[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deadline Extended: Site Need for 2021 Evergreen Conference
Dear Evergreen Community. Those of us who have attended the Evergreen International Conference have visited some wonderful places (in my case Raleigh, NC; Covington, KY; St. Charles, MO) and some of us have had the honor of hosting the conference. In 2019 we hosted it here in Pennsylvania, and next year it will be in Atlanta. We are looking for sites to host the 2021 Evergreen Conference. Why host an Evergreen Conference? Isn't it a lot of work? Well, yes, there is a commitment of time and energy, but there are also some great benefits: *Every state and town has something unique to offer. This is your chance to show it off! *Help the local economy. Conference attendees always enjoy dine-outs at local restaurants, shopping, and visiting tourist sites. An appreciative business community can help the local library when it comes time for advocacy. *If the conference is close to you, this means no need for flights and some people may even be able to commute. Given the state of travel budgets, this, for some people in our libraries, may be the only chance they will have to attend an Evergreen conference. *.and let's not forget: this helps out the Evergreen Community. There is no ILS vendor out there who can setup a conference for us. It is up to us, and giving back is appreciated and helps us move forward as a community. Qualifications and the applications are here. (Yes, if you hosted already, you can do it again.) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=conference:eg09:conference_nominations#<https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=conference:eg09:conference_nominations> Please email your proposals to eg-si...@list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:eg-si...@list.evergreen-ils.org> by 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, October 31, 2019. Address any questions to eg-si...@list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:eg-si...@list.evergreen-ils.org> and we will respond as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing from you! Scott Thomas Chief Executive Officer / Director Scranton Public Library 500 Vine Street Scranton, PA 18509-3298 570-348-3000 x3011 stho...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deadline: Hotel Reservations for 2019 Evergreen International Conference
Hi, If you plan to attend the 2019 Evergreen International Conference in Valley Forge, PA, but haven't yet reserved your hotel room, the reduced group rate expires on March 25th. You can make a reservation here: https://www.radisson.com/reservation/itineraryEntrance.do?hotelCode=PAVALLEY=MOBIUS You can register for the conference here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-evergreen-international-conference-registration-55041280953 We are looking forward to seeing all of you in Valley Forge. 2019 Evergreen International Conference Planning Committee Scott Thomas Chief Executive Officer / Director Scranton Public Library 500 Vine Street Scranton, PA 18509-3298 570-348-3000 x3011 stho...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Early Bird Registration Deadline Extended
Early Bird Registration for the 2019 Evergreen International Conference has been extended onw week to February 22nd. Take advantage of the discounted registration rate of $220 while you can! Here is the registration link:https://2019-evergreen-international-conference.eventbrite.com General conference information can be found here: https://evergreen-ils.org/conference/2019-evergreen-international-conference Have a great weekend. The 2019 Evergreen Conference Planning Committee
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Conference Registration Back Up and Schedule Available!
The registration site for the 2019 Evergreen International Conference is back up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-evergreen-international-conference-registration-55041280953 and (drum roll) here is, for the first time, the schedule: https://evergreen-ils.org/conference/2019-evergreen-international-conference/2019-programs-and-schedule/ Lots of good stuff! Have a great weekend. Scott Scott Thomas Chief Executive Officer / Director Scranton Public Library 500 Vine Street Scranton, PA 18509-3298 570-348-3000 x3011 stho...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2019 Evergreen Conference: Registration is Open!
