Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Just to throw another perspective in hereI DO think the fact that Evergreen is still on version 2.x matters. I might not use the word stagnating, but it creates the impression of large ship slowly making its way when in fact, I know some of the changes have been huge. Giving the version

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
more packages if you want to build translations, but it isn't that much harder than downloading the tarball and extracting it and we have most of the extra steps well documented at this point. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

2013-01-04 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
For those of us not up-to-date in our Order Theory studies, would Galen care to explain what monotonically refers to in this discussion. Intrigued in Petaluma On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.netwrote: I'm not sure I agree that version numbers aren't important

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] JSPAC removal blockers, what and which are they?

2012-12-19 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Dan, I think your flu-influenced idea is great. I do believe that Launchpad is an impediment if you want more opinions and anything you can do to put the word out over the General Discussion list will get a much wider audience. Maybe a little JSPAC backgrounder email to explain to non-devs what

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] JSPAC removal blockers, what and which are they?

2012-12-19 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Mike - This is something I'll talk with the web team about. It might be nice to find an easy way for the devs to put something out to the community in an easily digestible form for feedback. We've talked about a feature percolator, enhancement tracker and other related things and this is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen in Action is now available

2012-12-18 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Just bought three and downloaded one. W00t! Congratulations everyone who worked on this. This is much needed and will be very much appreciated I'm sure! Lori On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org wrote: We* are happy to announce the publication of a new book

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Status of new book: Evergreen in Action

2012-12-12 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
This is very exciting! Can't wait to see it and buy one for all my friends! Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://doodle.com/loriayre lori.a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Evergreen and Koha comparison tool

2012-11-27 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
party tool(s) to use? Aleksey On Nov 20, 2012, at 16:37 , Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: Thanks Alexey! It hasn't officially been launched yet but I (and everyone who has worked on it) certainly appreciates your comments. Speaking of whichif anyone worked on it and doesn't see their credit

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Announcing new development in Evergreen

2012-11-19 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
: http://www.bic.org.uk/e4libraries/16/INTEROPERABILITY-STANDARDS/ I will provide more information about the LCF in a separate thread. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Communications Framework

2012-11-19 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
, we should submit our use cases to the LCF (which BIC has promised to actively manage). I'd love to see the Evergreen community lead the charge on this, on behalf of all library users whether they are on an Open Source ILS or not. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Library Communications Framework

2012-11-19 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
it for *new* developments. I believe it may provide a very good starting point for developing new functionality beyond what is currently accomplished through SIP2. Lori On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:13:01AM -0800, Lori Bowen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Library Communications Framework

2012-11-19 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:12:29PM -0800, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: I think instead of inviting BIC to use Evergreen, it would be more fruitful for we, US Libraries, build on the work they've done to look beyond those many protocols (from among the yet

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP2 Messages supported

2012-11-08 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
a detailed/itemized list of billings to the patron (not sure how that fits in with SIP2) Message pairs NOT currently supported: 15/16 Hold, 19/20 Items Status Update, 25/26 Patron Enable, 29/30 Renew, 65/66 Renew all =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP2 Messages supported

2012-11-08 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Thanks, Jason! On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Jason Stephenson jstephen...@mvlc.orgwrote: It is done by making a 63 request for patron information and setting the appropriate flag on the request: a Y in position of the summary field.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Demo Appliance

2012-10-19 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Excellent, David! I'm sure this will be very useful. I'm not personally knowledgeable enough about VirtualBox so can't give it a go. But maybe I'll check into it On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:53 PM, David Busby david.bu...@edoceo.com wrote: Greetings! I'm pretty excited to announce

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] CollectionHQ

2012-10-10 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
been meaning to ask the list if anyone on Evergreen is already subscribed, as I think there can be challenges to the necessary monthly data extraction. Let me know and thanks! Alene Sent from my iPhone On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com wrote: Recently learned about

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FW: [TECHTALK] evergreen macro codes

2012-09-26 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Adding a variable for library card expiration date so people could display that info on a receipt seems like a great idea. Would that be a hard thing to add? Lori On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Lynn Floyd lfl...@andersonlibrary.orgwrote: That is correct. The only Macros currently linked

