[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reminder: Evergreen for Academics - Goals Priorities Poll ends Tomorrow!
Good morning, Just a reminder that the poll is closing tomorrow evening! Meeting on Thursday at 3:00 pm ET. Following up on the August 14 meeting of Evergreen for Academics, Yamil, Kathy and I have put together a quick poll to access the interest and priorities for goals established at the meeting. The poll is divided into three sections. The first, asks you to identify yourself and your institution, the second, asks that you indicate the level of resources you or your institution would be theoretically willing to commit to a goal, and the third asks you to select 5 of the goals and prioritize them. It is OK, even recommended, for more than one person from a particular library or consortium to fill in the form. Just consider identifying your institution so we know, in case we want to aggregate data in more than one way. Please complete the poll at your earliest convenience but prior to September 30th: https://docs.google.com/a/flo.org/forms/d/1x9dsrTZBi-UNF0cpkkZw4PGClN48nTDSifzAQ2jKcF8/viewform Yamil, Kathy and I will be compiling the data for discussion during the October 2, 2014 Evergreen for Academics meeting. (3:00 on your local IRC channel). The results will also be posted on the list and the wiki: http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_for_academics Thank you, Kelly Drake Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online Boston, MA 02115 ke...@flo.org | 617-442-2384
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics - Goals Priorities Poll
Following up on the August 14 meeting of Evergreen for Academics http://evergreen-ils.org/meetings/evergreen/2014/evergreen.2014-08-14-15.00.html, Yamil, Kathy and I have put together a quick poll to access the interest and priorities for goals established at the meeting. The poll is divided into three sections. The first, asks you to identify yourself and your institution, the second, asks that you indicate the level of resources you or your institution would be theoretically willing to commit to a goal, and the third asks you to select 5 of the goals and prioritize them. Please complete the poll at your earliest convenience but prior to September 30th: https://docs.google.com/a/flo.org/forms/d/1x9dsrTZBi-UNF0cpkkZw4PGClN48nTDSifzAQ2jKcF8/viewform Yamil, Kathy and I will be compiling the data for discussion during the October 2, 2014 Evergreen for Academics meeting. (3:00 on your local IRC channel). The results will also be posted on the list and the wiki: http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_for_academics Thank you, Kelly Drake Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online Boston, MA 02115 ke...@flo.org | 617-442-2384
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reminder: Evergreen for Academics - IRC Meeting, Today Aug 14 3:00 EST
The first meeting of Evergreen for Academics will be held Today! Thursday, August 14, at 3:00 in the #evergreen IRC channel. Agenda: a. Introductions b. Review the Evergreen for Academics Areas of Interest wiki page ( http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_for_academics). Goal: put the areas into a matrix of 1) who’s interested, 2) difficulty of each area – easy to hard, and 3) current state of any existing development or projects for these areas. c. Plan for next steps – meeting schedule, etc. If you would like information on how to use IRC please review the quick start guide - http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community:irc-quick-start. To view a presentation on IRC for EG, go to: goo.gl/w3zml2. This presentation was created by Yamil Suarez and explains how you can just use a standard web browser to use IRC. Please feel free to contact Yamil (ysua...@berklee.edu) before the meeting (or after) if you have questions about how to connect to IRC. It's important that everyone who wants to attend, can. Meetbot will also be 'taking' minutes and a log of the session will be available for those not able to attend. Kathy Lussier will be managing the meetbot session. Kelly On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Kelly Drake ke...@flo.org wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago we posted an email to gauge interesting in starting an Evergreen for Academics list and the response has been great! Next week we'd like to start meeting (via IRC) and begin moving the project forward. Our agenda for the meeting is as follows: Agenda: a. Introductions b. Review the Evergreen for Academics Areas of Interest wiki page ( http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_for_academics). Goal: put the areas into a matrix of 1) who’s interested, 2) difficulty of each area – easy to hard, and 3) current state of any existing development or projects for these areas. c. Plan for next steps – meeting schedule, etc. If you have any additional items to add to the Areas of Interest, please either let me know, and I'll add them, or post them to the page. If you are interested and able to attend, please indicate your best available dates and times (all times are Eastern but hopefully also accommodate West Coast folks) using the following doodle link: http://doodle.com/pfyn4dc8fxmsi7b9 Looking forward to a lively discussion! Kelly Drake Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online Boston, MA 02115 ke...@flo.org | 617-442-2384
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics - IRC Meeting, Aug 14 3:00 EST
