking forward to seeing your great ideas for programs! While we of course will have plenty of fun at the conference itself, you might want to check out some of the other great things you can do while in the area. The Columbia River Gorge is a National Scenic Area, with plenty of hiking, biking, and watersports. Hood River is only 30 minutes away from Mount Hood, a big skiing and snowboarding destination. The area also is well know for its craft breweries, wineries, and hard cideries. You can see the range of things you can do at http://hoodriver.org/. We look forward to seeing you at the conference! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen 2015 Conference Committee ** Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?
There are a few popups that we've deemed unnecessary. For instance, there's a pop up that appears at checkin for a "bad status", requiring staff to affirm that they do indeed want to check in the item. Two of those statuses are "Lost" and "Missing". Our staff honestly couldn't come up with any reason why we wouldn't want to check in items with those two statuses, at least not given our workflow and processes. Another (admittedly self-inflicted) example are the "check parts" notices some of our consortium members use. Oh, how happy would we be to convince our fellow libraries not to use those ... Anyway, this is all to say that those messages do indeed slow down work flow, and they can be painfully slow to pop up on older computers. Fortunately, all of our equipment is pretty new, but I know our smaller libraries can have issues with the speed as they have the double hit of slow hardware and slow connections. Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 04/14/2014 01:12 PM, McCanna, Terran wrote: Most of those alerts are important, are they not? It's been a little while, but when I've covered Circ and done check-ins, I don't recall getting anything that I regarded as an unnecessary alert - I only recall things that required some sort of staff action such as routing, printing hold slips, etc. If alerts were suppressed, wouldn't that cause far more staff error? Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?
Hi folks, We have libraries in our consortium that are claiming that Evergreen is not properly checking in items, i.e. that they're scanning the items for check in but the system isn't taking the item off the patron's account. We're running 2.5.1. Personally, I'm pretty sure we've got PEBKAC going on. At our local library, we've implemented work flow improvements and the problem has pretty much disappeared. Still, I thought I'd ask: have any of you experienced this issue? Cheers! Buzzy *** Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR, 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?
And Rogan wins the Internet for today. In addition to turning off the scanner beep, which helps, we've also turned on Evergreen's sounds on checkin workstation. That has also helped quite a bit. Thanks for your comments, folks! Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 04/11/2014 11:46 AM, Rogan Hamby wrote: The only method that guarantees complete attention probably violates the Geneva Convention.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?
I think they're enabled by default. If you plug speakers in to the computer or turn up the sound, you should hear them. I will say, however, that the default confirmation sound for a successful checkin is pretty soft, so our systems staff replaced it with something more audible. Hopefully Brent will see this message and respond with more details on how to do that! Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 04/11/2014 12:58 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: In addition to turning off the scanner beep, which helps, we've also turned on Evergreen's sounds on checkin workstation. That has also helped quite a bit. Wait, there are sounds?! How does one activate this? -Holly
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2015 Proposals - Today is the Deadline
Thanks, Beth. I got a note that the email needed to be "moderated". Cheers! Buzzy On 04/10/2014 11:14 AM, Beth Longwell wrote: Amy, Did you receive Buzzy's proposal from Hood River County Library District? He sent it to the eg-site listserv and I wasn't sure if it would go through. Thanks, Beth
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] spine label printers
We use Dymo Labelwriter 450s. They're inexpensive, easy to setup, work well, and are compatible with multiple OSs. Cheers! Buzzy On 04/08/2014 11:46 AM, Rhonda Vincent wrote: Our spine label printer has officially retired. We need to replace it as soon as possible. Ive seen the survey that was taken on printers before the last upgrade; however the last upgrade did not work well with our microline. What I need to know is which printers have worked well since the upgrade. Any and all information on the printers you are using and how they work with Evergreen at this point would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Rhonda Vincent Jennings County Public Library rhonda.vinc...@jenningslib.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Smart Float: Self balancing floating collections
