[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Last day to request sandboxes for Bug Squashing Week!

2017-07-12 Thread Terran McCanna
Hi everyone, If you need a sandbox to test on, please put in your request(s) today! There are currently around 40 bugs that have pullrequest tags that aren't currently assigned to anyone if you are looking for something to test: http://bit.ly/2tMTIbw (And please remember to assign yourself to

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Members of consortia--how do you give input to your leadership?

2017-07-12 Thread Katie Greenleaf Martin
Hello Evergreen community! I'm the newly-elected Vice President of the Users Group of the SPARK consortium, which provides Evergreen to over 100 libraries in Pennsylvania. We are beginning to write our by-laws and we're wondering: Are there any other EG UGs out there? And if so, how do they

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Members of consortia--how do you give input to your leadership?

2017-07-12 Thread Diane Disbro
Good morning – Missouri Evergreen does have a user group. There are currently five executive board members. That number may be increased to seven or nine in the near future. We also have cataloging and circulation committees which meet monthly. Full membership meetings are held as

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Members of consortia--how do you give input to your leadership?

2017-07-12 Thread Tim Spindler
C/W MARS doesn't have a User Group but our entire consortium is on Evergreen. We do have functional committees and interest groups that look at and decide policy on specific functions including circulation, resource sharing (holds/ILL), and and cataloging. In addition to that, we have an OPAC

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Members of consortia--how do you give input to your leadership?

2017-07-12 Thread Terran McCanna
Hi Katie, PINES has an Executive Committee made up of 9 regional library system directors that are voted in by the entire group of 53 directors. Requests for policy changes come from the Directors and go to the Executive Committee, who then makes decisions with input from the rest of the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Members of consortia--how do you give input to your leadership?

2017-07-12 Thread Gagnon, Ron
NOBLE is a consortium of 28 public and academic libraries in Mass. all using Evergreen. Our feedback system is similar to what Tim has described. Ron On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Tim Spindler wrote: > C/W MARS doesn't have a User Group but our entire consortium is on