Thank you all for responding so quickly to the doodle. The first meeting of Evergreen for Academics will be on Thursday, August 14, at 3:00 in the #evergreen IRC channel. If you would like information on how to use IRC please review the quick start guide - http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community:irc-quick-start. To view a presentation on IRC for EG, go to: goo.gl/w3zml2. Meetbot will also be 'taking' minutes and a log of the session will be available for those not able to attend. Kelly On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Kelly Drake ke...@flo.org wrote: Hi all, A few weeks ago we posted an email to gauge interesting in starting an Evergreen for Academics list and the response has been great! Next week we'd like to start meeting (via IRC) and begin moving the project forward. Our agenda for the meeting is as follows: Agenda: a. Introductions b. Review the Evergreen for Academics Areas of Interest wiki page ( http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_for_academics). Goal: put the areas into a matrix of 1) who’s interested, 2) difficulty of each area – easy to hard, and 3) current state of any existing development or projects for these areas. c. Plan for next steps – meeting schedule, etc. If you have any additional items to add to the Areas of Interest, please either let me know, and I'll add them, or post them to the page. If you are interested and able to attend, please indicate your best available dates and times (all times are Eastern but hopefully also accommodate West Coast folks) using the following doodle link: http://doodle.com/pfyn4dc8fxmsi7b9 Looking forward to a lively discussion! Kelly Drake Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online Boston, MA 02115 ke...@flo.org | 617-442-2384
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics - Proposed IRC meeting
Hi all, A few weeks ago we posted an email to gauge interesting in starting an Evergreen for Academics list and the response has been great! Next week we'd like to start meeting (via IRC) and begin moving the project forward. Our agenda for the meeting is as follows: Agenda: a. Introductions b. Review the Evergreen for Academics Areas of Interest wiki page ( http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_for_academics). Goal: put the areas into a matrix of 1) who’s interested, 2) difficulty of each area – easy to hard, and 3) current state of any existing development or projects for these areas. c. Plan for next steps – meeting schedule, etc. If you have any additional items to add to the Areas of Interest, please either let me know, and I'll add them, or post them to the page. If you are interested and able to attend, please indicate your best available dates and times (all times are Eastern but hopefully also accommodate West Coast folks) using the following doodle link: http://doodle.com/pfyn4dc8fxmsi7b9 Looking forward to a lively discussion! Kelly Drake Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online Boston, MA 02115 ke...@flo.org | 617-442-2384
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics
Hi Francene and Denise, Great to have you onboard! I've added your names and Libraries to the Academics for Evergreen page, And also added Francene's request for easier reporting. Kelly On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Francene Lewis fle...@calvin.edu wrote: We are interested in being part of the group here. I’d love to see an easier user interface for the reporting features. Our IT guys are great but it’s difficult to have to ask them to run reports for statistics, inventory, collection analysis, etc. Francene Lewis Head of Collection Management Hekman Library Calvin College Grand Rapids, MI On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Donald Butterworth don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu wrote: Yeah Kelly! It will be great to have more academic libraries using Evergreen. Just off the top of my head, here are some areas that I would like to see refined by academics. Acquisitions: Order Types. Types like firm orders, periodical renewals, standing orders for monographic series, blanket orders, multi-part monographs Acquisitions: EDI periodical renewals. We would really like to see electronic invoicing and ordering work for our EBSCO subscriptions. PAC: Academic flavor. It might be nice to offer a different look to the PAC that defaults to a fuller bibliographic description. PAC: Federated searching I would love to not have to spend many thousands of dollars annually, for EBSCO Discover. Cataloging: Volumes The way that volume numbering is treated in Evergreen needs to be revisited in the light of publications that have Fascicles/Volumes/Parts that need to be reflected on a single call number. Reports: Out of the box reports that deal with the specific kinds of statistics required by Accrediting Agencies. Welcome Aboard! Don On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Kelly Drake ke...@flo.org wrote: Dear Evergreen Community, For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of 10 academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration to Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and spoke with members of FLO during this year’s annual conference in Boston. Thank you for your time, patience and information. All your comments and suggestions convinced us to continue pursuing a migration to Evergreen. Our investigation also suggested that it would be helpful to build an academic interest group within the larger Evergreen community. This group would be focused solely on academic issues as they relate to the ILS. Several existing Evergreen libraries and consortia have already expressed interest in the group and we have tentatively called it Academics for Evergreen. To be most effective, Academics for Evergreen would be composed of any individuals or institutions that have an interest in enhancing the academic-related functions of Evergreen. Once formed, the group will identify the academic-related functions that most need attention and work to build knowledge, consensus, and resources to move moving these issues forward. So far we have identified a few of the possible issues, such as streamlined creation and management of authority records, enhanced search and browse by authority, support for multiple subject heading schema, improved staff workflows and possible improvements to course reserves integration. This list is by no means exhaustive and needs the participation of the Evergreen community to improve and refine it. Please respond and let us know if you are interested, have suggestions for moving these issues forward, or if you have any questions. Thank you, Kelly Drake Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online Boston, MA 02115 617-442-2384 Conference calls: Boston: 617-989-5050 Toll-free: 877-532-8229 Conference ID: 933794 Web conferencing: https://join.me/flomeeting -- Don Butterworth Faculty Associate / Librarian III B.L. Fisher Library Asbury Theological Seminary don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu (859) 858-2227
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics
Hi Gordana, Hopefully this wasn't too presumptuous on my part but I added your patron upload info as a note to the EFA page. It's a really important option that shouldn't be forgotten. Also, having the possibility of an easy solution to one of the issues, may get us around to tackling it sooner than later? Kelly On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca wrote: Hi Martha and other interested academic libraries, When we went up with Evergreen in 2010, we contracted with Alpha G for a daily patron information import program to work between Evergreen and PeopleSoft. Unfortunately, they weren't in a position to make it open source. But I wonder if it's something that many institutions are interested in, that they would be willing to work with the libraries to create a piece based on what they did that would be freely available with Evergreen? We import patron info nightly and it's pretty much seamless. I don't really worry about it and am happy with what it does. I'm sorry if I'm not describing it well. I'm not overly technical. :-) Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator Library Bookstore Services Welland Campus Niagara College gvi...@niagaracollege.ca 905.735.2211 ext 7404 http://www.niagaracollege.ca/library -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Martha Driscoll Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:13 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics Hi Kelly, Another item to add to the list of issues is support for patron record loading. We have developed scripts to load new and update on-file records, but a user-friendly interface similar to vandelay would streamline the process. Some of our college staff would also like to manage record loading themselves. We load student records frequently. Some colleges provide one file at the beginning of each semester, but our community colleges provide weekly files for several weeks before and after the start of each semester. I load 300-400 files each year for the 10 academic institutions in our consortium. -- Martha Driscoll Systems Manager North of Boston Library Exchange Danvers, Massachusetts www.noblenet.org On 7/21/2014 10:11 AM, Kelly Drake wrote: Dear Evergreen Community, For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of 10 academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration to Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and spoke with members of FLO during this year’s annual conference in Boston. Thank you for your time, patience and information. All your comments and suggestions convinced us to continue pursuing a migration to Evergreen. Our investigation also suggested that it would be helpful to build an academic interest group within the larger Evergreen community. This group would be focused solely on academic issues as they relate to the ILS. Several existing Evergreen libraries and consortia have already expressed interest in the group and we have tentatively called it Academics for Evergreen. To be most effective, Academics for Evergreen would be composed of any individuals or institutions that have an interest in enhancing the academic-related functions of Evergreen. Once formed, the group will identify the academic-related functions that most need attention and work to build knowledge, consensus, and resources to move moving these issues forward. So far we have identified a few of the possible issues, such as streamlined creation and management of authority records, enhanced search and browse by authority, support for multiple subject heading schema, improved staff workflows and possible improvements to course reserves integration. This list is by no means exhaustive and needs the participation of the Evergreen community to improve and refine it. Please respond and let us know if you are interested, have suggestions for moving these issues forward, or if you have any questions. Thank you, Kelly Drake Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online Boston, MA 02115 617-442-2384 Conference calls: Boston: 617-989-5050 Toll-free: 877-532-8229 Conference ID: 933794 Web conferencing: https://join.me/flomeeting
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics
Hi Don, Thanks for the welcome! Looks like this will be fun. I've added you list to the page: http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_for_academics#interested_libraries Kelly On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Donald Butterworth don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu wrote: Yeah Kelly! It will be great to have more academic libraries using Evergreen. Just off the top of my head, here are some areas that I would like to see refined by academics. Acquisitions: Order Types. Types like firm orders, periodical renewals, standing orders for monographic series, blanket orders, multi-part monographs Acquisitions: EDI periodical renewals. We would really like to see electronic invoicing and ordering work for our EBSCO subscriptions. PAC: Academic flavor. It might be nice to offer a different look to the PAC that defaults to a fuller bibliographic description. PAC: Federated searching I would love to not have to spend many thousands of dollars annually, for EBSCO Discover. Cataloging: Volumes The way that volume numbering is treated in Evergreen needs to be revisited in the light of publications that have Fascicles/Volumes/Parts that need to be reflected on a single call number. Reports: Out of the box reports that deal with the specific kinds of statistics required by Accrediting Agencies. Welcome Aboard! Don On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Kelly Drake ke...