[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen community calendar
This came up relatively quickly last night on IRC, so thanks to Jason Etheridge for in turn setting up http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar - we now have a community calendar that anyone can add their group or committee's events to; all that is required is a Google account and the ability to edit the wiki page. I've written up brief instructions how to add a calendar and add an event to a given calendar here: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=calendar:editing_the_community_calendar Jason seeded things with the Evergreen ILS Community Calendar, used for the Community IRC meetings, and I've added calendars for the Evergreen ILS Governance Committee and Evergreen ILS Developers. You can see the initial results of that at http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar - I was starting to worry about missing meetings, but now that I have added the pertinent calendars to my own calendar, I'm not worried any more :) I think it would be great to add calendars for the DIG, WIG, Communications Committee, Reports task force, etc. (It turns out that Karen Schneider had set up a similar community calendar year(s) ago but apparently almost nobody knew about it and it didn't get much use: that's Karen, always ahead of her time!) Oh, and a quick plan for making this calendar visible is to create a high-level Community page that would link in turn to the blog, planet, IRC, mailing lists, and now the calendar. And then I'll remove those links from our standard header and replace it with a Community link to the community page, with a whiz-bang drop-down menu for those who have JavaScript enabled.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with 505 MARC code
Thank You Dan!
-Original Message-
From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org
[mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan
Scott
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 12:51
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with 505 MARC code
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:54:10AM +0400, Dimitri Gogelia wrote:
Hi Everyone!
I have a Problem with Marc Code 505. When I enter data into this field,
the
data is not displayed in OPAC.
Problem is, versions 1.4 and 1.6
How do we solve this problemm?
In 1.6, your best option is to use BibTemplate to build a customized
display; see
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=opac:bibtemplate (where
Mike Rylander wrote up some excellent documentation) and
http://coffeecode.net/archives/221-Building-more-informative-record-displays
-in-Evergreen-with-BibTemplate.html
for a presentation I gave at the Evergreen 2010 conference and a link to
the customized display that we're using at our university now.
Or if that's too much, in 1.6 you can just try adding the following to your
rdetail_summary.xml file:
tr class='hide_me' id='tag505'
td nowrap='nowrap' class='rdetail_desc'Table of contents/td
td type='opac/slot-data' query='datafield[tag=505]'
class='rdetail_item'
script type='opac/slot-format'![CDATA[
dojo.query('#tag505').removeClass('hide_me');
return 'span' + dojox.data.dom.textContent(item) +
'/spanbr/';
]]/script
/td
/tr
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with rscel.evergreen- ils.org redirecting to www.rscel.evergreen-il s.org
It appears that our host has changed the way DNS redirects are handled. I'll investigate tomorrow. Thanks for letting us know, Jim ---Original Message--- From: Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with rscel.evergreen-ils.org redirecting to www.rscel.evergreen- ils.org Sent: 12 Nov '10 02:32 http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/ currently redirects to http://www.rscel.evergreen-ils.org/, which is bad because that then 404s. I'm not sure who can fix the redirect but it would be great to get it resolved.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation Inventory
Hi Teresa, Thorntown Public Library did an inventory, and shared the following information: http://www.in.gov/library/files/How_to_do_an_Inventory_Using_Evergreen.pdf Wendy Knapp Professional Development Office Indiana State Library 140 North Senate Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46204 317-232-3718 Fax: 317-232-0002 From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Teresa Hudson Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:31 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation Inventory We are preparing to do an inventory in the near future, this is my first Library inventory. Any ideas on documentation, methods, standards, and procedures would be greatly appreciated. Teresa M. Hudson Circulation Manager Culver Union-Township Public Library 107 N. Main Street Culver, IN 46511 (574) 842-2941 thud...@culver.lib.in.usmailto:thud...@culver.lib.in.us www.culver.lib.in.ushttp://www.culver.lib.in.us/
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Web Site Strategy
Here are some of my thoughts on a few of the goals: Strategic Goal #1: Requirement: Provide a centralized location for Evergreen feature information, documentation, and software downloads. -Perhaps this can be worded so it sounds more like you are providing links to existing tools and not creating a one stop site to replace the existing tools? -Additional Requirement for goal #1: Enhance the search features to search across multiple resources more effectively. Strategic Goal #2: Encourage growth of a healthy developer community Requirement: Provide an effective platform for Evergreen developers to communicate with each other and with Evergreen users Are the current ones broken? Are the current platforms ineffective? First, I would have to ask the active developers whether the current system is effective for their communication? Perhaps a survey has already been done or feedback has been given? As a user of Evergreen since 2008, I would say that I have been extremely satisfied with the opportunities which currently exist to communicate with developers or others who may have some answers or suggestions. I am also impressed at how open the communication was, allowing any user the opportunity to see the communication take place and participate. I suppose there could be improvements