[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Recommendations for PC reservation print management software needed
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 Longwell Systems Manager Sage Library System of Oregon
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bookings problem
Brian I stumbled across a library setting for this Disallow circulation of items that are on book reserve and that reserve overlaps with the checkout period. Setting this to True should make a difference. Beth On May 2, 2012 5:46 PM, Brian Greene bgre...@cgcc.cc.or.us wrote: Bookings still aren't working properly for us and we'd like to confirm if the problem is local or not. Essentially, Evergreen let's us check out an item for a week to patron A even if it's booked for patron B the following day. As Katie said, it's as though Evergreen doesn't recognize that it is the same item. Any thoughts or advice? Thanks, Brian Brian Greene, Library Director Columbia Gorge Community College The Dalles, Oregon 97058 (541) 506-6080 | www.cgcc.cc.or.us Katie Wallis kwal...@cgcc.cc.or.us 4/18/2012 8:50 AM Hi, Has anyone else had the following problem? A laptop was on reserve and the system let me renew the same laptop to someone else for a due date that was after the booking was requested. It seems if you try to make a booking during the time of an existing one, Evergreen stops you from double-booking it, but it doesn't seem to recognize that checked-out items and booked items are the same things, like they are two separate systems. Is Evergreen supposed to do this properly and it's a settings issue or does Evergreen bookings just not work? Thanks, Katie ** *Katie Wallis* *Columbia Gorge Community College Library* 400 East Scenic Drive, The Dalles, OR 97058 kwal...@cgcc.cc.or.us | 541-506-6087
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Recording of Update from Evergreen Oversight Board and Update from Developers
+1 Thanks, Beth Longwell Sage Library System On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: Hi folks: Those of you who made it to Saturday's early-morning update sessions may or may not have noticed the small black ball with the glowing red light on one of the front tables near the projector. That was my microphone, set up to capture the audio from the update sessions in the morning. I did make an announcement at the start of the Update from the Evergreen Oversight Board meeting that the sessions were being recorded, but there were many people who filed in after that point in time who might not have been aware that the session was being recorded. And, as the visioning exercise that Lori led went on, it's quite possible that people would have forgotten about the ongoing recording. So - while I would like to make the recordings available so that those who weren't there would be able to catch up, I'm hesitant to release the visioning exercise / discussion section of the Oversight Board meeting because I don't think we have explicit consent from everyone who participated. Therefore, I'm proposing that I upload the two update sessions, sans the intermediate discussion section. Can I get a +1/-1 on that? Thanks, Dan P.S. A takeaway for future conferences might be that we should have a sessions might be recorded with audio and/or video blanket notice posted signage?
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Improving relevance ranking in Evergreen
Hi, Is it necessary to re-index after changing weights for relevancy? Beth Longwell Sage Library System On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Mike Rylander mrylan...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org wrote: Hi Mike, To be clear, weighting hits that come from different index definitions has always been possible. 2.2 will have a staff client interface to make it easier, but the capability has been there all along. Is this staff client interface already available in master? If so, can you give me a little more information on how this is done? It is. Go to Admin - Server Administration - MARC Search/Facet Fields and see the Weight field. The higher the number, the more important the field. -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com Thanks! Kathy -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open- ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Mike Rylander Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 10:11 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Improving relevance ranking in Evergreen On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Hardy, Elaine eha...@georgialibraries.org wrote: Kathy, While the relevance display is much improved in 2.x, it would be good to have greater relevance given, in a keyword search, to title (specifically the 245)and then subject fields. I also see where having a popularity ranking might be beneficial. I just had to explain to a board member of one of our libraries why his search for John Sandford turned up children's titles first. So having MARC field 100s ranked higher than 700 in author searches would be beneficial as well. To be clear, weighting hits that come from different index definitions has always been possible. 2.2 will have a staff client interface to make it easier, but the capability has been there all along. Weighting different parts of one indexed term -- say, weighting the title embedded in the keyword blob higher than the subjects embedded in the same blob -- would require the above-mentioned make use of tsearch class weighting. But one can approximate that today by duplicating the index definitions from, say, title, author and subject classes within the keyword class. -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com I can't comment on any of the coding possibilities other than to say which every way doesn't negatively impact search return time is preferable. Elaine J. Elaine Hardy PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager Georgia Public Library Service, A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 404.235-7128 404.235-7201, fax eha...