Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] electronic resource cataloguing discussion
Hi everyone, Hope you are all having fun at the conference! I miss getting the chance to see everyone! But for those who are minding the ranch…I have a question very much related to the e-resource cataloguing question. For those who import large scale ebook marc collections (like 14 or so) and need to pull out marcs that represent items that are deleted from the collection (presumably by a publisher pulling titles or something like that), how do you manage this? I have heard from other ILS users in our college consortium that they simply import the marcs with a “d” in the leader, which then overrides the pre-existing marc and then that removes the record from the catalogue. Is something so magical possible with Evergreen? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez, BA (Hons), MLIS Library Services Systems Coordinator Library Bookstore Services Welland Campus Niagara College gvi...@niagaracollege.camailto:gvi...@niagaracollege.ca 905.735.2211 ext 7404 http://www.niagaracollege.ca/library From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Thomsen Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 1:25 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 107, Issue 9 I just wanted to add that if you want to be able to get statistics by bibliographic call number range, you need to make sure these fields are included in your MARC records. We load records for electronic resources from many different vendors, and while most include the classification numbers, some don't or don't do so consistently. We think this kind of reporting is important so we recently made the inclusion of the classification numbers a requirement for vendor-supplied MARC records being loaded into our system. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.netmailto:rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: That sounds about right to me and what I'd recommend from my experience. We've done it the way you are now and since early on Evergreen didn't support copy less searching the way we wanted but that's changed a lot in the last one to two years. If others have different experiences if love to hear them though. Everything we learn helps. On Tuesday, May 12, 2015, Donald Butterworth don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edumailto:don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu wrote: Thanks for you insights Rogan! Talking with an expert is a very helpful refining process. Nixing the copy/item record entirely from a bib record is certainly a departure from common cataloging practices, and takes some getting use to. But I think I'm tracking you and it sounds reasonable. Let me reflect what I hear you recommending as electronic resources best practices: 1. Always use an electronic resources bib record for each e-resource in your collection. Evergreen needs that kind of record to allow for filtering. Simply adding hot links to the print bib record will only allow your patrons to find the e-resource through serendipity. 2. Do not use a copy/item record for any e-resource. e.g. e-periodical, e-book, streaming sound recording, streaming video recording, etc. 3. Use a SQL script the employs UNION statements to gather statistics, for every kind of e-resource. 4. For new titles being imported into the database, and onto a purchase order, only include in field 962 the holding subfields for, price, fund code, and owning library. This will supply what is needed for the PO but will not generate a copy/item record. Am I missing anything? Anybody else want to weigh in? Don On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.netmailto:rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: Disclaimer: This is all just my opinion based on my own experiences with electronic resource records and SQL. You can politely tell me to shove it. :) One statement: I think you've already discovered some things that are leading in the right direction from what I'm reading. So, question: Do you really need to attach copies to the electronic resource records? I would say that you don't. You need to identify items by call number range, got that. And if you were using the built in reporter I would drop it there and say gotcha. True, it is doable even in the reporter but it's more of a pain. But, you're using SQL. By using UNION statements you can do this on records without copies and join it to other queries to give you the counts you need and still have a fire and forget script. Something that may help that is using different bib sources for different electronic resource vendors. It's very helpful and very convenient when doing reports. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Donald Butterworth don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edumailto:don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu wrote: Hi Rogan, We are still trying to get straight what best practices are when it comes to e-books. The decision has been made to add separate bibliographic records for all e-books
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] include due time on My Account summary?
Hi everyone, We are an academic library using Evergreen and we sign out items to students based on hourly periods (reserve items, laptops). A common complaint we hear from students is that they can't double check the due time on an item from the My Account, Items Checked Out summary. Is there a way to modify the summary to include due time? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez, BA (Hons), MLIS Library Services Systems Coordinator Library Bookstore Services Welland Campus Niagara College gvi...@niagaracollege.camailto:gvi...@niagaracollege.ca 905.735.2211 ext 7404 http://www.niagaracollege.ca/library
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] include due time on My Account summary?
Thanks, Galen. I'll give that a try! Gordana Vitez, BA (Hons), MLIS Library Services Systems Coordinator Library Bookstore Services Welland Campus Niagara College gvi...@niagaracollege.ca 905.735.2211 ext 7404 http://www.niagaracollege.ca/library -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 11:47 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] include due time on My Account summary? Hi, On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca wrote: We are an academic library using Evergreen and we sign out items to students based on hourly periods (reserve items, laptops). A common complaint we hear from students is that they can’t double check the due time on an item from the My Account, Items Checked Out summary. Is there a way to modify the summary to include due time? Yes. One approach is to customize the opac/parts/config.tt2 template, uncomment out the DATE_FORMAT setting, and set it to a pattern that includes the time. For example: DATE_FORMAT = '%D %I:%M %p'; which will display times like 2/10/15 11:59 PM Doing it this way is a bit of a shotgun, however, as it will make *all* date/time fields in the OPAC display using that format. To customize only the current checkouts page, the template to modify is opac/myopac/circs.tt2, where you could change td name=due_date class='[% due_class %]' [% date.format(due_date, DATE_FORMAT) %] /td to td name=due_date class='[% due_class %]' [% date.format(due_date, '%D %I:%M %p') %] /td There are other possibilities, including getting even fancier and writing a function that would recognize whether the time portion was 11:59 PM, and if so, only display the date portion. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron Batch Functions
Hi everyone, The address question is interesting as we really only use email addresses and cell numbers for library functions. If we need to pursue someone because of lost items, etc, we refer those students to Student Accounts. They would have the addresses from the student info system. Maybe physical addresses aren't as critical anymore? Just a thought. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez, BA (Hons), MLIS Library Services Systems Coordinator Library Bookstore Services Welland Campus Niagara College gvi...@niagaracollege.ca 905.735.2211 ext 7404 http://www.niagaracollege.ca/library -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Walz, Jennifer Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 9:38 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron Batch Functions All - We do not worry about addresses for ON-campus students. They live here. :-)But we do need addresses for off-campus students. So it would be great to have a marker or indicator or way to distinguish between those two. But we would need only one address on the patron record.We also make sure that every student has an on-campus email address. Jennifer -- Jennifer Walz, MLS - ILS person Kinlaw Library - Asbury University One Macklem Drive, Wilmore, KY 40390 859-858-3511 ext. 2269 jlw...@asbury.edu -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 8:40 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron Batch Functions Hi, On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Martha Driscoll drisc...@noblenet.org wrote: I put together a list on the Evergreen for Academic wiki of the functions that a batch patron interface should have. This list is based my experience loading patron files for our 10 academic consortium members. Please let me know what issues you encounter and what functionality should be included on the wiki. http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_for_academics:batc h_patron_functions Thanks for putting this together, Martha, it looks like a great start. One set of use cases that I'm particularly curious about are how addresses should be handled. For example, does it suffice for most of the libraries in the IG to have the batch import handle one address per patron? Do any of you get mailing address data from any place other than the student and staff information systems? Are any of you in a position to not have to worry about keeping student mailing addresses in the ILS at all? Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics
Hi Kelly, Not at all! Hopefully, it makes sense to folks. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator Library Bookstore Services Welland Campus Niagara College gvi...@niagaracollege.camailto:gvi...@niagaracollege.ca 905.735.2211 ext 7404 http://www.niagaracollege.ca/library From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Drake Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:31 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics Hi Gordana, Hopefully this wasn't too presumptuous on my part but I added your patron upload info as a note to the EFA page. It's a really important option that shouldn't be forgotten. Also, having the possibility of an easy solution to one of the issues, may get us around to tackling it sooner than later? Kelly On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.camailto:gvi...@niagaracollege.ca wrote: Hi Martha and other interested academic libraries, When we went up with Evergreen in 2010, we contracted with Alpha G for a daily patron information import program to work between Evergreen and PeopleSoft. Unfortunately, they weren't in a position to make it open source. But I wonder if it's something that many institutions are interested in, that they would be willing to work with the libraries to create a piece based on what they did that would be freely available with Evergreen? We import patron info nightly and it's pretty much seamless. I don't really worry about it and am happy with what it does. I'm sorry if I'm not describing it well. I'm not overly technical. :-) Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator Library Bookstore Services Welland Campus Niagara College gvi...@niagaracollege.camailto:gvi...@niagaracollege.ca 905.735.2211 ext 7404tel:905.735.2211%20ext%207404 http://www.niagaracollege.ca/library -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.orgmailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.orgmailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Martha Driscoll Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:13 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.orgmailto:open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics Hi Kelly, Another item to add to the list of issues is support for patron record loading. We have developed scripts to load new and update on-file records, but a user-friendly interface similar to vandelay would streamline the process. Some of our college staff would also like to manage record loading themselves. We load student records frequently. Some colleges provide one file at the beginning of each semester, but our community colleges provide weekly files for several weeks before and after the start of each semester. I load 300-400 files each year for the 10 academic institutions in our consortium. -- Martha Driscoll Systems Manager North of Boston Library Exchange Danvers, Massachusetts www.noblenet.orghttp://www.noblenet.org On 7/21/2014 10:11 AM, Kelly Drake wrote: Dear Evergreen Community, For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of 10 academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration to Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and spoke with members of FLO during this year’s annual conference in Boston. Thank you for your time, patience and information. All your comments and suggestions convinced us to continue pursuing a migration to Evergreen. Our investigation also suggested that it would be helpful to build an academic interest group within the larger Evergreen community. This group would be focused solely on academic issues as they relate to the ILS. Several existing Evergreen libraries and consortia have already expressed interest in the group and we have tentatively called it Academics for Evergreen. To be most effective, Academics for Evergreen would be composed of any individuals or institutions that have an interest in enhancing the academic-related functions of Evergreen. Once formed, the group will identify the academic-related functions that most need attention and work to build knowledge, consensus, and resources to move moving these issues forward. So far we have identified a few of the possible issues, such as streamlined creation and management of authority records, enhanced search and browse by authority, support for multiple subject heading schema, improved staff workflows and possible improvements to course reserves integration. This list is by no means exhaustive and needs the participation of the Evergreen community to improve and refine it. Please respond and let us know if you are interested, have suggestions for moving these issues forward, or if you have
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics
Hi Martha and other interested academic libraries, When we went up with Evergreen in 2010, we contracted with Alpha G for a daily patron information import program to work between Evergreen and PeopleSoft. Unfortunately, they weren't in a position to make it open source. But I wonder if it's something that many institutions are interested in, that they would be willing to work with the libraries to create a piece based on what they did that would be freely available with Evergreen? We import patron info nightly and it's pretty much seamless. I don't really worry about it and am happy with what it does. I'm sorry if I'm not describing it well. I'm not overly technical. :-) Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator Library Bookstore Services Welland Campus Niagara College gvi...@niagaracollege.ca 905.735.2211 ext 7404 http://www.niagaracollege.ca/library -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Martha Driscoll Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:13 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics Hi Kelly, Another item to add to the list of issues is support for patron record loading. We have developed scripts to load new and update on-file records, but a user-friendly interface similar to vandelay would streamline the process. Some of our college staff would also like to manage record loading themselves. We load student records frequently. Some colleges provide one file at the beginning of each semester, but our community colleges provide weekly files for several weeks before and after the start of each semester. I load 300-400 files each year for the 10 academic institutions in our consortium. -- Martha Driscoll Systems Manager North of Boston Library Exchange Danvers, Massachusetts www.noblenet.org On 7/21/2014 10:11 AM, Kelly Drake wrote: Dear Evergreen Community, For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of 10 academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration to Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and spoke with members of FLO during this year’s annual conference in Boston. Thank you for your time, patience and information. All your comments and suggestions convinced us to continue pursuing a migration to Evergreen. Our investigation also suggested that it would be helpful to build an academic interest group within the larger Evergreen community. This group would be focused solely on academic issues as they relate to the ILS. Several existing Evergreen libraries and consortia have already expressed interest in the group and we have tentatively called it Academics for Evergreen. To be most effective, Academics for Evergreen would be composed of any individuals or institutions that have an interest in enhancing the academic-related functions of Evergreen. Once formed, the group will identify the academic-related functions that most need attention and work to build knowledge, consensus, and resources to move moving these issues forward. So far we have identified a few of the possible issues, such as streamlined creation and management of authority records, enhanced search and browse by authority, support for multiple subject heading schema, improved staff workflows and possible improvements to course reserves integration. This list is by no means exhaustive and needs the participation of the Evergreen community to improve and refine it. Please respond and let us know if you are interested, have suggestions for moving these issues forward, or if you have any questions. Thank you, Kelly Drake Systems Librarian Fenway Libraries Online Boston, MA 02115 617-442-2384 Conference calls: Boston: 617-989-5050 Toll-free: 877-532-8229 Conference ID: 933794 Web conferencing: https://join.me/flomeeting
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: portable barcode scanners for inventory
Hi Heidi, We were never able to resolve the issue with the scanners. Instead, we ended up using carts with laptops and scanners on them. It was a pretty painless process using that method. I'm happy to share more information with you, if you would like. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca On 1/9/2014 at 12:00 PM, in message 52ced5a9.9040...@scls.lib.wi.us, Heidi J. Oliversen h...@scls.lib.wi.us wrote: Hello Gordana: did you ever get a resolution for this problem? I am trying to help a library staff person remotely so I don't have a unit in my hands. Was it a Setup issue? Any information would be useful. Thank you, Heidi Oliversen Circulation Technology Specialist South Central Library System 4610 S. Biltmore Lane, #101 Madison, WI 53718 608-242-4711 h...@scls.lib.wi.us Report ILS problems online at or call the Help Desk: (608) 242-4710 / toll free (855) 583-2435 On 8/2/2012 2:14 PM, Gordana Vitez wrote: Hi there, We are planning to do an inventory and are in the process of considering a few options. If at all possible, we would like to use the portable barcode scanners that the library already owns. Our problem is with the scanners themselves, Falcon PT40, and we are wondering if anyone might know how to configure the scanner to dump the barcodes in a text file. Right now, when we scan a barcode, it comes with extra characters and the barcodes are in one continuous line in the file. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is it possible to show in house use count in item status display?
Hi again, It seems to me that this is something that is not possible right now. Should I submit this as a request somewhere? As something the community would like to see added to the next version? Thanks! Gordana Benjamin Kalish bkal...@forbeslibrary.org 05/31/13 9:30 AM I would also like to see this statistic on the item status screen! Benjamin Kalish Forbes Library / 413-587-1012 / bkal...@forbeslibrary.org Currently reading: *Reservation Blues* by Sherman Alexie Just Finished: *One Good Turn : a Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw* by Witold Rybczynski -- Message: 3 Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 16:14:14 -0400 From: Ruth Frasur direc...@hagerstownlibrary.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is it possible to show in house use count in item status display? To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: CAHcQPves-x=OJD7FXWtua= iehi7n2sdfvxhs92px_u5+0nl...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I like this idea a lot. A WHOLE lot. On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca wrote: Hi there, My colleagues and I would like to know if it is possible to configure the item status display to include the in house use stats. We are currently on 2.2.1, soon to be moving to 2.4. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca -- Ruth Frasur Director of the Historic(ally Awesome) Hagerstown - Jefferson Township Library 10 W. College Street in Hagerstown, Indiana (47346) p (765) 489-5632; f (765) 489-5808 Our Kickin' Website http://hagerstownlibrary.org Our Rockin' Facebook Page http://facebook.com/hjtplibrary and Stuff I'm Readinghttp://pinterest.com/hjtplibrary/ruth-reads/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/attachments/20130530/bb3435d7/attachment-0001.htm
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is it possible to show in house use count in item status display?
Hi there, My colleagues and I would like to know if it is possible to configure the item status display to include the in house use stats. We are currently on 2.2.1, soon to be moving to 2.4. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] grace period and reserve materials
Thanks! I found it and have changed the rule. Thanks for all your help! Gordana On 11/14/2012 at 2:59 PM, in message cadaiw9kvdq-wl4za-u4cgqwxgqueebnxgtwedsa5rnxr+1y...@mail.gmail.com, Cynthia Williamson crwbookg...@gmail.com wrote: I hit send just as I saw Dan's message landing running every 5 minutes seems to be ok with our system. Robert can chime in if I'm wrong but I don't think we've had any troubles. Cynthia Mohawk College Library Hamilton ON On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:01:55PM -0500, Gordana Vitez wrote: Hi everyone, I have a question re: hourly loan materials, like reserves, that accrue fines at an hourly rate. How are other libraries dealing with the grace period for these hourly loans? Ideally, we'd like to see fines charged as soon as the item is overdue. I realize this seems like a really ogre-ly thing to want, but we need to get reserves back in a timely manner for the next person. Is there a setting I can play with to remove the grace period on reserve items only? I think you need to look at least two things: 1) Admin - Server Administration - Circulation Recurring Fine Rules edit the Grace Period column of the rule(s) that are applied to your reserve items. 2) Run the fine_generator script (via cron) on a much more frequent basis. I think the default recommended time frame is daily, but ours runs every 15 minutes. (We might need to look at optimizing the script if we want it to run every minute... haven't tried going that far!) -- What is socialism? Look no further than your public library! http://my.firedoglake.com/ohiogringo/2012/10/14/what-is-socialism-look-no-further-than-your-public-library/
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] authority validation
Hi Gislaine, As far as I know, this problem is considered a bug in 2.2 and someone would have to sponsor development in order to have it fixed. Quite frankly, I haven't looked into how much the development would cost to have this problem fixed. If I'm wrong, I would love to hear if someone has figured out how to deal with the problem. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca On 9/28/2012 at 11:09 AM, in message f8c346176383bf41ac37111becb039110de59...@f6stcemmba04.statcan.ca, gislaine.hame...@statcan.gc.ca wrote: Hello list, Is anyone else having trouble with the authority validation? We are testing on 2.2 and the red colour alert that indicates a heading is not yet authorized is not functioning. Gislaine Hamelin Integrated Library Systems Coordinator | Coordonnatrice de système intégré de la bibliothèque Information Resources Management | Gestion des ressources d'information | Statistics Canada Library | Bibliothèque de Statistique Canada R.H. Coats Building | Immeuble R.-H.-Coats / Floor | Étage 2 Q Statistics Canada | 100 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 100, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 gislaine.hame...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4576 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-0939 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] portable barcode scanners for inventory
Hi there, We are planning to do an inventory and are in the process of considering a few options. If at all possible, we would like to use the portable barcode scanners that the library already owns. Our problem is with the scanners themselves, Falcon PT40, and we are wondering if anyone might know how to configure the scanner to dump the barcodes in a text file. Right now, when we scan a barcode, it comes with extra characters and the barcodes are in one continuous line in the file. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Configuring applied penalties and messages
Hi Thomas, Is there a way of doing this from the staff client? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca On 6/6/2012 at 5:20 PM, in message 20120606172023.781033cqtxt3r...@mail.mvlc.org, Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org wrote: You need to do two things. 1 - Update the org_depth for the STAFF_* penalties (and possibly any INVALID_* ones) to be 0. Don't change them all, some should be ignoring it anyway but are placed based on the owner of group penalty thresholds. 2 - Update the existing standing penalties of those IDs to be owned by the consortia, as the org_depth only applies on *new* ones. This is easiest in the DB itself, and if you only changed the STAFF_ and maybe INVALID_ ones this should work: UPDATE actor.usr_standing_penalty SET org_unit = 1 WHERE standing_penalty IN (SELECT id FROM config.standing_penalty WHERE org_depth = 0); Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Turner, Jennifer M jennifer.tur...@mnsu.edu: How can staff-applied standing penalties and messages be configured to display at all org units in a consortium? Currently, when we apply an alert or note message from a branch library, it only displays to staff logged in at that library. Messages applied from the headquarters location (system-level) may be viewed at all org units. We've looked at the settings for Standing Penalty Types (Admin Local Admin Standing Penalties). Do we need to adjust the org_depth setting here? Currently this field is NULL for all penalty types. If it needs to be adjusted, what integer value should be entered. I've experimented with 0, 1, 2, and 3, but none of those seemed to change the system's behavior. Thanks for any assistance! Jenny Jennifer Turner | PALS, A Program of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities | 507-389-2000
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] receipt problems-removing workstation registration
Hi Aaron, The instructions re: removing workstation registration was exactly what needed. Thank you! Gordana On 5/24/2012 at 10:59 PM, in message ace2dfe6-c0ff-421f-8e50-857c745b4...@rosebud.pls-net.org, Aaron Zsembery azsemb...@pls-net.org wrote: It sounds like this may be something with the printer. I would check the paper size, zoom settings and header/footer from the printer selection page. If you want to remove all traces of Evergreen from her computer, I use the attached file (Remove Evergreen.bat.old) which if renamed as a batch file, will remove all traces of Evergreen. Specifically, you want to delete %AppData%\OpenILS\open_ils_staff_client\ folder (which on my Win7 box translates to C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Roaming\OpenILS\open_ils_staff_client) to erase the workstation registration. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 From: Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:06:12 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] receipt problems Hi there, We're having a problem with one of our staff members' receipts and I could really use some help. Whenever this staff member logs in to one particular circ computer, the receipts are terrible. They cut short, run long, don't appear like anyone else's, even though we use the exact same settings. I've tried uninstalling the client but it still recognizes her as registered to the workstation and setting defaults doesn't seem to work. Is there a way to disassociate a staff member with a workstation so that everything starts from scratch? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] receipt problems
Hi there, We're having a problem with one of our staff members' receipts and I could really use some help. Whenever this staff member logs in to one particular circ computer, the receipts are terrible. They cut short, run long, don't appear like anyone else's, even though we use the exact same settings. I've tried uninstalling the client but it still recognizes her as registered to the workstation and setting defaults doesn't seem to work. Is there a way to disassociate a staff member with a workstation so that everything starts from scratch? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Hard date format?
