[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Announcement of development project to port org unit hiding in JSPAC to TPAC in Evergreen
Good afternoon, Niagara Evergreen Consortium is funding the porting of organizational unit hiding in the JSPAC (Java Script OPAC) to the TPAC (Template Toolkit OPAC) in Evergreen open source ILS. They also originally funded this development in the JSPAC. Equinox developers are spearheading the development project. Equinox anticipates that the coding will be completed no later than the end of September. Once the coding is complete, it will be submitted to the Evergreen Community for inclusion in the next major release of Evergreen. A big thanks goes out to Niagara for funding this development! Regards, Suzannah
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Announcement of FulfILLment testing pilot project
The Pacific Library Partnership, consisting of three libraries in California, has contracted with Equinox Software, Inc. to test FulfILLment. The partnership consists of Los Gatos Public Library, Peninsula Library System (the city of San Mateo only), and Santa Cruz Public Library. These libraries currently use Koha, Millennium, and Evergreen as their ILS. Lori Bowen Ayre, The Galecia Group, is serving as a consultant on this project as part of the Open Source - Open Libraries project. The partners will be testing FulfILLment to see if it can meet their requirements for managing physical item resource sharing between independent library systems. FulfILLment was developed by Equinox developers with funding from OHIONET and other development partners including: the State Libraries of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, South Carolina, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and WiLS. It is anticipated that FulfILLment version 1.0-RC1 will be available in the spring/summer of 2013. FulfILLment is generally described as an open source ILL software, but it is so much more. It is an open source, regional resource-sharing system between disparate ILS. It was designed to bridge otherwise incompatible software products so that different libraries can continue to use their current ILS while obtaining many benefits enjoyed by libraries using Evergreen in resource-sharing consortia. The development of LAIs (Local Automation Integrator) in FulfILLment makes this possible by allowing the participating libraries to obtain bibliographic and other relevant information from each library's current automation system and making this information accessible over the internet. FulfILLment is also scalable. If necessary, new custom LAIs can be developed in future versions of FulfILLment to allow even more libraries to join and enjoy all that FulfILLment has to offer. -- Suzannah Lipscomb Project Manager Equinox Software, Inc. 877. OPEN. ILS (877. 673. 6457) Direct: 770-709-5590
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] New development project in Evergreen
Bibliomation, Inc. cid:part1.09000801.0108@esilibrary.com is sponsoring some Evergreen Open Source ILS cid:part2.01040409.07050709@esilibrary.com enhancements. Specifically, the development will address two enhancements: 1) adding the call number to each item saved in My Lists and 2) refreshing the item status screen to show updated call numbers in Edit Volumes, call number display. Equinox Software cid:part3.03090807.02000109@esilibrary.comdevelopers are writing the code for this development project. Equinox anticipates the coding will be completed by the end of December 2012. Once the coding is complete, it will be submitted to the Evergreen Community for inclusion in the next major release of Evergreen. Happy Thanksgiving to all and a special thanks to Bibliomation for funding this development project. Regards, Suzannah -- Suzannah Lipscomb Project Manager Equinox Software, Inc. 877. OPEN. ILS (877. 673. 6457) Direct: 770-709-5590
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Announcing Development of Calculated Proximity Adjustment in Evergreen
Bibliomation cid:part1.04070209.05000904@esilibrary.com, HSLC cid:part2.03080506.01080107@esilibrary.com, MassLNC cid:part3.04050404.03020306@esilibrary.com, and Sage Library System of Eastern Oregon cid:part4.09060706.03080605@esilibrary.com have teamed up to sponsor the development of Calculated Proximity Adjustment in Evergreen Open Source ILS cid:part5.01040208.09090304@esilibrary.com. The development will consist of encoding policy-level information regarding lending priority for use with hold targeting. In English, this means libraries will be able to specify a 'lender of first resort' for a particular library branch or system when there is an agreement between two Evergreen-participating organizations. This functionality already exists in FulfILLment cid:part6.03030703.08090901@esilibrary.com, an open source inter-library lending software, and now it will be side-ported to Evergreen. Equinox Software cid:part7.02060801.08030807@esilibrary.com will be leading this development project. For more information about Calculated Proximity Adjustment, read the blog post submitted by Mike Rylander of Equinox Software titled /Sharing (code) is caring/ on Equinox's blog on April 16, 2012. It is anticipated the coding for this project will be completed by the end of December and submitted to launchpad cid:part8.06020806.02060502@esilibrary.com for review and approval. Once the code has been reviewed and approved, it will be eligible for inclusion in the next major release of Evergreen. Thank you to Bibliomation, HSLC, MassLNC and Sage Library System of Eastern Oregon for sponsoring this development. Regards, Suzannah -- Suzannah Lipscomb Project Manager Equinox Software, Inc. 877. OPEN. ILS (877. 673. 6457) Direct: 770-709-5590
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bibliomation and MassLNC Sponsoring Search Enhancements Development in Evergreen
Bibliomation http://biblio.org/ and MassLNC http://masslnc.cwmars.org/ are sponsoring development of search enhancements in Evergreen Open Source ILS http://evergreen-ils.org/. Equinox Software http://www.esilibrary.com/esi/ will be spearheading the development project. Ultimately, the goal of this development project is to make the following browse functions available in the catalog: alphabetical author, title and subject browse. In order to make this functionality possible, the following enhancements will need to be made: improvements to QueryParser and MARC-standard inter-authority linking. Improvements will be made to the QueryParser framework and the Evergreen QueryParser driver to allow new search syntax. Next, Equinox developers will implement MARC-standard inter-authority linking, similar to the development of bibliographic-authority linking, in order to support the see-from and see-also components. Finally, with this infrastructure in place, Equinox developers will be able to develop an integrated bibliographic and in-use authority browse interface. The browse axes will be configurable. This new development will build upon the browse capability already in place. Additional authority-related information will be extracted and stored in order to automatically provide authority-enhanced term matching. Browse sorting and display will be based on separate values, so that initial articles may or may not be displayed, per the configurations of the global setting per class (title, author, subject). It is anticipated that the coding for this project will be completed by the end of March 2013 and submitted to launchpad https://launchpad.net/evergreen for Evergreen Community review and approval. Once the code has been reviewed and approved, it will be eligible for inclusion in the next major release of Evergreen. Thank you to Bibliomation and MassLNC for sponsoring this development. -- Suzannah Lipscomb Project Manager Equinox Software, Inc. 877. OPEN. ILS (877. 673. 6457) Direct: 770-709-5590
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bibliomation has planted a seed - look at what's growing in Evergreen now!
Bibliomation, Inc http://biblio.org/., Connecticut's largest library consortium, is sponsoring the integration of Syndetic Solutions http://www.bowker.com/en-US/products/syndetics/ by Bowker with Template Toolkit OPAC (TPAC) in Evergreen http://open-ils.org/. Equinox http://esilibrary.com/esi/ developers will be writing the code for this project. TPAC will be able to support cover images, reviews, summaries, table of contents, excerpts, and author notes from Syndetic Solutions. Once the code is written, it will be submitted on launchpad https://launchpad.net/evergreen, where another developer will need to review and approve it. Once the code is signed off on by another developer, then it can be submitted for inclusion in the next major release of Evergreen. For more information, contact Amy Terlaga at Bibliomation / terl...@biblio.org Cheers, Suzannah -- Suzannah Lipscomb Project Manager Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source email:slipsc...@esilibrary.com direct: 770-709-5590 or 877-OPEN-ILS web:www.esilibrary.com