@georgialibraries.org www.georgialibraries.org http://www.georgialibraries.org/pines/ -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 4:43 PM To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Improving relevance ranking in Evergreen Hi all, I mentioned this during an e-mail discussion on the list last month, but I just wanted to hear from others in the Evergreen community about whether there is a desire to improve the relevance ranking for search results in Evergreen. Currently, we can tweak relevancy in the opensrf.xml, and it can look at things like the document length, word proximity, and unique word count. We've found that we had to remove the modifiers for document length and unique word count to prevent a problem where brief bib records were ranked way too high in our search results. In our local discussions, we've thought the following enhancements could improve the ranking of search results: * Giving greater weight to a record if the search terms appear in the title or subject (ideally, we would like these field to be configurable.) This is something that is tweakable in search.relevance_ranking, but my understanding is that the use of these tweaks results in a major reduction in search performance. * Using some type of popularity metric to boost relevancy for popular titles. I'm not sure what this metric should be (number of copies attached to record? Total circs in last x months? Total current circs?), but we believe some type of popularity measure would be particularly helpful in a public library where searches will often be for titles that are popular. For example, a search for twilight will most likely be for the Stephanie Meyers novel and not
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Questions about patron records
Glen, The patron profile/permission group in Evergreen can be used to distinguish different patron types, such as those used in Innovative. The patron groups can be used to drive different circulation policies and limits if desired. Beth Longwell System Manager Sage Library System On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Glen Modell mode...@aadl.org wrote: Hello. My name is Glen Modell and I work at the Ann Arbor District Library in Michigan. We have been using Innovative since 2005 but are investigating the Evergreen system. I am looking into how I would migrate patron records, and I have several questions for anyone who could take a moment to answer them. First, how are you using the following fields: Active, Master_account, Super_user, Barred, Usr_group, Last_xact_id? Second, I see that I can segment off patrons as local/nonlocal and adult/juvenile by using the Juvenile and Within_CIty_Limits fields. But we also have business cards and so on. What field/fields are you using in the Evergreen patron record to distinguish between different types of patron cards? Third, when I register a new patron in the client, I see a bar labeled Statistical Categories at the bottom of the screen. This is not a link and I wondering how this is used. I'd appreciate any responses. Thanks. -- Glen. * Glen Modell Library Automation Specialist Ann Arbor District Library 734-327-8322 mode...@aadl.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Series indexing and facet implications
Fellow Evergreeners, Series facets are showing the entire series entry (title and volume), which is not as useful for patrons who would like to limit their search to a particular series rather than a specific volume of the series. I thought I could use the facet xpath to narrow it down to the series title only, but discovered that the series is being indexed using the mods32 related item/type-series/titleinfo which does not break apart the title and volume info. I'm wondering if anyone has corrected this in their system and has any advice. I'm trying to decide whether to change the current indexing or just create a second index that targets a specific marc tag/subfield combo to grab the series title only. I would be grateful for any advice/help. Thanks, Beth Beth Longwell System Manager Sage Library System of Oregon
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Series indexing and facet implications
Mike, Possible series entries come from 440$a$v as well as 800$t$v (paired with 490 entry). Is possible to feed index from two different marc tags within same definition? Beth On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Mike Rylander mrylan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Elizabeth Longwell blong...@eou.edu wrote: Fellow Evergreeners, Series facets are showing the entire series entry (title and volume), which is not as useful for patrons who would like to limit their search to a particular series rather than a specific volume of the series. I thought I could use the facet xpath to narrow it down to the series title only, but discovered that the series is being indexed using the mods32 related item/type-series/titleinfo which does not break apart the title and volume info. I'm wondering if anyone has corrected this in their system and has any advice. I'm trying to decide whether to change the current indexing or just create a second index that targets a specific marc tag/subfield combo to grab the series title only. I would be grateful for any advice/help. Thanks, If you're only using 440$a$v for series info in your MARC, you could do something along the lines of: BEGIN; UPDATE config.metabib_field SET xpath = '//*[@tag=440]', format = 'marcxml', facet_xpath = '//*[@code=a]' WHERE id = 1; UPDATE metabib.facet_entry SET value = regexp_replace(value, $$\s*;.*$$, '') WHERE field = 1; COMMIT; That's all untested, and mainly from memory, so, no warranty expressed or implied! -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Series indexing and facet implications