to ensure that everyone knows the channels of communication and how to use them? As well, I have seen question asked on the lists which have slipped through the cracks. I think more info or a guide about each communication channel and advantages and disadvantages of each or when to use a particular one might be helpful? Requirement: Provide technical information needed by current and future Evergreen developers Dan made an important point about how the website is one minor piece of this puzzle. The more important questions is how to extract the information from the minds of the experienced developers in a way to make it easy to digest for new developers. Some developers such as Dan Scott, have made great efforts to share everything they know through workshops and writings etc... and we are trying to capture some of that in the development part of the documentation. However, this does take time and a ton of work. I also wondered if some support entities could provide developer training or even fee based developer certification programs for Evergreen. Not sure if that is even a good idea or would sense in a business model? Strategic Goal #4: Encourage widespread adoption of Evergreen by the library community worldwide. This is a lofty one and I wonder how much the website can really address this? A translation strategy for the information would be one way to assist in this goal if the resources exist, or ensuring that the site can be easily translated as Dan suggested. The current language support in Evergreen has come about organically because early adopters happen to be from specific regions which is why we have support for some languages and not others. We do have a chapter on localization and languages in the documentation which I hope will eventually include guidance on introducing new languages into Evergreen. One resource mentioned which could help in this is the Evergreen directory (if we have a good list of users or support mechanisms from other countries). In my mind, 99% of the battle to encourage widespread adoption worldwide comes down to the following: 1) Great software (done) 2) Great documentation (in progress via DIG buts lots of work to be done) 3) More languages supported out of the box (perhaps a larger Evergreen support company could make this a strategic goal based on a business model to infiltrate untapped markets such as China?) 4) Documentation available in multiple languages (This seems like a daunting task – I can’t even imagine the work required to translate the existing official documentation into one other language.) - A short term goal perhaps is for the existence of unofficial IRC channels or blogs or lists in other languages. If these exist, the website/communication folks could have a goal to find them and provide the links or directory listings from the site so international folks can find multilingual resources. 5) International developers and documentation writers. Currently, Evergreen seems pretty North American, or at least English, centric. The hope is that the group of developers can be extended to communities outside of North America. Then I feel worldwide adoption could grow much more rapidly. This can happen in several ways: a) Existing support company decides to extend its market to other countries outside of North America and train and hire international developers. b) A new support company forms in a specific region/country with developers from the region. c) Happens naturally with specific organizations deciding to use Evergreen in a country and learns the code. d) An international educational institution embraces
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen community calendar
What a great idea, Dan! I will see what I can add - reports task force meetings, etc. Thanks to Jason Etheridge (and to Karen Schneider for being ahead of her time)! Amy Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:40:52 -0500 From: Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen community calendar To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 20101112084052.ga13...@dbs.denials Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This came up relatively quickly last night on IRC, so thanks to Jason Etheridge for in turn setting up http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar - we now have a community calendar that anyone can add their group or committee's events to; all that is required is a Google account and the ability to edit the wiki page. I've written up brief instructions how to add a calendar and add an event to a given calendar here: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=calendar:editing_the_community _calendar Jason seeded things with the Evergreen ILS Community Calendar, used for the Community IRC meetings, and I've added calendars for the Evergreen ILS Governance Committee and Evergreen ILS Developers. You can see the initial results of that at http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar - I was starting to worry about missing meetings, but now that I have added the pertinent calendars to my own calendar, I'm not worried any more :) I think it would be great to add calendars for the DIG, WIG, Communications Committee, Reports task force, etc. (It turns out that Karen Schneider had set up a similar community calendar year(s) ago but apparently almost nobody knew about it and it didn't get much use: that's Karen, always ahead of her time!) Oh, and a quick plan for making this calendar visible is to create a high-level Community page that would link in turn to the blog, planet, IRC, mailing lists, and now the calendar. And then I'll remove those links from our standard header and replace it with a Community link to the community page, with a whiz-bang drop-down menu for those who have JavaScript enabled. === Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 (203)577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org Bibliomation's Open Source blog: http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/ Join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=171935276419
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen community calendar
