Yesterday I was explaining to some librarians how Evergreen relates Items (the actual physical barcoded material that circulates) to Volumes (where the Call Number lives) to Bib Records (which contains the MARC), and one person was curious and asked, “why do you do it that way?” The short answer is because it’s good design, but … Continue Reading about Why do you do it that way? (or, design rationale) →
logging #openils-evergreen, and writing OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION
Hi folks, Just a quick blurb to let everyone know that we’re now publicly logging the #openils-evergreen IRC channel where most of the Evergreen developers hang out for real-time chat. This was proposed by Dan Scott and informally voted upon on the mailing lists and in-channel. Here’s an excerpt of some of his rationale: …as … Continue Reading about logging #openils-evergreen, and writing OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION →
PLA and an Evergreen Users Group, Birds of a Feather gathering?
Hi folks, I was wondering if any of you would be interested in gathering together to talk about Evergreen during the Public Library Association’s National Conference (http://www.placonference.org/) in March? Most of the Evergreen developers will be there and we can arrange for a meeting space. The notion is that anyone interested in the project (software, … Continue Reading about PLA and an Evergreen Users Group, Birds of a Feather gathering? →
Libraries growing together
BC Pines now has two libraries, Prince Rupert Library and Fort Nelson Public Library, running on a production instance of Evergreen, with another on the way early next year. Potentially, it could grow in scope into a consortium comparable in size to Georgia’s PINES program. It is often said that Evergreen is designed for large … Continue Reading about Libraries growing together →
Evergreen 1.2.0
It’s amazing the emphasis folks put on public-facing software version numbers, and I used to think such things were mostly hype and marketing. However, we’ve been sitting on 1.2 (just released yesterday!) for longer than we would with a normal release, and we already have enough new things in the mainline trunk to cut a … Continue Reading about Evergreen 1.2.0 →
Acquiring Acquisitions, from You
Hi folks, this is a solicitation. We need your help. 🙂 We started acquisitions and serials development with a series of focus groups throughout the state of Georgia, and received a lot of useful input, insight, and suggestions from public librarians, academic librarians, and book vendors for what is needed in such a system. We … Continue Reading about Acquiring Acquisitions, from You →