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FW: [TECHTALK] evergreen macro codes

2012-09-26 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
/**tsbere/more_macroshttp://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/tsbere/more_macros Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com: Adding a variable for library card expiration date so people could display

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter, Sept/Oct - Need News Items

2012-09-14 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Yes, David, can you add the info to the http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community_servers page? Do you have wiki access? You can get an account set up via Chris Sharp. Chris Sharp csh...@georgialibraries.org, Lor =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter, Sept/Oct - Need News Items

2012-09-14 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
authentication information. Please feel free to go forth and update away! Thanks. On 09/14/2012 01:25 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: Yes, David, can you add the info to the http://evergreen-ils.org/**dokuwiki/doku.php?id=**community_servershttp://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: Demo servers and documentation

2012-09-14 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
David, This looks like a project with your name on it! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC questions

2012-09-14 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Thanks, Ben. I hadn't read your whole message and just saw the I'll give it a shot and was waiting for the shot but I see you did so. Much appreciated. Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] added item to agenda for Community Meeting

2012-09-06 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation stats

2012-09-05 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
James, Are you trying to see if Evergreen could keep TBR stats the way you want to (just in case we get TBR reimbursements again!)? Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting is 14 September 2012, 17:00 UTC+0

2012-08-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
great idea. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting is 14 September 2012, 17:00 UTC+0

2012-08-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Ayre wrote: great idea. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-**=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com mailto:lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting is 14 September 2012, 17:00 UTC+0

2012-08-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Just an FYI about IRC, there are plenty of people who don't participate in the community meetings because it is on IRC too. Not that I'm lobbying at this time to change the format (as I've already addressed) but I think IRC is a big leap for many people (despite how incredibly easy and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting is 14 September 2012, 17:00 UTC+0

2012-08-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting is 14 September 2012, 17:00 UTC+0

2012-08-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Thanks for the offer, David. Is there a limit to the number of people who can access IRC from a single web gateway? Lori On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:43 AM, David Busby david.bu...@edoceo.comwrote: Yea, forgot that freenode operates their own webchat! My experience has been that once folks get

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting is 14 September 2012, 17:00 UTC+0

2012-08-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Jason, I think people don't realize web gateway means...hey, look! here's a way to do IRC if you don't even know what IRC means! Adding some particulars about key IRC commands including the basics like how to log in, introducing yourself, how to vote, when to speak up, and how to log off would

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting is 14 September 2012, 17:00 UTC+0

2012-08-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Jason, Ja! On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.comwrote: Maybe, when we send out invites to the community meetings we should include info about the easy to use web interface that is available for anyone to use (even if you've never done IRC before) with

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting is 14 September 2012, 17:00 UTC+0

2012-08-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
LOL, love it! On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Justin Hopkins jus...@mobiusconsortium.org wrote: On Aug 30, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich alexey.la...@mnsu.edu wrote: When it comes to interpersonal communication, online chat is a blunt instrument inferior to using voice

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Announcement of development project to port org unit hiding in JSPAC to TPAC in Evergreen

2012-08-24 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Could someone translate what this means?? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Printing in Evergreen

2012-08-24 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Martin, The instructions are at the very bottom of this page: http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-general Lori On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Martin Mueller martinmuel...@northwestern.edu wrote: My apologies for asking this question: Where can I unsubscribe from

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC questions

2012-08-21 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
the system support 3rd party reading lists Can you customize empty search results screens? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] more questions about functionality (staff options)

2012-08-21 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
about Evergreen. Can staff update groups of records (patrons, bibs) based on users entered criteria. Is there a predefined report of patrons with suspended collections or payment plans =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error accessing demo catalog

2012-08-08 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
document (and find out a contact person for the ESI system while we're at it???) Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Demo Servers and Amazon Web Services images

2012-08-07 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
. Info about the demo services and virtual server images can be found here: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community_servers Just let me know your thoughts (especially if you've used any of these things!). Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Symphony extraction scripts

2012-08-07 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
fines/bills in that script. You can get those if you want by adding: # Get the Bills selbill 2 selbillflat.log | dumpflatbill flatbill.txt 2dumpflatbill.log =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Symphony extraction scripts

