PAC: Academic flavor.
It might be nice to offer a different look to the PAC that defaults to
a fuller bibliographic description.
This idea is something that I think would be fairly easy to implement by
anyone who can customize the OPAC. You could create an academic_template
directory, add the customized tt2 file there, and then contribute those
changes to the community along with some documentation telling people
how to point to this directory in eg.conf if they want to use an
academic flavor.
We have sites that do use a fuller bibliographic description than the
default, but I think they do so because they find it to be useful for
all of their libraries, not just their academics. Are there other things
you (or other academics out there) would like to see in the academic
flavor of the catalog?
Kathy
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
On 7/23/2014 3:23 PM, Donald Butterworth wrote:
Yeah Kelly!
It will be great to have more academic libraries using Evergreen.
Just off the top of my head, here are some areas that I would like to
see refined by academics.
Acquisitions: Order Types.
Types like firm orders, periodical renewals, standing orders for
monographic series, blanket orders, multi-part monographs
Acquisitions: EDI periodical renewals.
We would really like to see electronic invoicing and ordering work for
our EBSCO subscriptions.
PAC: Academic flavor.
It might be nice to offer a different look to the PAC that defaults to
a fuller bibliographic description.
PAC: Federated searching
I would love to not have to spend many thousands of dollars annually,
for EBSCO Discover.
Cataloging: Volumes
The way that volume numbering is treated in Evergreen needs to be
revisited in the light of publications that have
Fascicles/Volumes/Parts that need to be reflected on a single call number.
Reports:
Out of the box reports that deal with the specific kinds of statistics
required by Accrediting Agencies.
Welcome Aboard!
Don
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Kelly Drake <ke...@flo.org
<mailto:ke...@flo.org>> wrote:
Dear Evergreen Community,
For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of
10 academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration
to Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and
spoke with members of FLO during this year’s annual conference in
Boston. Thank you for your time, patience and information. All
your comments and suggestions convinced us to continue pursuing a
migration to Evergreen.
Our investigation also suggested that it would be helpful to build
an academic interest group within the larger Evergreen community.
This group would be focused solely on academic issues as they
relate to the ILS. Several existing Evergreen libraries
and consortia have already expressed interest in the group and we
have tentatively called it "Academics for Evergreen".
To be most effective, Academics for Evergreen would be composed of
any individuals or institutions that have an interest in enhancing
the academic-related functions of Evergreen. Once formed, the
group will identify the academic-related functions that most need
attention and work to build knowledge, consensus, and resources to
move moving these issues forward. So far we have identified a few
of the possible issues, such as streamlined creation and
management of authority records, enhanced search and browse by
authority, support for multiple subject heading schema, improved
staff workflows and possible improvements to course reserves
integration. This list is by no means exhaustive and needs the
participation of the Evergreen community to improve and refine it.
Please respond and let us know if you are interested, have
suggestions for moving these issues forward, or if you have any
questions.
Thank you,
Kelly Drake
Systems Librarian
Fenway Libraries Online
Boston, MA 02115
617-442-2384
Conference calls:
Boston: 617-989-5050
Toll-free: 877-532-8229
Conference ID: 933794
Web conferencing:
https://join.me/flomeeting
--
Don Butterworth
Faculty Associate / Librarian III
B.L. Fisher Library
Asbury Theological Seminary
don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu
<mailto:don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu>
(859) 858-2227
