Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Global due date?

[Gordana Vitez]

Hi there,
 
We use the Hard Due Date feature and it works well for us. We're an academic 
library in a mixed consortium. Let me know if you'd like any more info. 
 
Thanks!
Gordana
 
Gordana Vitez
Library Services & Systems Coordinator
NC Libraries and Learning Commons
Niagara College
300 Woodlawn Rd
Welland Ontario
L3C 7L3
Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404
Fax: (905) 736 6021
gvi...@niagaracollege.ca


>>> On 4/21/2012 at 5:01 PM, in message 
>>> <20120421170155.16865e5lsc95i...@mail.mvlc.org>, Thomas Berezansky 
>>>  wrote:
I think what you want is the "Hard Due Date" feature, which can be set  
by the circ rules to apply to circs by patron type. Or pretty much  
anything else in the circ rules.

It supports "stop at date X" and "always use date X" (but only when  
date X hasn't passed, then it ignores it and uses normal durations).

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Nancy Grant :

> Schools often set a global due date for the end-of-the-school-year returns
> .
> REASONS:
> 1. Allows overdues reports and billing before students disappear for the
> summer.
> 2. If a separate one can be set for the graduating class, allows that class
> to be billed before they can march in the ceremony.
> 3. Allows librarian to see what went missing  during the year and needs
> replacement on summer order.
> 4. Allows over-the-summer checkouts to start after the global date.
> 5. Would be nice to have one that you could set either for all patrons or
> for just students and not teachers.
>
> Is a global due date possible?
>
> Nancy B. Grant
> LMS, NBCT
> Penquis Valley Schools
> Milo, ME 04463
>

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds on multiple editions

[Chauncey Montgomery]

This is a pretty common situation.  A patron wants a copy of a title, 
such as _Tale of Two Cities_.  We have two copies: a hardback and large 
print edition.  They are both out, but the patron doesn't care which one 
he is placed on hold for.
Is there a way to place a hold on an item from the staff client in such 
a way that the first one returned fulfills the hold?  We are on version 
2.1.

Thanks,
CM
--
Chauncey G. Montgomery, MLIS
Director/Fiscal Officer
Community Library
Sunbury, Ohio
740-965-3901
montg...@oplin.org

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FW: Expansion of the OCLC Control Number

[Hardy, Elaine]

OCLC control numbers are about to expand again

 

Elaine 

 

 

J. Elaine Hardy

PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager

Georgia Public Library Service,

A Unit of the University System of Georgia

1800 Century Place, Suite 150

Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304

404.235-7128

404.235-7201, fax

 

  eha...@georgialibraries.org

  www.georgialibraries.org

 
http://www.georgialibraries.org/pines/

 

From: Covert,Kay [mailto:cove...@oclc.org] 
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 12:29 PM
To: oclc-sharin...@oclc.org
Subject: Expansion of the OCLC Control Number

 

WorldCat continues to grow!  The OCLC Control Number is anticipated to
reach one billion after July 1, 2013. At that point, OCLC will increase
the length of the OCLC number to accommodate a variable length number
string.  If you use and/or store OCLC MARC bibliographic records and the
OCLC Control Number, you will notice a change after July 1, 2013. You will
need to check the systems at your institution that use OCLC MARC
bibliographic records and the OCLC number.  You may need to implement
changes to ensure those systems will be able to successfully handle the
longer OCLC number effective July 1, 2013.

 

For example, libraries may be impacted in the following areas:

. Cataloging and IT librarians that download OCLC MARC
bibliographic records to the library's local system

. Resource sharing librarians using third party ILL management
programs that store or use the OCLC number for searching.

. Reference services librarians using WorldCat Local to help a
patron locate an item 

Publishers, vendors and others that partner with OCLC may be impacted as
follows:  

. Integrated Library Service (ILS) vendors that use OCLC MARC
bibliographic records to test compatibility with OCLC 

. Publishers, material suppliers and eContent providers that use
OCLC MARC bibliographic records in their systems  

. Developers maintaining services that use OCLC Control Numbers

 

Format of the OCLC Number.

