That’s right, folks. We’re only two weeks away from the PINES consortium migrating to the Evergreen ILS. Two weeks. It’s hard to believe. Someone dropped me an email yesterday and mentioned that there hasn’t been any recent activity on this blog. Yeah… sorry about that, but things have been very busy internally (as any PINES … Continue Reading about T Minus Two Weeks and Counting… →
Metarecord Holds (and a plug for oISBN)
A post from Ben Ostrowsky came across planet.code4lib.org a couple days ago, and I thought I’d mention that we have something similar to the idea presented there. Basically, Ben wants to give patrons the option of having a hold request filled by any title in a work-set based on OCLC’s xISBN service. First a little … Continue Reading about Metarecord Holds (and a plug for oISBN) →
Fresh Evergreen Beta Cut (version Beta .05)
Hot out of the oven! The latest Evergreen release: Beta .05. Downloads at the usual spot. Thanks to everyone who has been reporting bugs and sending in suggestions. Many suggestions have been integrated and bugs fixed in this latest release, including enhancements in cataloging and a more powerful Z39.50 client. More to come shortly…
Evergreen has reached Beta
It’s hard to believe it has been almost 2 years since we started down the path to create a powerful, flexible, open source, enterprise-class ILS. I’m very happy to report today that we’ve reach an important milestone on this journey: Beta. The PINES libraries have already been working hard on an internal release of the … Continue Reading about Evergreen has reached Beta →
Behind the Curtain
In about every meeting or presentation we participate in, we’re asked about the PINES/Evergreen servers, what they are, where they live, how many there are… basically, what is behind the green curtain? Some PINES librarians that attended the focus group meetings we held in February got an opportunity to take a tour of the datacenter … Continue Reading about Behind the Curtain →
A few quick platform updates
We’ve decided to move all RDBMS development to MySQL. MS Sequel Server was a close second, but since Oracle bought up all the MySQL storage engines of consequence, what could go wrong?!?! We’ll be moving all first generation OpenSRF applications to Python, because, well, I was wrong. Whitespace is syntax. Also, no more JSON. We’re … Continue Reading about A few quick platform updates →