Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open ILS Add-ons
My apologies to the list if this is the second time you're reading my reply. (The first time I unwittingly hit reply to the digest version. I blame my mistake on the sometimes a little too intimate iPhone experience.) Lori, I'm not sure if this fits your definition of ILS add-on, but my suggestion sour be reader's advisory/OPAC exploration tools like LibraryThing forlibraries, which now works with the Evergreen OPAC... Amy --- Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation Middlebury, CT terl...@biblio.org ___ Hi all, I'm doing research for a program I'm involved in on Open Source ILS add-ons. I'd love to hear back from any of you who have some favorites that you think are important for me to mention. In terms of categories of ILS add-ons, I'm thinking OPAC, metasearch and content aggregators, link resolverswhat am I missing? Any help is much appreciated. Lori Sent from my iPhone
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL Repository?
Hi all- We're just getting our feet wet with writing SQL scripts for our Evergreen test server, so I was wondering, and I apologize if this has already been asked . . . Is there some central repository, maybe a wiki or a website, which houses SQL queries that have already been written by other Evergreen sites? If there isn't now, is there enough interest out there in building something like this? I'd be willing to help. Amy === Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 (203)577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL Repository
I guess I was thinking more of the latter, but I don't think the repository should be limited to just simple SQL query examples. It could be organized by topic, e.g., patrons, items, holds, etc. There actually already exists a model out there. The SirsiDynix users group had the SQL Bloodbank (website), that later became a centrally managed wiki for these SQL queries. Melissa, my email address -- terl...@biblio.org. Thanks for sending along some of yours. Amy Bibliomation Middlebury, CT www.biblio.org Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:14:50 -0300 From: Melissa Belvadi mbelv...@upei.ca Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: SQL Repository? To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 4ac7241a.86cb.008...@groupwise.upei.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I agree with Dan about it being pretty broad. But there might be some basic samples that we could share, to offer best practices. For instance, when crossing tables, there are two ways - to use join or two use explicit ands to connect the corresponding columns. I've done it both ways but notice that when we get sql scripts from Equinox, they always use the join syntax, so I'm starting to switch. Maybe the first thing to establish is whether the intent is to provide complex canned scripts for common functions run regularly, like Conifer's perl scripts, or shorter examples that help to demonstrate the relational structure of the tables for use in making quick one-off queries in something like pgadmin. Amy, I'd be happy to send you some examples of the latter, if you give me your email address. Melissa Belvadi Sent from my iPhone
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] future newsletters
Hi Jason- I'd like to help out with this. I'm a fairly decent writer and an even better editor. Keep me in mind when you're putting together the newsletter team. Thanks! Amy P.S. Our open source blog can be found at http://biblio-os.blogspot.com http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:47:09 -0400 From: Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.com Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] future newsletters To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 1f3c053e0910080947i177d0e84n9c253b0789188...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi folks, Karen has been a prime force behind a lot of good things in Evergreen, and the monthly Evergreen Newsletter she and John Fink produced with community input is one of those things I'd like to see keep going. I'm willing to do what I can to make this happen, including the bulk of the work, but if there are others out there with an itch for this, we sure would love to help you scratch it. This is the sort of work that needs to be done: * Call for submissions * Writing (incidentally, the previous newsletters make great boilerplate) * Editing * Distribution (list and blog) There's even likely some room for good old fashioned journalistic news sleuthing if that interests you. :) Let me know. Thanks! -- Jason Etheridge | VP, Tactical Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com http://www.esilibrary.com/ === Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 (203)577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question for the Conference Planning Committee
Hi- Not sure who I need to address this to, but I just made hotel reservations for the Evergreen conference for my group. (We're sending 8 people.) Some of us are flying out on Wednesday, and we received a $129/night room rate. Three of us are heading out on Tuesday so that they can be at the hackfest on Wednesday. When I booked their rooms, I was given a $169/night rate. Why is that? Amy === Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 (203)577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Kid's Catalog - Looking for partners
Hi all- Bibliomation has just begun preliminary talks with FGI (http://www.fgi.com/), a web design company (among other things) in Seattle. We will need to develop an icon-driven, graphical kid's catalog for our K-12 schools and public libraries in time for our 2011 Evergreen migration. I'm putting out some feelers . Is there any other library system out there currently on or planning to migrate to Evergreen who would like to consider partnering with us in this kid's catalog design project? If you're interested, please email me at terl...@biblio.org. Thanks! Amy === Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 (203)577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL Help - Item Count by Location/Collection
Hi all- I'm just getting started in trying to write some basic SQL queries that will work in the Evergreen system. One I'm working on now that I haven't succeeded at is an Item Count by Location/Collection report. What I've done - modified a working Item Count by Library report. Here's the original (works): SELECT aou.name, count(ac.barcode) FROM actor.org_unit aou INNER JOIN asset.copy ac ON aou.id = ac.circ_lib GROUP BY aou.name ORDER BY 2 DESC; Here's my modified report (runs but gives inaccurate results): SELECT aou.name, acl.name, count(ac.location) FROM actor.org_unit aou, asset.copy_location acl, asset.copy ac WHERE aou.id = ac.circ_lib AND ac.circ_lib = acl.owning_lib GROUP BY aou.name, acl.name ORDER BY 2 DESC; Could somebody give me some guidance as to what I need to change to get this to run with correct results? The count is obviously wrong - I've changed what's in the parentheses a few times, and each time it yields the same results, which I find very strange. Over my head in CT, Amy === Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 (203)577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL Help - Item Count by Location/Collection
Thanks, Dan, that did the trick. I modified yours by changing circ_lib to owning_lib. Owning_lib was in the copy_location table, not the copy table. SELECT acl.name, COUNT(ac.barcode) FROM asset.copy_location acl INNER JOIN asset.copy ac ON ac.location = acl.id WHERE acl.owning_lib = 4 AND ac.deleted IS FALSE GROUP BY acl.name ORDER BY acl.name Both seemed to yield the same results, so what's the difference when it comes to item count? Amy === Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 (203)577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:50:22 -0500 From: Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL Help - Item Count by Location/Collection To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 1260463822.2579.8.ca...@dan-karmic-liblap Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:34 -0500, Amy Terlaga wrote: Hi all? I?m just getting started in trying to write some basic SQL queries that will work in the Evergreen system. One I?m working on now that I haven?t succeeded at is an Item Count by Location/Collection report. What I?ve done ? modified a working Item Count by Library report. Here?s the original (works): SELECT aou.name, count(ac.barcode) FROM actor.org_unit aou INNER JOIN asset.copy ac ON aou.id = ac.circ_lib GROUP BY aou.name ORDER BY 2 DESC; Here?s my modified report (runs but gives inaccurate results): SELECT aou.name, acl.name, count(ac.location) FROM actor.org_unit aou, asset.copy_location acl, asset.copy ac WHERE aou.id = ac.circ_lib AND ac.circ_lib = acl.owning_lib GROUP BY aou.name, acl.name ORDER BY 2 DESC; Could somebody give me some guidance as to what I need to change to get this to run with correct results? The count is obviously wrong ? I?ve changed what?s in the parentheses a few times, and each time it yields the same results, which I find very strange. If you want just a location/item count for a given library, the following seems to work (substitute your org_unit ID for '103' below) - although note that I'm using circ_lib rather than owning_lib, so you might need to tweak somewhat: SELECT acl.name, COUNT(ac.barcode) FROM asset.copy_location acl INNER JOIN asset.copy ac ON ac.location = acl.id WHERE ac.circ_lib = 103 AND ac.deleted IS FALSE GROUP BY acl.name ORDER BY acl.name ; name | count -+ ARTG-COLL | 3 Archives (1st floor)| 3230 Archives (1st floor) - Faculty Authors |798 Archives (1st floor) - Rare Books | 4654 Archives (1st floor) - Reference|310 Archives (1st floor) - Regional Collection | 2403 Archives (1st floor) - Theses and essays| 1278 Archives (1st floor) - Vertical files |246 Atlases (2nd floor) |507 ... For a location/item count for all libraries in your system, the following works (again, circ_lib instead of owning_lib): SELECT aou.shortname, SUBSTR(acl.name, 0, 20), COUNT(ac.barcode) FROM asset.copy_location acl INNER JOIN asset.copy ac ON ac.location = acl.id INNER JOIN actor.org_unit aou ON ac.circ_lib = aou.id WHERE ac.deleted IS FALSE GROUP BY aou.shortname, acl.name ORDER BY aou.shortname, acl.name ; OSTMA | Stacks |122 OSTMA | UNKNOWN | 3 OSUL | ARTG-COLL | 3 OSUL | Archives (1st floor | 3230 OSUL | Archives (1st floor |798 OSUL | Archives (1st floor | 4654 OSUL | Archives (1st floor |310 ... Dan End of Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 42, Issue 18
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ALA Midwinter - Evergreen Community Meeting
Hi all- Bibliomation, SC LENDS, and the three Massachusetts networks (NOBLE, C/W MARS, and MVLC) will be meeting at ALA Midwinter on Saturday, at 10am at the following location: Networking Uncommons Room: Located in Lobby B of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, near the entrance to the Exhibit Hall and ALA Store. Look for the Networking Uncommons signs. We invite all interested Evergreen users to attend. We will be sharing our Evergreen development interests in the hope that we will discover areas for potential collaboration. If you do plan to attend, please send me an email at terl...@biblio.org. Thanks! Amy === 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] ALA Midwinter - Evergreen Community Meeting
I wanted to thank all those who participated in last Saturday's Evergreen Community meeting at ALA Midwinter. It was a good turnout with representatives from Connecticut (Bibliomation), Washington (King County Library System), South Carolina (SCLENDS), Massachusetts (NOBLE, MVLC, and C/W MARS), Virginia, and New Hampshire (Howe Library). (Sorry if I'm forgetting a state.) I'd also like to thank Bob, Rob, and Galen from Equinox for being there to answer any Evergreen development questions that our group had. We had some really good discussions (including a really long one on holds management) and we hope to continue them with other library systems interested in participating in the conversation. Our next meeting will take place at PLA in Portland, Oregon this March. We'll announce the date, place, and time of the meeting on the Evergreen list as soon as we schedule it. If you can't make PLA, there will be plenty of opportunities elsewhere - the Evergreen conference in April, as well as summer ALA in DC. Amy === 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] Spine Label Printers?
