Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] further guidance

to the doc sprint team! Great work! -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] circs.tt2 files

life so much easier. (That's aimed at everyone, not just Tony.) -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Can't import

on in the org unit editor. Please ... can somebody tell me what check-box I have missed? Don Don Butterworth Faculty Associate / Librarian III B.L. Fisher Library Asbury Theological Seminary don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu (859) 858-2227 -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Can't import

Esprit de l'escalier! The Organization Unit Types editor. Check the box for Can have Volumes and Copies for System. Then, you'll need to run autogen.sh. -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile catalog?

in? Thanks for any help that you can provide! Cheers! Buzzy Nielsen Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State St Hood River, OR 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Field to put local item information which is searchable.

asset.stat_cat and asset.stat_cat_entry for that. It's reportable and searchable in the database. -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Arabic language

distributions of GNU/Linux. Do you advise me to use or using Koha I advise everyone to look at Koha and compare its features with Evergreen. You may find one a better fit for your needs than the other. Please help me Gratefully Nisreen Kabani -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Feature request : staff-client alert for patron account due to expire

Best way to request new features other than by doing RFQs is to open a bug on Launchpad and set the Importance to wishlist. https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen HtH, Jason -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding Z39.50

are copied with a new identifier and then modified as necessary. There is presently no interface in the client for doing this. Thanks in advance, Araik. -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Limits on numbers of attached items?

West Lane Ave. Columbus, OH 43221-3975 1-800-686-8975 x19 -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] authority control vendors

that is probably more information than you wanted, but I wanted to point out that open source is not a problem when it comes to authority control, and that there is a solution out there. (Plus a little shameless self promotion never hurts.) HtH, Jason Thanks, Julie -- Jason Stephenson

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL help needed

that there are so many things you can do to fix little problems in your data once you know how. HtH, Jason -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FW: Evergreen Suggestion

. Butler. -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floating Collections

be implemented in Evergreen for everyone. I can think of different ways to implement this depending on the desired level of flexibility. -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Password reset uses phone number fails: EG2.2

Quoting Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org: All future resets would still be random. Because resetting someone's password to something that is basically public information, their phone number, is asking for accounts to be hijacked. -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] error compiling evergrren

-Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Jason Stephenson Sent: July-05-12 2:20 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] error compiling evergrren

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] error compiling evergrren

autogensh.sh -u on the server? (Not sure if the -u is still needed.) -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] error compiling evergrren

-lncurses -lexpat -ldbi -ldl 5 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpq collect2: ld returned 1 exit status any help would be appreciated -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deposit Fees

Mobile: 412-258-0372 HSLC office: 215-222-1532 hens...@hslc.org -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen staff client on Ubuntu 12.04

direction? Thanks a lot. Lynda Howell. Lynda Howell, Systems Librarian Union Institute University 62 Ridge Street, Suite 2 Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (888) 828-8557 ext. 8747 library.ad...@myunion.edu -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing Serials Records

anyone else heard of exout, is that the normal extension for this? Or am I just doing something else wrong? Thanks, Ryan Allred Snell Pro -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Electronic invoicing

-- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.0.11 Release Announcement

are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 2.1 or 2.2 by that date. The release is available for download at http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fine Migration Question

-- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Server Requirements for Demo

space. You won't need that much disk space if you load the concerto data set, but depending on how you use the demo machine, disk space can disappear in a hurry. HtH, Jason -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Evergreen Development

. 'Nuff said. :) -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] About installing Evergreen...

[WARN:8351:osrf_application.c:185:] Application open-ils.cstore returned non-zero value from 'osrfAppInitialize', not registering... opensrf 2012-02-29 19:42:00 [INFO:8347:osrf_system.c:396:] Child process 8351 (app open-ils.cstore) exited normally -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about run Staff client.

on the server to generate that data. You will need to logout of the client and log back in since the client loads that data at login. HTH, Jason -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief Bug Wrangler, Evergreen ILS

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] About using Evergreen on VMware

in the #evergreen channel on irc.freenode.net. However, I'm guessing you are in Asia from the timestamp on your email, so the mailing list may be a better choice for you. HtH, Jason -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Chief

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2, 1, 1 server cannot provide pages for 2.1.1 client

Jim Bond-Harris Rosary High School I am going to take an entirely different tack to your question. I'm going to ask if there is some specific reason you are trying Evergreen. Have you tried Koha? http://koha-community.org/ You might find it a good fit for your needs. Jason Stephenson

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] New Material OPAC Search URL

There are other supercat feeds that allow you to limit results by shortname. http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=backend-devel:supercat:examples Has some examples of using different supercat feeds. Jason Quoting Geoff Brown gebr...@niagaracollege.ca: Hi June, Thanks for the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

to test that and expand on his work, but haven't gotten time to do it, yet. You can read Bill's instructions here: http://yeti.esilibrary.com/~berick/docs/eg_freebsd.html HtH, Jason Stephenson Merrimack Valley Library Consortium

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Seperate Servers for OPAC and ILS?