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing! Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 04/02/2014 08:51 AM, Doug Kyle wrote: I've created a new Evergreen feature I call Smart Float. After we (Grand Rapids Public Library) moved to floating collections, staff had to spend time managing and balancing floating collections. Smart Float was created to automate those tasks as follows. Smart Float automates the redistribution of floating collections based on available shelf space and duplicate copies. Smart Float also allows automatic "re-homing" of items based on a number of circulations from the original library or a specified time frame. Upon checkin Smart Float will first check if an item needs to be sent home, if not the item will float to the checkin branch if space is available and there are not too many duplicate copies. If space and or duplicates don't allow floating to the checkin branch, it will next float to the branch with most space and no excess duplicates, then to the branch with most space regardless of duplicates. If no branches have shelf space it will stay where it is (float to the checkin library). Copy locations are the units of Smart Float operation. Copy locations are mapped to the following attributes that Smart Float uses to determine how to distribute copies. - active: if true, Smart Float will be used, otherwise traditional floating will occur. - items_allowed: the number of items the shelving location can hold. - dups_threshold: the number of duplicate titles allowed for that copy location. - homing_threshold: number of circulations from the original owning library. - homing_lifespan: time interval, such as "3 months". Items will be sent home within the homing_lifespan from creation date, until the homing_threshold is met. So if shelving location 'kids movies' has a homing_threshold of 1 and a homing_lifespan of "3 months", items in that shelving location won't start floating until they have circulated once from the owning library, or its been 3 months or more since they were created. The Grand Rapids Public Library is now running an initial version of Smart Float in production on Evergreen 2.2. I've committed a lightly tested version for Master in my working repository. The implementation is almost entirely plpgsql code and no Evergreen client side interface currently exists, but I wanted to put it out to the community at this point in the hopes of finding collaborators and getting it included in future releases.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Notification is library is last owning on a held item?
Hi folks, Does anyone know, is there a feature in Evergreen, whether currently in place or in development, that would notify a library is it's the last owning library that carries a particular held item? We have a large consortium, 70+ libraries, and patrons can place holds on pretty much any member library's items. It would be really helpful if there could be some sort of alert if a library's that's the last holding one marks a held item missing. That way, the patron's home library could notify him/her that they're unable to get the item through the consortium. I hope that my question makes sense! Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
Libki is a nice option. It's open source and you can roll your own installation (http://libki.org/) or get it from a vendor (http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-libki/). Papercut is an easy-to-use, very inexpensive print management program. http://www.papercut.com/. My last library used those two systems, and they worked quite well. Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 03/19/2014 07:20 AM, jmu...@tcpclibrary.org wrote: Anyone on Evergreen have a PC reservation system for the public they would recommend or recommend against? It should have print management software too and we would prefer it to run with Windows PCs. Thanks, John Director Perry County Public Library 2328 Tell Street Tell City, IN 47586 www.tcpclibrary.org jmu...@tcpclibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Receipt Printer
We use the Star TSP100s. They work fantastically well. We've got them running on Linux and Windows workstations without issue. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828154078 Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 02/17/2014 09:43 AM, Harweda Coe wrote: Does anyone have recommendations for a receipt printer that work well with Evergreen? After the migration, the Library receipt printers stopping cutting automatically. I tried several printer drivers (Star TSP600-650series) with no success. Thanks -- Harweda Coe Computer Services Manager Forsyth County Public Library 660 W. Fifth Street Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101 336-703-3008 office 336-829-1048 cell