Registration is now open for the Evergreen International Conference which will be held April 24th-April 27th at the Valley Forge Casino Resort. Pre-Conference (April 24th) sessions will be: Morning: Web Client Receipts, It's not Magic: Lynn Floyd Finding What Isn't There : Analyzing Evergreen for Collection Development : Rogan Hamby Afternoon: Show Me the Money!! Make Evergreen Billing Work for Your Library: Angela Kilsdonk Cronscript.pm, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Program the Evergreen Back End by Jason Stephenson During the Pre-Conference, there will also be a Developer Hackfest and a Documentation Hackfest. We are still finalizing the schedule for Thursday-Saturday, but we can tell you that the topics covered will be varied, relevant, and interesting. Here is the registration link:https://2019-evergreen-international-conference.eventbrite.com General conference information can be found here: https://evergreen-ils.org/conference/2019-evergreen-international-conference Stay tuned for more details. The 2019 Evergreen Conference Planning Committee
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[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Upgrade Client and Customization
Hi, We are about to upgrade from 2.6.3 to 2.9.1. We made a lot of customizations in terms of receipt templates, column lay-outs etc. As near as I can tell, these customizations are saved on the local PC in the Users folder under App Data which means they will be retained when the new client is installed. Is this assumption correct? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.org<mailto:sc...@albright.org>
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Custom See Also
Hi, We have been on Evergreen since March, and this is the first time this came up. How would one add a custom See Also reference? There does not seem to be a way to do this under Manage Authorities. We are in a consortium so I will likely not do it, but am curious nonetheless. This was possible in our old ILS. Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.org<mailto:sc...@albright.org>
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Price for Pre-Cats
Hi, For ILLs, we do not catalog them beforehand. Instead, the person at the circulation desk receives the Pre-Catalog prompt when they scan in a barcode that does not exist in the system and then they fill out the Pre-Catalog Fields. It is important, for these items, to populate the Price field in the item record with a default of $25.00 because this is what triggers a submission to our debt collection agency. Is there a way to have the Price field in the item record populate with a default value? I was hoping EG would allow us to associate a default price with a Circ Modifier, but I could not find this. Am I missing something? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.org<mailto:sc...@albright.org>
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Customizing Pre-Cat "routed to CATALOGING" Alert
Ideally, I'd like a different message for each Circ Modifier, but I'll settle for "This item needs to be routed to CATALOGING or ILL." Scott -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Berezansky Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 9:47 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Customizing Pre-Cat "routed to CATALOGING" Alert What are you aiming to change about it? Quoting Scott Thomas <sc...@albright.org>: > Hi, >Is it possible to customize the Alert that says "This item needs to > be routed to CATALOGING" that appears when checking in a Pre-Cat? > > Thank you, > Scott > > > Scott Thomas, MLS > Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton > Public Library Lackawanna County Library System > 2006 N. Main Ave. > Scranton, PA 18508 > Ph: 570-207-2379 > Fx: 570-348-3020 > Email: sc...@albright.org<mailto:sc...@albright.org> -- Thomas Berezansky Assistant Network Administrator Merrimack Valley Library Consortium 4 High ST, Suite 175 North Andover, MA 01845 Phone: 978-557-8161
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Customizing Pre-Cat "routed to CATALOGING" Alert
Hi, Is it possible to customize the Alert that says "This item needs to be routed to CATALOGING" that appears when checking in a Pre-Cat? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.org<mailto:sc...@albright.org>
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine & Pocket label printing - Circulation Sets
Hi Josh, When we migrated from Sirsidynix Symphony earlier in the year, one of our biggest challenges was label printing because we also print spine and pocket labels. The only solution we found was to use TSC TTP-247 thermal printers. When processing materials, we scan them into Item Status and dump Item Status to a .csv and import it into Bartender. We can print from there. We do not use the native Evergreen label printing utility. It was hard to set up, but, now that we have it all documented, it works well. Please let me know if you need additional information. Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.org<mailto:sc...@albright.org> From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Elisabeth Keppler Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 5:11 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine & Pocket label printing - Circulation Sets Forsyth County (NC) uses the Dymo LabelWriter 450 series. The printers are as little as $100 each from some vendors and the labels are available from many sources for pretty low prices. It is a thermal solution, but you don't have to worry about wasting labels on sheets that aren't full and there's no ink or toner to buy. Dymo makes a Twin version of the printer that lets you have two rolls working at once. It's more expensive (up to $200) and we use pocket labels very rarely, so I don't think we bought any of that model. We just switch out the rolls as needed. I can't promise this would be the perfect solution for spine and pocket sets, but the more options you have, the better. Good luck! Lise On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Josh Stompro <stomp...