Quoting Thomas Misilo misi...@fit.edu: The reason I asked is we are currently running a split install for SirsiDynix Unicorn the OPAC and ILS software split. We decided to do this after our OPAC was hit by Google Spiders a couple of years ago. It seems like this is possible to do.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

Quoting Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com: Jason, Standing on the shoulders of those who made the install targets distributed with EG2.1, I hacked together my own additions to target Ubuntu 11.10. It seemed to work alright except for shoe-horning in Postgresql-9.1. I am sure it is more

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Connecting circ transactions to changing patron profile

Quoting Melissa Belvadi mbelv...@upei.ca: Am I missing something? auditor.actor_usr_history might help.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] odd problem

Jesse, That very well could be the same issue. Did you actually try changing the settings and restarting your osrf services? You should also inspect action.hold_request with id of 46908 to see if anything is wrong with it, though I doubt it. Jason

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] odd problem

Quoting Jesse Ephraim jephr...@roanoketexas.com: Or should I just run osrf_ctl.sh -a start_all from /home/opensrf/opensrf-2.0.1/bin? osrf_ctl.sh -a restart_all You might need the -l option if you haven't set a hostname on your server. Jason

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Cassie from Librarica

Quoting Heidi Florenzen hfloren...@hermiston.or.us: Has anyone successfully paired Cassie with Evergreen? (We're currently running Evergreen version 2.1) If so can you please share details? We've been without integration for 10 months. Yep. I'd recommend using the latest SIPServer from

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] MVLC MARC Templates branch

, caveat downloader, no warranty, no documentation, we're not responsible if it gives you an orange afro, etc., etc. http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/dyrcona/MVLC_MARC_templates Enjoy, Jason Stephenson Merrimack Valley Library Consortium

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP2 Enhancements

getting these features. I would also like for this code to get some more wide spread testing before it is adopted into the mainline Evergreen codebase. Cheers, Jason Stephenson Merrimack Valley Library Consortium

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] About Evergreen Staff Client download software for Windows Vista

check with the organization that runs the server to see if it is compatible with their server. They may have a specific client version that you need to use. HtH, Jason Stephenson Thanks, Rita Liu

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error on Linux Client Startup Rel 2_0_6

Quoting Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org: Seems like the ownership of your profile folder may be a tad out of whack. I *think* that ends up being in ~/.OpenILS or similar. So a recursive chown on that to your user account may help. Mine is in ~/.openils (all lower case) if that helps.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Overlaying MARC bib records in batch file upload

Quoting Steven Pisani spis...@biblio.org: Thanks, Kathy-- we actually explored that method, but found that the overlay did not work for us and the target bib record remained unchanged. We would really prefer doing it that way, since the action takes place within the single queue instead of

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] No PDF of 2.0 Draft Documentation

Hi, When I just now tried to get the PDF of the 2.0 draft documentation, I got a 404 error. http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.0/draft/pdf/Evergreen_Documentation.pdf The above is where the PDF icon link on the table of contents sends you. Jason Stephenson MVLC

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Import MARC for Overdrive (Electronic resource) records

you want to set. As for modifying the MARC fields during import, I'm a bit of a newbie at using the batch import feature, so I don't feel comfortable trying to field that question. Jason Stephenson MVLC

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bib/item import question

Mary, I load the MARC records in a source specific to the downloadable service, eg. Overdrive or Safari Books Online. These sources have the transcendant [sic] flag set to TRUE. This allows the bibs to appear in the catalog without having copies attached. HtH, Jason Stepenson MVLC

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ILS email list archives - an unusual request

Chris, For something as innocuous as an unsubscribe request, I don't have a problem with the message being deleted. That said, it is probably not a good habit to get into, and therefore you might want to say no in order not to set a precedent. Just my thoughts. Jason Stephenson MVLC

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Setting up grace period in 1.6.0.8

Quoting Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org: My understanding (from writing a patch for trunk/2.1 to change it) is that the grace period is defined on the fine generator cronjob as a number of fine intervals before fines are generated. This is a global value, but due to other issues (in 2.0

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] importing 2000.000 records

to load, because Evergreen does much less server side processing with authority records.) The above was done on a trunk installation, so it is not 2.0.3, but something more recent that requires PostgreSQL 9.0. Hopefully, that gives you some idea of how long your load might take. HTH, Jason

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OS platforms - Ubuntu 10.04 Debian squeeze

bibs, 3.3 million items, and 500,000 patrons. We plan to go live on Evergreen at the end of May/beginning of June this year. HtH, Jason Stephenson Merimack Valley Library Consortium

