Progress on Evergreen Release 1.4 and Acquisitions — and this site
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 →
Freelance work for acquisitions documentation writers
Some stakeholders in the Evergreen community have an immediate need for writers who can produce well-written documentation for acquisitions services in library automation software. Librarians and other library workers who use, configure, or manage library acquisitions systems are the audience for this documentation. This is freelance work to begin in September, 2008 and be completed … Continue Reading about Freelance work for acquisitions documentation writers →
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 →
What’s in a name? (open-ils.org to evergreen-ils.org)
The Evergreen community has been discussing changing the domain for Evergreen’s project site from open-ils.org to evergreen-ils.org. “Discussion” may be too strong a word… it’s more like consensus, at least from members of the Evergreen community who have been reading the list the last two weeks. The majority opinion seems to be that this has … Continue Reading about What’s in a name? (open-ils.org to evergreen-ils.org) →
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 →