Bryan, Thanks for the clarification of the additional series tags - I was breaking it down to the most simplistic, but it wouldn't be good to leave out the other 8xx possibilities :) I'll have to talk to our cataloging committee about the conversion of 440s to 490/830 pairs. In the past it seemed a daunting project, but the script may make it more manageable. Beth On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Bryan Baldus bryan.bal...@quality-books.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Elizabeth Longwell blong...@eou.edu wrote: Possible series entries come from 440$a$v as well as 800$t$v (paired with 490 entry). Of course, since 440 was made obsolete in 2008 [1], a first step might be to convert all 440s to 490/830 pairs [2]. Then the indexing would need to cover 800$t$n$p, 810$t$n$p, 811$t$n$p, 830$a$n$p, and possibly 490$a, depending on whether you want to index uncontrolled series titles. [1] http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd4xx.html [2] Example Perl script for converting extracted files of raw MARC 21 records, though it doesn't currently deal with $x in the best manner: http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/fullrecscripts/Cleanup_full_recs/440to490-830.txt Thank you for your time, Bryan Baldus Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses 1-800-323-4241x402 bryan.bal...@quality-books.com eij...@cpan.org http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello there :)
Dan, Sage is a multi-type consortia spread over 15 counties in eastern and central Oregon. We currently have 77 libraries. I'll send you contact information off list. Beth On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Daniel Haworth daniel.hawo...@molallariv.k12.or.us wrote: I was looking at http://www.koha.org/main.asp before, as well as a couple blogs here and there. I would think it'd be rather common for libraries to be transferring from an expensive and legacy system to a newer and OS system. I remember our city library ran Windows 98 thin clients for years and years as their card catalog machines and upgraded them to XP systems. I think they run something in-house made though. I'd love to get in touch with Sage and Hood River to check it out. What exactly is Sage? Is it a central Evergreen instance for libraries in Oregon? -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Longwell Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:28 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello there :) Dan, The Sage Library System of Oregon is using Evergreen and we have schools in our consortia as well. The Hood River Valley High School is our biggest school and I'm sure they would be happy to talk with you. Let me know if your need their contact information. Beth Longwell System Manager Sage Library System 541-962-3867 On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Haworth daniel.hawo...@molallariv.k12.or.us wrote: Hey mailing list! The Evergreen site said I should post an introduction. I'm with the Molalla River School District, and I'm looking to move stuff away from Follette and AutoLibrarian. Hoping Evergreen will be a good option. I'm curious though, does anyone know of some schools around Oregon that use Evergreen? I'd love to see a working implementation and chat with some school district folks about it. J ~Dan
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Course Reserves
Tom, We add a couple marc tags to each reserve bibliographic record, one which is indexed for course and one which is indexed for instructor. The indexing allows students and staff to search the library catalog for all reserves belonging to a course or instructor. A search widget for reserves is available on the library's home page. We utilize specific reserve circ modifiers and loan durations to drive circulation policy and have a shelving location to indicate where the reserves are housed. Beth Longwell System Manager Sage Library System On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Thomas Misilo misi...@fit.edu wrote: Hello, I was reading through the site looking up information on Course Reserves, but the only document I could find was from 2008. I was wondering if there has been any updates since then or if it is included in the 2.1 branch? If not, I was wondering what other universities that are using Evergreen have implemented in its place. Thank you, Tom
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Basic self-check and receipt printers
Evergreen libraries, Is there a way to disable the printing of receipts at a basic self-check computer in one particular library? We have a library that wants to use self-checkout but doesn't have a receipt printer. We are currently on version 1.6.2. Thanks, Beth Longwell Sage Library System
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Need help with reporting process
Chris, Thanks for the help. I'll get on chat to glean additional details. Beth On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Sharp, Chris csh...@georgialibraries.orgwrote: Hi Beth, This is my first post as the system manager of a newly migrated Evergreen consortium. We had to do a reboot of all Evergreen servers last week and ever since then I've been unable to see our saved report templates and reports. I've restarted the clark kent process on what I thought were the applicable servers, but the folders have not re-appeared. My guess is that I've missed a key process which needs to be started. Report outputs should be in /openils/var/web/reporter by default. If you have a distributed setup (inferring from reboot of all Evergreen servers that you do), this might be an NFS share that needs to be mounted. You can know this for sure by checking /etc/fstab on your main server(s) (without knowing your specific setup, I wouldn't know what else to advise). You might hop on the #evergreen chat channel and perhaps someone can walk you through some troubleshooting steps: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=evergreen I'd appreciate any help that list members can give. Thanks in advance, Beth Longwell Sage Library System of Eastern Oregon -- Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 csh...@georgialibraries.org http://pines.georgialibraries.org/
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Need help with reporting process
Evergreen libraries, This is my first post as the system manager of a newly migrated Evergreen consortium. We had to do a reboot of all Evergreen servers last week and ever since then I've been unable to see our saved report templates and reports. I've restarted the clark kent process on what I thought were the applicable servers, but the folders have not re-appeared. My guess is that I've missed a key process which needs to be started. I'd appreciate any help that list members can give. Thanks in advance, Beth Longwell Sage Library System of Eastern Oregon
