[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Community Meeting for Friday Dec 2
Greetings! This is an announcement that our next Evergreen Community IRC Meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Friday Dec 2, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Friday Dec 2, 2011 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 Friday Dec 2, 2011 in UTC This is a public meeting for the Evergreen Community that will be held on the #evergreen channel on the Freenode IRC network (details at http://evergreen-ils.org/irc.php). All members of the community with an interest in contributing to the improvement of Evergreen are welcome to participate. If you are unable to attend at the designated time, please feel free to submit comments for any of the agenda items in advance to the Evergreen general mailing list. The agenda has begun at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community:meetings:2011-12-02 - please feel free to add additional agenda items as needed for discussion. Also, it would be great if committee groups would edit to include links to group reports in advance of the meeting. Please also feel free to edit the [report by: ?] links with the names of representatives from the committees who will be presenting information on their behalf. Hope to see you there!
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Course Reserves
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] hard due dates?
Hi there, I'm trying to set a hard due date for end of semester in the Circulation Policies. Unfortunately, any format I use for the date seems to be wrong. I could reference to a date in the documentation using this format 1970-1-31. But when I try it with 2011-12-16, it doesn't save. Can anyone tell me what the format should be for that date? Or what I might be doing wrong? We're using 2.0.7. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] hard due dates?
The circulation policies are referring to a hard due date rule. You will need to configure that first. Then it should appear in the dropdown when editing the circulation policies. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca: Hi there, I'm trying to set a hard due date for end of semester in the Circulation Policies. Unfortunately, any format I use for the date seems to be wrong. I could reference to a date in the documentation using this format 1970-1-31. But when I try it with 2011-12-16, it doesn't save. Can anyone tell me what the format should be for that date? Or what I might be doing wrong? We're using 2.0.7. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Course Reserves
Hi Thomas: See this post written by Dan Scott in September: http://coffeecode.net/archives/250-Current-state-of-academic-reserves-support-for-Evergreen.html At Mohawk we just add Reserves information to the 508 field in the marc record and change circ modifiers and shelving locations. Circ staff keep a spreadsheet for housekeeping purposes, not too onerous to maintain. Here is an example of a list of Course Reserves for one of our instructors, you can check the marc records to see what we've done: http://libcat.mohawkcollege.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keywordtp=keywordt=labella%20reservesft=l=1d=0f= In a world with more time and staff resources, we'd add these lists to a web page or libguide to provide better findability for students but we know that the vast majority of time that they come to the circ desk to ask about items on Reserve for their courses rather than searching on their own so this hasn't been a big priority for us. Feel free to contact me off list if you have more questions. Cheers, Cynthia Mohawk College Library On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:07 PM, 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 -- Age is something that does not matter unless you are a cheese. Billie Burke
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Course Reserves
Hi Tom, Dan Scott recently wrote a blog post on the current state of academic reserves support in Evergreen at http://coffeecode.net/archives/250-Current-state-of-academic-reserves-suppor t-for-Evergreen.html. I can't speak to the first approach Dan mentions, but two MassLNC consortia have been working quite a bit with Syrup. Neither of our consortia are live on Syrup yet, but some of our libraries should be using it in a couple of months. We've set up our test Syrup instances to integrate with Evergreen so that we can scan item barcodes to add titles to a course reserves list; update parameters (circ modifiers, copy locations, call numbers) from Syrup; and allow users to log into Syrup with their Evergreen logins. Art Rhyno from the University of Windsor, one of the co-developers of Syrup, has been very helpful in getting us going with Syrup. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about what we've done. Kathy Lussier - Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 756-0172 (508) 755-3721 (fax) kluss...@masslnc.org IM: kmlussier (AOL Yahoo) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open- ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Misilo Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 2:08 PM To: 'open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org' Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Course Reserves 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] Seperate Servers for OPAC and ILS?
Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to have separate servers for the OPAC and ILS with the default software? Or would I need to use another OPAC such as VuFind to accomplish this? Thank you, Tom
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Seperate Servers for OPAC and ILS?
Hi Tom, Evergreen lends itself well to being scaled to multi servers using the Brick technique. I am not the expert in this deployment but we currently have a server that runs the OPAC and answers the staff client. This server talks to a separate database server that handle the actual catalog, and database functions. Many installations go even farther. The needs of your library or consortium will dictate how much provisioning you will need to do. In short, Evergreen is designed out of the box to be deploy on multiple servers. Steve Wills On Nov 28, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Thomas Misilo wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to have separate servers for the OPAC and ILS with the default software? Or would I need to use another OPAC such as VuFind to accomplish this? Thank you, Tom
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Seperate Servers for OPAC and ILS?
I was wondering if it is possible to have separate servers for the OPAC and ILS with the default software? Or would I need to use another OPAC such as VuFind to accomplish this? You can have the OPAC running on a server (or servers) that only has access to public services from OpenSRF (the framework Evergreen is built with), but I don't know how fun (or not) that would be to configure. -- Jason Etheridge | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Seperate Servers for OPAC and ILS?
We've done this before where we have two different hostnames pointing at two different Evergreen servers, but both servers end up pointing at the same database backend. In a scenario like that, Server A could be opac-only where you tell users to use for opac stuff, and then Server B could be staff-client-only where you tell staff to use that server's address/hostname for that. I'm not sure about locking down server A to prevent staff from logging into it though, since the staff client acts like a browser (runs on the same ports 80 and 443), you couldn't deny incoming requests from a client trying to talk to your public server side. I suppose you could trick it with a fake server redirect that led nowhere or wasn't the same stamp as your actual staff client server; that way nobody would easily attach themselves with a staff client to the opac-only Server A. What are you trying to accomplish by having these services separated? Load concerns or worried about performance hits between sharing of OPAC/staff client functions? -- Ben On 11/28/2011 05:09 PM, Stephen Wills wrote: Hi Tom, Evergreen lends itself well to being scaled to multi servers using the Brick technique. I am not the expert in this deployment but we currently have a server that runs the OPAC and answers the staff client. This server talks to a separate database server that handle the actual catalog, and database functions. Many installations go even farther. The needs of your library or consortium will dictate how much provisioning you will need to do. In short, Evergreen is designed out of the box to be deploy on multiple servers. Steve Wills On Nov 28, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Thomas Misilo wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to have separate servers for the OPAC and ILS with the default software? Or would I need to use another OPAC such as VuFind to accomplish this? Thank you, Tom -- Benjamin Shum Open Source Software Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070, ext. 113
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