@exchange.larl.org<mailto:stomp...@exchange.larl.org>> wrote: Hello, we are currently using Demco 1491670 (1 1/4” x 1” Spine + 2 5/8” x 1 ¼” Pocket labels, 16 to a sheet) printed on a laser printer. I’ve seen the question asked a few times about what others are using to print the Spine+pocket labels but I haven’t seen any responses. I’m hot having luck finding thermal printer stock for spine+pocket labels, which may also be called circulation sets. We would be open to moving to thermal, but I haven’t found the stock we might need yet. And I really don’t want one of the thermal printers that costs 2-4K$ The https://www.branchdistrictlibrary.org/professional/labels/ site looked promising, but the PDF library it uses doesn’t seem to support columns of different sizes. The ezColumnStart function just takes the number of columns and the space between them. Maybe that isn’t a huge deal if I treat the spine + pocket as one label and just have two columns. Is there any hope for non dot matrix printing of Spine + Pocket sets? Thanks Josh Lake Agassiz Regional Library - Moorhead MN larl.org<http://larl.org> Josh Stompro | Office 218.233.3757 EXT-139<tel:218.233.3757%20EXT-139> LARL IT Director | Cell 218.790.2110 -- Lise Keppler, Technical Services Forsyth County Public Library 2851 Fairlawn Dr Winston Salem NC 27106 336-703-3048
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen on a Bookmobile
Hi, We run Evergreen live on our Bookmobile. Our county has fairly good cell coverage and the laptops get 3G or LTE at most stops. Despite this, the staff client runs poorly on the Bookmobile (slowness, error messages etc.). Equinox provided us with a technical explanation of why this is so which is reasonable. Are any other libraries out there running Evergreen on a Bookmobile using a cell connection? If so, are you experiencing latency? If yes, how do you work around it? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.org<mailto:sc...@albright.org>
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Record In-House Use (and Reports)
I was looking in the wrong place. I found it under All Available Sources. Thank you. Scott From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 11:36 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Record In-House Use (and Reports) Do you mean that under Core Sources you're not seeing the "In House Use" entry or that you can't list the items? On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Scott Thomas <sc...@albright.org<mailto:sc...@albright.org>> wrote: Hi, We are experimenting with Record In-House Use. I am trying to create a report template that will list items based on in-house use, but I do not see this as a selection under the Item source. What am I missing? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.org<mailto:sc...@albright.org> -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis<http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis>
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Record In-House Use (and Reports)
Hi, We are experimenting with Record In-House Use. I am trying to create a report template that will list items based on in-house use, but I do not see this as a selection under the Item source. What am I missing? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.org<mailto:sc...@albright.org>
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Expiration of Holds Shelf Holds
Hi Terran, Quick question: where under Admin can we disable or enable drop-down menu items? Thank you, Scott -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of McCanna, Terran Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 2:36 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Expiration of Holds Shelf Holds Some of our libraries had issues with people accidentally clicking the "Clear Holds Shelf" option on the Circulation drop-down menu, so we disabled that option. Now, when they want to clear the holds shelf, they take one of the two approaches that Kathy mentioned. Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org - Original Message - From: "Kathy Lussier" <kluss...@masslnc.org> To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 2:25:18 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Expiration of Holds Shelf Holds Hi Scott, The titles on the holds shelf will remain there until staff explicitly removes it from the hold shelf. There are two ways staff can do so: Retrieve the Browse Holds Shelf interface -> select the checkbox to View Clearable Holds -> Click the Clear these Holds button. You then need to scan each item in at checkin to send it along to its next destination. Retrieve the Browse Holds Shelf interface -> select the checkbox to View Clearable holds. Then, after staff pull the titles from the holds shelf, they can scan them in at checkin using the Clear Holds Shelf checkin modifier. Kathy On 09/01/2015 02:15 PM, Scott Thomas wrote: > > In our old ILS you could set an expiration period for holds on the > Holds Shelf, but it was just a flag on which to hang a report. The > holds themselves remained intact. In Evergreen holds still on the > Holds Shelf at the time of expiration are obliterated. This would not > be bad except, if a staff member fails to take action, the item > automatically reverts to a status of Available and begin appearing on > the Pull List of the Owning Library even though it may be still > sitting on the Holds Shelf of the expired Pickup Library. We were told > that this behavior cannot be changed and that the only work around is > to change the behavior of the staff and / or to set “Default holds > shelf expire interval” to something higher. Is all of this accurate? > > Thank you, > Scott > > Scott Thomas, MLS > > Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services > > Scranton Public Library > > Lackawanna County Library System > > 2006 N. Main Ave. > > Scranton, PA 18508 > > Ph: 570-207-2379 > > Fx: 570-348-3020 > > Email: sc...@albright.org <mailto:sc...@albright.org> > -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Expiration of Holds Shelf Holds