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Receipt Printer
No problem, Lise. I can look into the EG settings, too, although I believe that the cut is determined by the printer drivers, not EG. And we always love to have visitors. Someday, my dream is to host the conference in Hood River, if we have the capacity. Cheers! Buzzy *** Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR, 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org Original Message From: Elisabeth Keppler keppl...@forsyth.cc Sent: February 18, 2014 4:58:36 PM PST To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Receipt Printer That's splendid, Buzzy. I'm sure Harweda will be most grateful. Hood River--it's not just a beautiful place to visit. It has helpful librarians! Thanks again, Lise On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Buzzy Nielsen bu...@hoodriverlibrary.orgwrote: Sure thing. We downloaded the drivers from here: http://www.starmicronics.com/support/default.aspx I've attached our settings. They're from our Linux workstation, but I think the settings in Windows are largely similar. We actually didn't have to change any of the default settings to get the printers to cut. Ours are set to partial cut. Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 02/18/2014 04:23 PM, Elisabeth Keppler wrote: Hi Holly and Buzzy, Thanks for responding! Our statewide consortium managers and Equinox have had no luck getting our receipt printers to autocut. We're having to feed the paper and tear by hand. Since we're on the east coast, Harweda has left for the day but I'm sure she'd love to know if there's a secret to forcing the Stars to cut. Could you share the driver(s) you're using? Many thanks, Lise Keppler On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Holly Brennan haderh...@ci.homer.ak.uswrote: We have a bunch of old Star TSP700s. They work great with Evergreen and with our PC management system for guest passes - one receipt printer does both jobs. -Holly *From:* open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Harweda Coe *Sent:* Monday, February 17, 2014 8:43 AM *To:* open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org *Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Receipt Printer Does anyone have recommendations for a receipt printer that work well with Evergreen? After the migration, the Library receipt printers stopping cutting automatically. I tried several printer drivers (Star TSP600-650series) with no success. Thanks -- Harweda Coe Computer Services Manager Forsyth County Public Library 660 W. Fifth Street Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101 336-703-3008 office 336-829-1048 cell -- Lise Keppler Forsyth County Public Library 660 W 5th St Winston Salem NC 27101 336-703-3070 -- Lise Keppler Forsyth County Public Library 660 W 5th St Winston Salem NC 27101 336-703-3070
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine label printers
We're using the Dymo Labelwriter 450s. We're quite fond of them, although they aren't terribly sturdy. I'd have to check with our catalogers about the brand of labels that we use. I can get that info, if you're interested. Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 02/14/2014 11:43 AM, Mary Toma wrote: Is anyone using the Dymo LabelWriter 450 for printing spinals? We have a Dymo LabelWriter400 that we have been using to print series labels, but, were not happy with it because the labels fade within a year. If youre using one and are happy with it what supplies are you using? Thanks.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine label printers
We get our labels
from http://www.labelvalue.com/. We use 1" by 1.5" spine labels:
http://www.labelvalue.com/labels/printer-labels/dymo-labelwriter-labels/price-tag-labels/dymo-compatible-30347-labels-1-2-p-214.html
Cheers!
Buzzy
Library Director
Hood River County Library District
502 State Street
Hood River, Oregon 97031
541-387-7062
http://hoodriverlibrary.org
On 02/14/2014 12:12 PM, Mary Toma wrote:
yes please.
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Buzzy
Nielsen bu...@hoodriverlibrary.org
wrote:
We're using the Dymo Labelwriter
450s. We're quite fond of them, although they aren't
terribly sturdy. I'd have to check with our
catalogers about the brand of labels that we use. I can
get that info, if you're interested.
Cheers!
Buzzy
Library Director
Hood River County Library District
502 State Street
Hood River, Oregon 97031
541-387-7062
http://hoodriverlibrary.org
On 02/14/2014 11:43 AM, Mary Toma wrote:
Is anyone using the Dymo
LabelWriter 450 for printing spinals? We have a Dymo
LabelWriter400 that we have been using to print series
labels, but, were not happy with it because the
labels fade within a year. If youre using one and are
happy with it what supplies are you using? Thanks.