Hi all- What is your library system using to print your spine labels with Evergreen? One of our libraries (going live in March) is looking for a low-cost spine label printer recommendation and we'd like to hear the good (and bad) experiences out there . Thanks! Amy === 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] newsletter frequency
Hi Jason- I plan on adding something to the newsletter today. Dan Scott is coming to Bibliomation later this month to provide postgreSQL training to our staff. His materials will be made available to the Evergreen community. Amy === 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 Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:16:27 -0500 From: Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.com Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] newsletter frequency To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 1f3c053e1002021416h41c940b9ic4aaf0a47147...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi folks, I'm going to double up the January newsletter with February and try to produce an issue every two months. We can revisit this if someone else volunteers to take up the gauntlet. :-) The current newsletter in progress can be found here: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=advocacy:newsletter If you have news you'd like to share, feel free to email us on this list, or directly at newslet...@evergreen-ils.org, or just edit the wiki directly (email newslet...@evergreen-ils.org if you need write access to the wiki). Thanks! -- Jason Etheridge | VP, Tactical Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com http://www.esilibrary.com/ Please join us for the Evergreen 2010 International Conference! It is being held April 20 - 23, 2010 at the Amway Grand Hotel and Convention Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. http://www.evergreen2010.org/
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Kids' Catalog Development - Secure Your Place at the Table!
Thanks, all, for playing, but we have a winner .. The PINES library system (GPLS) is our fourth kids' catalog development partner. We now have the needed monetary commitment to move forward with this project. We will keep you all abreast of it along the way. Amy === 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 _ From: Amy Terlaga [mailto:terl...@biblio.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:19 PM To: 'open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org' Subject: Kids' Catalog Development - Secure Your Place at the Table! Hi all- The SITKA libraries in British Columbia (http://sitka.bclibraries.ca/) have joined King County Library System and Bibliomation in our kids' catalog development partnership. We are just $2,500 shy of proceeding with the first two phases of the project. We will be working with the Seattle-based web design firm, FGI (www.fgi.com http://www.fgi.com/ ). FGI has already been working with King County to develop a new interface for the Evergreen adult catalog so the opportunities for some really great synergy are definitely there. Even if your library system can't commit to the full $2,500 (perhaps only $1,000 is all you can swing right now, for instance), why not secure your place at the development table in these first two exciting phases of this project? Here is the FGI outline of what is to come: 1) Strategy and Scoping Phase a. Meeting and Project Review/Analysis - Working off the existing specification document that your team has created, we will meet with the partners to walk through the business objectives of the project and identify all the areas of the project that need to be completed from a creative and technical standpoint. Deliverable: a) (2) virtual meetings to discuss the project at great length, review ideas and scope out the project effectively. b) Requirements Document outlining development updates needed to be completed by Equinox. Timeline to Completion: 1-3 weeks 2) Development of the Project Plan a. Similar to the KCLS project, the project plan defines the scope and overall approach for work to be completed. It is important for planning, assessing and executing the project with the appropriate teams at hand. It will serve as the main document to reference in terms of project outcome, resources, deliverables, timeline and budget. This document can be delivered to potential partners to better understand the breadth of the project and allow them to make an educated decision on becoming involved. Deliverable: a) a Project Charter document outlining the plan of the project including deliverables, budget and timeline b) Project management and interaction with Equinox to drive development aspects of the project. Timeline for Completion: 2-4 weeks If your library system is interested in joining our partnership, please email me at terl...@biblio.org. I can send you our first list of wish list features for the Evergreen kids' catalog, too. Thanks! Amy === 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] PLA Conference - Evergreen Community Happy Hour!
Come join your friends in the Evergreen community at next month's PLA conference in Portland! We're planning to meet up at Deschutes Brewery for beer and conversation on Thursday, March 25th, at 5:30pm. Here's some more info on Deschutes: Deschutes Brewery makes several good beers and has a new restaurant/bar. Just take the tram up to NW Everett St. stop and you're right there. 210 NW 11th Ave. http://www.deschutesbrewery.com http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/ If you plan to come, please RSVP to me at terl...@biblio.org. Hope to see you there! Amy === 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] Evergreen Canned Reports
Hi all- There was some discussion quite recently about reporting possibilities in Evergreen. I thought that my recent blog post would be of some interest to you: http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2010/03/evergreen-canned-reports-testing.html Amy === 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] Reminder - Evergreen Happy Hour at PLA
Reminder: Meet up at Deschutes Brewery for beer and conversation with others from the Evergreen community on Thursday, March 25th, at 5:30pm. Deschutes Brewery makes several good beers and has a new restaurant/bar. Just take the tram up to NW Everett St. stop and you're right there. 210 NW 11th Ave. http://www.deschutesbrewery.com http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/ If you haven't already, shoot me an email, letting me know that you're planning to come. (FYI - eighteen people have already RSVPed.) Thanks! Amy === 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] Evergreen Conference, IMLS Grant Update
Hi all- For those of you attending next week's Evergreen conference in Grand Rapids, think about attending Plays Well with Others, at 4pm on Thursday. Here's the program description: What has King County Library System been up to since they received that $1 million IMLS grant? For starters, they have formed a resource cooperative, RSCEL (Resource and Sharing Cooperative of Evergreen Libraries). Learn how RSCEL can assist in collaboration opportunities with other libraries, such as Evergreen enhancements, training, and documentation. I'll be co-presenting with Jed Moffitt and Matt Carlson of KCLS. And, in related news, Bibliomation has just been accepted as a partner in KCLS' IMLS grant open source project: http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2010/04/imls-grant-partners-accept-bibliomatio n.html Amy === 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] Evergreen Conference Program - Plays Well with Others
Evergreen Conference Program-- Plays Well with Others Update Lori Bowen Ayre, of the Galecia Group, has signed on to moderate the King County IMLS Grant Update program at next week's Evergreen conference. Lori has been very instrumental in helping King County secure this sizable $998,556 grant. A bit more about Lori and Galecia: As a national consultant, Lori has worked with a wide variety of city and county libraries as well as consortia and other organizations that support libraries. She specializes in open source software, materials handling technology, RFID, delivery systems, resource sharing, Internet filters, public access computing, and emerging technologies. And, p.s., I had the opportunity as an open source panelist last month at PLA to witness Lori's excellent moderating skills. She is not to be missed. Amy === 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] Alpha-G
Alpha-G does offer migration services if you're interested in migrating from Horizon to Evergreen. I'm not sure about the other ILSes. Amy Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:05:09 -0700 From: Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RFPs for system development To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: aanlktinwo5kb_vt_3nktldi2ycbuqtompn5dkzh1x...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 The key players are Equinox, PTFS/Liblime, and ByWater Solutions for migration, support, hosting and development. As others have mentioned, AlphaG is also in there for development but I'm not sure if they are doing any migration or hosting or contracting for ongoing support. Maybe someone else knows the answer. Good discussion! Lori === 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] The Evergreen Reports Task Force - Interested in your feedback
Hi all- The Evergreen Reports Task Force was formed at last month's Evergreen conference. We met online for the first time last week. Here are the notes from our meeting: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:meeting_20100513- notes We are working on building a menu of SQL report categories on the open-ils wiki so that the Evergreen community can easily submit their SQL reports for sharing purposes. The jumping off page is here: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:taskforce It is a work in progress so your feedback is MUCH appreciated. Take a look at the guidelines for report submission here: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:posting_guideline s To see a sample SQL report submission (and, trust me, this one works - it was created by Dan Scott), click here: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:circulation_stati stical_reports If you have any comments/suggestions for improvement, we'd love to hear from you sooner rather than later. You can email me (terl...@biblio.org) with your feedback and I will share with the rest of the task force group. Thanks in advance for your input! Amy === 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] Evergreen SQL Reports Wiki - Reports Added
FYI The following reports have been added to the Evergreen SQL Reports wiki: Requests (Holds) Purchase Alert Report: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:hold_reports Patrons with Email Addresses by Home Library: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:borrower_lis t_reports If you have your own SQL reports to submit, please consider doing so at: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:sql_reports Amy === 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] SQL Query - Sample Item Barcodes by Circ Modifier
Need to test your circulation rules and tired of searching your database to find representative items for every circulation modifier? Here's a handy SQL query, written by Dan Scott, that has just been added to the Evergreen SQL reports wiki: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:item_reports === 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] Bibliomation - Two enhancements needed for our schools