2012-08-07 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Tara, I'll check with SFC on that issue. Thanks for the suggestion. Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2.1 released

2012-08-07 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Woot! Great news, Lebbeous. And very nice to see some new names (and some women!!) on the committer list! Also, delighted that documentation is bundled with the code! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Life lessons

2012-08-07 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Great advice! Lori On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:50 PM, George Tuttle gtut...@prlib.org wrote: When Evergreen was developed in 2006, time was of the essence and staff in the various Georgia PINES libraries were not always clear on how features should work. I know because I was part of the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] conversion of overdue items to lost -- very basic

2012-07-31 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com wrote: Sheila, Did you ever get an answer to this question? If not, I recommend hopping on the IRC channel Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] conversion of overdue items to lost -- very basic

2012-07-26 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Sheila, Did you ever get an answer to this question? If not, I recommend hopping on the IRC channel Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Experience with Symphony data extraction

2012-07-20 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone out there has experience writing reports to extract data from Symphony. Let me know if you can help! Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Post to the list

2012-07-18 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] acquisitions module

2012-07-12 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Discuss it online! Other people want to know what's going on with acquisitions! Lori On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:26 PM, J. Sara Paulk jsarapaulk-w...@gmx.comwrote: Who is currently using the Evergreen acquisitions module and would you mind me contacting you off-line for a discussion?

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] requesting contact

2012-05-31 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
the Evergreen systems in Massachusetts. See http://masslnc.cwmars.org/. See http://spider.palibrary.org/pails/ for more on HSLC. Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Populating a demo with records

2012-05-25 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
system, this information would make a difference to me. Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Populating a demo with records

2012-05-24 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
use the demo data we have or your own data and it won't all get wiped out each week. Let me know if that would be of interest. The demos are set up on the Amazon cloud so it is fairly easy to create one for you. Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] another Demo Server available

2012-05-22 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Hi All, Michael Peters sent an announcement on the Dev list and he said I could share this info with the General List so here it is: Good morning, all. Just wanted to let everyone know that this server now has Evergreen ILS 2.2 (RC1) installed, along with a test data set. The information for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] unsubscribe

2012-05-22 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Here's the page for unsubscribing, Martin. http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-general Lori On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Martin Mueller martinmuel...@northwestern.edu wrote: I'd like to unsubscribe but look for directions on how to do it. Apologies to the

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Donation Button on Home Page

2012-05-21 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Developer Documentation Wishlist

2012-05-18 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Hi All, I wanted you to know that I've been trying to facilitate the development of additional resources and somewhat reorganized resources for the new developers in our community. As such, some of these new developers have contributed things that they say would be useful for them. These

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen API

2012-05-14 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing in open source

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen API

2012-05-11 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Notes from Today's Web Team Meeting

2012-05-10 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Hi All, The Web Team met today (via conference call). Attendees included: Amy Terlaga, Anoop, June Rayner, Galen, Jim Craner, Ben Shum, Kate Sheehan, Steve Wills and Lori Ayre. Since the topic had just come up on the General Mailing List (via an email from Suzanne Lipscomb of ESI letting people

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Changes to Primary Nav on Evergreen-ILS.org

2012-05-09 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
that? And then, as possible, could someone identify what it would take to rename Communicate to Community? Maybe some of us can help with the content moves that will be required. Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] State of the map of Evergreen libraries?

2012-05-09 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
I'm a +1 on Galen's idea to capture this info from Evergreen. I personally believe getting a wiki account in order to enter this info is too high a barrier. I'd like to see it made even easier. And I thnk Galen is on the right track with allow for the info to be submitted to the Map Owner (with

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [Evergreen-web-team] Changes to Primary Nav on Evergreen-ILS.org

2012-05-09 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
with these messages: http://markmail.org/message/mc3ymptwo7ivw4ia Since there's a scheduled web team meeting tomorrow, maybe we can discuss some of the necessary steps to move forward then? -- Ben On 05/09/2012 12:16 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: With the announcement of another Evergreen regional

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] May 2012 Evergreen Newsletter: Conference Edition

2012-05-08 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
, by Lori Ayre, The Galecia Group Lori Bowen Ayre led the community discussion. Topics discussed included finding ways to break out of the various “silos” the various Evergreen committees and groups find themselves working in. For example, developers tend to communicate on the IRC