--
Mary Toma
Head Librarian
South Central Regional Library
160 Main Street
Box 1540
Winkler, MB R6W 4B4
204-325-5864
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Auto-Renewal Functionality
As a director, I wouldn't so much worry about the fine revenue; I think treating fines as revenue leads to some poor customer service practices. What I would worry about more would be achieving what I see as the main point of fines (and due dates!): getting back your materials. An auto-renew policy paired with a liberal number of renewals, say unlimited, may mean some of your materials would never come back, and staff wouldn't have much of an idea they were gone. I realize that holds in some sense would help prevent that. However, there are some collections (large print, foreign language, DVDs, etc) the traffic of which is driven more by browsing than holds necessarily. The loss rate for those materials may increase. I'm not saying to not develop the feature; I'm just saying that you'd need to work through your policies to ensure that you have good customer service and ensure that your materials are returned. With the right set of policies, it could be a nice feature. And hear hear to ensuring that it be controllable at the individual library, or even shelving location, level. We could never get the 70 libraries in our consortium to agree to such a radical change. Cheers! Buzzy *** Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR, 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org Original Message From: Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net Sent: Fri Jan 24 12:58:57 PST 2014 To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Auto-Renewal Functionality Interesting questions. To throw my .02 dinars in 1) Yes. 2) I would prefer policy based for a number of reasons that revolve around lack of consistent policy among member libraries. While it's tempting to say that the ability to turn it on or off would be nice frankly it's adding another flip switch on a large control panel full of doo hickeys and some staff don't know all the existing ones. And when I ask myself can I see a significant utility in staff having this ability, frankly the answer is no. So, would I be upset if the override was available? No, and we might find some currently unforeseen use for it but I doubt it. I can actually imagine it causing as much or more confusion than it helps. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org wrote: I am wonder if this type of functionality has ever been discussed for Evergreen: an item would be renewed automatically at the end of a loan period assuming there are no holds on the item or anything other issues with the patron or the item. The renewal would generate a circulation statistic. Patrons would be able to keep an item longer without having to take any action. We understand that fine revenues would take a hit. Does anyone know if something like this being worked on? A similar idea [1] was recently proposed on the Koha development mailing list for the use case of extending loans for faculty at an academic library. I'm not aware of any current efforts to do this for Evergreen, but this is a good way to get a conversation started. Here are a couple questions just to flesh out the idea: 1. Would you want patrons to receive some sort of notification that their loan was automatically renewed? 2. Would whether or not a loan can be auto-renewed be determined purely by policy (based on patron profile, library, circ modifier, and so forth, like most other circ settings in Evergreen), or would you also want the ability for circulation staff to turn auto-renewal on or off for individual loans? [1] http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Automatic_renewal_RFC Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. -- Ray Bradbury https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1630.Ray_Bradbury You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. -- C.S. Lewis http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Selfcheck not populating items out
Thank you, Ben; that fix worked like a charm. Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 01/22/2014 10:31 PM, Ben Shum wrote: Hi Buzzy, My initial question was going to be "what version of Evergreen are you using?" but I decided to test out the link in your signature and see what version your catalog says it is. Going on what I saw from your library's catalog (SAGE?), it seems you folks are on Evergreen 2.5.1. To answer the actual issue though... last week, I merged a bug fix from Bill Erickson to resolve this issue with the selfcheck interface present in Evergreen 2.5. It's slated to become part of the next maintenance release, 2.5.3. See this Evergreen bug ticket - https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1269884 - for full details and links to the code fixes. -- Ben On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Buzzy Nielsen bu...@hoodriverlibrary.org wrote:
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Macros
Hi everyone, In the receipt template editor, you can get a list of macros that you can use by clicking the "Macros" button. However, I'm wondering if there are other macros that are available but simply aren't listed. Is there a list of the available macros anywhere? Specifically what we're trying to do is setup a generic selfcheck receipt template for our consortium that could include, say, the individual library's phone number, website, etc. Thanks for your help! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Macros
Thanks, Lynn. This
is great. I'm wondering how hard it would be to create a few new
ones for library contact info, say %library_phone%,
%library_website%, etc. My programming-fu is weak, though, so I'm
not sure I'm be the person to do it!
Cheers!
Buzzy
Library Director
Hood River County Library District
502 State St
Hood River, OR 97031
541-387-7062
http://hoodriverlibrary.org
On 01/22/2014 02:52 PM, Lynn Floyd wrote:
Here
is a list I put together a while back I know it is not
complete.