Hi all- I know that eventually there will be a place that we all can go to see which Evergreen sites are working toward which enhancements to the system, but in the meantime . Bibliomation has asked ESI to provide us with development cost / time estimates for the following two functionality specifications for our k-12 schools: 1. End of school year due dates 2. Hard due dates If your library system would also benefit from either/both of these enhancements and would like to share the cost with us, please email me at terl...@biblio.org. If you need something added to either of these enhancements to make them work in your library setting, it's not too late to influence the development! DESCRIPTION OF BOTH ENHANCEMENTS -- * End of semester hard due dates. We need school items to not be able to be checked out beyond a specific date and school items will 'age to lost' by a specific date set by the school. This must work at the branch level. Example: The Lebanon Schools have three branches - the elementary school, the middle school, and the high school. The elementary school wants their end-of-semester due date to be June 21st. Their loan period is 21 days. On June 2nd, the due date should still come up as June 21st. On June 3rd, the due date should still come up as June 21st. And so on and so on until June 21st is reached. Meanwhile, the middle school and the high school each want their end-of-semester due date to be June 30th. Their loan periods are also 21 days, but that June 30th date should hold 21 days prior to June 30th, at 20 days prior to June 30th, at 19 days prior to June 30th, and so on, until June 30th is reached. 'AGE to LOST After the end-of-school-year date is reached for the individual school, there should be a way to quickly move the item to lost status so that students can be immediately notified as to what items are still out and now considered lost. -- * Hard due dates for specific patron profile groups. We need school items to use a specific date for their due date the whole school year for faculty; these same school items will 'age to lost' by a specific date set by the school. This must work at the branch level. Example: The Lebanon Schools have three branches - the elementary school, the middle school, and the high school. The elementary school wants its hard due date for faculty to be June 21st. Meanwhile, the middle school wants its hard due date for faculty to be June 18th and the high school wants its hard due date for faculty to be June 30th. 'AGE to LOST After the hard due date is reached for the individual school, there should be a way to quickly move the item to lost status so that faculty can be immediately notified as to what items are still out and now considered lost. === 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] Bibliomation - Two enhancements needed for our schools
Update: I have received word from both Beth Longwell of Sage Library System (OR) and Deb Shumaker of Kirtland Community College (MI) that they are interested in sharing the cost with Bibliomation to have these two Evergreen enhancements developed by ESI. We're in the process of getting quotes from ESI and should know within the next two weeks when these enhancements will be rolled into Evergreen. Woo-hoo! That was almost too easy. :-) Amy _ From: Amy Terlaga [mailto:terl...@biblio.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:13 PM To: 'open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org' Subject: Bibliomation - Two enhancements needed for our schools Hi all- I know that eventually there will be a place that we all can go to see which Evergreen sites are working toward which enhancements to the system, but in the meantime . Bibliomation has asked ESI to provide us with development cost / time estimates for the following two functionality specifications for our k-12 schools: 1. End of school year due dates 2. Hard due dates If your library system would also benefit from either/both of these enhancements and would like to share the cost with us, please email me at terl...@biblio.org. If you need something added to either of these enhancements to make them work in your library setting, it's not too late to influence the development! DESCRIPTION OF BOTH ENHANCEMENTS -- * End of semester hard due dates. We need school items to not be able to be checked out beyond a specific date and school items will 'age to lost' by a specific date set by the school. This must work at the branch level. Example: The Lebanon Schools have three branches - the elementary school, the middle school, and the high school. The elementary school wants their end-of-semester due date to be June 21st. Their loan period is 21 days. On June 2nd, the due date should still come up as June 21st. On June 3rd, the due date should still come up as June 21st. And so on and so on until June 21st is reached. Meanwhile, the middle school and the high school each want their end-of-semester due date to be June 30th. Their loan periods are also 21 days, but that June 30th date should hold 21 days prior to June 30th, at 20 days prior to June 30th, at 19 days prior to June 30th, and so on, until June 30th is reached. 'AGE to LOST After the end-of-school-year date is reached for the individual school, there should be a way to quickly move the item to lost status so that students can be immediately notified as to what items are still out and now considered lost. -- * Hard due dates for specific patron profile groups. We need school items to use a specific date for their due date the whole school year for faculty; these same school items will 'age to lost' by a specific date set by the school. This must work at the branch level. Example: The Lebanon Schools have three branches - the elementary school, the middle school, and the high school. The elementary school wants its hard due date for faculty to be June 21st. Meanwhile, the middle school wants its hard due date for faculty to be June 18th and the high school wants its hard due date for faculty to be June 30th. 'AGE to LOST After the hard due date is reached for the individual school, there should be a way to quickly move the item to lost status so that faculty can be immediately notified as to what items are still out and now considered lost. === 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] Anyone using OverDrive?
Hi all- Are any Evergreen sites out there using OverDrive? If so, would we be able to talk with your technical folks regarding your SIP setup for this? If you're willing to share, you can contact me at terl...@biblio.org. Thanks, Amy === 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] Enhancement Tracker on RSCEL website
Hi all- As part of our continuing effort to improve communication in the Evergreen community, the communications sub-committee of the Evergreen Governance Committee has set up a place for Evergreen (or soon-to-be) Evergreen sites to post their enhancements in the works. This site can also be the place where you post something you're interested in funding and would like to see if anyone else out there is interested in the same bit of functionality. I've posted Bibliomation's recent due date enhancement needs there to test it out. Go to http://www.rscel.org/enhancement_tracker to see. You will need to set up a login username and password to post anything to the site yourself. We are interested in your feedback on ways to improve this interface. Thanks! Amy === 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] Evergreen Foundation - Governance Committee Minutes
FYI The minutes from the last meeting of the Evergreen Foundation's Governance Committee can be found here: http://www.rscel.org/node/147 Amy === 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] New SQL Report added - Monthly Items Added - COUNT
The following SQL report was added to the SQL reports wiki: Monthly Items Added by Shelving Location - COUNT http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:item_reports Scroll down until you get to the Item Statistical Reports section. Amy === 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] SQL Reports Wiki - Monthly Borrowers Added
FYI Just added to the SQL reports wiki: Monthly Borrowers Added by Patron Profile Group and Stat Category Check it: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:borrower_sta tistical_reports Remember, you can email me your SQL queries and I will add them to the wiki for you. Amy === 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] KCLS Designs
Thanks so much, Lisa, for forwarding these web design images to the list! And hey, what's not to like? They're clean, easy-to-read, attractive .They work for me! Amy Message: 3 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:53:23 + From: Lisa Hill lh...@kcls.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] KCLS designs To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Cc: Melissa Falgout mfalg...@kcls.org, Denise Siers dsi...@kcls.org Message-ID: e8b9f29d47088546b685e4d04e6807b21b502...@exchange02.ad.kcls.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello- Attached are the designs for the new KCLS catalog. Since KCLS is such a special case these designs may not work for your system- but we have done initial usability with these designs and they seem to work for our patrons- I guess we will know for sure this fall. Thanks. Lisa Lisa Hill | Web Services Manager | Web Services : 425.369.3480 | f: 425.369.3407 . King County Library System | 960 Newport Way NW | Issaquah, WA 98027 === 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] Evergreen Foundation - Governance Committee Minutes, 7/20/10
FYI The minutes from our July Governance Committee meeting have just been posted on the RSCEL website. You can find them here: http://www.rscel.org/node/1454 To see the full list of meeting minutes, you can go to: http://www.rscel.org/taxonomy/term/154 (Or you can go to www.rscel.org http://www.rscel.org/ , then choose EG Committees, under the Find People menu option.) === 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] Evergreen Communications Committee - Minutes from August meeting
Hi all- The minutes from yesterday's Evergreen Communications Committee meeting have been posted. You can find them here: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=communications Amy === 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] Bibliomation and Library Partners - K-12 Schools, Academics - Functionality
FYI Bibliomation and our library development partners (Project Conifer, Sage Library System, MassLNC, and Kirtland Community College) have just signed off on a development work project with ESI. To read more about the functionality we're having ESI develop: http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2010/08/let-coding-begin.html If you have any questions about this development work, you can email me at terl...@biblio.org. We're very excited! Amy === 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] Evergreen Website Planning Team
Evergreen Communications Committee Update: The Evergreen Communications Committee was formed at the Evergreen 2010 Conference and has been charged with helping to organize (and possibly develop) the online resources needed by the greater Evergreen community. The Committee has decided that one of our priorities should be to identify all the user groups, undertake a needs assessment process, and perform a content inventory in order to develop a plan for revamping the evergreen-ils.org website. The goal is to make it easier for the various user communities (developers, Evergreen users, Evergreen project managers, and the maybe-users) to plug in, and find what they need. We believe that much of the content is out there, but it could be better organized. And, we hope to lower the threshold for getting more people involved in contributing content and maintaining the site. As a first step, we have consulted with many of the original developers of the Evergreen website including the folks at Georgia PINES (Elizabeth McKinney and Chris Sharp), Equinox (Jason Etheridge), and Dan Scott. They will act as advisors as we move forward with this website planning project. The Communications Committee has created a smaller Website Planning Team to focus on this work. The Website Planning Team is being led by Jim Craner (RSCEL website developer and a long time member of other open source communities and community development projects). The Website Planning Team currently consists of the following: -Jim Craner (Galecia Project Manager/Drupal Developer) -Lori Ayre (Galecia/KCLS IMLS Consultant) -Anoop Atre, PALS (Minnesota) -Amy Terlaga, Bibliomation (Connecticut) -June Rayner, EINetwork (Pennsylvania) If you would like to serve on the Website Planning Team or if you would like to help in the evaluation and improvement of the website (e.g., usability testing), please email Lori Ayre at lori.a...@galecia.com. Note: The Evergreen Communications Committee is a sub-committee of the Evergreen Governance Committee, the group responsible for forming the legal entity (often referred to as the Evergreen Foundation) that will hold Evergreen assets on behalf of the community. This work is in process. === 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] Calling all Evergreen Initiatives