Hi Kathy, That's good news! Perhaps the spaces in the name issue is limited to 2.0.9. Thanks for the info! Gordana On 5/15/2012 at 3:03 PM, in message 005401cd32cd$72f0f190$58d2d4b0$@org, Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org wrote: Hi Gordana, I can confirm that you can use spaces in the hard due date names in 2.2. Kathy -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open- ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Gordana Vitez Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 9:51 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Hard date format? Hi Steve, I'm on version 2.0.7 and the hard due date I have created is called end of semester with spaces. Does this mean that later versions will not accept the spaces and that we should rename prior to upgrading? Thanks! Gordana On 5/13/2012 at 12:29 PM, in message W260032697132811336926546@webmail22, Steve Wills swills@beyond- print.com wrote: This post is intended to close the loop on this Hard Date issue in Version 2.0.9 of Evergreen for the benefit of future others searching the email list with this problem. This work-around is also posted in launchpad. When one goes to the System Administration screen and selects the menu option: Hard Due Dates, a page is presented that allows one to edit a list of Hard Due Dates that can be assigned to items as a Circulation parameter. There is a problem with the Javascript form however that can act as a show stopper for the uninitiated. After you click the New Hard Due Date button, a javascript form pops up. On this form, the Name of the Hard Date one is creating must not contain spaces. If it does contain spaces, the save button will not operate. When this error occurs, there is no error message either. In short, in 2.0, versions the name of a Hard Due Date must not contain spaces. Stev3 -Original Message- From: Nancy Grant [mailto:nbgr...@msad41.us] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 02:45 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hard date format? Found the hard date space in the circulation policies under local admin. But stop at May 27, 2012 did not work, nor did the several variations of date entries: 5/27/12, 05/27/2012, 5-27-12, etc, with or without the stop at... words. Suggestions for getting this global date entered for our students? Thanks
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Hard date format?
Hi Steve, I'm on version 2.0.7 and the hard due date I have created is called end of semester with spaces. Does this mean that later versions will not accept the spaces and that we should rename prior to upgrading? Thanks! Gordana On 5/13/2012 at 12:29 PM, in message W260032697132811336926546@webmail22, Steve Wills swi...@beyond-print.com wrote: This post is intended to close the loop on this Hard Date issue in Version 2.0.9 of Evergreen for the benefit of future others searching the email list with this problem. This work-around is also posted in launchpad. When one goes to the System Administration screen and selects the menu option: Hard Due Dates, a page is presented that allows one to edit a list of Hard Due Dates that can be assigned to items as a Circulation parameter. There is a problem with the Javascript form however that can act as a show stopper for the uninitiated. After you click the New Hard Due Date button, a javascript form pops up. On this form, the Name of the Hard Date one is creating must not contain spaces. If it does contain spaces, the save button will not operate. When this error occurs, there is no error message either. In short, in 2.0, versions the name of a Hard Due Date must not contain spaces. Stev3 -Original Message- From: Nancy Grant [mailto:nbgr...@msad41.us] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 02:45 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hard date format? Found the hard date space in the circulation policies under local admin. But stop at May 27, 2012 did not work, nor did the several variations of date entries: 5/27/12, 05/27/2012, 5-27-12, etc, with or without the stop at... words. Suggestions for getting this global date entered for our students? Thanks
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Global due date?
Hi there, We use the Hard Due Date feature and it works well for us. We're an academic library in a mixed consortium. Let me know if you'd like any more info. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca On 4/21/2012 at 5:01 PM, in message 20120421170155.16865e5lsc95i...@mail.mvlc.org, Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org wrote: I think what you want is the Hard Due Date feature, which can be set by the circ rules to apply to circs by patron type. Or pretty much anything else in the circ rules. It supports stop at date X and always use date X (but only when date X hasn't passed, then it ignores it and uses normal durations). Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Nancy Grant nbgr...@msad41.us: Schools often set a global due date for the end-of-the-school-year returns . REASONS: 1. Allows overdues reports and billing before students disappear for the summer. 2. If a separate one can be set for the graduating class, allows that class to be billed before they can march in the ceremony. 3. Allows librarian to see what went missing during the year and needs replacement on summer order. 4. Allows over-the-summer checkouts to start after the global date. 5. Would be nice to have one that you could set either for all patrons or for just students and not teachers. Is a global due date possible? Nancy B. Grant LMS, NBCT Penquis Valley Schools Milo, ME 04463
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding a page to the wiki
Drupal has a section called community and under that: Online and local groups Events and Meetups Chat (IRC) Planet Drupal Community Spotlight Commercial Support Forum Mailing Lists Maybe the Community would encapsulate what we are trying to do as well? Thanks! Gordana On 3/27/2012 at 5:16 PM, in message CAJcoVMj=53WVyt-SYjii-qBU7MyaYm-YXe=jqqan+phgio+...@mail.gmail.com, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: I love the idea to have user group info in the wiki! I'm a little concerned about moving from Communicate to Participate, because the latter seems closer in meaning to Contribute and thus muddies the navigation a bit to my mind. But I guess one could argue that to communicate is to contribute, so things are already muddy. Has anyone checked what other projects (that we admire for their community support clarity of their web site) do? Drupal.org Fedoraproject.org have some interesting similarities in their navigation wording choices... Dan On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com wrote: Yep, Ben. That's the idea. Some of the Web Team folks have also already +1'd the idea. Anyone object? Lori On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: Hi Gordana, Just to clarify, you and Lori are referring to the navigation menu options on the main Evergreen website? I think it's a great idea to modify those areas to include references to a User Group page including the one you've started up. Curious to hear feedback from others on this. -- Ben On 03/27/2012 04:25 PM, Gordana Vitez wrote: Hi there, The Evergreen libraries in Niagara have been hosting a number of user group meetings for Evergreen users in Southern Ontario. Of course, it's not limited to the geographic area...we'd love to see everyone from all over! Nevertheless, we'd like to add our info to the wiki and Lori Bowen Ayre suggested that we change the main menu from Communicate to Participate and add a User Group page off that dropdown. Does anyone mind that change? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca -- Benjamin Shum Open Source Software Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070, ext. 113
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] marking a patron barcode inactive
Hi there, I'm trying to mark a patron barcode as inactive but, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do it! Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm sure it's obvious but I'm just not seeing it. Thanks! Gordana
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] marking a patron barcode inactive
Hi there, I really should remember to include the version of Evergreen we're on: 2.0.7. So, if I understand correctly, I need to go into the database to delete the barcode I would like to mark as inactive? I think this would be a support request for me :-) Thanks for your help! Gordana Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org 2/8/2012 9:58 AM The default way of doing so before 2.2/Master is to replace the barcode. I don't know of any interface that allows you to set as inactive otherwise, so the only other option is to do so directly in the database. 2.2/Master has permissions that can be granted for altering the Active and Primary cards on a patron's account via the patron editor. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca: Hi there, I'm trying to mark a patron barcode as inactive but, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do it! Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm sure it's obvious but I'm just not seeing it. Thanks! Gordana
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] evergreen and summon
Hi everyone, Just wanted to let you all know that we are now running Summon and Evergreen very successfully together! With the community's very helpful suggestions, we were able to resolve our problems with deleted Evergreen items still showing up in Summon. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] marking a patron barcode inactive
Hi Sharon, Thanks for pointing that out. I found it but what happens is it makes the patron inactive. What we would like to do is mark only one barcode inactive...one was added to the record that is incorrect. It's actually a different patron's barcode. So when we use it, we bring up the wrong patron. Thanks though! Gordana Sharon Campbell scampb...@fayettecountyga.gov 2/8/2012 10:32 AM Under the question Internet Access Level is Active with a box and there should be a check mark in the box. Click in the box and it should uncheck and the card will be inactive. Sharon Campbell Fayette County Public Library 1821 Heritage Park Way Fayetteville, GA. 30214 Library Main Number 770-461-8841 scampb...@fayettecountyga.gov My Direct Number 770-305-5332 From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Gordana Vitez Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 9:55 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] marking a patron barcode inactive Hi there, I'm trying to mark a patron barcode as inactive but, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do it! Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm sure it's obvious but I'm just not seeing it. Thanks! Gordana
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] marking a patron barcode inactive
Hi Angela, Thanks for replying. Right now, there are 2 barcodes associated with that record. To explain, we're an academic library and we get our records from the registrar's office. Because records need a barcode, we decided to go with the student # as the place holder until they come into the library and use their card for the first time. If I go into the patron record, the only # I can manipulate is the default student # and not the offending incorrect barcode. So I can't replace it. As much as I would like to... :-) Thanks! Gordana Angela Kilsdonk akilsd...@esilibrary.com 2/8/2012 10:43 AM Hi Gordana, You can mark a patron's barcode inactive in the staff client by replacing the barcode in the patron's account. When you edit a patron's record you can choose Replace Barcode and enter in the new barcode. After you save the changes, the old barcode will be inactive. Hope this helps! Angela On 2/8/2012 10:37 AM, Gordana Vitez wrote: Hi Sharon, Thanks for pointing that out. I found it but what happens is it makes the patron inactive. What we would like to do is mark only one barcode inactive...one was added to the record that is incorrect. It's actually a different patron's barcode. So when we use it, we bring up the wrong patron. Thanks though! Gordana Sharon Campbell scampb...@fayettecountyga.gov ( mailto:scampb...@fayettecountyga.gov ) 2/8/2012 10:32 AM Under the question Internet Access Level is Active with a box and there should be a check mark in the box. Click in the box and it should uncheck and the card will be inactive. Sharon Campbell Fayette County Public Library 1821 Heritage Park Way Fayetteville, GA. 30214 Library Main Number 770-461-8841 scampb...@fayettecountyga.gov My Direct Number 770-305-5332 From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Gordana Vitez Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 9:55 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] marking a patron barcode inactive Hi there, I'm trying to mark a patron barcode as inactive but, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do it! Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm sure it's obvious but I'm just not seeing it. Thanks! Gordana -- Angela Kilsdonk Education Specialist Equinox Software Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source Phone: 770-709-5592 | 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) x5592 Email: akilsdonk@esilibrary.comWeb: http://www.esilibrary.com
