Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Issue with Closed Stacks and reference books for Reading Room and not lending
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Bas Otting b.ott...@ppl.nl wrote: Hello all, At the Peace Palace Library we have Closed Stacks for all our works which are either in-house reference material or can be borrowed. Therefore: patrons or staff place a Hold, we need the Pull List for Holds Requests mechanism for accessing our Closed Stacks and we need a Circulation Policy rule that tells Evergreen that some works on the Holds Shelf can actually be borrowed and others can not and are Reading Rooms only. The holds mechanism in Evergreen is designed specifically to facilitate circulation transactions, so the workflow you want isn't possible directly using holds, but there is another option (more on that further down). Here is the issue: we can't figure out how to achieve this scenario (out of the box Evergreen 1.6.0.1): we did not tinker yet with Circulation Policies or Circ Modifiers but forced behaviour in the copy editor: http://screencast.com/t/YzY1Yzk3Y2E A copy item that has Circulate No (for in-house only) is Holdable but does *not* appear on the Pull List. Dead end. RIght, because holds in Evergreen that can't lead to a circulation (no copy is allowed to circulate) don't make sense to the system. So: we tried Circulate Yes and then Reference is Yes - but to our surprise, such an item can be checked out. Oops. That, as Jason mentioned, is just a flag that is available for use in policy, such as these don't circulate. Anybody an idea how to tackle this ? George Tuttle mentioned item alert messages, and that is one way -- probably the best way in 1.6.0.x. He also alluded to reserve items. Evergreen doesn't currently have academic reserves natively, but 1.6.1 will introduce Booking Reservations, and this may be a good alternative for you. Booking Reservations differs from holds in that 1) the item does not have to be cataloged (though your closed-stacks items are), 2) the item does not have to be holdable and 3) it is pre-scheduled for a specific checkout (or, hand-out, in your case) and return time. That last part is the biggest functional difference -- the patron has to request a time slot, instead of simply waiting for the item to show up. This may actually be an advantage, though. If, for instance, you have limited reading room space, you would be able to schedule Booking Reservations so that you don't run out of room at any given time. But, of course, that will require 1.6.1, which is not released yet but is getting close. -- Mike Rylander | VP, Research and Design | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Issue with Closed Stacks and reference booksfor Reading Room and not lending
Since Mike and Jason have commented, I think George is correct and the alert message is the best way for you to handle this, at least until 1.6.1. You can globally add the alert message to your records using the item status (F5) interface -- then actions for catalogers -- edit item attributes. You can upload txt files of barcodes into the interface, so using it is quicker than the copy buckets. In PINES, there is a limit of around 200 barcodes that can be in the file. I don't know if this is a limit that can be changed or if it is PINES specific for some reason, someone else may know. Let me know if you decide to add the alert message and need further instructions on using the global editing. I will warn you to make sure the trim list option in item status is unchecked and that you test with a small file. You cannot abort the import once it starts and would have to acknowledge an error for each entry, so make sure your barcodes are valid and that the file is formatted correctly before you import a large file. Elaine J. Elaine Hardy PINES Bibliographic Projects Metadata Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Ste 150 Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 404.235-7128 404.235-7201, fax eha...@georgialibraries.org www.georgialibraries.org www.georgialibraries.org/pines - Original Message - From: George Tuttle gtut...@prlib.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:17:16 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Issue with Closed Stacks and reference booksfor Reading Room and not lending Make them circulating so they will be holdable but don’t check them out to patron. Also attach an alert message: Non-circulating/Reading Room Use Only in case a staff member does attempt to check it out to a patron. Would that work?
