[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Online vs Staff Holds

2012-03-13 Thread Fiona Borthwick
Hello, I am hoping that someone may be able to help me with this. One of our customers needs to be able to distinguish between holds placed via the opac and holds placed by library staff. We have spent considerable time looking at options within reports but so far not having much success.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Online vs Staff Holds

2012-03-13 Thread Thomas Berezansky
I don't know what you mean by staff hold flag, honestly, because I don't know of any such flag. Staff-placed holds can be identified by the usr is not the requestor. The usr field is who the hold was placed for. The requestor is who placed the hold. If they are the same then the user placed

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Online vs Staff Holds

2012-03-13 Thread Bill Ott
On 3/13/12 7:14 AM, Fiona Borthwick wrote: Hello, I am hoping that someone may be able to help me with this. One of our customers needs to be able to distinguish between holds placed via the opac and holds placed by library staff. We have spent considerable time looking at options within

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Credit Card Processing in Evergreen 2.1

2012-03-13 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi all, PINES is investigating the possibilities of implementing internal credit card processing in Evergreen 2.1.1, and before we start any testing runs with our libraries, I wanted to make sure we have a full understanding of what it does and doesn't do. Here are my questions: 1) We are

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon

2012-03-13 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
Hi, Sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere but I can't find what I'm looking for (read the FAQs, searched the list) and hope someone can help. Part of the problem is I'm not sure what to search for... I'm the IT guy at a small school in the Canary Islands. I'm trying to find a new ILS for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello there :)

2012-03-13 Thread Grant Johnson
Hi Dan, On this page is a list of Evergreen Libraries that have chosen to make their existence public record. http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_libraries In the Type column you can see whether the library is a single planting or a consortia version. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello there :)

2012-03-13 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Here's another spot you can find a list of Evergreen libraries. It's the start of a community directory that never quite got off the ground because we already had something similar (namely the link that Grant sent you to. But you find out a bit more about each Evergreen initiative here:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon

2012-03-13 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Evergreen is a pretty serious ILS and is probably quite a bit more complicated than you need. Have you checked out Koha ( http://www.koha-community.org)? Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon

2012-03-13 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: Evergreen is a pretty serious ILS and is probably quite a bit more complicated than you need. Have you checked out Koha (http://www.koha-community.org)? We're reviewing Koha and biblioteq as well as Evergreen. Thanks for that link. The

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon

2012-03-13 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Ted, I think I've played with the program you've described, it ran on my Macbook, but cost money so I didn't get as far as I would have liked. It probably stores basic item information (simple stuff like title, author, etc.) in a non-MARC format of some kind if it's generating data from