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RELEASE TEAM: Bug Wrangling

Hi, all. Mike Rylander has tagged the 2.0.0 release in SVN. I have updated bug statuses of series and milestone targeted bugs that were Fix Committed to Fix Released. A few other bugs that were never specifically targeted to 2.0 have also been so updated. Jason

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Unexpected results changing Organisational Units through Staff Client in EG 2.0 (again)

Joseph, You most likely need to run /openils/bin/autogen.sh on the server as well as restart memcached. Jason Stephenson Merrimack Valley Library Consortium

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

-in and possibly store different stat_cats, though all entries in a given stat_cat would be recorded. Cheers, Jason Stephenson MVLC

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How can we delete Org Units with SQL for EG 2.0 beta3

...@localhost run]$ psql -U evergreen -h localhost evergreen Password for user evergreen: psql (8.4.5) Type help for help. evergreen=# .. Op 1-dec-2010, om 19:42 heeft Jason Stephenson het volgende geschreven: Repke, Try this: BEGIN; DELETE FROM actor.org_unit WHERE id 1; DELETE FROM

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP and Sorters / Self Check systems

when we migrate next Spring. From what we've heard, it should be rather simple. Thanks, Jason Stephenson Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Rogan Hamby rha...@florencelibrary.org: Are there any Evergreen libraries on the list currently using SIP based sorters / self check systems

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Organizational units problem

Quoting Joshua Ashworth jashwo...@daytonmetrolibrary.org: Hello, I've started to configure an Evergreen system for evaluation purposes and decided to use the Evergreen 1.6.0.1 virtual image from the download page. I replaced the sample organizational units with our own hierarchy and then ran

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: NISO Press Release: NISO Announces Availability of NCIP Implementer Registry (11/10/10)

attributed. My corollary: The wonderful thing about any given standard is that there are so many ways to interpret it. On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Jason Stephenson jstephen...@mvlc.orgwrote: Quoting Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com: Is anyone out there working on developing

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Unexpected results changing Organisational Units through Staff Client in EG 2.0 alpha4

Just as a followup, I've been working on scripts for our migration next year. In those scripts, I delete all of the org units and org unit information except for the consortium. I also update the entry for the consortium entry with our information and then create the org_units in the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Override Checkout Failure no_matchpoint error

the list archives for an answer. Thanks, Jason Stephenson MVLC Thanks! Geoff Brown Geoff Brown gebr...@niagaracollege.ca 10/06/10 11:17 am Hi All, Niagara College is receiving an Override Checkout Failure no_matchpoint error message. It appears after we we add new volumes and items

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] MARC for electronic resources

multiple 856 tags. IIRC they are repeatable. Also, in checking the code, it looks like you're expected to add multiple 856s, one for each holding library. Also, in 2.0 at least, the shortname can go in a subfield 9, w, or n. HtH, Jason Stephenson Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Sent

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Custom client possible?

functions and has some examples of doing requests via JavaScript. Note that you will need to be able to authenticate in order to do anything interesting. Jason Stephenson Merrimack Valley Library Consortium

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] emptying the database.

Quoting Metcalf, Steve metca...@evergreen.edu: At http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:importing:b ibrecordss[]=batchs[]=load under Restoring your Evergreen database to an empty state, there is a command that is supposed to create a clean Evergreen database schema. The

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is there a resource for initial setup

Vicki, You should be able to use the migration_tools from ESI to get your bibs and holdings loaded properly. Have a look here to get a summary of the migration tools: http://git.esilibrary.com/?p=migration-tools.git;a=summary If you have git, you get the tools with at the following URL:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen on BSD (was: Evergreen Server Question)

Quoting Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net: On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 16:08 +1000, Joel Harbottle wrote: Hi All, By any chance, does anyone know if it is yet possible to run Evergreen's server side on FreeBSD 7.2? As far as I know, not yet. We have committed some patches from Dan McMahill to OpenSRF

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Evergreen Server Install

Quoting Harbottle, Joel R joel.r.harbot...@gmail.com: Hi All, I'm wondering if any one knows whether it is possible to natively install Evergreen's server on a Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger without any emulation. It should be possible, but it won't necessarily be easy. If you don't

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Interesting proposal about approachingEvergreengovernance

Quoting Karen Schneider k...@esilibrary.com: but we will still need to find a really good working mechanism for the voice of the community to be heard. Most F/OSS projects don't work like traditional software vendors and users' groups are for the most part, nonexistent. The voice of the

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Loan Periods and Fines (was Re: Question for consortiums)

Quoting Hardy, Elaine [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Loan periods and fines are agreed upon by the entire consortium. There are three levels of max fines a library can opt for, but the daily fines for specific items are the same. Is it possible to set these on an individual library basis in a consortium?

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Loan Periods and Fines (was Re: Question for consortiums)

Quoting James Fournie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can completely customize loan periods and fines using JavaScript. We have a separate script for each library in the consortium. [Snip] That's not exactly what I like to hear. It should be configurable in the database. I'll need to do some

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