Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Did you migrate from III?

2016-01-27 Thread Jim Taylor
Did not move from III but I used MarcEdit to transform to MARCXML. Its API capabilities allows one to use a scripting language to access many of its functions so I could tweak the records as needed as well as the conversion needed for the import into Evergreen. Jim -Original

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Indication of what caused fine forgiveness/voiding with Void overdue fines when items are marked lost org unit setting on 2.9

2016-01-27 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Brent, Those adjustments should already have a note, but it looks like your note column is not displaying. Try adding it from the column picker in the upper right corner of that box. The note should say “System: VOIDED OVERDUE FOR LOST”. (Certainly not the best note as far as wording

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Pulling Info from MARC in Web Page

2016-01-27 Thread Geoff Sams
I certainly am +1 for that idea, that's a neat feature. Thanks, Geoff Sams Library Manager Roanoke Public Library 817-491-2691 From: Open-ils-general [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] on behalf of Jason Stephenson

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Did you migrate from III?

2016-01-27 Thread Justin Hopkins 
Hi Glen, Missouri Evergreen has a number of libraries that were previously using Millennium. Our process and positive experience was very much like Martha's. We did not pay Innovative to extract the transactional data (holds, circs). We also did not use the xmlOpac - we used yaz tools to do the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron batch updates

2016-01-27 Thread Mina Edmondson
York County , PA is currently updating permission groups of patrons from juvenile to adult, one by one. We typically delete expired cards in January. We would also like to be able to import barcodes in batch and update or add patron stat cats. Examples would be- all students who attend a

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Did you migrate from III?

2016-01-27 Thread Glen Modell
Hello, this is Glen at the Ann Arbor District Library. We are not an Evergreen site but are exploring it. I'd like to hear from anyone who migrated to Evergreen from Innovative Interfaces. I'm experimenting with bib record migration and I'm curious as to whether anyone was able to use the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Did you migrate from III?

2016-01-27 Thread Martha Driscoll
Hi Glen, NOBLE migrated from III Millennium in 2012. For at least a year prior to that we did test migrations of data and refined our scripts and procedures. We finally did several full data migrations prior to our final migration in May 2012. I used yaz-marcdump to convert our bib output