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: campus card compatibility with Evergreen Library installation

2012-05-08 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
What a bizarre response by Bob Huber! And looking at the website they offer no information about the allcampuscard so there's no way for anyone to know how it interfaces with the ILS or any other program for that matter.bizarre. I just sent a note to Bob to see if he'd give us some info

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web Team Meeting

2012-05-08 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Just to be clear, we will have an Evergreen Web Team meeting this Thursday, May 10th at 2pm EST. THURSDAY, May 10th at 2pm EST. Call in number: 866 365 4406 / 3693433# =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web Team Meeting

2012-05-07 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web Team Meeting

2012-05-07 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Vladimirovich alexey.la...@mnsu.edu wrote: Hello, Lori. Just to clarify, is the meeting on Wednesday May 9th, or Thursday May 10th? Alexey Lazar PALS Information System Developer and Integrator 507-389-2907 http://www.mnpals.org/ On May 7, 2012, at 15:40 , Lori Bowen Ayre wrote

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Should we have a systems administrators list?

2012-05-04 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
I'd like to see the SysAdmin stuff live on the General List because that is the one list that we encourage everyone to participate in. On the page that describes our mailing lists ( http://evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php), the Dev list is listed a the Technical Discussion Mailing List but then it

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Should we have a systems administrators list?

2012-05-02 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
I'm neither a +1 nor a -1 on this topic. What I would like to say relative to this topic, however, is that I hope people will step out on a limb and put their questions and comments out there one way or another. At the conference, I heard from many people that they were reluctant about posting

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Return of the Evergreen Newsletter

2012-05-02 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
YES! Consider yourself an official member effective immediately. Membership card is in the mail. ;) We need to get a meeting on the calendar soon to build on the momentum from the conference. Can we have a meeting (conf call) of the Web Team on Thursday, May 10th at 2pm EST? Let me know who

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Return of the Evergreen Newsletter

2012-05-01 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Jason, If we could incorporate the Communication Guidelines that the Web Team came up with to the monthly welcome message, that would be very useful. Could it go out automatically? Lori On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.comwrote: I volunteered to pull the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Recording ofUpdatefrom Evergreen OversightBoardandUpdattte fromDevelopers

2012-04-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
+1 On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Steve Wills swi...@beyond-print.comwrote: +1 Thanks Dan. -Original Message- *From:* Dan Scott [mailto:d...@coffeecode.net] *Sent:* Monday, April 30, 2012 03:37 PM *To:* open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org *Subject:*

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hey Evergreen Family....

2012-04-27 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Awesome! Congrats Grandpappy! On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Steve Wills swi...@beyond-print.comwrote: Hey Evergreen Community. I just wanted to announce that my Grandson Elijah, (9lbs, 6oz) was born around 22:00 on 4/27. First baby of the conference, that I know of. Mom and baby are

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Open Source

2012-04-20 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
at the Evergreen Conference. Are you busy next week? Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding a page to the wiki

2012-03-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [Evergreen-web-team] adding a page to the wiki

2012-03-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
-boun...@list.evergreen-ils.org] *On Behalf Of *Lori Bowen Ayre *Sent:* Friday, March 30, 2012 12:20 PM *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group; Evergreen Community Web Team Email List *Subject:* Re: [Evergreen-web-team] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding a page to the wiki ** ** Here's what I propose

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [Evergreen-web-team] adding a page to the wiki

2012-03-30 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
changed, etc. Thanks, -- Ben On 03/30/2012 12:43 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: Hi Kathy, Yea, I was torn about the Chat language. Thanks for the feedback. I'm happy to go with your changes. So that would be: *Community* Chat Mailing Lists Official Blog Community Blogs Users

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Car Pool from Indianapolis to Detroit area

2012-03-29 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
to my little brother and Dad. Can you help? Anyone heading that way around that time? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Movies and Z39.5

2012-03-27 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Welcome Ohio! Lori I'm just the welcome wagon...can't help you with MARC records ;) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding a page to the wiki

2012-03-27 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
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

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] GSOC query

2012-03-23 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Building on your idea about doublechecking that the hold is still needed, why not make the pull list more dynamic. Could the Android client poll Evergreen intermittently to update the pull list and identify all those that have have pulled which are no longer needed and delete the ones from the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello there :)

2012-03-13 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
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Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon

2012-03-13 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Evergreen is a pretty serious ILS and is probably quite a bit more complicated than you need. Have you checked out Koha ( http://www.koha-community.org)? Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Looking for a way to plug-in?