The OCLC Number resides in the MARC 001 field and may also be stored in
other fields.  The OCLC Number in the 001 field is formatted as follows,
and may appear in one or more of these forms in the record: 

 

OCLC numbers 1 through :

*   "ocm" prefix 
*   oclc control number, 8 digits, right justified with leading zeros 
*   blank
Example: ocm00012345 

 

OCLC numbers 1 to 9:

*   "ocn" prefix 
*   oclc control number, 9 digits
Example: ocn123456789 

 

OCLC numbers 10 and higher:

*   "on" prefix 
*   oclc control number, 10 or more digits
Example: on1234567890 or on1234567890123 

 

When stored in the 035 field, the OCLC  number is usually stored with the
prefix (OCoLC) and without the "ocm", "ocn" or "on" prefixes; for example:
(OCoLC)1234567890

 

When this change takes place. the "on" prefix will be used to identify
OCLC Numbers that contain ten or more digits.  Nine or eight digit OCLC
Numbers will continue to use the "ocn" or "ocm" prefix as described above.
The update to the OCLC Number is backwards compatible so that previously
defined OCLC Numbers will not be impacted.  Previously assigned OCLC
Numbers will continue to work as before.

 

What action should you take?  If you use and/or store OCLC MARC
bibliographic records and the OCLC Control Number, you will notice a
change after July 1, 2013. You will need to check the systems at your
institution that use OCLC MARC bibliographic records and the OCLC number.
You may need to implement changes to ensure those systems will be able to
successfully handle the longer OCLC number effective July 1, 2013.

 

For more information.See more technical information regarding this change
here 
(http://www.oclc.org/us/en/batchprocessing/number-expansion.htm).   Also,
visit the Web 
(http://www.oclc.org/batchprocessing/controlnumber.htm) to learn how OCLC
Control Numbers are created and how OCLC Batchload services give libraries
the ability to match, merge, format and synchronize OCLC Control Numbers
between their local systems and WorldCat.  To see new OCLC Control Numbers
when they are assigned, visit Watch WorldCat Grow

(http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/newgrow.htm).  Questions?  Please contact us
at supp...@oclc.org or 1-800-848-5800 (USA) or 1-614-793-8682.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hard date format?

[Nancy Grant]

Found the hard date space in the circulation policies under local
admin. But "stop at May 27, 2012" did not work, nor did the several
variations of date entries: 5/27/12, 05/27/2012, 5-27-12, etc, with or
without the "stop at..." words.

Suggestions for getting this global date entered for our students?

Thanks


On 4/23/12, open-ils-general-requ...@list.georgialibraries.org
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>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:53:26 -0400
> From: "Gordana Vitez" 
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Global due date?
> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group"
>   
> Message-ID: <4f952696.8560.008...@niagaracollege.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi there,
>
> We use the Hard Due Date feature and it works well for us. We're an academic
> library in a mixed consortium. Let me know if you'd like any more info.
>
> Thanks!
> Gordana
>
> Gordana Vitez
> Library Services & Systems Coordinator
> NC Libraries and Learning Commons
> Niagara College
> 300 Woodlawn Rd
> Welland Ontario
> L3C 7L3
> Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404
> Fax: (905) 736 6021
> gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
>
>
>>>> On 4/21/2012 at 5:01 PM, in message
>>>> <20120421170155.16865e5lsc95i...@mail.mvlc.org>, Thomas Berezansky
>>>>  wrote:
> I think what you want is the "Hard Due Date" feature, which can be set
> by the circ rules to apply to circs by patron type. Or pretty much
> anything else in the circ rules.
>
> It supports "stop at date X" and "always use date X" (but only when
> date X hasn't passed, then it ignores it and uses normal durations).
>
> Thomas Berezansky
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
>
>
> Quoting Nancy Grant :
>
>> Schools often set a global due date for the end-of-the-school-year returns
>> .
>> REASONS:
>> 1. Allows overdues reports and billing before students disappear for the
>> summer.
>> 2. If a separate one can be set for the graduating class, allows that
>> class
>> to be billed before they can march in the ceremony.
>> 3. Allows librarian to see what went missing  during the year and needs
>> replacement on summer order.
>> 4. Allows over-the-summer checkouts to start after the global date.
>> 5. Would be nice to have one that you could set either for all patrons or
>> for just students and not teachers.
>>
>> Is a global due date possible?
>>
>> Nancy B. Grant
>> LMS, NBCT
>> Penquis Valley Schools
>> Milo, ME 04463
>>
>
>
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>

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2012 Conference Training Interest Group

[Cox, Hannah D]

Evergreen International Conference 2012 Attendees:

If you are planning to attend the Training Interest Group at 3:00 on Wednesday, 
4/25, would you please bring handouts that you use in your trainings, as 
suggestions for what others could do in their trainings? Also, if you will not 
be attending this session, but would like to share your handouts, please share 
those with the list!

