Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding books and materials to library catalog

2015-03-09 Thread Rogan Hamby
Hi Howard, Evergreen does support original cataloging and importing MARC files from copy cataloging services. Are you familiar with MARC records or cataloging? On Monday, March 9, 2015, Howard Canning hcann...@bluehills.org wrote: Hi All, So I'm evaluating Evergreen 2.7.4 for my school

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPW Internship is over :(

2015-03-09 Thread Julia Lima
Evergreeners, I just want to thank you all for the opportunity and the willingness. It was a really great experience! I learned a lot and I felt really happy designing the UI Style Guide. I would like to continue contributing. I'm available for any question, proposal or anything you need. You

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding books and materials to library catalog

2015-03-09 Thread Howard Canning
May I ask what your experience of evergreen has been and why you like it? What has it been useful for and any glitches or unreliability issues. Thanks On Mar 9, 2015 1:29 PM, Howard Canning hcann...@bluehills.org wrote: No. I find the software interesting and just starting out learning it. How

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding books and materials to library catalog

2015-03-09 Thread Ruth Frasur
Rogan +1 On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: If you're not from a libraires background all the talk about cataloging and MARC records may be a bit inside baseball and sound odd. Essentially, libraries put a lot more into a record than many people may

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding books and materials to library catalog

2015-03-09 Thread Ben Shum
Well, for whatever it's worth, I selected Library of Congress as my source on a 2.7 test server and then did a title search for A First Course in Abstract Algebra and my first hit was a 2015 bib record for that material out of 14 hits. When I did an ISBN search on the 10-digit ISBN, I got the

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding books and materials to library catalog

2015-03-09 Thread Howard Canning
Hi All, So I'm evaluating Evergreen 2.7.4 for my school library and am testing adding books but so far importing them from Z39 appears to be the only way. I suppose I expect if I type in Algebra I'd get 100's pf books in the search results but I just get 1 with all the checkboxes checked. How do I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding books and materials to library catalog

2015-03-09 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi Howard, There are several ways to load MARC records into the system. * As you already found, the Z39.50 interface allows you to search other catalogs, such as the Library of Congress. If you are retrieving no results, I suspect there is something that still needs to be done with your

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding books and materials to library catalog

2015-03-09 Thread Howard Canning
Ok thanks. I'm a total novice to Evergreen so nothing is too simplistic. Do I use Create a Brief Record to create the manual record or is there something else. I envision Marc to be some comprehensive centralized database of book titles. Is this right? A bit like iTunes database for music and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding books and materials to library catalog

2015-03-09 Thread Ruth Frasur
MARC is a type of record. http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/ Evergreen is a collection of databases and is designed to manage patron and item records (put simply). If you haven't already, you may want to read through http://evergreen-ils.org to get an idea of why Evergreen was developed the way it was

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding books and materials to library catalog

2015-03-09 Thread Ruth Frasur
Howard, Please forgive me if I'm stating the obvious. I'm not sure your background with libraries or library software. Evergreen's bibliographic database is creating using the information held in MARC records. For each item that is cataloged, there must be a corresponding MARC. If you did not

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding books and materials to library catalog

2015-03-09 Thread Rogan Hamby
If you're not from a libraires background all the talk about cataloging and MARC records may be a bit inside baseball and sound odd. Essentially, libraries put a lot more into a record than many people may assume. Though the core of it is what you'd see on an Amazon record it may be much more

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fine notice language

2015-03-09 Thread Walz, Jennifer
All – Maybe this is for the academic libraries out there, I am not sure. But I need help with setting up the “trigger event definition” for sending out emails for fines / bills. I don’t have any examples to draw from and I am not certain how to set them up. If someone has a good

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding books and materials to library catalog

2015-03-09 Thread Howard Canning
Ok thanks all. The responses have been great. I'm very eager to learn all about this and indeed your experiences with evergreen. Let me see if I can find that book, Ben. :) Again thanks. On Mar 9, 2015 2:08 PM, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: Well, for whatever it's worth, I selected Library of

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] User environment

2015-03-09 Thread Howard Canning
Thanks. Got it all working now. Your direction was key. On Mar 9, 2015 3:00 AM, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: Hi Howard, Responding now to the general question too... For our libraries, we're current running a variant of Evergreen 2.7 series (with lots of local customizations) on

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] User environment

2015-03-09 Thread Howard Canning
Thanks very much Ben. Appreciated. :) On Mar 9, 2015 2:49 AM, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: Hi Howard, In client-issue.PNG, the error you see there TypeError: g.my_libs_tree is null can commonly occur when there was an incomplete autogen.sh run during the installation/setup process. What

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] User environment

2015-03-09 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Howard, Responding now to the general question too... For our libraries, we're current running a variant of Evergreen 2.7 series (with lots of local customizations) on multiple virtual machines -- split between 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 server editions; we're primarily Ubuntu shop here.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] User environment

2015-03-09 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Howard, In client-issue.PNG, the error you see there TypeError: g.my_libs_tree is null can commonly occur when there was an incomplete autogen.sh run during the installation/setup process. What I would do in that situation is recommend that you run autogen.sh -u as the opensrf user and then