Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] staff client dev 2014-05-19 / feedback requests
- Original Message - On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 8:49:34 AMRogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: Horizontal vs. Vertical Display We have some broad preferences for screen layout in SCLENDS but since monitors aren't universal nor are the opinions. I like the layout you've chosen and think it strikes a reasonable balance. The circ staff I've shown it to like it as well. I'm also in favor of moving away from supporting two different layouts. While I think it's nice to imagine Evergreen as everything to all people I think it sets up development / testing challenges that we could do without. +1 Links +1 to using built in browser controls to override the open in same tab behavior. I'm not familiar with Firefox either but based on some quick web searching it looks like it's behaviors are different from Chrome's. In fact there appear to be a few Firefox addons to simply it's behaviors. A regular Firefox user might have better insight here. I can confirm that Left Click, Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click and Ctrl+Shift+Click work the same in Chrome and Firefox. Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
We have several libraries running CASSIE ( http :// www . librarica .com) which does PC reservations, print management, etc. It also does a fairly good job of tracking user statistics ( ie : wait time, average session length, etc). The biggest issue that we have run into is if you are running Windows 7x64 public machines, the computer sharing the printers needs to run Windows 7 as well or printers wont install due to a lack of drivers and no way to manually specify drivers. Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111 - Original Message - From: jmundy @ tcpclibrary .org To: evergreenresources @lists.in.gov, ever@ tcpclibrary .org, open-ils-general@list. georgialibraries .org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:20:37 AM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems Anyone on Evergreen have a PC reservation system for the public they would recommend or recommend against? It should have print management software too and we would prefer it to run with Windows PCs. Thanks, John Director Perry County Public Library 2328 Tell Street Tell City, IN 47586 www . tcpclibrary .org jmundy @ tcpclibrary .org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems
Out of courisity, what features does Envisionware have that CASSIE doesn't? If its something that our libraries could use I might ask them for it from our end as well :D Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111 - Original Message - From: Holly Brennan haderh...@ci.homer.ak.us To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org, evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov, e...@tcpclibrary.org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:30:54 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems Our library has run Cybrarian (barely has features, continued to bill us two years after we quit using it) then we moved to Envisionware, which I LOVED. At some point last year during an upgrade, our IT staff declared it unusable and refused to continue using it. I was very sad. I researched everything else out there and chose CASSIE. It seems to be the most advanced option out there after Envisionware. It works great, is very stable and doesn't crash, ever, but I continue to bug their support team to make it act like Envisionware since we lost some features that both staff and patrons were used to. If I had the choice, I would return to Envisionware. It's just lovely. You'll probably pay more for it, but it just does EVERYTHING. If you aren't already spoiled, CASSIE is nice. And we migrated our patron info to it easily. -Holly From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] on behalf of jmu...@tcpclibrary.org [jmu...@tcpclibrary.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:20 AM To: evergreenresour...@lists.in.gov; e...@tcpclibrary.org; open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] PC reservation systems Anyone on Evergreen have a PC reservation system for the public they would recommend or recommend against? It should have print management software too and we would prefer it to run with Windows PCs. Thanks, John Director Perry County Public Library 2328 Tell Street Tell City, IN 47586 www.tcpclibrary.org jmu...@tcpclibrary.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Grace Periods
- Original Message - On: Friday, November 8, 2013 9:50:25 AM Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: Yes, that is correct. Modifying your circ policies only affects future circulations from that point forward. It does not retroactively apply those changes to existing circulations that have already been created. I'm not entirely sure if this would affect renewals as well, so it may take some time to bleed out all the changes. In our experience, renewals are treated as a new transaction (from a fines ans circ rules perspective), so any changes will become effective at the next renewal after the rule change. Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: Opinions needed on copying patron data to the clipboard
- Original Message - From: Kate Butler katebut...@rodgerslibrary.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 9:49:00 AM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: Opinions needed on copying patron data to the clipboard This encapsulates the issue perfectly. If it looks like a link, it should behave the way we expect a link to behave (open something new). Coming up with some different way to visually identify click = copy to clipboard would be fine, as long as it's then applied consistently across the staff client. Especially if the ultimate goal is to move to a web-based interface, eliminating ambiguities like that should be considered during the move/redesign. I agree. Thinking further (and looking forward to web versions of Evergreen), just allowing one to highlight the data and right click to copy (especially in the case of the Patron Details sidebar) would be a better solution... Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: Opinions needed on copying patron data to the clipboard
Perhaps a tooltip that pops up after you click to copy, then goes away in x seconds? That way you don't have to click on anything but there is a confirmation that something happened? Aaron Zsembery Library Systems Analyst Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 x111 - Original Message - From: Kate Butler katebut...@rodgerslibrary.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 5:08:30 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: Opinions needed on copying patron data to the clipboard I’m one of those who had already weighed in on the bug report initially. Our staff are extremely suspicious when they just click and nothing happens. They’re way too used to having to highlight things and select ‘copy’ from somewhere to be comfortable believing that just clicking copies (for example) the entire library card number. They will often click several times, then try to highlight it anyway. The confirmation makes them feel better. So I have to say we’d like it back. Kate Butler Technology Librarian Rodgers Memorial Library (Hudson, NH) http://www.rodgerslibrary.org/
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Site considering Ever Green
On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 10:03:59 AM Brian McNally bmcna...@mta.ca wrote: Just a general question… We are currently using another ILS and might be looking to switch to Ever Green….and were wondering how hard it is going to be to get our data migrated? We are small site with very limited computer programming expertise. Any advice and suggestions would be most welcome. It looks from your website that you currently use Sirsi, there are various vendors on here who have migrated multiple sites from Sirsi to Evergreen, but ease of moving depends on how much customization you have done to your Sirsi install and how clean your data is. With us there was a lot of detail work to decide how we wanted the Sirsi categories to be mapped to Evergreen categories, but the actual data move went fairly well. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inventory
It depends on how you define inventory. I have done a list of what should be on the shelves for a library (shelving location, title, call number and barcode ) and they manually verified that what was on the shelf matched the list, but we have not done a scan in every barcode to see what is on the shelves inventory Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 - Georgette Rogers grog...@libertylakewa.gov wrote: From: Georgette Rogers grog...@libertylakewa.gov To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 3:18:49 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inventory I am on a fact finding mission, so if anyone can tell me, have you taken an inventory since you migrated to Evergreen, how did you do it, were there problems, and are there reports to finalize it all and make sure everything scanned etc.? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Georgette Georgette Rogers Circulation Supervisor Liberty Lake Municipal Library 23123 E Mission Ave Liberty Lake, WA 99019 509-435-0778 1-866-729-8507
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Touchscreens?
I have a multitouch touchscreen on my personal laptop. As far as the applications are concerned, it is just like a mouse. Right clicking gets kind of funky (might just be operator error), but left click seems to behave just like a mouse. If I have time next week I could probably put the EG 1.6.0.8 client on it and see how it works. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System - Kate Sheehan kshee...@biblio.org wrote: From: Kate Sheehan kshee...@biblio.org To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 11:36:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Touchscreens? Hi all, Is anyone out there using touchscreens with Evergreen? We have a library interested in purchasing touchscreens for her public service desks. I can’t think of a reason it would be a problem (I’ve used touchscreens in a library setting before and think they’re great), but I wanted to see if anyone had firsthand experience they could share. Thanks everyone, Kate ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Kate Sheehan Open Source Implementation Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Rd. Middlebury, CT 06762 biblio.org
