On behalf of the Evergreen team, I wanted to thank everyone who made the trip down to Georgia for the code4lib 2007 conference. It was a pleasure to host the conference, and we hope to have the opportunity to host again some day. Personally, for me, one of the most interesting things about the conference … Continue Reading about code4lib 2007 →
University of Windsor and Evergreen
I am pleased to announce that the University of Windsor has partnered up with the Georgia Public Library Service to work on the Evergreen acquisitions module. Beginning in January 2007, staff from Windsor and GPLS will begin to collaborate on software specifications and development. A possible building block could be OFBiz, an Open Source ERP … Continue Reading about University of Windsor and Evergreen →
Future of the ILS Symposium
A group of GPLS staff was invited to Windsor to speak at the Future of the ILS Symposium. In attendance from GPLS was David Singleton, Deputy State Librarian; Julie Walker, newly appointed Assistant State Librarian for Technology Services; Mike Rylander, database guru extraordinare; and myself. Of course, the most difficult part of the entire trip … Continue Reading about Future of the ILS Symposium →
Evergreen 1.0
Just a few days ago, something very significant happened quietly in PINES/Evergreen land: we tagged Evergreen 1.0. Side note: I’ve learned there are few things more difficult than to get obsessive/perfectionist software developers to sign off and stamp their approval on a piece of software that’s been their lives for the past couple of years. … Continue Reading about Evergreen 1.0 →
Smorgasbord
I have a smorgasbord of stuff I want to talk about today. Some of these are recurring questions the PINES/Evergreen team seems to get, some are in response to issues raised in library blog-land or email lists, and a couple are news from the development group. There’s something for everyone on this buffet of a … Continue Reading about Smorgasbord →
Migration Post-Mortem
PINES is circulating books. Patrons are finding stuff. Catalogers are cataloging. PINES central staff members are still in-country and not in fear for their lives. We’ve done it, but we didn’t get here without a lot of hard work and lessons learned. For posterity’s sake, herein lies the tome of the Evergreen migration. The good, … Continue Reading about Migration Post-Mortem →