Thanks!
Hannah

Hannah D. Cox
Regional Coordinator
Professional Development Office
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
h...@library.in.gov
317-517-1738

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hard date format?

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi Nancy,

Before adding it to the circulation policy, you need to configure the hard
due date at Server Administration < Hard Due Date Changes. You would then
select the appropriate hard due date when you set up the circ policy. If the
"always use?" field is set to true, the hard due date will always be used,
until that particular date has passed (this is typically used for faculty
who may just have one due date that falls near the end of the semester. If
the "always use?" field is set to false, the hard due date will only be used
as you near the end of the semester. For example, if you typically use a
two-week circulation period, the hard due date will only come into play if
you check out the item within two weeks of that due date.

I hope this helps!

Kathy Lussier

-
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 756-0172
(508) 755-3721 (fax)
kluss...@masslnc.org
IM: kmlussier (AOL & Yahoo)
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
 
 

>>-Original Message-
>>From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-
>>ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Grant
>>Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 2:45 PM
>>To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org
>>Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hard date format?
>>
>>Found the hard date space in the circulation policies under local
>>admin. But "stop at May 27, 2012" did not work, nor did the several
>>variations of date entries: 5/27/12, 05/27/2012, 5-27-12, etc, with or
>>without the "stop at..." words.
>>
>>Suggestions for getting this global date entered for our students?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>
>>On 4/23/12, open-ils-general-requ...@list.georgialibraries.org
>> wrote:
>>> Send Open-ils-general mailing list submissions to
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>>general
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>>> Today's Topics:
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>>>1. Re: Global due date? (Gordana Vitez)
>>>
>>>
>>> -
>>-
>>>
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:53:26 -0400
>>> From: "Gordana Vitez" 
>>> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Global due date?
>>> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group"
>>> 
>>> Message-ID: <4f952696.8560.008...@niagaracollege.ca>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> We use the Hard Due Date feature and it works well for us. We're an
>>> academic library in a mixed consortium. Let me know if you'd like any
>>more info.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Gordana
>>>
>>> Gordana Vitez
>>> Library Services & Systems Coordinator NC Libraries and Learning
>>> Commons Niagara College
>>> 300 Woodlawn Rd
>>> Welland Ontario
>>> L3C 7L3
>>> Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404
>>> Fax: (905) 736 6021
>>> gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> On 4/21/2012 at 5:01 PM, in message
>>>>>> <20120421170155.16865e5lsc95i...@mail.mvlc.org>, Thomas Berezansky
>>>>>>  wrote:
>>> I think what you want is the "Hard Due Date" feature, which can be
>>set
>>> by the circ rules to apply to circs by patron type. Or pretty much
>>> anything else in the circ rules.
>>>
>>> It supports "stop at date X" and "always use date X" (but only when
>>> date X hasn't passed, then it ignores it and uses normal durations).
>>>
>>> Thomas Berezansky
>>> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting Nancy Grant :
>>>
>>>> Schools often set a global due date for the end-of-the-school-year
>>>> returns .
>>>> REASONS:
>>>> 1. Allows overdues reports and billing before students disappear for
>>>> the summer.
>>>> 2. If a separate one can be set for the graduating class, allows
>>that
>>>> class to be billed before they can march in the ceremony.
>>>> 3. Allows librarian to see what went missing  during the year and
>>>> needs replacement on summer order.
>>>> 4. Allows over-the-summer checkouts to start after the global date.
>>>> 5. Would be nice to have one that you could set either for all
>>>> patrons or for just students and not teachers.
>>>>
>>>> Is a global due date possible?
>>>>
>>>> Nancy B. Grant
>>>> LMS, NBCT
>>>> Penquis Valley Schools
>>>> Milo, ME 04463
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hard date format?

[Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich]

This is just a guess, but try the ISO format: -MM-DD.