In our old ILS you could set an expiration period for holds on the Holds Shelf, but it was just a flag on which to hang a report. The holds themselves remained intact. In Evergreen holds still on the Holds Shelf at the time of expiration are obliterated. This would not be bad except, if a staff member fails to take action, the item automatically reverts to a status of Available and begin appearing on the Pull List of the Owning Library even though it may be still sitting on the Holds Shelf of the expired Pickup Library. We were told that this behavior cannot be changed and that the only work around is to change the behavior of the staff and / or to set "Default holds shelf expire interval" to something higher. Is all of this accurate? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.org<mailto:sc...@albright.org>
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Expiration of Holds Shelf Holds
The staff I talked to insisted that it happens "by itself," but now I am more certain that someone is messing with Clear Holds Shelf so it looks like this is a training and not a configuration issue (though disabling Clear Holds Shelf sounds like a nice option). Thank you, everyone. Scott -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Ben Shum Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 2:32 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Expiration of Holds Shelf Holds And a third way, from menu Circulation -> Clear Hold Shelf (which does the clear shelf action directly). In our consortium, we disable that menu option via customization to prevent staff from inadvertently using it when they don't intend to (since the menu option is close by the other ones you may want). -- Ben On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Kathy Lussier <kluss...@masslnc.org> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > The titles on the holds shelf will remain there until staff explicitly > removes it from the hold shelf. There are two ways staff can do so: > > Retrieve the Browse Holds Shelf interface -> select the checkbox to > View Clearable Holds -> Click the Clear these Holds button. You then > need to scan each item in at checkin to send it along to its next destination. > > Retrieve the Browse Holds Shelf interface -> select the checkbox to > View Clearable holds. Then, after staff pull the titles from the holds > shelf, they can scan them in at checkin using the Clear Holds Shelf > checkin modifier. > > Kathy > > > On 09/01/2015 02:15 PM, Scott Thomas wrote: > > In our old ILS you could set an expiration period for holds on the > Holds Shelf, but it was just a flag on which to hang a report. The > holds themselves remained intact. In Evergreen holds still on the > Holds Shelf at the time of expiration are obliterated. This would not > be bad except, if a staff member fails to take action, the item > automatically reverts to a status of Available and begin appearing on > the Pull List of the Owning Library even though it may be still > sitting on the Holds Shelf of the expired Pickup Library. We were told > that this behavior cannot be changed and that the only work around is > to change the behavior of the staff and / or to set “Default holds > shelf expire interval” to something higher. Is all of this accurate? > > Thank you, > Scott > > > > > > Scott Thomas, MLS > > Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services > > Scranton Public Library > > Lackawanna County Library System > > 2006 N. Main Ave. > > Scranton, PA 18508 > > Ph: 570-207-2379 > > Fx: 570-348-3020 > > Email: sc...@albright.org > > > > > > > -- > Kathy Lussier > Project Coordinator > Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative > (508) 343-0128 > kluss...@masslnc.org > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier -- Benjamin Shum Evergreen Systems Manager Bibliomation, Inc. 24 Wooster Ave. Waterbury, CT 06708 203-577-4070, ext. 113
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Third Party Credit Card Vendors
Hi Dawn, I am not sure if you mean for on-line bill payments via Evergreen or for other library functions. We use Paypal Payflow for on-line bill payments, and it works quite well. Once you set up your account on the Paypal side, all you have to do is put the host name and authentication information in Library Settings. The fees are reasonable, and the reporting on the Paypal end is good. Please let me know if you have additional questions about this. Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.org -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dale, Dawn Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 11:27 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Third Party Credit Card Vendors I am interested in knowing if anyone is using a third party credit card vendor such as Paypal, Stripe, or Authorize.net. And if so, what has your experience been. Thanks Dawn Dale GPLS Helpdesk Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7136 dd...@georgialibraries.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts
I hope this question isn’t too obvious, but I can’t seem to find it: how does one “turn on the deleted flag on the account?” Thank you, Scott From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 4:44 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts There are other issues that can come up with reporting and aged circulations but those are more workflow issues than technical ones. All of this being a very long way of saying there are pros and cons with every choice. :) On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.commailto:ja...@esilibrary.com wrote: Thank you for replying. One thing you mentioned has piqued my interest. It might be easier if I gave a scenario instead of trying to describe what I mean. Say, on January 2, 2016, I run a report on circulation for 2015 and then, a month later, delete many patrons some of whom had checked out materials in 2015. If I ran the same 2015 report again after the deletions, would the numbers be different because the patrons were purged? In other words, when a patron is deleted, do their countable circ transactions go with them? There is a trigger on the circulation table that will convert circulations being deleted into aged (essentially anonymous) circulations. Depending on how you write your report, you can get some statistics that way. -- Jason Etheridge | Community and Migration Manager | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.commailto:ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewishttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Non-Public Copy Notes