Hi all- We're hoping to collect basic information on all of those Evergreen initiatives out there, whether you're currently on Evergreen, in the process of moving to Evergreen, or still in the testing/exploration phase. So far we have 13 sites listed (thanks to all who've submitted your information), but we know that there are more of you out there. Please take a few minutes to submit your information on the rscel.evergreen-ils.org website here: http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/evergreen/about/projects You will need to first create a username and password on the site to submit your information. Thanks! Amy === 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] KCLS Evergreen OPAC Video Tour
Posted on the RSCEL website: http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/node/1480 === 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] Evergreen Website Planning Team - Meeting Notes, 8-18-10
FYI The notes of the first planning meeting (August 18, 2010) of the Evergreen Website Planning Team can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/2emp67q === 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] Evergreen Community Web Planning Team - 8/27/10 Meeting Notes
The notes from the August 27th meeting of the Evergreen Community Web Planning Team have been posted. They can be found at the bottom of the following page: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_community_web_team_p lanning_committee_page The web team meets weekly. Amy === 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] Evergreen Initiatives - 22 and counting
Hi all- The last time I posted this reminder, we doubled our entries on the Evergreen Initiatives page so I'm posting this again: http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/evergreen/about/projects If you've already submitted and haven't looked at the page recently, it's fun to see who's on Evergreen and who's planning to move! A special shout out to the National Weather Center Library today - any predictions as to where Hurricane Earl will wind up? We're hoping he won't wreck our New England Labor Day weekend! Amy === 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] Evergreen Community Web Team Notes, 9-2-10
FYI The notes from the Evergreen Web Team planning meeting (Sept. 2, 2010) have been posted. You can find them at the bottom of the following page: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_community_web_team_p lanning_committee_page The Evergreen Web Team meets weekly. Amy === 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 Web Team Notes / 9-2-10
I'm with Brandon - here's another warm body that cares about Evergreen. Count me in, too. I may not be able to answer everything, but I'd be willing to help out. And if I can't answer something, I think I'd be able to find someone who could. (And not Jason or Dan - that would sort of defeat the purpose.) So you can add me to that feedback email if you're looking for more volunteers. Amy From: Brandon W. Uhlman bran...@branflakes.net Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Community Web Team Notes, 9-2-10 To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 20100907004912.10797bujonfrf...@webmail.branflakes.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp=Yes; format=flowed I'm a warm body who cares about Evergreen! Count me in! :) Brandon Quoting Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.com: There is also an email link on http://open-ils.org/listserv.php that currently (somewhat oddly now that I see it) goes directly to Jason. Oops, it's also an incorrect email address. I'm going to change that to feedb...@evergreen-ils.org for consistency. (On that note: please, please, can we have some volunteers to help out Jason and I?) Puh-lease? === 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] Evergreen Web Team Meeting Notes, 9-10-10
The notes from today's Evergreen Web Team Meeting can be found here: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=20100910_eg_webteam_min utes.doc If you want to learn more about the Evergreen Web Team: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_community_web_team_planni ng_committee_page Amy === 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] Niagara College now on Evergreen
Congratulations, Gordana! If you can, would you mind adding your libraries to the Evergreen Initiatives page? http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/evergreen/about/projects You'll need to register with the site first by creating a username and password. Thanks! Amy Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:58:01 -0400 From: Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Niagara College now on Evergreen--media booking To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 4c8e2dea028d00021...@ncgwia.niagarac.on.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi everyone, Just wanted to let everyone know that Niagara College of Ontario, Canada has been live on Evergreen since mid-August. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez 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 === 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] Evergreen Governance Committee Meeting, 8-17-10 Minutes
The minutes of the August 17, 2010 Evergreen Governance Committee meeting can be found here: http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/node/1506 Amy === 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] Evergreen Foundation: Governance Committee Meeting, 9-21-10
The minutes from the September 21, 2010 Evergreen Governance Committee meeting can be found here: http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/node/1527 These minutes mention the committee's first draft of the Foundation's governance rules and our plans to distribute this draft to the greater Evergreen community shortly for member feedback. If you have any questions about these minutes, you can email me. ---Amy === 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] Draft rules of governance for Evergreen Software Foundation - for discussion
Kathy has a point and I'm sorry I missed the distinction caught up in the wording of (iv) library that is a member of an Evergreen consortium If you look at the make-up of the interim Evergreen Board, you will see that most of us fit into the category that ISN'T defined below. PINES, Bibliomation, Evergreen Indiana, SITKA, others .. The members on the Board are staff members of the consortium, NOT library staff members of an Evergreen consortium. And no, I don't think that we should stick consortia in with the vendors. We're a different animal. Amy Message: 1 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:36:11 -0400 From: Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** RE: Draft rules of governance for Evergreen Software Foundation - for discussion To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 8bf69e150576477cbbcad969dc1a4...@cwcentral.internal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, What a great discussion on the draft rules! I have a question about Section 3.3. Part (d) states: For the purpose of broad representation on the Oversight Board, it is preferred that each of the following is represented on the board: (i) academic library (ii) public library (iii) independent library that is not part of a consortium (iv) library that is a member of an Evergreen consortium (v) library located outside of the United States (vi) state library (vii) vendor (entity or organization that provides Evergreen related services for a fee) Although library that is a member of an Evergreen consortium is included on the list, I notice that an Evergreen consortium is not on the list. As Galen mentioned in a previous e-mail, there are many consortia where members expect the central agency to represent them, and this would be the case for the consortia participating in our project. Looking further down the list, I see (vi) state library which I expect would have similar interests to consortia that are running Evergreen. Could (vi) be expanded to include consortia? Or was (iv) intended to cover either a library or a representative from the central agency? Thanks to those on the governance group for putting the work into creating this document! 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 === 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] Bibliomation's BibliOak Project - Another CT Public Library is now LIVE on Evergreen
FYI As of this morning, the Douglas Library, in North Canaan, CT is now live on Evergreen. This makes them the seventh Connecticut library to go live on Bibliomation's Evergreen server. To read more about BibliOak, Bibliomation's development partner project progress: http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2010/10/douglas-library-north-canaan-is-now.ht ml Amy === 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] S-A-TUR-DAY Night! (ALA MidWinter / San Diego)
Hi all Im testing the waters here to see if we would have a critical mass of Evergreen-ers at ALA MidWinter who would be interested in getting together for some cocktails and conversation. So I am proposing an unofficial Evergreen gathering on Saturday evening, January 8th, from 5pm-7:30pm. The place: Dussini Loft Bar http://www.dussini.com/ Reviews for Dussini: http://www.yelp.com/biz/dussinis-loft-bar-san-diego#query:quiet%20restaurant %20bar Address: 275 5th Ave (between K St L St) San Diego, CA 92101 Neighborhoods: Gaslamp, East Village If you are interested, please RSVP to me at terl...@biblio.org. If I get enough of a response, I'll confirm on the list that this is a GO-GO! Party on ... Amy === 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] Bibliomation's Enhancement - Search Catalog Button
Hi all-- I would like to share Bibliomations good news with the rest of the Evergreen general list. We just submitted a software enhancement and it has been accepted by the Evergreen community. Melissa Lefebvre, Bibliomations Open Source Project Manager, and Ben Shum, Bibliomations Open Source Software Coordinator, were jointly responsible in making this software enhancement happen. Here are the details of this software enhancement: When Bibliomation first installed Evergreen 1.6, we were very pleased to see the addition of the Button Bar to provide quick shortcuts to important staff client functions. It was an early decision to enable the Button Bar by default on all staff clients in our consortium. Based on user feedback from our development partner libraries, however, we soon discovered a great need to expand the existing Button Bar by including a Search Catalog option. Staff members were confused given that searching the catalog for items was deemed an important primary function and they were disappointed not to see a button for it. This was our first patch created for Evergreen and was submitted to the developers' mailing list on November 4, 2010. The new Search Catalog button links to open a new Advanced Search screen. Melissa Lefebvre created a new Search Catalog icon by adapting images drawn from the original icon sets used to create the first button icons used on the Button Bar. Ben Shum wrote the necessary code to create the new button functionality and compiled the patch against the latest version of trunk for submission to the Evergreen Community. Thanks to developer Jason Etheridge for answering our questions, reviewing and committing our first patch for Evergreen. Were very pleased to be able to contribute to the Evergreen community! Amy === 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] Details of fiscal sponsorship agreement for Evergreen Conservancy
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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] Reminder: 2011 Conference Planning Survey
