Hello Evergreen Community,
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Courtney Brown as the incoming
Director of the Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium. Courtney is well known
to many of you based on her roles as Southwest Regional Coordinator from the
Indiana State Library, as well as her
Thank you to everyone who served as candidates for this year's Evergreen
Project Board election. As a note for all newcomers, the Evergreen Project
Board election is an annual event with generally three seats available to fill.
This year saw four seats open. Even so, we had an abundance of
In Aspen, there is a way to sort of do this, but it requires the use of reviews
and a few other things. More investigation would be necessary. (From one
EG-Indiana person to another).
Ruth Frasur Davis (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development
Hello all,
I'm curious if any of you or anyone you know is using TBS point of sale
software with Evergreen. Feel free to email me off-list if you'd like.
Ruth Frasur Davis (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State
Hello all,
Here's one last shot to register to vote for the Evergreen Project Board
elections which will take place next week, beginning on April 1. If you have
not done so already, please fill out the voter registration form which is
available at https://forms.gle/s8CGfVqRfzcdSV368. I will
Hello all,
I am helping to compile information for the 2023 Evergreen Community Annual
Report. One of my tasks is to gather the names of as many new Evergreen
libraries as possible. Some of you have already received emails from me. If
not, it's not because you're not important. It's because
Evergreen Indiana uses separate records if the paperback and hardcover are
dramatically different in terms of pagination/additional contents. We use the
same record is the main difference is just the cover type.
Ruth Frasur Davis (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Hello all,
Thank you to all who submitted nominations to fill open and opening seats on
the Evergreen Project Board. The next step in this process is voter
registration. Anyone who has contributed to the Evergreen Community or is
employed by an institution that utilizes the Evergreen
Hello all,
Thank you to those of you who have submitted nominations for this year’s
election. There are still spots open, and I would encourage you to think, even
if this is not something you are prepared to do, who in your organization MIGHT
be able to meet once a month to discuss and make
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the Evergreen Project Board
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The only thing that you absolutely have to know,
is the location of the library.
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Hello all,
This is a reminder that there ar
Hello all,
This is a reminder that there are FOUR open or opening seats on the Evergreen
Project Board. I'm extending the deadline for nominations (self-nominations
are HIGHLY encouraged) through Friday, March 8. The initial deadline was March
1, and there have been NO nominations yet. The
The Evergreen development team is pleased to announce the release of Evergreen
3.11.4 and 3.12.2.
Both releases contain several bug fixes over their prior versions. Please read
the linked release notes for more details.
* Release Notes -
Hello all,
Is it weird to announce my own job being posted? Maybe, but I'm doing it
anyway.
It has been my great honor to be associated with the Evergreen Indiana Library
Consortium for the past 16 years. We are now a consortium of over 130 public
library systems in Indiana and administered
Congratulations Stephanie! And also, THANK YOU.
Ruth Frasur Davis (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691
From: Evergreen-dev On Behalf Of
Galen
The Evergreen Project Board nomination process is now underway! We need to fill
four (4) open positions, three of which are for three-year terms. The fourth is
for a one-year term that will complete the term of a seat being vacated early.
Any individual who has contributed to the Evergreen
Dear Community Members,
The Evergreen Project Board has been in the process of gathering information to
help formulate a strategic plan for The Evergreen Project, a 501(c)3
organization established to support the Evergreen open-source ILS and its
community of practitioners. Feedback has been
Have any of you implemented Patron Point's Verify system for updating patron
accounts/registering patrons?
Ruth Frasur Davis (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN
Congratulations to Blake Graham Henderson (bmagic) on being named by the
Evergreen Developer Group as the most recent Core Committee for the open-source
Evergreen ILS. Blake is Senior Development Engineer for MOBIUS Consortium.
Ruth Frasur Davis (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library
The Evergreen development team is pleased to announce the release of Evergreen
3.11.3 and 3.12.1.
Both releases contain several bug fixes over their prior versions. Please read
the linked release notes for more details.
* Release Notes -
Adding another +1 for the staff visibility flag/check box in “org unit
configuration.”
Ruth Frasur Davis (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691
From:
Kathy,
Just a question – in the NOBLE public catalog, I see where the library shelving
location groups appear in the Advanced Search. I notice that when a library
shelving location group is selected, it does not populate the included shelving
locations in the “location” field in the same way
Great! This is very intriguing and your use of shelving location groups is
also pretty inspiring.
Ruth Frasur Davis (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317)
Hello all,
This is a reminder that the Evergreen Project Board is working on a strategic
plan and will be holding the 2nd of two community conversations today,
Wednesday, 1/17 at 2pm EST. The board invites anyone interested in planning for
the future of The Evergreen Project as an organization
Hello all,
Just a reminder that there will not be an Evergreen Aspen Interest Meeting
because I'm at the EVGILS Hack-a-way and using the Zoom account. See you next
month.