We have been doing some tests with Copy Notes. My assumption was that, if you did not mark the Public checkbox when creating a note, it would appear in catalog displays in the staff client, but not in the public catalog. Our tests revealed that non-public Copy Notes appear...well...nowhere except in Edit Item Attributes / Copy Notes. This, of course, renders them pretty much useless. Am I missing something? Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts
Our old ILS would not allow you to remove a patron until all outstanding bills, holds, and checkouts were cleared. We were thrilled that Evergreen would simply allow you to remove the patron. However, I have heard from various sources that, while EG will allow you to remove a patron with impunity, it is not good practice to remove a patron with outstanding transactions and bills. Can anyone clarify this? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts
Hi Rogan, Thank you for replying. One thing you mentioned has piqued my interest. It might be easier if I gave a scenario instead of trying to describe what I mean. Say, on January 2, 2016, I run a report on circulation for 2015 and then, a month later, delete many patrons some of whom had checked out materials in 2015. If I ran the same 2015 report again after the deletions, would the numbers be different because the patrons were purged? In other words, when a patron is deleted, do their countable circ transactions go with them? Scott From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 1:33 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts There are a few different kinds of deleting in Evergreen. One is to turn on the deleted flag on the account. That doesn't do much other than hide the account from the staff client pulling it up and is relatively harmless. The other kind of deleting is obliterating the account. This is the delete option that is on the other menu in the staff client and comes up with this warning: Completely OBLITERATE this patron account, including bills, payments, bookbags, etc? This is IRREVERSIBLE. And it has a checkbox. The good? It deletes it and it's gone forever. The bad? As the message warns, gone forever is also anything tied to it. My accountants would throw a fit at bills and payments and other records disappearing from the system and we're audited every other year. So, whether or not it's bad will depend on your circumstances, your accounting environment, etc... As a result it can also throw off counts of circulations, holds, etc... if you want to go back and run numbers on old data sets. If we want to truly remove a patron I run an anonymization script that strips out their address except for zip code, names, phone numbers, email, etc and leaves a generic patron in place but leaves all of their associated records. On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Scott Thomas sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org wrote: Our old ILS would not allow you to remove a patron until all outstanding bills, holds, and checkouts were cleared. We were thrilled that Evergreen would simply allow you to remove the patron. However, I have heard from various sources that, while EG will allow you to remove a patron with impunity, it is not good practice to remove a patron with outstanding transactions and bills. Can anyone clarify this? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379tel:570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020tel:570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewishttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inventory Item
Thank you, everyone, for your insights. We don't use In Record In-House Use very often. Would this work as an ersatz inventory tool? Scott -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Hardy, Elaine Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 1:27 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inventory Item If the item is checked in or out. The inventory date is set for any item scanned during an inventory process and would include items never checked out such as non-circulating collections and those items that are circulating but haven't checked out. It helps identify missing copies and other exceptions. You can fake an inventory date in Evergreen by checking in the items on the shelf all on one date, setting the active/last edit date and then allowing you to run reports for items not on the shelf and not checked out for that date. Elaine J. Elaine Hardy PINES Collaborative Projects 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 -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Jason Stephenson Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 1:21 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inventory Item The active date is set the first time a copy is scanned for check in or check out. It sounds to me like the date that you want. Quoting Hardy, Elaine eha...