Lynn
Floyd
lfl...@andersonlibrary.org
Anderson
County Library
864-260-4500
x181
http://www.andersonlibrary.org
From:
open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org
[mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org]
On Behalf Of Buzzy Nielsen
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:47 PM
To: Evergreen general listserv
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Macros
Hi
everyone,
In the receipt template editor, you can get a list of macros
that you can use by clicking the "Macros" button. However,
I'm wondering if there are other macros that are available
but simply aren't listed. Is there a list of the available
macros anywhere? Specifically what we're trying to do is
setup a generic selfcheck receipt template for our
consortium that could include, say, the individual library's
phone number, website, etc.
Thanks for your help!
Cheers!
Buzzy Nielsen
Library Director
Hood River County Library District
502 State St
Hood River, OR 97031
541-387-7062
http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Macros
Thanks, Holly. I definitely understand that; our local branches' receipts are set up that way. The issue that we have is that the receipts for the selfcheck do not pull a local library's receipt templates. Instead, the selfcheck uses receipt templates common to the entire consortium. Thus, since we only have one template to work with, we want it to be able to pull information on the individual branches. Aaron, it sounds like the solution with the headers might work. I'll look into it. Thanks! Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 01/22/2014 04:14 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: I'm wondering how hard it would be to create a few new ones for library contact info, say %library_phone%, %library_website%, etc. My programming-fu is weak, though, so I'm not sure I'm be the person to do it! Buzzy - You can manually add things like the library name, phone, etc. They just arent listed as macros. Heres how I configured the top of our patron-oriented receipts (items out, renewals, etc): centerHomer Public Librarybr/ 500 Hazel Ave, Homer AK 99603br/ 907-235-3180br/ www.cityofhomer-ak.gov/librarybr/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ br//center You have the following items:hr/ol And it prints on the receipt as this (only centered): Homer Public Library 500 Hazel Ave, Homer AK 99603 907-235-3180 www.cityofhomer-ak.gov/library ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ You have the following items: You set this up on one station, then copy the templates to all other computers at that branch. Its a little work, but only has to be done once. And since you have to copy the customized templates to each workstation regardless, theres not much difference in typing/coping a line of macros vs. typing the library name manually. Hope that helps. And thanks for the list, Lynn! -Holly From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Buzzy Nielsen Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 2:36 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Macros Thanks, Lynn. This is great. I'm wondering how hard it would be to create a few new ones for library contact info, say %library_phone%, %library_website%, etc. My programming-fu is weak, though, so I'm not sure I'm be the person to do it! Cheers! Buzzy Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 01/22/2014 02:52 PM, Lynn Floyd wrote:
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bluetooth barcode scanner?
Hi everyone, We're considering getting a bluetooth barcode scanner for our outreach laptop. Do any of you perchance have any models to recommend? Thanks! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question regarding circulation policies
Hi Deanna, Regarding changing circ policies on-the-fly, my understanding is that changing the policies is not retroactive; as you said, an item will circulate using whatever rule was in place the day it checked it. This has been our experience when we've changed policies. Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 12/16/2013 10:53 AM, Deana Cunningham wrote: am also in a bit of a conundrum about how to change circ policies with items currently circulating. We are getting a test server set up so I can try some things, but I'm not ever sure how I would tell what the ramifications are unless I set up fake checkouts on the test server for every type of item/patron combination, then change the circ policies and see what impact that has on current checkouts. Other areas of Evergreen seem to hold with the information available at the time of the transaction (i.e. if a book is checked out today with a circ policy that says it charges .15/day late fees, then tomorrow the policy is changed to .10/day late fees, the item will still be charged .15/day as that was the rule in place when it was checked out). Am I right about this?