Ruth Frasur Davis (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
We have found exactly the same thing that Terran describes. Oftentimes, we’ve
had larger, more well-funded libraries indicate that they’re afraid the smaller
libraries will “clear their shelves” of new materials. In reality, we’ve found
that the smaller libraries contribute a ton because they
This is so good. Thank you for all who worked on this. The only additional
thing that I’d like to request is that TEP board meetings be added.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate
Benjamin,
Evergreen Indiana has not yet deployed the BooPAC, so you can get a pretty
accurate throwback at https://evergreen.lib.in.us/eg/opac.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate
Jackie,
In Evergreen Indiana, you might contact Mooresville Public Library (Sandra
Osborn), West Lafayette Public Library (Scott Tracey), and possibly Jackson
County Public Library (Christina Hime). West Lafayette PL is the most recent
to have implemented RFID.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Josh,
We have been dealing with this constantly for the past year.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691
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Hello all,
You're invited to participate in the continuing discussion related to the
relationship between and the integration with Aspen Discovery to Evergreen ILS.
This is not quite and interest group yet, but it's a meeting of interested
stakeholders. I've created a stub agenda for the
Hello all,
The Evergreen Project Board will be meeting today at 11 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. CT / 2
p.m. ET.
The agenda and connection details for today's meeting are at
https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=governance:minutes:2023-07-20.
This meeting is public and community members are
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Cc: Frasur, Ruth
Subject: Re: [Evergreen-general] Patron photos
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click links from unknown senders
Benjamin,
There is, in 3.9, a new field for a patron photo URL. It does require a
separate repository.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317)
There is a known bug that’s had a fix released related to empty call numbers.
Depending on your version, the fix may not be applied yet.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1998494
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development
that
works, but I would be willing to coordinate.
Lindsay Stratton
Systems Librarian
Westchester Library System
570 Taxter Rd., 4th Floor
Elmsford, NY 10523
lstrat...@wlsmail.org<mailto:lstrat...@wlsmail.org>
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 10:33 AM Frasur, Ruth via Evergreen-general
mailto:eve
I will be sending out a Doodle poll to those who have responded to this
question since there seem to be a lot of us. Please note that I won’t be
sending the poll to the general list.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development
Lindsay,
We are looking to deploy Aspen in Indiana, and I’m very interested in what
features your patrons are missing.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN
Are any of you using 24/7 lending library kiosks with Evergreen? If so, what
brand?
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691
Terran,
That’s correct.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691
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Behalf Of Terran McCanna via Evergreen-general
Well,
If it’s set up that way. It can be customized for libraries that want to use
it for Lucky Day stuff, I believe.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN
Yep
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691
From: Diane Disbro
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 9:22 AM
To: Frasur, Ruth
Cc: Evergreen Discussion
We have a display status as well. It functions differently than a shelving
location. If an item is in the display status, it stays in that status until
it is checked back in. Then it goes into reshelving back to its home shelving
location.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen
Hello all,
I'm restarting a conversation in Indiana related to the possibility of a set up
for school libraries to use Evergreen ILS with centralized support. Does your
organization provide support for k-12 schools using Evergreen ILS? I'd love to
talk to you.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Joan,
If I remember correctly, it does not default to that. I think this, however,
something that would be pretty easy for your support vendor to configure or
there might even be a setting already created.
Ruth Frasur (she/they) - Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen
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On Behalf Of Frasur, Ruth via Evergreen-general
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 8:26 AM
To:
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at 8:26 AM Frasur, Ruth via Evergreen-general
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wrote:
Do any of you know of a permission related to print management from the
workstation settings page. Or, is it just a free for all to all staff (with
access to the client)?
Ruth Frasu
.
Good Morning Ruth,
Unless I'm overlooking a permission, I believe you're correct. I think it is
only tied to permission apply_workstation_setting, which also allows staff to
set other workstation preferences.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 8:39 AM Frasur, Ruth via Evergreen-general
Benjamin,
We also use parts in Evergreen Indiana. This is not currently incorporated
into the Serials Module AFAIK. We do have some libraries using that module,
and then they individually add the parts from the staff catalog. There is
currently development in process that addresses some of
n-ils.org>>
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Cc: Frasur, Ruth mailto:rfra...@library.in.gov>>
Subject: [Evergreen-general] Print
Do any of you know of a permission related to print management from the
workstation settings page. Or, is it just a free for all to all staff (with
access to the client)?