@georgialibraries.org: Not exactly. The date inventoried is the date an item is confirmed to be in the library's collection, either on the shelf or out on loan. It is system set during an automated inventory and is separate from active or other system dates on an item Elaine J. Elaine Hardy PINES Collaborative Projects 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 -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Jason Stephenson Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 1:15 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inventory Item If I understand the question correctly, the active_date on a copy should serve this purpose. This meant to be the date that the copy became live in the system. Quoting Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org: We have been with EG for four months, and this is the first time this has come up: there does not appear to be an Inventory Item function (at least in 2.6.3). I am not finding a Date Inventoried field in the item record nor can I locate a way to inventory an item. Am I missing something obvious? If not, how do Evergreen libraries inventory their collections? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium 4 High ST, Suite 175 North Andover, MA 01845 Phone: 978-557-5891 Email: jstephen...@mvlc.org -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium 4 High ST, Suite 175 North Andover, MA 01845 Phone: 978-557-5891 Email: jstephen...@mvlc.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inventory Item
We have been with EG for four months, and this is the first time this has come up: there does not appear to be an Inventory Item function (at least in 2.6.3). I am not finding a Date Inventoried field in the item record nor can I locate a way to inventory an item. Am I missing something obvious? If not, how do Evergreen libraries inventory their collections? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Permission for Placing a Hold with an Override
We are at 2.6.3. Sometimes, when placing a hold in the staff client, we receive a Patron has reached the maximum number of holds message. Some of our logins can override this and others cannot. What permission controls the ability to override this message when placing a hold? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed
Hi Terran, I started to add the bug in Launchpad and this came up so it looks like we are not the first to run across it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/821640 It didn't come up the first time I searched Launchpad. Thank you, Scott -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of McCanna, Terran Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:34 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed Hi Scott, There is a %balance_owed% macro that works on the 'checkout' receipt, but it does not work on the 'items_out' receipt. It sounds like that would be a good bug to add to launchpad! Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org - Original Message - From: Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 3:56:12 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed Hi, We are at 2.6.3. Patrons often ask for a print-out of current bills that includes their overall balance. The Bills Current Receipt does have a %total_owed% macro, but, when we add it to the template, it gives the balance of the last bill listed on the receipt and not the balance of all bills on the receipt. I did check Launchpad and could not find this listed as a bug. What am I missing? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and Total Owed
Hi, We are at 2.6.3. Patrons often ask for a print-out of current bills that includes their overall balance. The Bills Current Receipt does have a %total_owed% macro, but, when we add it to the template, it gives the balance of the last bill listed on the receipt and not the balance of all bills on the receipt. I did check Launchpad and could not find this listed as a bug. What am I missing? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bills Current Receipt Template and %total_owed%
Hi, We are at 2.6.3. Patrons often ask for a print-out of current bills that includes their overall balance. The Bills Current Receipt does have a %total_owed% macro, but, when we add it to the template, it gives the balance of the last bill listed on the receipt and not the balance of all bills on the receipt. I did check Launchpad and could not find this listed as a bug. What am I missing? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Permissions Questions
Hi, We would like to stop a specific Permission Group from forcing holds to the top of the queue and from being able to edit items. Which permissions control these? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date
Hi Galen, Thank you again. It just so happens that my consortium is SPARK, the very one you used as your example below. They are cool with local variation so we will be able to implement this solution. Scott -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:00 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date Hi Scott, On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org wrote: Thank you for replying. We are in a consortium and other members may not want to hide the due date. My assumption is that OPAC templates can be customized for each individual library in a consortium. Is this assumption correct? I am new to EG and still trying to figure out how all of this fits together. Yes, it is possible. For example, compare https://ashland.sparkpa.org/eg/opac/home and https://york.sparkpa.org/eg/opac/home That said, various Evergreen consortia have different policies regarding the degree to which member libraries' OPACs are allowed to vary -- for example, some place a high value on providing a consistent experience for all patrons of a resource-sharing group -- so there can be a difference between what is technically possible and what fits within a consortium's policies. 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] TPAC and Due Date