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cataloging ebooks and eReaders
Here's how we
cataloged ours, if it helps you any.
http://hood.sage.eou.edu/eg/opac/record/1154326
http://hood.sage.eou.edu/eg/opac/record/1154324
http://hood.sage.eou.edu/eg/opac/record/1154325
Our "Circulate as Type" is "Mixed materials".
Cheers!
Buzzy Nielsen
Library Director
Hood River County Library District
502 State St
Hood River, OR 97031
541-387-7062
http://hoodriverlibrary.org
On 12/13/2013 09:43 AM, Susie Michaud wrote:
We just bought some eReaders to lend out
and I am just about to catalogue them. Is there a code for
Type of Record for eReaders? Is there one for eBooks?
Susie Michaud
Library technician
West Nipissing Public Library
705-753-2620
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ubuntu desktop i386
FWIW, Meme, we run
an Evergreen 2.4 Linux client (on both Linux Mint and Linux Mint
Debian Edition, 32- and 64-bit installs) quite successfully. In
my experience, it does seem to freeze less often when run
natively rather than through Wine, but the Wine version is quite
stable too. As Chris said, your sysadmin should build the client
specific for your setup.
Cheers!
Buzzy Nielsen
Library Director
Hood River County Library District
502 State St
Hood River, OR 97031
541-387-7062
http://hoodriverlibrary.org
On 12/12/2013 11:40 AM, Sharp, Chris wrote:
Meme,
I would recommend asking your Evergreen system administrator to build a Linux client for you. Instructions here:
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mozilla-devel:building_the_staff_client
Alternatively, you can install Wine on Ubuntu ('sudo apt-get install wine') and install the Windows version, which works well.
Hope that's helpful!
Chris
- Original Message -
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 64-bit Linux client?
We've been using a native Linux staff client on a few of our workstations here to much success. We use a 32-bit version of Linux Mint Debian Edition. However, I'd like to start moving some of our staff computers over to a 64-bit version. I tested the staff client on a 64-bit Ubuntu workstation but was unable to even get it to launch, despite it running quite handily in a 32-bit environment. Do any of you have any experience with running a staff client in a 64-bit Linux environment? If so, if there something special that needs to be done when building the client to create a 64-bit version? Thanks for your help! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] E-readers and other electronic devices
Hi John, We do. Here are the catalog entries for them: * http://hood.sage.eou.edu/eg/opac/record/1154325 * http://hood.sage.eou.edu/eg/opac/record/1154326 * http://hood.sage.eou.edu/eg/opac/record/1154324 I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have other questions. Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 02/21/2013 12:51 PM, John Mundy wrote: Does anyone on this listserv circulate e-readers or other devices at their libraries? Do you catalog them in Evergreen and if so, how do you do it? I'm just doing some fact finding. Thanks, John Director Perry County Public Library 812-547-2661 fax 812-547-3038 jmu...@tcpclibrary.org mailto:jmu...@tcpclibrary.org http://www.tcpclibrary.org/ http://www.tcpclibrary.org/
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inventory module
Hi everyone, Our consortium (Sage Library System) potentially has access to a bit of money that we could use to further develop Evergreen. In thinking of projects that would benefit all of our members and other Evergreen libraries, we were thinking about an inventory module. Specifically, we're looking for a module that would allow for member libraries to conduct thorough inventories and produce reports of missing items, etc., without requiring intervention of a systems administrator. I hope that makes sense! Is there already an effort underway to develop such a module? If so, whom would I contact to learn more about what's happening and how we could contribute to the efforts? Thanks for your help with this! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How to make the EG client default basic search instead of advanced catalog search?
Hi Ben, I can speak to this a bit, as we've considered this at our library too. Frontline staff often use staff workstations to show patrons how to search the catalog. Defaulting the catalog search to the basic page would better mirror what patrons see when they access the catalog, in addition to giving staff the ability to perform the various functions they need which would be more difficult to do on the public catalog. Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 11/28/2012 12:41 PM, Ben Shum wrote: Hi Yamil, I'm curious to understand what the reasoning is behind using basic search instead of the advanced search by default when in the staff client. This question came up recently from one of our librarians and I'm still waiting to hear back from them as to their reasons, but wondering if there's similarity. Is there a functional difference between basic/advanced that fuels this preference? To me, I could not think of anything specific in our system since both default to keyword search, so they seem to have similar enough functional aspects to them. Or is it merely an aesthetic choice to match the staff client to how the system would behave in an OPAC situation for consistency's sake? -- Ben On 11/28/2012 03:25 PM, Yamil Suarez wrote:
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile catalog?