Reminder: If you haven't filled out the conference planning survey yet, please do so now. This survey will be closed at 5pm EST on Monday, November 22nd. We have had 46 people fill out the survey thus far so THANK YOU if you're one of the 46. --Amy === (First posted on Wednesday, November 17th to the open-ils-general list) FYI The Evergreen 2011 Conference Committee is interested in your opinion. We are in the early stages of planning our upcoming April conference and would like to solicit your feedback. Please take a few minutes to fill out the following planning survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MHL978M This survey is brief and shouldn't take you more than 3-4 minutes to fill out. If you have any questions about the survey, you can email me at terl...@biblio.org. REMINDER: The dates of the Evergreen 2011 Conference are April 27-April 30. Also, the conference website will go live this Monday. Thanks! Amy === 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] We are live! (Evergreen 2011 Conference website)
Hi all- We have just launched the 2011 Evergreen International Conference website! It can be found at: http://pines.georgialibraries.org/evergreen2011/ The most significant link on this website right now is to the Holiday Inn Decatur Conference Center, where you can reserve your hotel room for the fantastic rate of $119/night. If you have any questions about the conference, you can submit them via the Contact Us form found right on the conference website. Reminder - The 2011 Evergreen International Conference is April 27th-30th. See you all in Decatur! Amy === 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] Ice Ice Baby
Beat the Winter blues by joining us in San Diego for the next unofficial Evergreen Happy Hour! Details below (and there are only four of us who have committed to this exclusive event so if you want to feel very VIP, then get in on the deal now...) Saturday, January 8th, 2011 from 5pm-7:30pm at ALA Mid-Winter/San Diego The place: Dussini Loft Bar: http://www.dussini.com/ Reviews for Dussini: http://www.yelp.com/biz/dussinis-loft-bar-san-diego#query:quiet%20restaurant%20bar http://www.yelp.com/biz/dussinis-loft-bar-san-diego#query:quiet%20restaurant Address: 275 5th Ave(between K St L St) San Diego, CA 92101 Neighborhoods: Gaslamp, East Village If you are interested, please RSVP to me at terl...@biblio.org. -- Amy === 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] Evergreen Governance Committee - Minutes, 11-16-2010
The November 16, 2010 minutes of the Evergreen Governance Committee can be found here: http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/node/1539 The December minutes will be posted shortly. -- Amy === 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] Evergreen Governance Committee, 12-14-10 Minutes
FYI The minutes of the December 14, 2010 meeting of the Evergreen Governance Committee can be found here: http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/node/1540 -- Amy === 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] Evergreen Community Web Team Planning Committee - Notes, 1/5/11
FYI The notes from yesterday's Evergreen Community Web Team Planning Committee meeting have been posted: http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=egwebteamnotes-1-5-2011 If you have any questions about these notes, you can email me at terl...@biblio.org. -- Amy === 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] Evergreen 2011 Conference - Program Submission DEADLINE
FYI The deadline for submitting your Evergreen 2011 Conference program is this Friday so act now! To submit your program, go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7R7MSMF Thanks to all who have already submitted. Looking forward to seeing you all in April! Reminder - the conference is April 27-30 in Decatur, Georgia. The conference website is: http://pines.georgialibraries.org/evergreen2011/ -- Amy === 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] Self-check Question
Hi all-- Is anyone out there in Evergreen Land using ITG's self-check with Evergreen? If so, I'd love to hear from you. You can email me at terl...@biblio.org. -- Amy === 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] Evergreen Web Team Meeting, 1-19-2011
FYI The notes from yesterday's Evergreen web team meeting can be found here: http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=egwebteamnotes-1-19-2011 -- Amy === 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] Evergreen 2.0 Released!
Evergreen 2.0 is out! Released on January 27th, 2.0 is the culmination of an amazing amount of development work, including such core functions as Acquisitions. To download the 2.0 release: http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php To see a list of 2.0's features: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=feature_list_2_0 -- Amy Evergreen Release Team Communication Team Member === 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] Evergreen Website Group
Wanna have some fun? The Evergreen Website group, a sub-group of the Evergreen Web Planning Team, is looking for some volunteers. Our group met for the first time last Wednesday, January 26th, to discuss our approach to improving the existing Evergreen website. This group was created to assist the site's webmasters in their on-going effort to keep the current site up-to-date with the latest information. One of our goals is to help the user find what it is they're looking for when visiting the site. Currently we are undertaking an inventory of the website to see how many of the Web Planning Team's user story requirements (http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam.user_stories_2011) can be found on the existing site. So far, we are finding quite a bit! Our group is a small one (Anoop Atre, Kathy Lussier, and me) so there is room for more if you'd like to help out! The notes from last week's meeting can be found here: http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_website_group:notes:2011-01-26 If you're interested in joining us, send me an email at terl...@biblio.org. Our next meeting is this Thursday, February 3rd, 11:30 EST. Amy === 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] Evergreen Conference: Hackfest Day is Interest Group Day
Hi all-- The Evergreen 2011 Conference Committee is fleshing out the schedule for this April's conference. The first day of the conference, April 27th, is the Hackfest. In addition to the hackfest sessions, we plan on having interest group sessions for those of us non-techies who will be there that first day of the conference. So far we have the Reports Interest Group that will meet on this day. We are putting a call out to you all to see if there are any other groups who would like to meet. Please email me at terl...@biblio.org if you have any suggestions. -- Amy === 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] 2011 Evergreen Conference - Registration is now OPEN
Registration is now open for the 2011 Evergreen Conference. http://pines.georgialibraries.org/evergreen2011/node/13 The Early Bird Registration fee of $125 is available through Monday, February 28, 2011. After February 28th, the fee is $135. If you have any questions about the conference, you can email us at eg2011i...@esilibrary.com. -- Amy === 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] Evergreen - Version 2.0.1
FYI Version 2.0.1 of Evergreen is now available (released on 2-4-11). You can access it on the Evergreen downloads page: http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php This version of Evergreen includes some bug fixes for version 2.0, released 1-27-11. http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/ChangeLog-2.0.0-2.0.1 Wow! That's fast work. -- Amy Release Team Communication Team Member Terlaga === 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] 2011 Evergreen Conference - Registration is now OPEN
Hi Tim-- Did you try the hotel through this link? http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/cwshome/DPRD-89UNAZ/ATLDC/website/ This is what we have posted on the conference website and I think we'll need to make it more prominent/easy to find. And regarding the interest group meetings, it really depended on how many we received, but since someone has already recommended that we not hold the DIG meeting at the same time as the reports meeting, we may be looking at an early start for these interest group meetings. Don't hold me to that right now - the conference committee is meeting this Friday so we'll make sure the start time for these interest groups gets covered. Amy === 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 On 2/9/2011 1:14 PM, Tim Spindler wrote: I had a couple questions about the conference schedule. Are the interest groups planning to meet in the afternoon on the 27th or would it be all day? Also, I just went to check pricing at the hotel (http://www.holidayinn.com/hotels/us/en/decatur/atldc/hoteldetail/hotel-room-rates) and it said it was booked for the dates April 27-30. Thanks, Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications tspind...@cwmars.org mailto:tspind...@cwmars.org 508-755-3323 x20 C/W MARS, Inc. http://www.cwmars.org On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Amy Terlaga terl...@biblio.org mailto:terl...@biblio.org wrote: Registration is now open for the 2011 Evergreen Conference. http://pines.georgialibraries.org/evergreen2011/node/13 The Early Bird Registration fee of $125 is available through Monday, February 28, 2011. After February 28th, the fee is $135. If you have any questions about the conference, you can email us at eg2011i...@esilibrary.com mailto:eg2011i...@esilibrary.com. -- Amy === 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 -- __ Tim Spindler tjspind...@gmail.com mailto:tjspind...@gmail.com
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Conference: Interest Group Meetings
Evergreen 2011 Conference Update: For Day One of the conference (April 27th), we have the following interest groups who are planning to meet: DIG (Documentation Interest Group) Reports Task Force Training If you would like to suggest an interest group meeting for this first day of the conference, you can email the conference committee at eg2011i...@esilibrary.com. Also know that there will be rooms available for impromptu meetings for you groups that come together on the spur of the moment. -- Amy === 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] 2011 Evergreen Conference - Program Schedule
Hi all- We have just posted the preliminary schedule for the 2011 Evergreen Conference this upcoming April (April 27-30 / Decatur, Georgia). To download your copy, go to: http://pines.georgialibraries.org/evergreen2011/schedule As the page says, if you have any questions about this schedule, you can email the conference committee at eg2011i...@esilibrary.com. Happy reading! Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Georgia (and the Evergreen Conference) on my Mind
I'm say Georgia Georgia A song of you Comes as sweet and clear As moonlight through the pines. Time is running out! You only have one more week to capture the early bird registration price of $125 for the 2011 Evergreen International Conference / April 27-30, in Decatur, Georgia http://pines.georgialibraries.org/evergreen2011/node/13 I said just an old sweet song, Keeps Georgia on my mind. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2011 Conference - Hackfest / Interest Group Day
Hi all- Just a reminder to those of you attending the Evergreen Conference in April: Wednesday, April 27th is the Hackfest / Interest Group Meetings Day Though we don't have specific times for these sessions yet, in addition to the Hackfest activities, the following Interest Groups have agreed to meet: Training Reports DIY (Do It Yourself Evergreen) DIG (Documentation Interest Group) If you have an idea for an interest group, don't be shy! Send your idea to eg2011i...@esilibrary.com. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bibliomation and 2.0
I am very happy to report that Bibliomation has upgraded our development partner libraries to version 2.0.1 of Evergreen this weekend. To read more: http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2011/02/bibliomation-is-up-on-evergreen-20.htm l Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2011 Evergreen Conference - SHORT SURVEY
Hi all- If you're planning on coming to the April Evergreen Conference in Decatur, would you take two minutes out of your day to fill out this short survey? We're in the midst of planning the first day of the conference and we'd like to see the interest level out there. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VFQ3P23 Thanks! (Seriously - two minutes if that.) +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Conference - EARLY BIRD ENDS TODAY!
