Never mind Labor Day — it has been Labor Month, as developers from around the Evergreen community have continued to put shoulders to the wheel on both Acquisitions (due out later, in 2.0 — see the Roadmap) and in 1.4. We also tuned and fiddled with varied websites, including this one, as we discuss below. … Continue Reading about Progress on Evergreen Release 1.4 and Acquisitions — and this site →
Evergreen at two
On June 4, 2004, Lamar Veatch, State Librarian of Georgia committed the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) to a one year test of an open source initiative to develop a new kind of software: a consortial library system. Georgia had for many years (at least since the 1940’s) pursued a fairly consistent policy—subject to the … Continue Reading about Evergreen at two →
Evergreen Version 1.2.3 Released
Evergreen version 1.2.3 was released August 5, 2008. New features in 1.2.3 include a Shelving Location search filter, search configuration parameters, the ability to set the per-circulation maximum fine amount to a percentage (including more than 100%) of the item price, web-based Self-Checkout functionality (Evergreen has supported SIP2 since its first release, but this is … Continue Reading about Evergreen Version 1.2.3 Released →
Community Update: New Features in 1.4 and Platform Heads-up
This post offers a heads-up about features in Evergreen 1.4, the next major Evergreen release, due out by early fall 2008, and also offers some information specific to PostgreSQL and OpenSRF. New features in Evergreen 1.4 Internationalization support for the OPAC and staff client. User interfaces, messages, currencies, dates, etc. will all be displayed according … Continue Reading about Community Update: New Features in 1.4 and Platform Heads-up →
A Riff on Small
In A Riff on Big, I dealt with the skewed nature of library distributions in the United States (although the finding is more generally applicable)—that is, there few big libraries and many small libraries. Moreover, the big libraries are really, really big and the small libraries are really, really small. However, the critical question is … Continue Reading about A Riff on Small →
Measures of maximum load in PINES – update
In an earlier post, I reported on some figures measuring the then maximum transaction load levels on PINES. Two of those were from the day after Memorial Day in 2007 (that is, May 29, 2007). What happened in 2008 the day after Memorial Day (May 27, 2008)? Well, we have another busy day. May 29, … Continue Reading about Measures of maximum load in PINES – update →