Thanks, everyone, for this very productive discussion. I especially like Kathy's recommendations. Providing a more mobile-accessible interface for My Account to allow for easier renewing would also be nice. As Kathy mentioned, larger font sizes would help immensely and probably some slightly different layout. Personally, I'm trying to avoid the need for some sort of app. I know that Boopsie has designed iOS and Android apps for systems running Evergreen, But I think it's a lot more accessible, and less hassle, for our patrons if we don't require them to go out and download a separate app to access something that can be made accessible without one. Thanks for all of your great work on this! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Sadly not a web or application developer, but a pleased Evergreen user Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 11/08/2012 08:24 AM, Dan Scott wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:46:53AM -0500, Kathy Lussier wrote: Thanks for the concrete suggestions. Almost all of this can be achieved via CSS, possibly with some changes to the underlying HTML (e.g. tables to divs or whatever so that Place Hold appears under the bib info instead of way over to the right). I don't see anything that suggests a need for two distinct versions of HTML in your wish list. Geolocation functionality could be supported for desktop browsers too, but be careful in how you implement it. If you go to branch1.example.com in your browser and get redirected to automatically searching branch2 instead of branch1, that's probably going to break user expectations.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Installing and Running Linux Staff Client Version 2.0.9
Our System Manager (for the Sage Library System) built a Linux client on the server using these instructions, I believe: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-user:installing_and_running_the_staff_client#installing_on_linux I've been running this on a couple of Linux machines for a while, and am about to roll out staff computers running Linux with the native Evergreen client. While I never had issues running the Windows client in Wine, the native client runs /much/ faster. I have not experienced any issues with the native client that seem unique to it. I've been running it on Linux Mint 12 and the latest version of Linux Mint Debian Edition. Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 11/02/2012 06:18 AM, Joe wrote: Hi Jayaraj, I know this might seem a little backwards, but from talking with some of my colleagues who have tried to install the linux staff client on a linux machine, we have found it is much easier to install the windows staff client in wine on a linux machine. I have not extensively tested this, but I have a laptop that I have done this on for 2.1, and I've not seen any issues with it in occasional usage over the last few months. Best of luck. Joe Joseph Knueven Director Germantown Public Library 51 N. Plum St. Germantown, OH 45327 937-696-9998x10 knuev...@oplin.org On 11/2/2012 3:18 AM, Jayaraj JR wrote:
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] New selfcheck for 2.2 (or 2.3)?
Hi everyone, We've been using the following URL for our selfcheck stations: https://[catalog.url]/opac/extras/selfcheck/selfcheck.xml With the advent of TPAC, we were wondering if there's a new URL for the selfcheck, either in 2.2 or 2.3? We've searched through documentation but have been unable to find it. Thanks for any help you can provide! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 sites
Sage Library System of Eastern Oregon, up since mid-July. http://catalog.sage.eou.edu/ Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 07/31/2012 10:17 AM, Tim Spindler wrote: C/W MARS has been up since June. http;//bark.cwmars.org http://bark.cwmars.org Tim On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Erin Rigby e...@poplarbluff.org mailto:e...@poplarbluff.org wrote: -- Tim Spindler tjspind...@gmail.com mailto:tjspind...@gmail.com *P** Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.*
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Movable tabs in staff client?