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** ***SPAM*** Re: bookings module - media bookings
Hi Tina,
I just tried to pick up a late reservation (2 days late) and couldn't. I think
you're right. Overnight or longer causes issues.
When I tried to pick up the reservation, I had no reservations to pick up under
my name. When I tried to check out the item, I couldn't and got the following
error:
FIXME: If you encounter this alert
FIXME:
{stacktrace:/openils/lib/perl5/OpenILS/Application/Circ/Circulate.pm:2002
/openils/lib/perl5/OpenILS/Application/Circ/Circulate.pm:1454
/openils/lib/perl5/OpenILS/Application
/Circ/Circulate.pm:303,ilsevent:7020,pid:422,desc:Item reserved for
booking request,textcode:COPY_RESERVED,servertime,Mon Jan 30 11:37:44
2012} COPY_RESERVED for booking request
I also followed Dan's instructions, including step 4.
Thanks!
Gordana
Tina Ji (Project Sitka) t...@sitka.bclibraries.ca 1/27/2012 12:26 PM
Hi Tara, Gordana Dan,
I wonder whether any of you ever wait overnight to check out (pick up)
a late reservation.
I have no problem checking out the late reservation on the same day
when it becomes late, but not possible the next morning.
I tried it with both catalogued and non-catalogued resources with the
same result.
I did step #4. It changes the item's status to Reshelving. It is not
possible to check in non-catalogued resources.
Since everyone says it works, am I the only one having bad luck? Or
overnight does cause some issue?
Thanks
Tina
Quoting Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca:
Hi everyone,
I think the key...I might be wrong though...is step #4 Dan's checkin
after capturing the resource. That seems to be key to eliminating
the late checkin issue. I will let folks at Niagara know.
Thanks, Dan!!
Gordana
Tara Robertson information.detect...@gmail.com 1/25/2012 6:23 PM
Hi Dan,
I did the same test that you did on Sitka's production server
(version 2.0.2) and got the same result as you did.
It worked. Yay! Gordana--did you find the same thing?
Hrm. I wonder if our staff are doing this correctly...
Thanks,
Tara
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Gordana Vitez
gvi...@niagaracollege.ca wrote:
Hi Dan,
Thanks for walking through the whole process. I'll go through it on
our end with some real reservations and see if we're still having
the late checkout issue or not.
That being said, I think there are things we need to do to the
booking module in order to make it a really good tool. Some of the
things Tara mentioned (being able to see who has a booked item
checked out in their name, being able to see a listing of future
bookings for an item...just to name a couple) would make it great.
Do you hear complaints like that at Laurentian?
Thanks!
Gordana
Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net 1/25/2012 10:51 AM
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Gordana Vitez
gvi...@niagaracollege.ca wrote:
Hi Dan,
I probably should have clarified my language as well. We capture
reservations; however, we still have the same issues with late pickups and
have to taken to capturing and checking out at the time the pickup is
expected.
So... I just ran through the following workflow on our Evergreen 2.1
production system:
1. Made an existing item bookable (through Item Status - Make item bookable)
2. Used Booking - Create reservation to create a reservation for
that item 20 minutes in the future
3. Used Booking - Capture resources to capture the item
4. Used Circulation - Check in items to check in the item (this
wasn't necessary according to the docs, but I wasn't looking at the
docs at the time, so any transit to reservations message triggers a
Pavlovian must check in response...)
5. Waited 35 minutes, so 15 minutes past the time the item was
supposed to be picked up, then used Booking - Pick up reservations
to show the list of reservations for the target patron. The item in
question was displayed.
6. Selected the item and clicked Pick up. The item was checked out
to the target patron.
7. Used Circulation - Check in items to return the item.
There are all kinds of qualifiers here; this was the first reservation
for the item, and the first reservation for that patron, and there was
only one concurrent reservation for that patron, and the extra Check
in after Capture might have thrown things off... but I hit no
roadblocks in terms of checking out a late item.
Tina Ji
Trainer/Help Desk Specialist
BC SITKA Evergreen Implementation
Tel: 604-542-0325
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] bookings module - media bookings
Hi Dan, I probably should have clarified my language as well. We capture reservations; however, we still have the same issues with late pickups and have to taken to capturing and checking out at the time the pickup is expected. Thanks! Gordana Tina Ji (Project Sitka) t...@sitka.bclibraries.ca 1/25/2012 12:07 AM Quoting Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:14:23PM -0800, Tara Robertson wrote: Thanks! That's how we did things with our manual system: the media booker would check stuff out and put it on a shelf at circ. I'd love to hear from anyone else who is using bookings and what your workarounds are. For the case of late checkouts, are you capturing the resources first? A few months ago, after working with one of our libraries to resolve the same problem - or so I thought - I wrote the following: bookings are supposed to be captured (under Bookings - Capture Resources) before they're checked out - idea being that the capture indicates that the item has been brought to the special reservations/bookings area from wherever it might normally live elsewhere in the library. Once the item is captured, it can be checked out early or late. I've just asked for confirmation that this does, in fact, resolve the problem. Those reservations in question do have capture_time and the items have On Reservation Shelf status. The issue is they do not show up on Reservation Pick Up screen. When I looked at those records (last Friday), some of them still had a couple of days reservation period. Thanks Tina Ji Trainer/Help Desk Specialist BC SITKA Evergreen Implementation Tel: 604-542-0325
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] bookings module - media bookings
Hi Dan, Thanks for walking through the whole process. I'll go through it on our end with some real reservations and see if we're still having the late checkout issue or not. That being said, I think there are things we need to do to the booking module in order to make it a really good tool. Some of the things Tara mentioned (being able to see who has a booked item checked out in their name, being able to see a listing of future bookings for an item...just to name a couple) would make it great. Do you hear complaints like that at Laurentian? Thanks! Gordana Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net 1/25/2012 10:51 AM On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca wrote: Hi Dan, I probably should have clarified my language as well. We capture reservations; however, we still have the same issues with late pickups and have to taken to capturing and checking out at the time the pickup is expected. So... I just ran through the following workflow on our Evergreen 2.1 production system: 1. Made an existing item bookable (through Item Status - Make item bookable) 2. Used Booking - Create reservation to create a reservation for that item 20 minutes in the future 3. Used Booking - Capture resources to capture the item 4. Used Circulation - Check in items to check in the item (this wasn't necessary according to the docs, but I wasn't looking at the docs at the time, so any transit to reservations message triggers a Pavlovian must check in response...) 5. Waited 35 minutes, so 15 minutes past the time the item was supposed to be picked up, then used Booking - Pick up reservations to show the list of reservations for the target patron. The item in question was displayed. 6. Selected the item and clicked Pick up. The item was checked out to the target patron. 7. Used Circulation - Check in items to return the item. There are all kinds of qualifiers here; this was the first reservation for the item, and the first reservation for that patron, and there was only one concurrent reservation for that patron, and the extra Check in after Capture might have thrown things off... but I hit no roadblocks in terms of checking out a late item.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] leader indicating a deleted marc
Hi everyone, Just to confirm, I believe the leader byte indicating a deleted marc is 6. Am I on the right track? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] leader indicating a deleted marc
Thank you very much for your quick responses! Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net 1/24/2012 9:43 AM On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:40:53AM -0500, Gordana Vitez wrote: Hi everyone, Just to confirm, I believe the leader byte indicating a deleted marc is 6. Am I on the right track? More or less; http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdleader.html lists it as '05' but we start counting at '00', so it is the 6th byte :) Dan
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] bookings module - media bookings
You're absolutely right. It is a real pain. To get around this, our media point people sign out the reserved items in advance to the instructor. So if it's a late pickup, it doesn't affect the booking. Again, not perfect, but it seems to be working for us. Gordana Tara Robertson information.detect...@gmail.com 1/24/2012 1:44 PM Thanks Gordana, Not being able to edit an existing booking seems to be the biggest pain point, and might be a deal breaker for us. How do you deal with this? Yesterday we had a faculty member who was picking up a booking late (they had 8 films, two of which were not ours, so staff had created a brief bib so they would be in our system). The staff person had to cancel all 8 bookings, create two new brief bibs and then recreate 8 bookings, capture the items, then check them out to the faculty member. Do you allow people to pick up bookings late? Thanks again, Tara
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] using Evergreen and Summon
Happy New Year! Niagara College has been using Evergreen and Summon quite successfully since September 2010. However, we've experienced a bit of a problem with deleted records. I've been in touch with Andrew Nagy of Serials Solutions and he provided the following info: The reason why your deleted records are getting indexed is that the MARC mapping that we have defined for your collection does not delinitate between a good record and a deleted record. We need some way of knowing whether a record is real or deleted. Do you know if evergreen can do this? Can anyone tell me if Evergreen can do this? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] using Evergreen and Summon