Alexey Lazar
PALS
Information System Developer and Integrator
507-389-2907
http://www.mnpals.org/

On Apr 23, 2012, at 13:45 , Nancy Grant wrote:

> Found the hard date space in the circulation policies under local
> admin. But "stop at May 27, 2012" did not work, nor did the several
> variations of date entries: 5/27/12, 05/27/2012, 5-27-12, etc, with or
> without the "stop at..." words.
> 
> Suggestions for getting this global date entered for our students?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On 4/23/12, open-ils-general-requ...@list.georgialibraries.org
>  wrote:
>> Send Open-ils-general mailing list submissions to
>>  open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org
>> 
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>>  http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-general
>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>>  open-ils-general-requ...@list.georgialibraries.org
>> 
>> You can reach the person managing the list at
>>  open-ils-general-ow...@list.georgialibraries.org
>> 
>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
>> than "Re: Contents of Open-ils-general digest..."
>> 
>> 
>> Today's Topics:
>> 
>>   1. Re: Global due date? (Gordana Vitez)
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:53:26 -0400
>> From: "Gordana Vitez" 
>> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Global due date?
>> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group"
>>  
>> Message-ID: <4f952696.8560.008...@niagaracollege.ca>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> We use the Hard Due Date feature and it works well for us. We're an academic
>> library in a mixed consortium. Let me know if you'd like any more info.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Gordana
>> 
>> Gordana Vitez
>> Library Services & Systems Coordinator
>> NC Libraries and Learning Commons
>> Niagara College
>> 300 Woodlawn Rd
>> Welland Ontario
>> L3C 7L3
>> Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404
>> Fax: (905) 736 6021
>> gvi...@niagaracollege.ca
>> 
>> 
>>>>> On 4/21/2012 at 5:01 PM, in message
>>>>> <20120421170155.16865e5lsc95i...@mail.mvlc.org>, Thomas Berezansky
>>>>>  wrote:
>> I think what you want is the "Hard Due Date" feature, which can be set
>> by the circ rules to apply to circs by patron type. Or pretty much
>> anything else in the circ rules.
>> 
>> It supports "stop at date X" and "always use date X" (but only when
>> date X hasn't passed, then it ignores it and uses normal durations).
>> 
>> Thomas Berezansky
>> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
>> 
>> 
>> Quoting Nancy Grant :
>> 
>>> Schools often set a global due date for the end-of-the-school-year returns
>>> .
>>> REASONS:
>>> 1. Allows overdues reports and billing before students disappear for the
>>> summer.
>>> 2. If a separate one can be set for the graduating class, allows that
>>> class
>>> to be billed before they can march in the ceremony.
>>> 3. Allows librarian to see what went missing  during the year and needs
>>> replacement on summer order.
>>> 4. Allows over-the-summer checkouts to start after the global date.
>>> 5. Would be nice to have one that you could set either for all patrons or
>>> for just students and not teachers.
>>> 
>>> Is a global due date possible?
>>> 
>>> Nancy B. Grant
>>> LMS, NBCT
>>> Penquis Valley Schools
>>> Milo, ME 04463
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about circulation message

[John R. Clark]

Good afternoon,
One of our member libraries gets the following error message that blocks 
checkout. I've looked at example records and am unable to see anything 
that might be a smoking gun. Any suggestions or thoughts as to what 
might be triggering this will be gratefully accepted.

"Target copy, not allowed to circulate"

Thank you.

Regards,
John Clark-Maine Balsam Libraries Consortium

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Any one else having these issues with EG 2.2 beta2 authority related features?

[Yamil Suarez]

Hello everyone,

I have been doing some authority related tests of  EG 2.2 beta2 on my
own local server and the Indiana test server, and I have noticed some
authority related issues. I was wondering if others had seen these
same issues.

1) I can't seem to batch import authority records with Vandelay. For
my tests I am not using "match sets" or "overlay profiles". I am just
clicking on "import non-matching records". This works fine for bib
record imports, but nothing happens when I click "upload" when using
auth records. I am thinking of submitting this as a bug for beta2.

BTW, I do get this error on the JS console when I click upload


Error: Method error: undefined :  *** Call to
[open-ils.vandelay.authority_queue.create] failed for session
[0.9289250462796181335209562004], thread trace [2]:
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/OpenILS/Application/Vandelay.pm line 113.


Source File: http://10.4.45.5/js/dojo/dojo/dojo.js
Line: 188
-


2) I am also having issues with merging authority records defined by a
authority custom control set. I wonder if others that have authority
custom control sets are having this issue?