Hello, I was wondering if it's in the works (or already exists) to allow tabs in the staff client be movable drag-and-drop style, similar to what you can do in Firefox or Chrome. I looked around on Launchpad and elsewhere to see if this is being considered but didn't find anything. Or, is there a way to do this already? Obviously, this would not be a terribly high-priority development. But it seems like it would be a nice feature to add. Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Recommendations for PC reservation print management software needed
I'm starting to test a new one, Libki, for hopeful future deployment. Our public computers run Linux, so most time management softwares don't work on them. Libki can run on Windows or Linux clients, although it does require a Linux server. The server doesn't require a lot of system resources, though, so it would be easy to slap a Linux distro of choice onto an old machine to act as a server. The staff-side management module just runs in the browser, so no additional software is required on staff machines.Cheers!Buzzy Nielsen**Library DirectorHood River County Library District502 State StreetHood River OR 97031541-386-2535www.hoodriverlibrary.org Original Message Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Recommendations for PC reservation print management software needed From: Elizabeth Longwell blong...@eou.edu Date: Fri, June 01, 2012 12:40 pm To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Evergreen libraries,One of our district libraries is looking at PC reservation/time management/print management software solutions. They have polled our local consortia but would like to find out what other Evergreen libraries are using and/or recommending. We are currently on Evergreen 2.1, soon to upgrade to 2.2. Thanks for any advice you could give,Beth LongwellSystems ManagerSage Library System of Oregon
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Building Linux staff client for 2.1.0
Hi, I'd like to build a Linux client on a client workstation. Our system currently runs 2.1.0. Are there instructions for building a staff client on client machine for 2.1.0? Or does someone have an already-packaged version of it? I saw these instructions: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-user:installing_and_running_the_staff_client#installing_on_linux But I couldn't seem to get them to work. I've tried using a packaged version of 2.1.0a, but it didn't work with our server. Thanks for your help! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Building Linux staff client for 2.1.0
BTW, if it helps, the client would be on a machine running Linux Mint 12, or some other Debian-based distro. Cheers! Buzzy On 03/23/2012 01:32 PM, Buzzy Nielsen wrote: Hi, I'd like to build a Linux client on a client workstation. Our system currently runs 2.1.0. Are there instructions for building a staff client on client machine for 2.1.0? Or does someone have an already-packaged version of it? I saw these instructions: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-user:installing_and_running_the_staff_client#installing_on_linux But I couldn't seem to get them to work. I've tried using a packaged version of 2.1.0a, but it didn't work with our server. Thanks for your help! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Android Client App.
I'm actually also interested in running the Linux client. I got 2.2a3 to run, but are there older versions of the Linux client available? Maybe archived somewhere? Our server is running 2.1, and I'd love to be able to run the Linux client on some of our staff computers without needing to use Wine. Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 03/21/2012 08:19 AM, Avinash Jain wrote: when i ran the client on my ubuntu system i was asked to fill hostname server. When i provide some community host server ip it fails because of proxy. What to do now? should i install ervergreen server on my localhost or can i access evergreen community server through ssh. Let me know if i am making sense ?? On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.com mailto:ja...@esilibrary.com wrote: -- Regards, avinash (+91) 9502681447
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Receipt printers for Linux
Hello, Does anyone have a recommendation for a good receipt printer for Evergreen that's also Linux-compatible? We need new printers, and our staff workstations will eventually be migrated to a Debian-based Linux distro like Ubuntu or Mint. Thus, I want to make sure I'm buying a printer that plays well with Linux. Based on looking through the list archives, and my own research, I'm leaning toward the Star TSP100, but I'd love to hear other suggestions as well as thoughts on the cost of replacement rolls. Thanks! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen * Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Online fines Payment
Hi Lisa, Great tutorial! What company are you guys using to process the credit card payments? Do you happen to know what they charge? Thanks! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen * Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 08/11/2011 01:45 PM, Lisa Hill wrote: KCLS has been taking payments since April 5, 2011. Ping me offline if you have any questions. Thanks Lisa Lisa Hill | Web Services Manager | Virtual Library Services http://www.kcls.org andhttp://catalog.kcls.org p: 425.369.3480 | f: 425.369.3407