Hi George, Right now, we are sending our deletes in nightly updates. The problem is that the deletes aren't registering in Summon. For example, search in Summon on Social interest challenge to mankind, limit to items in the library catalogue: http://niagaracollege.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?s.cmd=addTextFilter%28SourceType\:\%28%22Library+Catalog%22\%29%29s.pn=1s.q=social+interest+challenge+to+mankind Title comes up and when you click on the link, it brings you to a bib record in Evergreen without holdings. If you try to do the same search, directly in Evergreen, there are zero hits. http://niagaracollege.niagaraevergreen.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/nc/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keywordtp=keywordt=social%20interest%20challenge%20mankindft=l=2d=1f=ol=2 So it leads me to believe one of 2 things, that our uploads aren't working properly or that something is being retained, somewhere. Any other thoughts? Thanks! Gordana Duimovich, George george.duimov...@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca 1/9/2012 12:20 PM Hello Gordana, There are 'hooks' to do this - so you can adjust your method of dumping MARC for Summons to *exclude* records where deleted = 'true' - this flag is set in the biblio.record_entry table. How is Summons consuming your MARC records? I assume that Summons is using the more common approach of indexing time based dumps (daily, weekly, etc.) from the database, correct? Or are they crawling the catalogue using unapi? If if they're just indexing regular dumps, then you can set up (or customize) your script to generate a file with record id's from the database that excludes those bib id's where deleted = 'true'. This this file in turn can can be passed to the marc_export script for generating the dump that Summons will index. You can also extend this approach to pass Summons records that have recently been deleted and / or modified if you want to avoid Summons having to re-index the entire database every night. So it looks as if you'll have to do a minor adjustment to your process for extracting MARC records to use those flags (plus any others you'd like to add) to ensure Summons is just indexing what you want it to index. Hope that helps. george George Duimovich NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Gordana Vitez Sent: January 9, 2012 11:53 To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] using Evergreen and Summon Happy New Year! Niagara College has been using Evergreen and Summon quite successfully since September 2010. However, we've experienced a bit of a problem with deleted records. I've been in touch with Andrew Nagy of Serials Solutions and he provided the following info: The reason why your deleted records are getting indexed is that the MARC mapping that we have defined for your collection does not delinitate between a good record and a deleted record. We need some way of knowing whether a record is real or deleted. Do you know if evergreen can do this? Can anyone tell me if Evergreen can do this? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] using Evergreen and Summon
Hi everyone, I just saw Jason's suggestion of the d for deleted in the leader. I will forward this on. Thanks so much for all your help! Always greatly appreciated. Gordana Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca 1/9/2012 1:28 PM Hi George, Right now, we are sending our deletes in nightly updates. The problem is that the deletes aren't registering in Summon. For example, search in Summon on Social interest challenge to mankind, limit to items in the library catalogue: http://niagaracollege.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?s.cmd=addTextFilter%28SourceType\:\%28%22Library+Catalog%22\%29%29s.pn=1s.q=social+interest+challenge+to+mankind Title comes up and when you click on the link, it brings you to a bib record in Evergreen without holdings. If you try to do the same search, directly in Evergreen, there are zero hits. http://niagaracollege.niagaraevergreen.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/nc/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keywordtp=keywordt=social%20interest%20challenge%20mankindft=l=2d=1f=ol=2 So it leads me to believe one of 2 things, that our uploads aren't working properly or that something is being retained, somewhere. Any other thoughts? Thanks! Gordana Duimovich, George george.duimov...@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca 1/9/2012 12:20 PM Hello Gordana, There are 'hooks' to do this - so you can adjust your method of dumping MARC for Summons to *exclude* records where deleted = 'true' - this flag is set in the biblio.record_entry table. How is Summons consuming your MARC records? I assume that Summons is using the more common approach of indexing time based dumps (daily, weekly, etc.) from the database, correct? Or are they crawling the catalogue using unapi? If if they're just indexing regular dumps, then you can set up (or customize) your script to generate a file with record id's from the database that excludes those bib id's where deleted = 'true'. This this file in turn can can be passed to the marc_export script for generating the dump that Summons will index. You can also extend this approach to pass Summons records that have recently been deleted and / or modified if you want to avoid Summons having to re-index the entire database every night. So it looks as if you'll have to do a minor adjustment to your process for extracting MARC records to use those flags (plus any others you'd like to add) to ensure Summons is just indexing what you want it to index. Hope that helps. george George Duimovich NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Gordana Vitez Sent: January 9, 2012 11:53 To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] using Evergreen and Summon Happy New Year! Niagara College has been using Evergreen and Summon quite successfully since September 2010. However, we've experienced a bit of a problem with deleted records. I've been in touch with Andrew Nagy of Serials Solutions and he provided the following info: The reason why your deleted records are getting indexed is that the MARC mapping that we have defined for your collection does not delinitate between a good record and a deleted record. We need some way of knowing whether a record is real or deleted. Do you know if evergreen can do this? Can anyone tell me if Evergreen can do this? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Discovery Products and Evergreen
Hi Lori, Niagara College is currently using Summon with Evergreen. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com 12/30/2011 4:20 PM Hi All, I was just looking at Marshall Breedings summary of what discovery products are currently in use with which ILS. I noticed that the only discovery product currently in use on top of Evergreen appears to be Aquabrowser. I'm pretty sure that's wrong. Does anyone know of any libraries that are using Evergreen with any of these others?? See below. Discovery ProductIntegrated Library Systems AquaBrowser Library:ALEPH 500 ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=ALEPH%20500amp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (42) Amicus - Italy ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Amicus%20-%20Italyamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (2) BIBDIA ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=BIBDIAamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (1) BICAT ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=BICATamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (17) Bibliotheca ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Bibliothecaamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (1) Bibliotheca2000 ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Bibliotheca2000amp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (1) Carl.X ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Carl.Xamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (2) Concerto ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Concertoamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (2) Destiny ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Destinyamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (1) Discovery Place ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Discovery%20Placeamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (3) Evergreen -- Equinox Software ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Evergreen%20--%20Equinox%20Softwareamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (1) Heritage ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Heritageamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (2) Horizon ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Horizonamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (92) Koha -- ByWater Solutions ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Koha%20--%20ByWater%20Solutionsamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (2) Koha -- Independent ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Koha%20--%20Independentamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (1) Library.Solution ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Library.Solutionamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (55) LibriVision ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=LibriVisionamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (1) Millennium ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Millenniumamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (73)Polaris ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Polarisamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (11) ResourceMate ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=ResourceMateamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (1) Sunrise ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Sunriseamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (1) Talis Alto ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Talis%20Altoamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (1) Unicorn ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Unicornamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (98) V-smart ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=V-smartamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (1) Virtua ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Virtuaamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (3) Voyager ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Voyageramp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (16) Vubis Smart ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID=20111230361694335amp;ILS=Vubis%20Smartamp;AltOPAC=AquaBrowser%20Libraryamp;HQ=on ) (18) Web-scale Management Services ( http://www.librarytechnology.org/libraries.pl?SID
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows 7 and Epson TM-T88V thermal receiptprinter woes
Hi Tara, We're using Windows 7 (32 bit) with TM-T88V and TM-T88IV receipt printers and we find that they work very well. We have 2 campus libraries and haven't had any problems printing. We're on Evergreen 2.0.7. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca Tara Robertson information.detect...@gmail.com 12/15/2011 6:29 PM Hi, I'm wondering if anyone is using Windows 7 with the Epson TM-T88V thermal receipt printers. We're using the Sitka's Evergreen staff client (2.0.5). I've been working with our IT department to try and figure out why the receipt printers don't work. We've downloaded the print drivers from the Epson website. We're able to print a test from Windows. Sometimes we're able to print a test from Printer Settings Editor in Evergreen. We aren't able to print actual receipts, like a hold_slip or checkout. Our IT department is looking for someone else who has this working, so they can check what settings are being used. They think it's an Evergreen problem, but I think there's something weird with how they've imaged the computers. This is the Windows error that we get: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Program:C:\Windows\system32\spoolsv.exe Error R6002 -Floating Point Support Not Loaded Please let me know if this works for you. Also, please let me know if you're using the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows 7. Thanks! Tara Robertson Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] straw poll, call numbers in check-in screen
Hi Jason, I vote for having it restored. Thanks! Gordana Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.com 12/14/2011 11:38 AM In EG 2.1, we--well, I, this was before we started doing sign-offs--removed the call number column from the list in the Check In interface (in the name of fewer network calls and improved performance), and maybe should not have. I know of at least two libraries that miss it. How do others feel? Should it be restored outright, or made into a configurable option? Thanks! -- Jason Etheridge | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] hard due dates?
