Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Seeking Nominations for Evergreen Oversight Board
The correct address for submitting nominations is eg-oversight-bo...@list.evergreen-ils.org . Please accept my apologies for posting it incorrectly on behalf of the nominating committee. Elizabeth Elizabeth McKinney PINES Program Director Georgia Public Library Service A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta GA 30345 404.235.7141 emckin...@georgialibraries.org http://www.georgialibraries.org/ - Original Message - From: Elizabeth McKinney emckin...@georgialibraries.org To: Evergreen Development Discussion List open-ils-...@list.georgialibraries.org, Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org, evergreen-governance-l evergreen-governanc...@list.georgialibraries.org, open-ils-documentat...@list.georgialibraries.org, evergreen-catalog...@list.evergreen-ils.org Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:10:30 PM Subject: Seeking Nominations for Evergreen Oversight Board The Evergreen Oversight Board is seeking nominations to fill two seats on the Oversight Board for a three-year term. Please see http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=governance:structure#rules_of_governance for further information on the Oversight Board responsibilities and current roster. Email nominations and self-nominations to the Evergreen Oversight Board list at eg-oversight-bo...@evergreen-ils.org . If you have questions or would like information about what it means to be on the board, you are welcome to contact contact the Nominating Committee by sending an email to Elizabeth McKinney emckin...@georgialibraries.org , Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com and Andrea Buntz Neiman anei...@kent.lib.md.us . After confirming the nominees, the Committee will announce the nominee's names to the Evergreen Community general discussion list. The Software Freedom Conservancy will host this year's election process using Single Transferable Vote (STV) ballot selection system. Deadline for nominations is 5pm Sunday, March 9th, 2014 . Elizabeth McKinney PINES Program Director Georgia Public Library Service A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta GA 30345 404.235.7141 emckin...@georgialibraries.org http://www.georgialibraries.org/
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds placed prior to status change (Hardy, Elaine)
Hi Deanna, Our libraries typically run reports to get lists of Missing items to check the shelves for them on a regular basis. It's a much more reliable and consistent way of recovering those items that have mysteriously reappeared, plus it helps you get a broad overview of how many items are missing overall and what subject areas they cover for collection maintenance and ordering. Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org - Original Message - From: Deana Cunningham deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 6:23:20 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds placed prior to status change (Hardy, Elaine) Elaine, I see what you are saying, but I can minimize the possibility of an unsuspecting patron placing a hold by making missing items holdable but not OPAC visible. If a staff person should place a hold for the patron without noticing there are no items listed beneath the record in the staff client view of the OPAC, the hold will show up on the pull list and we will go look for it again. Sometimes books mysteriously reappear after traveling through space and time, so looking again is a good thing. If we still can't find it we will notify the patron that the item is missing and see if they want us to try ILL. Michele Can you give me a description of what the checkin modifier retarget local holds does? Does it mean whenever you check in an item it checks to see if there are any local holds that item can fill? What if the item belongs to another branch, and their patrons have holds on it as well? I am not referring to new items here, as we are not the branch that catalogs or enters new items in the system, and we don't have any age limitations on holds. And yes - when I went to admin - server administration - copy statuses and checked in the box for holdable under the statuses missing and trace old holds placed prior to the status change were triggered on check in. Thanks again Evergreen Community! It is grand to learn something new! Deana Cunningham Branch Manager, South Branch Library 1550 S. Campus Dr. Creedmoor, NC 27522 Phone: (919) 528-1752 Fax: (919) 528-1376 deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds placed prior to status change (Hardy, Elaine)
Hi Elaine, Here at the Mary Ann Mongan Branch of the Kenton County Public Library, I have staff to run both missing and trace lists weekly so that we can search the shelves for the items. Also the staff members in both the Adult Services Department and the Circulation Department send items that are on the pull list to trace after 3 days. This allows us to find another copy if need be to fill the hold request and to prevent staff from looking constantly for the same items every day. Hope this helps, Maria Maria Parker Circulation Supervisor Mary Ann Mongan Branch 502 Scott Boulevard Covington, KY 41011 Telephone: 859-962-4060 ext. 4075 Fax :859-261-2676 Email: maria.par...@kentonlibrary.org -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of McCanna, Terran Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 9:40 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds placed prior to status change (Hardy, Elaine) Hi Deanna, Our libraries typically run reports to get lists of Missing items to check the shelves for them on a regular basis. It's a much more reliable and consistent way of recovering those items that have mysteriously reappeared, plus it helps you get a broad overview of how many items are missing overall and what subject areas they cover for collection maintenance and ordering. Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org - Original Message - From: Deana Cunningham deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 6:23:20 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds placed prior to status change (Hardy, Elaine) Elaine, I see what you are saying, but I can minimize the possibility of an unsuspecting patron placing a hold by making missing items holdable but not OPAC visible. If a staff person should place a hold for the patron without noticing there are no items listed beneath the record in the staff client view of the OPAC, the hold will show up on the pull list and we will go look for it again. Sometimes books mysteriously reappear after traveling through space and time, so looking again is a good thing. If we still can't find it we will notify the patron that the item is missing and see if they want us to try ILL. Michele Can you give me a description of what the checkin modifier retarget local holds does? Does it mean whenever you check in an item it checks to see if there are any local holds that item can fill? What if the item belongs to another branch, and their patrons have holds on it as well? I am not referring to new items here, as we are not the branch that catalogs or enters new items in the system, and we don't have any age limitations on holds. And yes - when I went to admin - server administration - copy statuses and checked in the box for holdable under the statuses missing and trace old holds placed prior to the status change were triggered on check in. Thanks again Evergreen Community! It is grand to learn something new! Deana Cunningham Branch Manager, South Branch Library 1550 S. Campus Dr. Creedmoor, NC 27522 Phone: (919) 528-1752 Fax: (919) 528-1376 deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] holds placed prior to status change
Leslie - Unfortunately, if the holds aren't triggered automatically at check in staff has no idea they need to go check and retarget holds for those items. I do assume the cron job to look for holds would find an item with a recently changed status, but I don't know as our's isn't working at the moment. If the hold was placed prior to the item being marked missing (we usually notice something is missing particularly because it shows up on a hold pull list) we already have a PR issue. Making the status holdable but keeping it from being OPAC visible allows the hold to be triggered if the item is checked in but patrons can't see the item to place a hold on it. I just double checked, and even the record is suppressed in the OPAC if I have the box under OPAC visible unchecked in the copy status editor. I would be very interested in knowing about the third parallel process you added to your holds targeter. Are you with the system that runs the cron job to check for holds every 15 minutes for new items and daily for older items? I guess what I'm asking is, what are the three processes? We just have a single cron job set to check for holds every hour (which isn't even working correctly, at the moment). Thanks again - and Happy Friday! Deana Deana Cunningham Branch Manager, South Branch Library 1550 S. Campus Dr. Creedmoor, NC 27522 Phone: (919) 528-1752 Fax: (919) 528-1376 deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds placed prior to status change (Hardy, Elaine)
Hi Deanna, These checkin modifiers were added in Release 2.2 (I believe). From the Launchpad bug: 2 - Retarget Local Holds / Retarget All Statuses When checking in items that are owned by the library and are In process (or, with the second option selected, in general) attempt to find a local hold to retarget. This is intended to help with added an item to a popular bib, and it didn't target anything and/or added an item to a popular bib and it targeted a hold somewhere else before a local hold. Essentially, it works on your items, and runs the hold targeter at each checkin, looking for the holds for pickup at your library. You should be aware that it can slow down checkins due to the hold targeter running. Retarget local holds works for In Process items Add Retarget all statuses (have both checked) to work on other statuses. In all cases it works on your items and your holds. Here’s a link to the full bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/810748 Hope this is helpful, Michele -- Michele Morgan, Technical Assistant North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts mmor...@noblenet.org On Feb 27, 2014, at 6:23 PM, Deana Cunningham deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org wrote: Elaine, I see what you are saying, but I can minimize the possibility of an unsuspecting patron placing a hold by making missing items holdable but not OPAC visible. If a staff person should place a hold for the patron without noticing there are no items listed beneath the record in the staff client view of the OPAC, the hold will show up on the pull list and we will go look for it again. Sometimes books mysteriously reappear after traveling through space and time, so looking again is a good thing. If we still can't find it we will notify the patron that the item is missing and see if they want us to try ILL. Michele Can you give me a description of what the checkin modifier retarget local holds does? Does it mean whenever you check in an item it checks to see if there are any local holds that item can fill? What if the item belongs to another branch, and their patrons have holds on it as well? I am not referring to new items here, as we are not the branch that catalogs or enters new items in the system, and we don't have any age limitations on holds. And yes - when I went to admin - server administration - copy statuses and checked in the box for holdable under the statuses missing and trace old holds placed prior to the status change were triggered on check in. Thanks again Evergreen Community! It is grand to learn something new! Deana Cunningham Branch Manager, South Branch Library 1550 S. Campus Dr. Creedmoor, NC 27522 Phone: (919) 528-1752 Fax: (919) 528-1376 deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.6 Beta Preview Uploaded [RM2.6]
Hi, On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Elliot Voris evo...@slcconline.edu wrote: That makes sense! I didn't think about where OpenSRF was, and just tested with 2.2.2. Everything worked, except osrf_control. I'll keep in mind to double-check the status of OpenSRF next time I test and Evergreen build. I released the beta of OpenSRF 2.3.0 last night; it can be downloaded from http://evergreen-ils.org/opensrf-downloads/ Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