Hi Galen, Thank you for replying. We are in a consortium and other members may not want to hide the due date. My assumption is that OPAC templates can be customized for each individual library in a consortium. Is this assumption correct? I am new to EG and still trying to figure out how all of this fits together. I really appreciate it. Scott -Original Message- From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:49 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date Hi, On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Scott Thomas sc...@albright.org wrote: Is there any way to prevent the Due Date from displaying in the TPAC? We turned it off in our old ILS because some patrons would get upset if a book they wanted was grossly overdue. If there is no way to prevent it from displaying, is there a way to make long overdue items not be OPAC Visible? Yes, that's a simple TPAC template customization. I'm assuming that you're referring to the due date column on the item list on the record details page; if so, one could override the opac/parts/record/copy_table.tt2 template and comment out or remove the following lines: th scope='col'[% l(Due Date) %]/th and td[% copy_info.due_date | html %]/td and td[% IF copy_info.due_date; date.format( ctx.parse_datetime(copy_info.due_date), DATE_FORMAT ); ELSE; '-'; END %]/td One could also use CSS to hide that column. 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
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and Due Date
Hi, Is there any way to prevent the Due Date from displaying in the TPAC? We turned it off in our old ILS because some patrons would get upset if a book they wanted was grossly overdue. If there is no way to prevent it from displaying, is there a way to make long overdue items not be OPAC Visible? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem Printing Spine Labels
I have a follow-up to this. I got it to print the labels onto our stock, but it is advancing three blank labels between each label it prints. Does anyone know if this is controlled by an Evergreen setting? Thank you again, Scott From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:37 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem Printing Spine Labels Hi Scott, In the Printing Settings Editor (Admin - Workstation Administration - Printing Settings Editor), click the Page Settings button. Click on the Margins Header/Footer tab. You'll want to set all of your headers and footer to blank. Kathy Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.orgmailto:kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier #evergreen IRC: kmlussier On 10/23/2014 11:28 AM, Scott Thomas wrote: Hi, We are at 2.6 and are new to Evergreen. When I try to print spine labels, the resulting print-out contains a header that says Spine Labels on the left and data:text/html on the right. The footer contains a 1 of 1 page indication and, on the right, the date and the time. In other words, it functions like a browser trying to print to 8 ½ x 11 paper. I have tried multiple printers / drivers with the same result. Is there anything in Evergreen I can do to suppress the header and footer? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem Printing Spine Labels
Hi Kathy, This fixed it. Thank you, Scott From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:37 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem Printing Spine Labels Hi Scott, In the Printing Settings Editor (Admin - Workstation Administration - Printing Settings Editor), click the Page Settings button. Click on the Margins Header/Footer tab. You'll want to set all of your headers and footer to blank. Kathy Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.orgmailto:kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier #evergreen IRC: kmlussier On 10/23/2014 11:28 AM, Scott Thomas wrote: Hi, We are at 2.6 and are new to Evergreen. When I try to print spine labels, the resulting print-out contains a header that says Spine Labels on the left and data:text/html on the right. The footer contains a 1 of 1 page indication and, on the right, the date and the time. In other words, it functions like a browser trying to print to 8 ½ x 11 paper. I have tried multiple printers / drivers with the same result. Is there anything in Evergreen I can do to suppress the header and footer? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas, MLS Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Copy Notes Searchable?
Hi, We are getting contradictory information on this: are Copy Notes searchable via a keyword search in the catalog? Our tests seem to indicate that they are... Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Copy Notes Searchable?
Hi Kathy, This was reported to me by one of our libraries who had a positive hit when doing a Keyword Search for Local Author. I did a little digging and there was Local Author in the 500...so my excitement was short-lived. Thank you for helping to verify this. Scott From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 9:28 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Copy Notes Searchable? Hi Scott, No, copy notes aren't searchable in the catalog. Words need to be in the MARC record to be searchable. If you want to send a link with an example where copy notes seem to be searchable, we could look at it to see why it is coming up in your results. I hope this helps! Kathy Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.orgmailto:kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier #evergreen IRC: kmlussier On 9/18/2014 9:10 AM, Scott Thomas wrote: Hi, We are getting contradictory information on this: are Copy Notes searchable via a keyword search in the catalog? Our tests seem to indicate that they are... Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Printers for Spine and Pocket Labels
Hi, We will be migrating to Evergreen in early 2015. I took a look at the label printing function in the Cataloging Module, and it looks like it prints on demand to continuous feed stock (as opposed to batch printing to sheets of laser labels which is what we do now). Can anyone recommend a printer for printing spine / pocket labels? Also, it would help if you could provide me with the brand and product number of your label stock. Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Auto-Renewal Functionality