Thanks, Thomas! However, when I try to save the rule I've created, Evergreen just hangs. I'll keep trying though...and will make note of how to do this for next semester. :-) Thanks! Gordana Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org 11/28/2011 4:26 PM The circulation policies are referring to a hard due date rule. You will need to configure that first. Then it should appear in the dropdown when editing the circulation policies. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca: Hi there, I'm trying to set a hard due date for end of semester in the Circulation Policies. Unfortunately, any format I use for the date seems to be wrong. I could reference to a date in the documentation using this format 1970-1-31. But when I try it with 2011-12-16, it doesn't save. Can anyone tell me what the format should be for that date? Or what I might be doing wrong? We're using 2.0.7. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] hard due dates?
Hi there, I'm trying to set a hard due date for end of semester in the Circulation Policies. Unfortunately, any format I use for the date seems to be wrong. I could reference to a date in the documentation using this format 1970-1-31. But when I try it with 2011-12-16, it doesn't save. Can anyone tell me what the format should be for that date? Or what I might be doing wrong? We're using 2.0.7. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] cataloguing e-resources/e-books withoutabarcode
Hi James, Thanks so much for pointing this out. Greatly appreciated! Gordana James Fournie jfour...@sitka.bclibraries.ca 11/25/2011 2:07 PM Hi Gordana, This bug sounds like the bug that was fixed by the following patch. It looks like the patch was in 2.0.7 but it could have been missed during an upgrade or for whatever reason http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=commitdiff;h=8685c7934f8c5d078ece464ed4b25efec8b716a6 ~James Fournie BC Libraries Cooperative/Sitka On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca wrote: Hi Dan, Thank you for pointing this link to us! So, it's as easy as getting the marc (or creating it), adding the 856 with a $9NIAGARA and that item will appear in our OPAC without having to bother with an item. I went ahead and gave it a try and it worked! But then, I think I found a bug... :-( When I look at the same record in our staffpac, the $9 makes the link in the 856 field disappear. One could argue that it's just annoying, since staff can look at the marc, but it would be nice if the link did show up in the staffpac. We're on 2.0.7. Is there something else I might be doing wrong? Thanks! Gordana Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net 11/21/2011 4:43 PM On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 04:15:22PM -0500, Gordana Vitez wrote: Hi there, I've tried searching the mail archive but I don't think I'm using the right keywords to come up with the info I need. We're trying to add e-resources to our collection...things like gov docs that are only available online now...and right now, we're giving these items autogenerated or negative barcodes. Is there a way to make these items visible in the opac without having to give fake barcodes? Located URIs might be what you're thinking of: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/electronicresourcesvisible.html These let you scope the visibility of the e-resource to a particular library or set of libraries. Alternately, you can make the bib records transcendant if they should be visible to all libraries in your consortium: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.0/draft/html/electronicresourcesvisible.html (Curiously the 2.0 docs document the older method - transcendance - whereas the 1.6 docs document the newer method - located URIs)
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] cataloguing e-resources/e-books without abarcode
Hi Dan, Thank you for pointing this link to us! So, it's as easy as getting the marc (or creating it), adding the 856 with a $9NIAGARA and that item will appear in our OPAC without having to bother with an item. I went ahead and gave it a try and it worked! But then, I think I found a bug... :-( When I look at the same record in our staffpac, the $9 makes the link in the 856 field disappear. One could argue that it's just annoying, since staff can look at the marc, but it would be nice if the link did show up in the staffpac. We're on 2.0.7. Is there something else I might be doing wrong? Thanks! Gordana Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net 11/21/2011 4:43 PM On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 04:15:22PM -0500, Gordana Vitez wrote: Hi there, I've tried searching the mail archive but I don't think I'm using the right keywords to come up with the info I need. We're trying to add e-resources to our collection...things like gov docs that are only available online now...and right now, we're giving these items autogenerated or negative barcodes. Is there a way to make these items visible in the opac without having to give fake barcodes? Located URIs might be what you're thinking of: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/electronicresourcesvisible.html These let you scope the visibility of the e-resource to a particular library or set of libraries. Alternately, you can make the bib records transcendant if they should be visible to all libraries in your consortium: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.0/draft/html/electronicresourcesvisible.html (Curiously the 2.0 docs document the older method - transcendance - whereas the 1.6 docs document the newer method - located URIs)
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Covers and ISBNs
Hi Ian, I would be interested to know how you got this to work. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca Ian Bays ian.b...@ptfs-europe.com 10/7/2011 5:52 AM Hi Ben, Brian et al, We came across this when trying to show images from Amazon. We know from experience that Amazon mostly only responds to 10-digit ISBNs as the Amazon ID matched the 10-digit ISBN. Amazon's line has always been that they provide images keyed on their Amazon ID. When loading data there are 10-digit and 13-digit ISBNs often in no particular order. So we found the script in Evergreen that forms the URL for the image from Amazon and test if the ISBN is 13-digits, and if so convert it using Business::ISBN perl module to be a 10-digit ISBN. So no messing with the data in bib at all. Seems to work well. On our system the script to change is: /openils/lib/perl5/OpenILS/WWW/AddedContent/Amazon.pm We're happy to share - it's just a few lines. Maybe this should be on the DEV list? Also we noticed that if your ISBNs have hyphens in them then the ISBN only comes through as the digits up to the first hyphen (in our case usually 0). We do get lots of cataloguers who believe ISBNs should have hyphens. So we are weighing up removing hyphens in data conversion versus finding the code that writes the ISBN field and getting it to skip/ignore hyphens. Should make it look real pretty! All the best. Ian On 06/10/2011 18:56, Ben Shum wrote: Hi Brian, As far as I know, the first ISBN entry of a record will always be used to retrieve added content images. I'm not familiar with any workarounds other than editing the records to order the information in them accordingly, but maybe someone is working on this? Otherwise, I think that'd be a useful feature to have in the future. -- Ben On 10/6/2011 1:17 PM, Brian Greene wrote: In many cases covers won't display in our OPAC if the 13-digit ISBN is above the 10-digit ISBN in the bib record. If I switch the order of the ISBNs so that the 10-digit one is first then the cover displays. This is the case most of the time, although I have come across instances where the 13-digit ISBN displays the cover properly. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Is there a setting we can change to use a second ISBN if the first one doesn't retrieve a cover? We're running 2.1. Thanks, Brian Greene, Library Director Columbia Gorge Community College The Dalles, Oregon 97058 (541) 506-6080 | www.cgcc.cc.or.us ( http://www.cgcc.cc.or.us/ ) -- Benjamin Shum Open Source Software Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070, ext. 113 -- Ian Bays Director of Projects PTFS Europe mobile: +44 (0) 7774995297 phone: +44 (0) 800 756 6803 skype: ian.bays email: ian.b...@ptfs-europe.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Covers and ISBNs
Hi Brian, We came across the same problem back in the summer and I think the only thing to do is ask the materials provider to switch the order. I did get a good explanation from Galen and I'll include it here: For what it's worth, arranging the 020s so that the ISBN-13 comes first, followed by the ISBN-10, is actually supposed to be the standard behavior. For example, see: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/020-13%20plan.pdf http://www.ingrambook.com/isbn13/libraries/default.asp#4 Consequently, requesting that your materials providers provide 020 fields in the opposite order, while that all *that* non-standard, is nonetheless bucking the trend. Furthermore, for any records that you manually import, reversing the 020s just seems like a workflow step that is better avoided. I recommend an alternative approach, namely consider using the OpenLibrary added content provider rather than the Amazon one, as it appears that it readily recognizes both the 10- and 13- digit forms of the ISBN. It wasn't an option for us to use OpenLibrary for content as they do not offer DVD covers...and they are very important to the public libraries in our consortium. It is still my understanding that covers can only be retrieved from one provider. So we're in a situation where we have to go with the reversed order. I would be very interested to hear if there have been any further development regarding this issue. Thanks! Gordana Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org 10/6/2011 1:56 PM Hi Brian, As far as I know, the first ISBN entry of a record will always be used to retrieve added content images. I'm not familiar with any workarounds other than editing the records to order the information in them accordingly, but maybe someone is working on this? Otherwise, I think that'd be a useful feature to have in the future. -- Ben On 10/6/2011 1:17 PM, Brian Greene wrote: In many cases covers won't display in our OPAC if the 13-digit ISBN is above the 10-digit ISBN in the bib record. If I switch the order of the ISBNs so that the 10-digit one is first then the cover displays. This is the case most of the time, although I have come across instances where the 13-digit ISBN displays the cover properly. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Is there a setting we can change to use a second ISBN if the first one doesn't retrieve a cover? We're running 2.1. Thanks, Brian Greene, Library Director Columbia Gorge Community College The Dalles, Oregon 97058 (541) 506-6080 | www.cgcc.cc.or.us ( http://www.cgcc.cc.or.us/ ) -- Benjamin Shum Open Source Software Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070, ext. 113
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron checkout history
Hi Aaron, Thank you very much for your response. And you are right! Mark Bucholtz of Sitka reminded me of the amazing report videos he created and one explains, in glorious detail, exactly what I need. Except I'm running into an Excel error...boo! But I'm definitely on the right track...yay! Also, thanks to Bill and Grace for the info re: future enhancement with template tookit. And you're right Grace, it would be good to know at what point the patron history beginsfrom the time of opting in or even before that. Thanks for everyone's help. Gordana Aaron Zsembery azsemb...@pls-net.org 9/23/2011 2:10 PM Where do you need to access this information? It is not really accessible dynamically through the staff client, but is readily available through SQL or the reporting interface. Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 From: Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 1:29:24 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron checkout history Hello everyone! I am trying to figure out how to get a patron's checkout history. I did a search and found a thread from May 31, 2011 on the general listserv giving some info on what I need. In an email from Lisa Hill, there was a link to an attachment called checkouthistory.pdf. Unfortunately, that link no longer works. I also tried searching specifically for the pdf itself, but no luck. Would anyone know what I'm referring to and be willing to share? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and LDAP
Hi Dan, This is wonderful! I, for one, would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! Gordana Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu 7/26/2011 6:34 PM Hello Gordana, We are currently using LDAP to authenticate. I may be mistaken, but I believe the code attached to the following message is still our current version, with the one exception of an |= which is supposed to be an ||=. http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2009-October/005293.html There are a few different methods for using LDAP to authenticate, but in general it is not especially difficult. This code uses one common method, but could be altered fairly easily to support others if the need exists. The larger issue, as I see it, is working out the scaffolding (as Mike called it in the previous thread). Since this has been lurking on my todo list for more than a year, I guess no time like the present. I'll try to organize my thoughts within the next few days and post to the dev list, then return to this thread when something more concrete comes of it. Thanks, Dan -- * Daniel Wells, Library Programmer Analyst d...@calvin.edu Hekman Library at Calvin College 616.526.7133 On 7/26/2011 at 3:39 PM, Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca wrote: Hi there, Lori, thanks for the search suggestion. I should have mentioned in my email that I did do the search but didn't find mention of anyone actually using it. Jason, thanks for letting me know it's a no right now. Is this something other libraries might benefit from? Would this be more trouble than it's worth to develop? or would there be interest in the community to pursue LDAP for Evergreen? Thanks! Gordana Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.com 7/26/2011 2:46 PM If you go to the main Evergreen site (http://evergreen-ils.org) and use the Search Box in the right hand corner, you can search for LDAP and get a few hits from 2009. But to summarize here (since this thread is now also going to show up in such searches:) No, no LDAP support for Evergreen currently. However, there are folks that import/overlay patron data on a regular basis, including their foreign system passwords. It's also possible for other systems to authenticate against Evergreen (using SIP, ezproxy, etc.)