2012-03-09 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Team) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Participation Guidelines for Evergreen Communication Channels

2012-03-09 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
This message brought to you by the Communications Committee to help you navigate the world of Evergreen more easily... Ask *questions of general interest* to the community or to a specific group on one of the Evergreen mailing listshttp://www.evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php . *If your question is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron search - limit results

2012-02-28 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Fiona, I'm not an expert in this area but I think you might need to provide info about you've set up your organizational hierarchies. Can you include info about that. I think it will help people help you. Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] search for something other than barcode in checkout screen

2012-02-20 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
only. I am not sure why you would want to, either. If you don't have the item in front of you, why are you checking it out? Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com: From the checkout screen, is there some way to search

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] search for something other than barcode in checkout screen

2012-02-19 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
From the checkout screen, is there some way to search for a item to check out by something other than the barcode (author, title, record number)? It doesn't appear to be so based on the 2.2 demo system. Lori

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] lost items that are then found

2012-02-18 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Actually, it looks like if I place a hold on something, check it out and then report it lost, and then check it in, the lost item fee stays on my accounttrue? Lori On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.comwrote: If a patron has lost an item and paid a fine

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] lost items that are then found

2012-02-18 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
returned set to true? Kathy Sent from my iPhone On Feb 18, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com wrote: Actually, it looks like if I place a hold on something, check it out and then report it lost, and then check it in, the lost item fee stays on my accounttrue

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] lost items that are then found

2012-02-17 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
If a patron has lost an item and paid a fine. What happens when they then return the lost item? Is there a slick way to figure out how much they should be refunded based on the fine assessed and the late fee that would apply? Lori

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] granularity of who views and who can request my items

2012-02-17 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Is it possible for libraries to control whether items they own are viewable by other libraries (and can they control WHICH libraries can view their items)? Can a library make their items viewable but not requestable for filling holds (and can they control WHICH libraries can view and which can

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Feature Listing

2012-02-14 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Admin tab and go crazy! Not a Sys Admin...how about the Serials tab! So many options. Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Technical Documentation

2012-02-07 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
on staff who does docs and QA type stuff; so he maybe another resource for this? -- David Busby Edoceo, Inc. http://edoceo.com/ 206.282.6500 On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre lori.a...@galecia.com wrote: Greetings All, I am looking for someone to develop some technical

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Technical Documentation

2012-02-03 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
developer wannabe) and get you to work a bit together. Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability:  http

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hello there :)

2012-02-01 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Jason ++ On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.comwrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Anoop Atre anoop.a...@mnsu.edu wrote: I wonder how often folks on the Koha list suggest Evergreen to people asking questions about Koha. Not that there is anything wrong

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] integration of electronic content

2012-01-24 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Thanks Dan. I'm not trying to be coy. Just trying to get a handle on the range of options. In my ideal world, of course I want this or having the search go against the full-text of the ebooks / ejournals / databases and show up in federated results... but it seems like most people just have a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] integration of electronic content

2012-01-24 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Every little bit helps! Thanks, Tara. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] integration of electronic content

2012-01-24 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
I think you can do it without Summon, that's what I've been trying to see. For example, Dan Scott's users can access material in NetLibrary, ProQuest, Science Online, Emerald, etc. As he said, they use Evergreen's OpenURL resolver. So, my take-away is that you can use native Evergreen tools to

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] integration of electronic content

2012-01-23 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
be evident without an account but I'd still like to know if someone has done a good job of it so I can talk to them). Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] accepting payments and crediting accounts when lost items is returned

2012-01-23 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
know if you can apply a credit to a patron account if they've been accessed a fine for a lost item and then it is returned? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] how attach to a different server in windows client

2012-01-23 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre lori.a...@galecia.comSpecializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID

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