Don't miss your chance to register for the 2011 Evergreen International Conference at the Early Bird Discounted rate of $125: http://pines.georgialibraries.org/evergreen2011/node/13 The worms just aren't as juicy after today. Don't be a Johnny-Come-Lately. Any questions for the conference committee? eg2011i...@esilibrary.com. Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2011 Conference: Interested in Interest Groups?
Hello, 2011 Conference Goers! We now have the Interest Group Schedule up for your consideration: http://pines.georgialibraries.org/evergreen2011/schedule Also, we're looking for someone to head up the DIY for Sysadmins Interest Group. You will have back-up assistance from Robert Soulliere from Mohawk College Library so you will be in fantastic company. Send an email to eg2011i...@esilibrary.com if you're interested in leading what will sure to be a very dynamic group! Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Conference Update - Booking your Hotel
Hi all- We're getting reports from individuals that the conference hotel is booked and the conference rate is no longer available. Not true! If you're planning to stay at the hotel beyond the Tuesday, April 26-Saturday, April 30 dates, you need to call the hotel to book your room. Mention the conference to get the conference rate. Decatur Holiday Inn and Conference Center Hotel Front Desk: 1-404-3710204 Hope this helps, Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag
On this: I'm assuming for this year's conference we'll use #evg11, Nope, no can do. Tried evg11 and so many variations on it, it made me dizzy. Finally found success with egconf11. Not the best, but trust me - so many other combinations ended in failure. And by the way, the Grand Rapids conference crew transferred the Twitter account over to us, including all those users who had signed up to follow the 2010 conference. We've posted here and there and there's a feed on the front page of the conference website so sign up: egconf11 We'll post more frequently as we inch ever closer to the April conference. Amy From: Kate Sheehan kshee...@biblio.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 008b01cbe3ff$b39c1f30$1ad45d90$@biblio.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks for bringing this to the list, Lori! On twitter, I've found that #evergreen by itself isn't distinct enough, and #evgils has worked well (and is patterned off of #kohails). I'd be open to #evergreenoss or #evergreenils, but they are very long in the 140 character world. #openils works, but is it too broad (without the context of the history of Evergreen's name, this could easily apply to any open source ILS, which is fine, but is that what we're going for in our common-law marriage hashtag)? I'm assuming for this year's conference we'll use #evg11, which brings up another argument for extreme brevity. Conferences are often when folks want to add more than one hashtag to an update. I'm thinking of sessions at ALA like Top Tech Trends, which usually has its own hashtag, along with the conference hashtag and sometimes, just for fun, a LITA hashtag. It can leave very little room to actually say anything about the session! I'd vote for #evgils or #openils (or if you have room, both). +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag
Hi all- It was pointed out to me that even though the Evergreen 2011 Conference twitter account is egconf11, that doesn't mean that we have to have #egconf11 as the hashtag. So #evg11 is still a possibility if people like that better. And since everyone's weighing in on this.. I guess I would favor #evgils Or #evgils++ as all the cool kids do in the IRC I think having the 'v' in there helps to identify it as Evergreen. And I'm not afraid of a little evil. (Although, for the record, when I'm typing shorthand, I type 'eg' and not 'evg') However, I should mention that I do not feel strongly about my opinion and will celebrate the use of whatever one wins out. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2011 Conference Update - Book your Room!
Greetings Conference Goers! Our April conference has proven to be VERY popular, so much so that the conference center hotel is all booked up now. Don't despair - there's still room at The Holiday Inn Express just a mile and a half away! We're arranging for shuttle transportation between the two hotels. Don't dilly-dally! Make your reservation now if you haven't already: http://pines.georgialibraries.org/evergreen2011/venue And if you have any questions or problems, feel free to contact the conference committee at eg2011i...@esilibrary.com. Looking forward to seeing you all next month! Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Kids Catalog Development Project: Update
Hi all- We're finally making some real progress on our kids catalog development project. The four partners involved are: Bibliomation, Inc. (CT) PINES (Georgia Public Library Service) Sitka (British Columbia) KCLS (Washington state) To read more, go to: http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2011/03/evergreen-kids-catalog-project-picks-u p.html Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Conference: Do You Have a Place to Stay?
Greetings and Salutations, Evergreen Conference Goers! The conference is a mere 13 days away so if you haven't booked your hotel room yet, do it today! After this Friday, our block of rooms will be released at the Holiday Inn Express and then you will be on your own, trying to find a hotel close to the conference. To book your room: http://pines.georgialibraries.org/evergreen2011/venue Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 http://www.biblio.org www.biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [open-ils-reports] Evergreen Reports Meeting - 5/11/11
I can make it, Jenny! +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org From: open-ils-repo...@googlegroups.com [mailto:open-ils-repo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Turner, Jennifer M Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:46 PM To: open-ils-repo...@googlegroups.com; Evergreen Discussion Group (open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org) Subject: [open-ils-reports] Evergreen Reports Meeting - 5/11/11 Please plan on joining the Evergreen Reports Group conference call/web meeting this Wednesday, May 11 at 2:30pm Eastern! Tentative agenda: 1. Introductions 2. Conference recap 3. Next steps 4. Other news Meeting Name: Evergreen Reports Group - May 11, 2011 When: 05/11/2011; 2:30pm Eastern/1:30pm Central To join the conference call: 507-389-1014 To join the web meeting*: https://umconnect.umn.edu/egreports05/ Did you know?? You can add yourself to our Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/open-ils-reports! First posts are moderated (due to evil spambots), but otherwise anyone can join and anyone can post. Talk to you soon! Jenny *If you have never attended a Connect Pro meeting before: Test your connection: https://umconnect.umn.edu/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm Get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat and Acrobat Connect are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Jennifer Turner | PALS, A Program of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities | 507-389-2000
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ALA New Orleans - Come party in the Big Easy
You don't want to miss this one .. Come mix with our Koha friends, Come chat with those who want to hear all about Evergreen And how wonderful it is! Free food! Free drinks! (No free kittens this time, but it's all good!) Come to The Bourbon House 144 Bourbon Street Saturday, June 25th 8pm-11pm RSVP to Amy Terlaga at terl...@biblio.org Space is limited. Sponsored by Equinox Software, Inc., The Galecia Group, ByWater Solutions, and LibLime, a Division of PTFS +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 http://www.biblio.org www.biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [Evergreen-reports] Reports Taskfoce June 8 Meeting Notes
Sorry I missed it. Post-migration craziness. I'll make the next one. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Tim Spindler tjspind...@gmail.com wrote: I have posted the meeting notes for the reports task force. http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:meetings:2011-06-08 Please join the reports listserv if you haven't yet and are interested in learning more about reports. http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-reports Also we did the last meeting on chat, we were wondering if this does not work as well as other methods (the turn out was low)? -- Tim Spindler C/W MARS tjspind...@gmail.com P Go Green - Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary. ___ Evergreen-reports mailing list evergreen-repo...@list.evergreen-ils.org http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-reports
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.1 has been released!