I am wonder if this type of functionality has ever been discussed for Evergreen: an item would be renewed automatically at the end of a loan period assuming there are no holds on the item or anything other issues with the patron or the item. The renewal would generate a circulation statistic. Patrons would be able to keep an item longer without having to take any action. We understand that fine revenues would take a hit. Does anyone know if something like this being worked on? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas Board of Directors PaILS (570) 207-2379 [cid:image001.jpg@01CF1917.A283E9D0]http://www.palibrary.org/pails/ Pennsylvania's Statewide Library System inline: image001.jpg
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Auto-Renewal Functionality
Hi Galen, You ask two very good questions. An email or text notification would enhance the customer service experience so would be desirable. I was thinking a policy-driven auto-renewal, but there may be circumstances where you would want to be able to override it for specific loans so that would also be desirable. Thank you, Scott From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 3:37 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Auto-Renewal Functionality Hi, On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Scott Thomas sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org wrote: I am wonder if this type of functionality has ever been discussed for Evergreen: an item would be renewed automatically at the end of a loan period assuming there are no holds on the item or anything other issues with the patron or the item. The renewal would generate a circulation statistic. Patrons would be able to keep an item longer without having to take any action. We understand that fine revenues would take a hit. Does anyone know if something like this being worked on? A similar idea [1] was recently proposed on the Koha development mailing list for the use case of extending loans for faculty at an academic library. I'm not aware of any current efforts to do this for Evergreen, but this is a good way to get a conversation started. Here are a couple questions just to flesh out the idea: 1. Would you want patrons to receive some sort of notification that their loan was automatically renewed? 2. Would whether or not a loan can be auto-renewed be determined purely by policy (based on patron profile, library, circ modifier, and so forth, like most other circ settings in Evergreen), or would you also want the ability for circulation staff to turn auto-renewal on or off for individual loans? [1] http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Automatic_renewal_RFC Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.commailto: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
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SLIGHTLY OFF-TOPIC: Consortia Survey
I apologize for the slightly off-topic message. I know there are a lot of consortia that use Evergreen. If you are involved in a library consortium, please pass this on to the consortium leader. Thank you. Dear Consortium Leader, PaILS is a consortium of libraries in Pennsylvania that provides hosting and administration of a shared Evergreen ILS. We are currently engaged in a visioning process and have decided to survey other library consortium about governance, funding, and services. We would greatly appreciate a few moments of your time. Here is the link to the survey. Thank you. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TPNXGDK Scott Thomas Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services Scranton Public Library Lackawanna County Library System 2006 N. Main Ave. Scranton, PA 18508 Ph: 570-207-2379 Fx: 570-348-3020 Email: sc...@albright.orgmailto:sc...@albright.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ysc Check and IE Errors
Ikkrtrzeets Sent from my HTC smartphone on the Now Network from Spwqrint!snstgstwg$!wfadacdxqxdq - Reply message - From: Martha Driscoll drisc...@noblenet.org To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Self Check and IE Errors Date: Wed, May 22, 2013 2:27 pm We have noticed that the self check interface does not display the initial login screen when viewed in IE. It works fine with Firefox and Chrome. We tried IE 8, 9, and 10 with and without the pop-up blocker. We are using this URL: http://evergreen.noblenet.org/eg/circ/selfcheck/main I don't see a bug report on launchpad and wondered if anyone else has seen this. We have libraries that use a kiosk browser based on IE for their public workstations and would like to run the self check in this browser. -- Martha Driscoll Systems Manager North of Boston Library Exchange Danvers, Massachusetts www.noblenet.orghttp://www.noblenet.org
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RDA Tags
I feel like I am asking a lot of questions, but we are kind of new to this... RDA tags 264, 336, 337, and 338 appear in our MARC displays, but not in our OPAC displays. My assumption is that this is a configuration issue and not related to the fact that we are still at 2.1. Am I correct in this assumption or this yet another reason to look forward to our upgrade? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas Board of Directors PaILS (570) 207-2379 [cid:image001.jpg@01CE4CC2.270071B0]http://www.palibrary.org/pails/ Pennsylvania's Statewide Library System inline: image001.jpg
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Barcode Scanning Problems
We are at 2.1 and are experiencing some issues with barcode scanning. Sometimes characters are dropped usually at the beginning or end of a barcode. This has been reported at several of the libraries in our consortia. They all use different barcode scanners of various vintage. In my own testing, I could detect no pattern to the scan problem. I did verify that, during testing, the scanner works perfectly when scanning barcodes into another application like MS word which rules out a problem with the scanner. Is this a problem that is isolated to our installation? Is it a known issue with 2.1? Any insights would be appreciated. Thank you. Scott Thomas Board of Directors PaILS (570) 207-2379 [cid:image001.jpg@01CE47F5.4E7393C0]http://www.palibrary.org/pails/ Pennsylvania's Statewide Library System inline: image001.jpg