Hi Amy and all, I'm working on setting up an Evergreen reports taskforce calendar right now. Thanks for starting us off, Dan - and Jason and Karen! Jenny -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Amy Terlaga Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 9:05 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen community calendar What a great idea, Dan! I will see what I can add - reports task force meetings, etc. Thanks to Jason Etheridge (and to Karen Schneider for being ahead of her time)! Amy Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:40:52 -0500 From: Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen community calendar To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 20101112084052.ga13...@dbs.denials Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This came up relatively quickly last night on IRC, so thanks to Jason Etheridge for in turn setting up http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar - we now have a community calendar that anyone can add their group or committee's events to; all that is required is a Google account and the ability to edit the wiki page. I've written up brief instructions how to add a calendar and add an event to a given calendar here: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=calendar:editing_the_community _calendar Jason seeded things with the Evergreen ILS Community Calendar, used for the Community IRC meetings, and I've added calendars for the Evergreen ILS Governance Committee and Evergreen ILS Developers. You can see the initial results of that at http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar - I was starting to worry about missing meetings, but now that I have added the pertinent calendars to my own calendar, I'm not worried any more :) I think it would be great to add calendars for the DIG, WIG, Communications Committee, Reports task force, etc. (It turns out that Karen Schneider had set up a similar community calendar year(s) ago but apparently almost nobody knew about it and it didn't get much use: that's Karen, always ahead of her time!) Oh, and a quick plan for making this calendar visible is to create a high-level Community page that would link in turn to the blog, planet, IRC, mailing lists, and now the calendar. And then I'll remove those links from our standard header and replace it with a Community link to the community page, with a whiz-bang drop-down menu for those who have JavaScript enabled. === Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 (203)577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org Bibliomation's Open Source blog: http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/ Join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=171935276419
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do your catalogers handle the 008 bib create date?
Hi, all, The new bib record template system hardcodes a particular date in an xml file for the 008 positions 00-05 (yymmdd of the date you created the record, per http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd008a.html ). You can leave it blank in the template, or put in a particular yymmdd, but apparently can't do anything to make it automatically stick in today's date without some local custom coding. So I'm wondering what all the Evergreen catalogers are doing out there with this. Do you: 1. leave it blank? 2. leave an old date in the template xml and hand-change it with every new record you create? 3. did you do some custom coding locallly (eg maybe involving a cron job) to modify the xml every day? 4. other Thanks for sharing your practice on this!
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Web Site Strategy
Robert, Excellent! You've hit on one of the very things we'd like feedback on. snip On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Soulliere, Robert robert.soulli...@mohawkcollege.ca wrote: Requirement: Provide a centralized location for Evergreen feature information, documentation, and software downloads. -Perhaps this can be worded so it sounds more like you are providing links to existing tools and not creating a one stop site to replace the existing tools? /snip We were in fact thinking of it as the one-stop location for Evergreen specific information. And we envisioned it as a clearinghouse for related resources (uploaded/posted by community members) as well as provide links to related resources (also contributed by the community). What existing tools did you have in mind? I want to make sure we have them on our radar! Lori
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] report needed for tracking email overdues
Hi there, We're trying to create a report that lists the patrons who have received email overdue notices. Does anyone have any advice? We are on 1.6.1.2. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator Niagara College Libraries Welland Campus 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] report needed for tracking email overdues
Hi Gordana - I don't have a report to share with you ...We just cc all overdue notices to a generic circ email address so we can track them that way. That address also gets bouncebacks and undeliverables so we can follow-up on those too. Cheers, Cynthia On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.cawrote: Hi there, We're trying to create a report that lists the patrons who have received email overdue notices. Does anyone have any advice? We are on 1.6.1.2. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator Niagara College Libraries Welland Campus 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca -- * *Doug’s Law “You can have information or you can have a life, but you can’t have both.” From Player One by Douglas Copeland* *
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with rscel.evergreen-ils.org redirecting to www.rscel.evergreen-ils.org
Shades of Circa '96 Apache re-write tech when the whole world had a triple-dub prefix. :) - Stev3 From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott [...@coffeecode.net] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 2:32 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with rscel.evergreen-ils.org redirecting to www.rscel.evergreen-ils.org http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/ currently redirects to http://www.rscel.evergreen-ils.org/, which is bad because that then 404s. I'm not sure who can fix the redirect but it would be great to get it resolved.
