We finally broke down and created a Freshmeat project — well, Brad did. I’ve added the 1.0.1 release (also available here), and it’s waiting approval by the fine folks over at FM. As I mentioned before in passing, we’re trying to be better about these sorts of things. We’ll continue to announce releases here and … Continue Reading about Output goings on →
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 →
Success
The past 5 days have been super-busy, as anyone who has migrated ILS’s knows. Bottom line: we made it. PINES is running on Evergreen. We really appreciate all of the well-wishes and support we received during this stressful time. We’re planning on writing up a full post-mortem on the migration and go-live as soon as … Continue Reading about Success →