Evergreen 2.1 was released on June 18th and can be downloaded here: http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php Evergreen 2.1 contains lots of enhancements including: -Staff Client enhancements, like unlimited tabs and dynamic hot keys -Important bug fixes -General command line import/export improvements -Serials improvements -Circulation enhancements, like in-database grace intervals -Catalog enhancements, like indexing and authorities improvements -Performance enhancements, like search performance tuning options The arrival of Evergreen 2.1 is welcome news to the community! +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 http://www.biblio.org www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.1 - CORRECTION
Sorry all- I mistakenly prematurely announced the release of Evergreen 2.1. It's release candidate 1, not officially released. My sincere apologies for jumping the gun. To learn more about this release candidate, you can still go to: http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 http://www.biblio.org www.biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [Evergreen-reports] July Evergreen Reports Meeting
Here are the notes from today's meeting. Please send any revisions to me and I'll make the needed changes. http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:meetings:2011-07- 13 Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 www.biblio.org -Original Message- From: evergreen-reports-boun...@list.evergreen-ils.org [mailto:evergreen-reports-boun...@list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of Turner, Jennifer M Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:46 AM To: Evergreen Community Reports Email List; Evergreen Discussion Group (open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org) Subject: Re: [Evergreen-reports] July Evergreen Reports Meeting Reminder: Evergreen Reports Meeting this afternoon (7/13) at 2:30 Eastern on the IRC! -Original Message- From: Turner, Jennifer M Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 9:18 AM To: evergreen-repo...@list.evergreen-ils.org; Evergreen Discussion Group (open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org) Subject: July Evergreen Reports Meeting Hello Evergreen Reporters, Last week, the Evergreen Reports group conducted a poll to determine the format of our upcoming meeting. The majority of poll participants selected the #evergreen IRC format. The next Reports meeting will be held via IRC (http://evergreen-ils.org/irc.php) on Wednesday, July 13 at 2:30pm Eastern. A tentative agenda has been posted: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:meetings:2011-07- 13-agenda. All who are interested in reports in Evergreen are invited to participate. I look forward to chatting with you soon! Jennifer Turner | PALS, A Program of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities | 507-389-2000 ___ Evergreen-reports mailing list evergreen-repo...@list.evergreen-ils.org http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-reports
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine Label Printer with Evergreen
Hi all- Has anyone used the following spine label printer with Evergreen? the Brother P Touch QL 570 If you have, could you send me an email at terl...@biblio.org, mentioning your experience - good or bad - with it? +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 http://www.biblio.org www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Kids Catalog Images - Need Your Help
Hi all- The Kids Catalog Project is well underway. Equinox will be doing the coding for us. We have six development partners. We have all of the subject browse categories for the catalog defined, based on King County's Homework Help website (http://www.kcls.org/homework_help/). What we need are photographs. These photos will be used to stand in as the subject icons for all of the various subject categories when a child is drilling down deeper and deeper into a specific subject. For a full listing, see here: http://paste.lisp.org/display/127779 If you have a photograph or photographs that fit any of these subject areas (or you want to take some of these photographs) and you're willing to contribute it/them into the public domain for us to use as part of the kids catalog image set, please contact me at terl...@biblio.org. (Note - any image submitted shouldn't contain any people with identifiable features. Also note - there are no size or format restrictions.) Because won't it be something to add your creations to the greater whole? Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 http://www.biblio.org www.biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Recording of Update from Evergreen Oversight Board and Update from Developers
Dan Scott writes: Therefore, I'm proposing that I upload the two update sessions, sans the intermediate discussion section. Can I get a +1/-1 on that? So, first of all, +1 to this. And as secretary to the Evergreen Oversight Board, I do plan to make my notes of the community meeting available on the Evergreen website, as soon as I have a chance to polish them up a bit as they are a bit rough right now. Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org/ www.biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Return of the Evergreen Newsletter
Lori asks: Message: 3 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:28:47 -0400 From: Lori Ayre loria...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Return of the Evergreen Newsletter To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: da253d63-9d5a-4afe-940c-0b5545606...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Can we include text of newsletter in the email so we can read the updates without linking. Amy replies: Why, sure! +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org/ www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Angela Who?
I'm trying to track down the last name and email address of a certain Angela who volunteered at our Evergreen community meeting discussion on the last day of the Evergreen conference. Angela volunteered to serve on the ad hoc team charged with drafting a community purpose statement. Angela, if you're out there, please email me at terl...@biblio.org. Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org/ www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter - Still Digging
Hi all- I've had a couple of volunteers to write some blurbs for our conference edition newsletter, but . Here's the thing. I'm still in need of some good conference program factoids. I don't want long paragraphs, just a line or two from anyone who took away something of value from some of the programs. That should be all 271 of you who attended, right? ;-) Seriously, though, if you can find the time between now and tomorrow evening, drop me a line with something cool that you learned and I'll see if I can squeeze it into the newsletter. Thanks in advance to any contributors! Amy terl...@biblio.org +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org/ www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] May 2012 Evergreen Newsletter: Conference Edition
Hello, friends - here is our May Evergreen Newsletter: Conference Edition Amy May 2012 Evergreen Newsletter: Conference Edition Two-hundred-and-seventy-one members of the Evergreen community convened in Indianapolis during the last week of April for our fourth annual Evergreen International Conference. This was a sizable increase from last year's number of 180 attendees. Our community continues to grow up and out, with representatives from Mexico, Finland, the Netherlands, Canada, Wales, and the U.S. in attendance. Jim Corridan, Shauna Borger and their crew from the Indiana State Library kept us all busy, informed, and entertained during the four days of the conference. Here are some of the highlights: Hackfest / Interest Group Day (Wednesday) The Wednesday Developer Hackfest proved to be very fruitful. A number of projects were tackled including making Syndetics content appear in TPAC and a Mexican-Spanish translation of the catalog. Dan Scott showed the others how to sign off on patch contributions, too. The Documentation Interest Group (DIG) meeting was led by Yamil Suarez of Berkeley College of Music in Boston. DIG is looking for proof-readers to review the documentation that has been approved for the website. If interested, you can email documentat...@evergreen-ils.org. IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Reports Interest Group, by Jenny Turner, PALS Over 30 individuals interested in reports in Evergreen met ; attendees were from a variety of libraries with various experience using Evergreen's reports interface. Meeting attendees broke into groups according to interest. Jenny Turner (PALS) convened a QA session for Evergreen Reports newbies and investigators. Jessica Venturo (Bibliomation) lead a group that discussed staff client report ideas, new features in 2.2, and brainstormed items to add to the Taskforce's wish lists http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:taskforce_wish_l ists . Amy Terlaga (Bibliomation) met with current and interested SQL reporters to share ideas on how this form of reporting may be used. Following the small group meetings, Darrell Rodgers of Emerald Data Systems shared wireframes of development his company intends to do for GPLS to create a user-friendly interface for management-level reporting. These wireframes are now available on the Evergreen website: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:reports_wire frames. Notes from the Reports Interest Group's meeting will be made available on the Reports Taskforce's website in the near future. Watch the Evergreen General http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-general and Reports http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-reports mailing lists for news about our upcoming meeting - all are welcome! Interested in learning more about our work? Contact Jenny Turner at repo...@evergreen-ils.org. Conference Opening Remarks: The State of Evergreen (Thursday) IN THE SPOTLIGHT: The State of Evergreen, by Tara Robertson, Systems and Technical Services Librarian, Emily Carr University of Art + Design I was asked to participate in The State of Evergreen because of the unsung heroes project. I loved the series of blog posts that Chris Cormack has been doing to highlight Koha community members and adapted his idea for the Evergreen community. I learned two things. First, people were reluctant to promote themselves and write bios listing all their accomplishments. I shouldn't have been surprised by this. It was more effective to ask someone's coworker, colleague or boss to highlight their contributions. I like that our community values humility, but know that most people enjoy being recognized for work that they are proud of. Second, some people felt that the work that they did was insignificant and not worthy of being recognized. Almost all of these people were women who had been nominated by other people in the community. After an email or two all of these people agreed to be profiled. I want to help foster a culture where we recognize and value all sorts of contributions that are key to making the community strong, sustainable and an enjoyable place to be. What do you want this community to look like? Why do you put your time and energy into making Evergreen better? User Programs (Thursday and Friday) The user programs were varied, covering a wide range of topics - everything from Evergreen Basics for newbies to the nitty gritty of circulation rules settings with Down the Rabbit Hole: In-Database Approach For Circulation/Hold Policy Configuration. Tony Bandy of OHIONET had this to say about the Template Toolkit OPAC Customizations: Nuts and Bolts program on Friday: Learning about the Template Toolkit OPAC and all of the coming options for our consortium, (COOL, http://www.cool-cat.org), I'm excited about the many changes on the way. IN THE SPOTLIGHT: PROGRAM - Resource Sharing in Evergreen Grace
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] June Newsletter Plans
