[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Maintenance Release Plans

2018-06-20 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, Just a quick update, maintenance releases 3.1.3 and 3.0.9 are now tentatively scheduled for next *Thursday*, June 28. If plans change due to project activity or buildmaster availability, I will send another update on or before that day. Sincerely, Dan

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Anyone using Evergreen to have patrons read a "user agreement"?

2018-06-20 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello Yamil, This sounds like a fun and very doable project. Just spitballing: 1) From what I can understand, the conceptual requirement is a flag which can both block circulation (etc.) and be changeable by the user (on their own account). We certainly have things which do one or the other,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Anyone using Evergreen to have patrons read a "user agreement"?

2018-06-20 Thread Elaine Hardy
Would using the survey function work? We use that to indicate if the patron has registered to vote. J. Elaine Hardy PINES & Collaborative Projects Manager Georgia Public Library Service/PINES 1800 Century Place, Ste. 150 Atlanta, GA 30045 404.235.7128 Office 404.548.4241 Cell 404.235.7201 FAX

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Anyone using Evergreen to have patrons read a "user agreement"?

2018-06-20 Thread Terran McCanna
Hmm - what if you batch loaded the new students as a particular permission group that allowed them access to everything except checking out items, and then updated the permission group to one that allowed checkouts after they read user agreement? It would still mean staff would have to touch every

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Anyone using Evergreen to have patrons read a "user agreement"?

2018-06-20 Thread Yamil Suarez
Hello everyone, I work for a music college library and we are starting to circulate more and more expensive recording equipment to our students. From now on we would like to require ALL students to acknowledge reading a "user agreement" before they have circulation privileges for any item (books,

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: It's a runoff! Baskets vs. shelves

2018-06-20 Thread Kathy Lussier
Sorry for the late reminder on this. Today is the last day to participate in the survey to rename temporary lists. https://www.surveymonkey. com/r/JSVPPDX Kathy -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128kluss...@masslnc.org --

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: Evergreen at ALA Annual: Open-source Software is Not Just for Tech Gurus

2018-06-20 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi all! I'm sending along a reminder for those who will be in New Orleans for ALA this weekend to join us Saturday at 4 p.m. for our panel discussion: Tech gurus optional: Running an open-source ILS your way I hope to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Course Reserves

2018-06-20 Thread Dan Scott
At Laurentian, we're using https://github.com/dbs/course-reserves (which you can see in action at https://biblio.laurentian.ca/reserves/ ) which we developed and released under the very permissive 3-clause BSD license. It's based on the PHP app that Kevin Beswick created for us 7 years ago that

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Course Reserves

2018-06-20 Thread Yamil Suarez
At Berklee we created a custom written PHP/MySQl/Apache course reserve platform that would connect to our older Horizon ILS and it used barcodes extensively. When we migrated to Evergreen in 2012 we were able to tweak the code to connect to the Evergreen DB. Also, since the barcodes did not change