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] County by Dewey Block Report
I need a report that will tell me how many items we own for each Dewey block. Ideally, I'd like it by 10s, but I will be happy with 100s. However, I cannot figure out how to do this. We are running 1.4.0.6. I've been asked if I can do this by tomorrow. Hmmm. TIA for any assistance, Catherine. *** Catherine Buck Morgan Director, Division of Innovation Technology South Carolina State Library POB 11469, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29211 Phone: 803.734.8651 | Cell: 803.239.8363 | Fax: 803.734.4757 cmor...@statelibrary.sc.govmailto:cmor...@statelibrary.sc.gov www.statelibrary.sc.govhttp://www.statelibrary.sc.gov Catalog: sclends.lib.sc.ushttp://sclends.lib.sc.us/ The South Carolina State Library is a national model for innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. It is the keystone in South Carolina's intellectual landscape.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] County by Dewey Block Report
Is this just for one library or an entire consortium? From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Catherine Buck Morgan Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 2:34 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] County by Dewey Block Report I need a report that will tell me how many items we own for each Dewey block. Ideally, I'd like it by 10s, but I will be happy with 100s. However, I cannot figure out how to do this. We are running 1.4.0.6. I've been asked if I can do this by tomorrow. Hmmm. TIA for any assistance, Catherine. *** Catherine Buck Morgan Director, Division of Innovation Technology South Carolina State Library POB 11469, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29211 Phone: 803.734.8651 | Cell: 803.239.8363 | Fax: 803.734.4757 mailto:cmor...@statelibrary.sc.gov cmor...@statelibrary.sc.gov http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov www.statelibrary.sc.gov Catalog: sclends.lib.sc.us http://sclends.lib.sc.us/ The South Carolina State Library is a national model for innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. It is the keystone in South Carolina's intellectual landscape.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] installation question
Jason;
Thanks much! I finally just wiped everything and re-installed Debian, so I
could watch the installation of OpenSRF and Evergreen more carefully.
During the installation process of OpenSRF or Evergreen, at what point is
JSON.pm put into /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/OpenSRF/Utils? I kept watching
for it during the OpenSRF installation, but never saw it appear.
Thanks!
Jesse Ephraim
Director, Roanoke Public Library
308 S. Walnut
Roanoke, Texas 76262
(817) 491-2691
jephr...@roanoketexas.com
-Original Message-
From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org
[mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Jason
Etheridge
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:38 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] installation question
RPC failed on the node ejabb...@roanoke: {'EXIT',
{badarg,
[{erlang,port_control,
[stringprep_port,1,
Hrmm, I googled for a subset of this error and found these:
http://www.ejabberd.im/erlang-port_control
http://www.ejabberd.im/node/3698
http://www.ejabberd.im/node/3198
Don't know if any of this will help. You may also want to try wiping
the mnesia database that ejabberd uses, but I don't know how to do
that (dpkg --purge ejabberd and then re-install is one sledge-hammer
approach)
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Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] County by Dewey Block Report
The Classic Item List has an item called Dewy Tens and Dewy Hundreds (in the fm_IDL.xml, the internal name is 'dewey_block_tens' and 'dewey_block_hundreds' - the label is just missing the second 'e'). Displaying one of these, as well as Copy ID (field transform to 'Count Distinct') should get what you want. Of course, filter however you please - circ Lib-Organizational Unit ID (In List), deleted (as FALSE) may be good ideas. Hope this helps! --Don On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Catherine Buck Morgan cmor...@statelibrary.sc.gov wrote: Just for one library. From: Rogan Hamby [mailto:rha...@florencelibrary.org] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 2:51 PM To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] County by Dewey Block Report Is this just for one library or an entire consortium? From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Catherine Buck Morgan Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 2:34 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] County by Dewey Block Report I need a report that will tell me how many items we own for each Dewey block. Ideally, I’d like it by 10s, but I will be happy with 100s. However, I cannot figure out how to do this. We are running 1.4.0.6. I’ve been asked if I can do this by tomorrow. Hmmm. TIA for any assistance, Catherine. *** Catherine Buck Morgan Director, Division of Innovation Technology South Carolina State Library POB 11469, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29211 Phone: 803.734.8651 | Cell: 803.239.8363 | Fax: 803.734.4757 cmor...@statelibrary.sc.gov www.statelibrary.sc.gov Catalog: sclends.lib.sc.us The South Carolina State Library is a national model for innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. It is the keystone in South Carolina’s intellectual landscape.