Hi all- Plans are underway for the June edition of the Evergreen newsletter. It will hit the presses sometime in mid-June, but there's no time like the present to send me your Evergreen news item or items. Just come up on Evergreen? Have some bit of Evergreen development in the works? Done something new with the catalog or maybe reports? Something else Evergreen-ful I haven't thought of here? Drop me a line and I'll include it in the June newsletter. Remember - if it's Evergreen-y, it's newsworthy. Amy (terl...@biblio.org) +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org/ www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need News Items - Evergreen Newsletter
Hello all- Well, July has gotten away from me. It's almost finis and I have yet to gather up the interesting Evergreen tidbits for July's issue. So .. PLEASE send me your Evergreen news. If I don't get enough news in the next few days, I may have to do a special July/August edition. If you want to contribute something, but you need more time to put it together, just let me know. Thanks in advance for all submissions! Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org/ www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter / July-August 2012
Evergreen Newsletter / July-August 2012 by Amy Terlaga, Bibliomation and other contributors The Evergreen Website: The Future is Almost Here Lori Ayre of the Evergreen Web Team writes: We've got the prototype for the new Evergreen-ils.org website started and people can watch our progress at http://evergreen.galecia.com. The group working on this is Alexey Lazar (PALS), Stephen Wills (Beyond Print and Maine Evergreen libraries), Anoop Atre (ESI), Ben Shum (Bibliomation), and Lori Ayre Jim Craner (Galecia Group). Anyone who wants to help out with the project is encouraged to join the Web Team list (http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-web-team) and let us know. We'll also be regularly sending out updates and inviting comments from the community via the general mailing list. And while the new website is coming into shape, now is a good time to acknowledge those individuals that have kept the current website going, as well as those who've maintained the listservs and the various Evergreen social media sites. To see a full listing of names, go to http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=website_administration. --- Something for New Evergreen Developers Thomas Berezansky of MVLC (Merrimack Valley Library Consortium, MA) has created a document meant for first time developers to get the basics of the Evergreen system down. He provides a basic overview of the system, focusing on three distinct areas that one would develop in. His document can be found at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=eg_developer_overview. Lori Ayre of Galecia Group has taken Thomas' document and has modified it some: http://os-ol.org/sites/default/files/EG_Backgrounder_New_Devs.pdf. --- Evergreen Development Partnerships Acquisitions Improvements coming in 2.3: MassLNC, SCLends, SITKA, and Bibliomation partnered together on a number of acquisitions enhancements coming in release 2.3. These enhancements include: *EDI Invoices *EDI Enhanced/Enriched Ordering *Multiple POs Per Invoice (Manual Invoicing) *Encumbrances move to new fiscal year even if money is not rolled over *Block purchase order from activating if there is a line item with zero copies The full list of enhancements will be announced with the release of 2.3. Bibliomation Prepares List of Enhancement Requests: by Amy Terlaga, Bibliomation Bibliomation is about to send out to interested developers their list of approximately 30 enhancement requests, asking for development quotes. This list was produced from their member libraries; submissions were received earlier in the year. Bibliomation used IdeaTorrent, open source idea submission and voting software recommended by SITKA, to allow their members to vote on their enhancement suggestions. The top vote getters made the list of thirty, soon to be submitted to Evergreen developers. Once Bibliomation receives the quotes, we'll most likely be looking for partners on some of the work. Look for future updates on Bibliomation's progress in upcoming newsletters. --- New Git Authors by Ben Shum, Bibliomation It's so great to see our development community grow. In July, we saw several community members offering their first git patches and having them added to the core Evergreen code. We'd like to recognize: Bob Wicksall, Pioneer Library System - added paging to My Lists area of TPAC - first commit added to master on July 10 Kathy Lussier, MassLNC - TPAC bug fixes and enhancements - first commit added to master on July 13 Melissa Lefebvre, Bibliomation - TPAC design and style sheet changes - first commit added to master on July 17 Steven Chan, Sitka - bug fixes for Acquisitions and staff client - first commit added to master on July 24. So great to see their work being shared and looking forward to more from them and others in the future! --- Reports Task Force Update by Jenny Turner, PALS The Evergreen Reports Taskforce has suspended meetings for the summer and will resume with bi-monthly meetings beginning in September. In the meantime, remember to make use of the Evergreen Reports mailing list: mailto:evergreen-repo...@list.evergreen-ils.org evergreen-repo...@list.evergreen-ils.org. --- - Evergreen Libraries in the News OHIONET Bob Neeper of Community Library, OHIONET, writes: Ohio joined the Evergreen Community in 2012 with 3 libraries currently 'live'. 2 more in the final phase 4 scheduled for early next year Information on Consortium of Ohio Libraries (COOL) is at http://info.cool-cat.org/ Migration and support are through Equinox and OHIONET. OHIONET is a library membership organization (member-funded, 501(c)(3
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds Functionality - Looking for Development Partners
Hi all- One of our multi-branch libraries is looking for additional holds functionality so that holds between their branches work better than they currently do. Here's the situation, described by Ben Shum: A library system has multiple branches, and each owns their own copies/patrons. Library A owns a copy of an item and Library B does not. But patrons from both A and B place holds against the material. Because of how holds target / opportunistically capture, the patrons at Library A receive the item first while the item continues to circulate in and out of Library A, while the patrons at Library B never get their holds fulfilled. It would be preferred that Library A's copy be used to fill holds for both Library A and B's patrons in the order the hold was placed regardless of pickup location. While we understand that having additional copies for each branch could solve the issue, it may not be possible for the library to purchase and assign copies to each branch. Instead, they're hoping that it is possible to re-prioritize holds within their system to follow a stricter first-in, first-out (FIFO) policy. However, the concern has been made as to how FIFO might adversely alter how the library system shares material with the rest of the consortium. There would need to be some way to fold in the other consortium's holds at some point so that the library and its branches wouldn't become a walled off entity within the consortium. In talking with Equinox, we have learned that this functionality exists in FulfILLment and that we could side-port it into Evergreen. See Mike Rylander's post here for a good explanation on the benefits of this new holds functionality: http://blog.esilibrary.com/2012/04/16/sharing-code-is-caring/ There is some more work needed in both Calculated Proximity Adjustment and Custom Best Hold Adjustment Order. So what we're looking for now are additional development partners to complete this development work and to side-port it into Evergreen. If you're interested in seeing this happen and would like to help make it happen, please contact me at terl...@biblio.org. Any contributions would be accepted. Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org/ www.biblio.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter, Sept/Oct - Need News Items
Hi all- It's that time again. I need to collect news items for the Fall edition (Sept/Oct) of the Evergreen newsletter. So if you're sponsoring some new development or bringing up a new library or doing something cool with the Evergreen OPAC or anything else you have going on, please drop me a line at terl...@biblio.org. This plea for news items worked really well last time. I'm hoping y'all come through again. Thanks! Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org/ www.biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter, Sept/Oct - Need News Items
Thanks, David! Is that going on the Evergreen website? +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 www.biblio.org -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of David Busby Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 1:11 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter, Sept/Oct - Need News Items Amy, I've got one (finally!) I've got a VirtualBox ready Evergreen Demo; it's running 64bit Linux 3.4 (Gentoo); PostgreSQL 9.1, eJabberd 2.1.11, Perl 5.12.4, Memcached 1.4.5, Apache 2.2.22 (mod_perl 2.0.7) I've packaged the OVA at http://carbon.edoceo.com/evergreen-demo.ova (and you can verify md5 sum from http://carbon.edoceo.com/evergreen-demo.md5) It boots, starts the services and has some demo data. Also, the tools re-build Evergreen as well as the client (automake/autoconf, git, gcc, crossdev, nsis) are in here. This demo server is also a basis for some type of pre-fabricated Evergreen System I hope that will make multi-server Evergreen deployments easy resilient (start system, set role, done!) -- David Busby Edoceo, Inc. http://edoceo.com/ 206.282.6500 On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Amy Terlaga terl...@biblio.org wrote: Hi all— It’s that time again. I need to collect news items for the Fall edition (Sept/Oct) of the Evergreen newsletter. So if you’re sponsoring some new development or bringing up a new library or doing something cool with the Evergreen OPAC or anything else you have going on, please drop me a line at terl...@biblio.org. This plea for news items worked really well last time. I’m hoping y’all come through again. Thanks! Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 www.biblio.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter, Sept/Oct - Need News Items
Grace- No, I have received nothing in the way of development projects. Could you submit something? Yes, a blurb from Suzannah on FulfILLment would be good. Thanks! Much appreciated, Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 www.biblio.org http://www.biblio.org/ From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Grace Dunbar Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 4:50 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter, Sept/Oct - Need News Items Hi Amy, Don't forget about the Hack-A-Way! http://www.planetreg.com/E8108472214594 Also, we have lots of fun development projects going on with our favorite clients but I figure they'll submit notes about those. If not, let me know and we'll write something up. Oh and not strictly Evergreen related, but of interest, FulfILLment will be hitting some test partners soon. You can probably get an advance scoop from Suzannah here. If you're interested in including that, let me know and I'll have Suz send you a blurb. Thanks! Grace On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Amy Terlaga terl...@biblio.org wrote: Hi all- It's that time again. I need to collect news items for the Fall edition (Sept/Oct) of the Evergreen newsletter. So if you're sponsoring some new development or bringing up a new library or doing something cool with the Evergreen OPAC or anything else you have going on, please drop me a line at terl...@biblio.org. This plea for news items worked really well last time. I'm hoping y'all come through again. Thanks! Amy +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070 x101 tel:203-577-4070%20x101 www.biblio.org http://www.biblio.org/