@flo.org wrote: Dear Evergreen Community, For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of 10 academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration to Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and spoke with members of FLO during this year’s annual conference in Boston. Thank you for your time, patience and information. All your comments and suggestions convinced us to continue pursuing a migration to Evergreen. Our investigation also suggested that it would be helpful to build an academic interest group within the larger Evergreen community. This group would be focused solely on academic issues as they relate to the ILS. Several existing Evergreen libraries and consortia have already expressed interest in the group and we have tentatively called it Academics for Evergreen. To be most effective, Academics for Evergreen would be composed of any individuals or institutions that have an interest in enhancing the academic-related functions of Evergreen. Once formed, the group will identify the academic-related functions that most need attention and work to build knowledge, consensus, and resources to move moving these issues forward. So far we have identified a few of the possible issues, such as streamlined creation and management of authority records, enhanced search and browse by authority, support for multiple subject heading schema, improved staff workflows and possible improvements to course reserves integration. This list is by no means exhaustive and needs the participation of the Evergreen community to improve and refine it. Please respond and let us know if you are interested, have suggestions for moving these issues forward, or if you have any questions. Thank you, Kelly Drake Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online Boston, MA 02115 617-442-2384 Conference calls: Boston: 617-989-5050 Toll-free: 877-532-8229 Conference ID: 933794 Web conferencing: https://join.me/flomeeting -- Don Butterworth Faculty Associate / Librarian III B.L. Fisher Library Asbury Theological Seminary don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu (859) 858-2227
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics
Thanks everyone for the encouraging response! Yamil, the wiki page is a great idea, we can start building out our list there. Kelly On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Yamil Suarez ysua...@berklee.edu wrote: Kelly, I really like this initial list of areas to consider working together on, and count Berklee in on this group. I just created a draft wiki page to organize the group's ideas. I just added a couple of sample sections for now. Anyone can feel free to make edits to the page. I can be contacted directly if you (or anyone) would like an account to make edits to this or other EG community wiki pages. http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_for_academics Thanks Kelly, Yamil On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Kelly Drake ke...@flo.org wrote: Dear Evergreen Community, For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of 10 academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration to Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and spoke with members of FLO during this year’s annual conference in Boston. Thank you for your time, patience and information. All your comments and suggestions convinced us to continue pursuing a migration to Evergreen. Our investigation also suggested that it would be helpful to build an academic interest group within the larger Evergreen community. This group would be focused solely on academic issues as they relate to the ILS. Several existing Evergreen libraries and consortia have already expressed interest in the group and we have tentatively called it Academics for Evergreen. To be most effective, Academics for Evergreen would be composed of any individuals or institutions that have an interest in enhancing the academic-related functions of Evergreen. Once formed, the group will identify the academic-related functions that most need attention and work to build knowledge, consensus, and resources to move moving these issues forward. So far we have identified a few of the possible issues, such as streamlined creation and management of authority records, enhanced search and browse by authority, support for multiple subject heading schema, improved staff workflows and possible improvements to course reserves integration. This list is by no means exhaustive and needs the participation of the Evergreen community to improve and refine it. Please respond and let us know if you are interested, have suggestions for moving these issues forward, or if you have any questions. Thank you, Kelly Drake Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online Boston, MA 02115 617-442-2384 Conference calls: Boston: 617-989-5050 Toll-free: 877-532-8229 Conference ID: 933794 Web conferencing: https://join.me/flomeeting -- Yamil Suarez, MCS Library System Administrator/Developer Stan Getz Library Berklee College of Music 1140 Boylston St Boston, MA 02215 ysua...@berklee.edu 617-747-2617
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics
Dear Evergreen Community, For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of 10 academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration to Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and spoke with members of FLO during this year’s annual conference in Boston. Thank you for your time, patience and information. All your comments and suggestions convinced us to continue pursuing a migration to Evergreen. Our investigation also suggested that it would be helpful to build an academic interest group within the larger Evergreen community. This group would be focused solely on academic issues as they relate to the ILS. Several existing Evergreen libraries and consortia have already expressed interest in the group and we have tentatively called it Academics for Evergreen. To be most effective, Academics for Evergreen would be composed of any individuals or institutions that have an interest in enhancing the academic-related functions of Evergreen. Once formed, the group will identify the academic-related functions that most need attention and work to build knowledge, consensus, and resources to move moving these issues forward. So far we have identified a few of the possible issues, such as streamlined creation and management of authority records, enhanced search and browse by authority, support for multiple subject heading schema, improved staff workflows and possible improvements to course reserves integration. This list is by no means exhaustive and needs the participation of the Evergreen community to improve and refine it. Please respond and let us know if you are interested, have suggestions for moving these issues forward, or if you have any questions. Thank you, Kelly Drake Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online Boston, MA 02115 617-442-2384 Conference calls: Boston: 617-989-5050 Toll-free: 877-532-8229 Conference ID: 933794 Web conferencing: https://join.me/flomeeting