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and LDAP
Hi there, Does anyone use LDAP to authenticate Evergreen users? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and LDAP
Hi there, Lori, thanks for the search suggestion. I should have mentioned in my email that I did do the search but didn't find mention of anyone actually using it. Jason, thanks for letting me know it's a no right now. Is this something other libraries might benefit from? Would this be more trouble than it's worth to develop? or would there be interest in the community to pursue LDAP for Evergreen? Thanks! Gordana Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.com 7/26/2011 2:46 PM If you go to the main Evergreen site (http://evergreen-ils.org) and use the Search Box in the right hand corner, you can search for LDAP and get a few hits from 2009. But to summarize here (since this thread is now also going to show up in such searches:) No, no LDAP support for Evergreen currently. However, there are folks that import/overlay patron data on a regular basis, including their foreign system passwords. It's also possible for other systems to authenticate against Evergreen (using SIP, ezproxy, etc.) -- Jason Etheridge | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] apostrophe in title search causing problems(Bug #744513)
Hi Ben, Thanks for you suggestion. Just after the upgrade to 2.0.7, all of our computers were upgrade to Windows 7 so everything was wiped clean. Nevertheless, I did try clearing the cache for staff client and web browsers and still came up with the problem. I'll follow the bug ticket as well. Thanks! Gordana Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org 7/19/2011 12:57 PM Hi Gordana, We're using 2.0.6, but we've applied by hand several patches from 2.0.7 and the upcoming 2.0.8. Trying a search on our system for a title with an apostrophe such as boys don't cry worked just fine without any change to the search terms. I tested this in our staff client and OPAC and both were fine. What I did notice however, is that if one were to hit the advanced search after completing the initial search, it would construct the next screen with my search terms without an apostrophe so: boys don t cry would show up instead. Running that search still retrieved some results on our system, but not as many. I'll do some more tests and add a note to the bug ticket if I can replicate the behavior consistently. In the meantime, I would verify that you have cleared the cache on your web browsers and staff client (admin -- for developers -- clear cache) to make sure that there aren't strange remnants in the code from before your upgrade. Then try again. -- Ben On 07/19/2011 12:16 PM, Gordana Vitez wrote: Hi everyone, We recently upgraded to 2.0.7 and noticed that a search using an apostrophe in the staff client or the advanced search screen returns no results. For example: searching cops don't cry in Niagara College's catalogue returns the following results: http://niagaracollege.niagaraevergreen.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/nc/xml/rresult.xml?if=it=bl=lf=a=la=cl=d=1l=2s=relsd=ascadt=mltp=t=keyword%3A%20cops%20don%20t%20cryav=rt=multiol=2 You'll notice that there is a space where the apostrophe should be. I did find the following Bug #744513 that shows a fix was committed for 2.0.6. Is it possible that the fix wasn't committed to 2.0.7 or wasn't included in upgrade instructions? Our upgrade was from 2.0.2 to 2.0.7. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca -- Benjamin Shum Open Source Software Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070, ext. 113
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] apostrophe in title search causing problems(Bug #744513)
Hi everyone,
Thanks to all for providing information and feedback. The patch has been
applied successfully for the libraries of the Niagara Evergreen Consortium.
Don't you just love it when things work so well, so quickly?!?
Thanks again!
Gordana
Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net 7/19/2011 1:27 PM
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu wrote:
Hello Gordana,
This was a skin level fix, so since you are using a custom skin ('nc'), it
must be applied manually to your skin after upgrading. Since the fix is
simply deleting a single line, it should be pretty simple to take care of.
See here to view the actual change needed:
http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blobdiff;f=Open-ILS/web/opac/skin/default/js/adv_global.js;h=897b1ea057cac0fc7b1c022c34e654ce2efe9dcf;hp=a6311b7ccdb76a85232a8f006eea08ff6971b21a;hb=04a9a2aaf7d17ce84a78ddf132fdb20486aa4218;hpb=f466fd7c66570af8f80e8ee085ff9c945aee8ffd
Note, though, that there may be other skin fixes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.7, so
you may want to be more systematic about looking at all the 'default' skin
changes from 2.0.2 to 2.0.7 and applying them to your custom skin.
Yep, and the Niagara skin currently includes in line 310 of adv_global.js:
string = string.replace(/'/g,' ');
... which is what is introducing the space-instead-of-an-apostrophe
problem in the advanced search.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Regarding the Windows 2.0.7 client
Hi there, We upgraded yesterday and all of our client installs defaulted to English but with the other choices available. I tried just now and still got english. Thanks! Gordana Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org 7/15/2011 3:56 PM Hi Victoria, For me, the 2.0.7 installer prompts with a choice of language - English (by default), Czech, and French. Perhaps for some reason your computer is forcing to French by default. If others can confirm this though, perhaps my Windows machine is weirdly loyal to English and isn't showing me the problem... -- Ben On 07/15/2011 03:40 PM, Victoria Bush wrote: Did anyone realize that the latest client available for download has the installer running in French? It's not a huge deal, but it was a surprise when I ran it. :D -- Victoria Bush Opscan Evaluation Manager Center for Teaching, Learning Technology vb...@ilstu.edu -- Benjamin Shum Open Source Software Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070, ext. 113
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] inventory question
Hi everyone, We're planning inventory for our libraries and I was thinking of using laptops with metrologic scanners to check in items as we go along the shelves. I know this is probably a tough question to answer, but do you think using a wireless connection would be unwise for this task? Would it make more sense to use off-line circ? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning Commons Niagara College 300 Woodlawn Rd Welland Ontario L3C 7L3 Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404 Fax: (905) 736 6021 gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] authority records management question
Hi Dan and Robert, Niagara Evergreen Consortium is also experiencing problems with our authorities. It's not a performance issue for us. We're just not working at all. Records have been re-ingested post-2.0.2 upgrade and authorities were working for a little while...until last Thursday. I've posted particulars to launchpad...should I post them anywhere else? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator 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 Soulliere, Robert robert.soulli...@mohawkcollege.ca 16/05/2011 10:10 am Thanks, Dan, I created a bug report as you suggested. I was reluctant to do so since I was starting with the assumption that it was a local data issue and not a bug. I was hoping to get a few authority data munging tips I could try before reporting it as a bug. In regards to finding the French records or records with a catalogue language setting, this query (provided by Mark Bucholtz) worked for us: select * from authority.full_rec where tag = '040' and subfield = 'b' and value = 'fre'; I am not sure if this works for every catalogue since it requires the use of the 040 tag, but it might be another option for some. Regards, Robert Robert Soulliere, BA (Hons), MLIS Systems Librarian Mohawk College Library robert.soulli...@mohawkcollege.ca Telephone: 905 575 1212 x3936 Fax: 905 575 2011 From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott [d...@coffeecode.net] Sent: May 15, 2011 11:02 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] authority records management question On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:23:21PM -0400, Soulliere, Robert wrote: Hi all, On my test system managing authority records isn't quite working well yet and I wonder if I need to clean up our records using sql. Our systems has around 900,000 rows in the authority.record_entry table which seems extremely high. Thee contain French equivalent records which are not needed by our library. I wonder if there is a good way to munge those records out of the system and if there is a way to differentiate the French and English subject authority records? Is there some kind of indicator in the marc fiields? Rather than leaping to a solution for a problem that has no description beyond isn't quite working well yet, could you file a bug or bugs describing what symptoms you're experiencing? Info like the exact version of Evergreen you're running, and whether you have reingested the authority records after migrating to 2.0, would be helpful elements of these bug reports. (As an aside, 008/08 = 'f' indicates that the language of the catalogue is 'French', and field 700 ind2 = 'f' is an indication that the thesaurus is Répertoire de vedettes-matière (RVM)). This E-mail contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the individual or entity named in the message. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. If this communication was received in error, please notify the sender by reply E-mail immediately, and delete and destroy the original message.