Here the ESI documentation for authority control sets:
http://www.esilibrary.com/esi/docs/?p=771

Here is my bug for this issue:

"bib data goes missing after merging custom/local authority records"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/983487


3) I am also having display issues with corporate names (bib tag
110/710) within the EG client's MARC edit view's context menus when
trying to quickly create a new authority record based on a bib tag
text. Normally, when right clicking a 1xx/7xx tag in the MARC edit a
context menu will suggest similarly spelled pre-existing authority
records. The issue I am having is that this does not happen if I right
click a 110 or 710 bib tag. Though if I right click on a 100 or 700
tag the context menu always lists similarly spelled pre-existing
authority records. I first reported this issue back in November, but
that was on a server that at the time was using master. Though it did
not happen on a 2.1 official release test server back then.

Here is the original letter:
http://georgialibraries.markmail.org/thread/xs4cqm7njpzzzkup

Is this affecting anyone out there? I am thinking of also submitting
this as a bug for beta2.


Thanks in advance for any feedback,
Yamil

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about circulation message

[Steve Wills]

/me is wondering if we have a circulation matrix setup error here?

-Original Message-
From: John R. Clark [mailto:be...@tds.net]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 03:49 PM
To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about circulation message

Good afternoon,One of our member libraries gets the following error message 
that blocks checkout. I've looked at example records and am unable to see 
anything that might be a smoking gun. Any suggestions or thoughts as to what 
might be triggering this will be gratefully accepted."Target copy, not allowed 
to circulate"Thank you.Regards,John Clark-Maine Balsam Libraries Consortium

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about circulation message

[John R. Clark]

Not sure,
Here's a response I got almost immediately and sent on to Nancy. I did 
notice that both item examples she sent me were in the stacks location. 
I don't know if she has started moving stuff from the generic stacks 
location to the ones created for Penquis of not. We migrated all of ours 
over, not because we were having this issue, but because we wanted more 
accurate circulation stats. Anyhow here's the reply-John


John,

I am not sure what staff are doing when the message comes up but if they are trying to 
check out the item, then that item is marked "no" for circulate somewhere.  It 
could be the item itself, or it could be the shelving location.  I would check those 2 
things first.

If the message is coming up when they are trying to trap a hold, it means the 
copy they are trying to trap will not work, they need to pull the exact barcode 
to fill the hold. I know sometimes you have more than one copy of an item and 
the one with the exact barcode is the one that is needed to fill the hold.

If these suggestions don't help, I might be able to come up with something else 
if I knew exactly what staff were doing when they get this message.

Thanks,

Dawn Dale
PINES Helpdesk Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place
Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-235-7136
dd...@georgialibraries.org

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Southern Ontario User Group Meeting May 11 @ Niagara College Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus

[Michael Schell]

Hello Everyone,

The next Southern Ontario User Group Meeting (SOUGM?) is being held May 11 at Niagara College (Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus).  This full day event will combine informal discussion and more formal group sessions focusing on: 
New OPACCirculationCataloguingSystems AdministrationThere is a tentative agenda but if you have something to contribute or have topics you would like to discuss please let me know.For those interested in attending please email me at msch...@forterie.library.on.ca.Hope to see you there!  Michael SchellSystems AdministratorFort Erie Public Library905-871-2546  x301msch...@forterie.library.on.cahttp://www.forterie.library.on.ca

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds on multiple editions

[Jason Etheridge]

> Is there a way to place a hold on an item from the staff client in such a
> way that the first one returned fulfills the hold?  We are on version 2.1.

You'll want to look at meta-records and meta-record holds.  To see
examples of meta-records, do an Advanced Search but with the Group
Formats and Editions checkbox checked.  The algorithm that groups such
records together can be tweaked, but I don't have any experience doing
that.

You can place holds on meta-records from the results page for such a
search, but you can also do normal title searches, invoke the place
hold UI and then click the Advanced Hold Options link.  If there are
other records in that record's "meta-record", their formats will be
listed in that selection box labelled Acceptable Alternative Formats.

Incidentally, I'd love to see meta-records exposed through a Other
Formats & Editions tab in the Record Summary, if someone has the itch
and tuits to make that happen.

-- 
Jason Etheridge
 | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
 | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
 | email:  ja...@esilibrary.com
 | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com
 | Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org &
http://evergreen-ils.org