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] documentation sites for Evergreen
Hi there, As follow up to our meeting yesterday, there was interest in having a list of documentation sites, listservs, etc. related to Evergreen. Here are some of the sites I use, as well as the listservs I'm on. Please add to the list if I've forgotten any...I'm sure there are lots of great ones I've yet to discover! Niagara College Evergreen blog: http://niagaraevergreen.wordpress.com/ Evergreen reports group: http://groups.google.com/group/open-ils-reports/topics Sitka training manual: http://docs.sitka.bclibraries.ca/Sitka/current/pdf/Sitka_Training_Manual.pdf Official Evergreen doc site: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/ Intro to SQL for Evergreen admins: http://coffeecode.net/uploads/files/introduction_to_sql.pdf Database schema: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/databaseschema.html Evergreen Launchpad for bug reports: https://launchpad.net/evergreen Evergreen dokuwiki: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start Pines documentation (but I don't think they've upgraded?): http://pines.georgialibraries.org/pines-evergreen-documentation Link to existing docs: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=existing-docs:existing-docs Most of these will link to other doc sites...like Michigan, Indiana, Innisfil, Pioneer, etc. Listservs: http://open-ils.org/listserv.php This link will explain the different listservs, how to subscribe, etc. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator 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
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: documentation sites for Evergreen
Sorry! Wrong group...was supposed to go to the users group we had yesterday. I have too many addresses starting with evergreen in my address book... Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca 12/05/2011 4:01 pm Hi there, As follow up to our meeting yesterday, there was interest in having a list of documentation sites, listservs, etc. related to Evergreen. Here are some of the sites I use, as well as the listservs I'm on. Please add to the list if I've forgotten any...I'm sure there are lots of great ones I've yet to discover! Niagara College Evergreen blog: http://niagaraevergreen.wordpress.com/ Evergreen reports group: http://groups.google.com/group/open-ils-reports/topics Sitka training manual: http://docs.sitka.bclibraries.ca/Sitka/current/pdf/Sitka_Training_Manual.pdf Official Evergreen doc site: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/ Intro to SQL for Evergreen admins: http://coffeecode.net/uploads/files/introduction_to_sql.pdf Database schema: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/databaseschema.html Evergreen Launchpad for bug reports: https://launchpad.net/evergreen Evergreen dokuwiki: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start Pines documentation (but I don't think they've upgraded?): http://pines.georgialibraries.org/pines-evergreen-documentation Link to existing docs: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=existing-docs:existing-docs Most of these will link to other doc sites...like Michigan, Indiana, Innisfil, Pioneer, etc. Listservs: http://open-ils.org/listserv.php This link will explain the different listservs, how to subscribe, etc. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator 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
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] implementing Summon with Evergreen
Hi everyone, Niagara College is working on implementing Summon. We will need to export our added and deleted records on a regular basis. One of the questions that has come up is how Evergreen treats deleted records. The questions are: When you run an export of updated records, are deleted records included in the file? Do they have a flag in the MARC record to signal that the record has been deleted? III Millennium is an example of an ILS that has this capability. or Does the ILS output deleted records to a file on the server? Ex Libris Voyager is an example of an ILS that has this capability. or Does the ILS provide a report of MARC records by ID number? SirsiDynix Symphony is an example of an ILS that has this capability. I really have no idea how to go about answering these questions. Could anyone help me with this? Btw, any Evergreen libraries implementing Summon? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator 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
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] client download for 2.0.2
I would vote for an older versions page as long as it links to the downloads page...so folks don't have to go searching for it? Thanks! Gordana Sharp, Chris csh...@georgialibraries.org 15/03/2011 12:09 pm 2) We have an older versions page that keeps all links to clients (and server releases for that matter) that still exist on the server.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Due time appearing on the Receipt template
Yep! That worked for us. We also found that we needed to remove the %due_time% from the receipts otherwise it was printing up on the receipts. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator 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 Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.com 10/03/2011 11:33 am What is the Macros to have the due time of an item appear on a receipt template? I would have thought that it would have been %due_time% but this doesn't appear to be working. It looks as if %due_time% no longer exists (I'd consider this a bug, or at least bad for backwards compatibility). However, %due_date% should be properly localized now, and show the time default. You can control the localization with the library setting GUI: Format Times with this pattern -- Jason Etheridge | VP, Tactical Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] electronic resources without items
Hi there, I have a question for the community regarding electronic resources. Our electronic resources are not showing up in our catalogue and I'm guessing that it's because we don't have any items attached. However, when we look at other Evergreen sites, we've noticed that others have their electronic resources showing without holdings. Would someone be willing to share how you're getting your bib records to show that don't have items attached? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator 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
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] common due date for all items
Hi there, We're an academic library on Evergreen and we would like one due date for our materials for over the Christmas holidays. We would like to be able to set a due date of Jan 10, 2011 going forward that would override all circ policies. Is this possible? And if so, could someone point me in the right direction? 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
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] common due date for all items
Thanks to Dan and Thomas for the info. Looking forward to seeing these options implemented in future releases! Gordana Thomas Berezansky tsb...@mvlc.org 08/12/2010 2:16 pm Last I looked at the hard due date functionality (and participated in writing some of it, for that matter) there were two modes, a limit and a force set. The limit would shorten the duration if it would pass that date, the force set would say regardless, use this date. In the event the date was in the past it would fallback to the normal duration rules. This is still, however, tied to circulation policies, though a simple SQL command could apply it to every circulation policy in the system. I do not know what (released) evergreen versions support this at this time. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net: Hi Gordana: On 8 December 2010 13:55, Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca wrote: Hi there, We're an academic library on Evergreen and we would like one due date for our materials for over the Christmas holidays. We would like to be able to set a due date of Jan 10, 2011 going forward that would override all circ policies. Is this possible? And if so, could someone point me in the right direction? I'm not sure if that particular scenario is part of the hard due date funded enhancement: http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2010/11/coding-has-been-completed.html - might be worth looking into. As a short-term measure, you could have a SQL UPDATE statement run every 10 minutes that sets all due dates for items with a check-out time greater than Dec. 7, 2010 (or whatever) to Jan. 10, 2011. Dan
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] report needed for tracking email overdues
Hi there, We're trying to create a report that lists the patrons who have received email overdue notices. Does anyone have any advice? We are on 1.6.1.2. Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator 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
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question
Thanks to all for the technical and non-technical explanations. We had thought all fields were searched but we've been getting some odd search results that aren't explained by any of the explanations. I have a feeling we'll need to track the oddities to find out if they are just odd or an actual pattern. Thanks again! 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 Hardy, Elaine eha...@georgialibraries.org 09/14/10 9:23 AM Gordana, A nontechnical explanation -- pretty much every field, even the 050. Which can mean some odd results since the search can return titles where the term retrieved is across two subfields -- the end of one and the beginning of another (rare, but it does happen, unfortunately I don't remember an example). A recent keyword search I did in the PINES catalog to find hitory returned records with the Japanese name Hitori. It can take a little digging to find out why a record was returned since the keyword search brings up things like hitori for hitory (matches exactly sometimes helps). Elaine J. Elaine Hardy PINES Bibliographic Projects Metadata Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Ste 150 Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 404.235-7128 404.235-7201, fax eha...@georgialibraries.org www.georgialibraries.org www.georgialibraries.org/pines From: Chris Sharp csh...@georgialibraries.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 7:32:39 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question Hi Gordana, This is a highly technical post, but explains what goes into Evergreen searching: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=documentation:technical:search_grammar You might want to read the blog post that Mike Rylander wrote about indexing as well: http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=410 Hope that's helpful! Chris Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 csh...@georgialibraries.org http://pines.georgialibraries.org/ - Original Message - From: Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:53:35 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question Hi everyone, We're having some problems trying to figure out exactly what is being searched when one does a keyword search. The results we're getting back aren't really making sense. Can anyone tell us which fields are searched? 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
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Niagara College now on Evergreen--media booking
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
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] release with media booking module?
Hello, Does anyone know when we can expect to see a release with the media booking module included? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator 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
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] release with media booking module?
Thanks! Now I know what to look out for. Gordana Rogan Hamby rha...@florencelibrary.org 06/29/10 3:22 PM Gordana, Booking is in 1.6.1 I think if I'm remember the version number correctly and if that's what you're referring to. That's the next planned release which is around the corner, perhaps even very soon. Someone who watches the development list more closely than I do probably knows more though. Rogan -Original Message- From: Gordana Vitez gvi...@niagaracollege.ca To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:47:22 -0400 Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] release with media booking module? Hello, Does anyone know when we can expect to see a release with the media booking module included? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator 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
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] student downloads in Evergreen
Hi everyone, Niagara College is getting ready for migration and I have a question for other academic Evergreen sites. How do you handle student downloads? The College uses PeopleSoft and we have been doing daily downloads of student information. Has anyone else figured out a way to do this with Evergreen? Thanks! Gordana Gordana Vitez Library Services Systems Coordinator 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