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana
Brandie,
You can watch a little bit about hold groups in the New Features webinar we did
in December for Evergreen 3.7. https://youtu.be/BRNIE1LYbFY?t=1710. There’s
also pretty extensive information here.
https://docs.evergreen-ils.org/eg/docs/latest/circulation/basic_holds.html#hold_groups
, 2022 at 3:26 PM Frasur, Ruth via Evergreen-general
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Has your library and/or consortium switched over to using server-side print
templates? If so, can we talk?
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consorti
Has your library and/or consortium switched over to using server-side print
templates? If so, can we talk?
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317)
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 2:18 PM Frasur, Ruth via Evergreen-general
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That
a barcode
in the holdings editor displays the permission failure dialogue.
Lindsay Stratton
Systems Librarian
Westchester Library System
570 Taxter Rd., 4th Floor
Elmsford, NY 10523
lstrat...@wlsmail.org<mailto:lstrat...@wlsmail.org>
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 2:09 PM Frasur, Ruth via Eve
Am I understanding correctly that this permission is required to be able to
replace a barcode? I don't see a specific item barcode permission (but I'm
going to keep hunting until someone stops me).
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community
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Hello all,
I come to you again asking for your knowledge. Thank you to e
preview (obviously you want to
remember to remove it when you're done).
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wrote:
Hello all,
I come to you again asking for your knowledge. Thank you to everyone who
provide
!
Michele
--
Michele M. Morgan, Technical Support Analyst
North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts
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f you were looking for a different staff attribute, you can see what's
available by temporarily putting {{staff | json}} into the template somewhere
and it should output everything available in the preview (obviously you want to
remember to remove it when you're done).
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 10:32 A
Hello all,
I come to you again asking for your knowledge. Thank you to everyone who
provided code snippets and links to code snippets for adding "You saved..."
information to receipt templates. Another request has come through that is a
little more complex. An EI member library is asking
We did put it
into our default Check Out receipt as follows so any of our libraries can use
it by un-commenting it out.
Hope this helps,
Jennifer
Quoting "Frasur, Ruth via Evergreen-general"
:
> Hello all,
>
> This isn't a new topic, but I'm not tracking down the
Hello all,
This isn't a new topic, but I'm not tracking down the information I was
positive existed in a readily accessible place (as yet undiscovered). Do any
of y'all have any macros that you're including in your check out and/or items
out receipts that indicate how much a patron has
I think it’s just about having that preconfigured interface for some circ staff
so they don’t have to worry about check-in modifiers. I agree that it’s
superfluous.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Coordinator
Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State
Hello all,
I received this email from an EI member library and wondered if any of you or
your libraries have implemented or investigated such a thing.
"We would like to activate [my assumption is...log into the client] our logins
via barcode scan. Is there software that can bridge the gap from
Hey all,
Have any of you integrated a cash register drawer with Evergreen for cash/check
payments?
I'm here for all your stories of raspberry
PI-Action_Triggers-tool_shed_generator solutions.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Interim Coordinator - Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Coordinator -
talking about notifications only or
are you also looking for a system that people can call in to and interact with
(renewals, check accounts, etc...) ?
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 1:59 PM Frasur, Ruth via Evergreen-general
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wrote:
I’m back once
I'm back once again to ask for your support.
Evergreen Indiana is investigating telephony solutions to replace our
long-serving asterisk server. In particular, I'm wondering if any of you have
implemented some type of VoIP solution or maybe something I've never heard of
in my whole life.
,
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wrote:
I’m investigating to find any known integrations of Evergreen with Ebsco’s EDS
(I know…that’s redundant).
I know of at least four systems that supply Evergreen ho
Hello all,
I'm investigating to find any known integrations of Evergreen with Ebsco's EDS
(I know...that's redundant).
Ruth Frasur
Interim Coordinator - Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Coordinator - Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
140 N Senate Ave
The Indiana State Library and Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium are seeking
a motivated individual with a community mindset to fill this important role.
The full job description including information about salary and benefits is
located at
Ooph. Well, we are doing this. I'd have to do some significant digging to
figure out exactly how it works. I basically only know that it does.
Ruth Frasur
Interim Coordinator - Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Coordinator - Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Indiana State Library
Irene,
Congratulations on your retirement. You will be missed in the Evergreen
community. Thanks so much for all you’ve done over the years. I know you’ll
be missed in N.C. Cardinal, too.
Ruth Frasur
Interim Coordinator - Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Coordinator – Evergreen
A very, very well deserved congratulations to everyone who has been working on
this project over many years, and a hearty “Thank You” for all of that work.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Interim Coordinator - Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium
Coordinator – Evergreen Community Development Initiative
Ignore this. Sheesh.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Evergreen Development and Support Administrator
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691
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Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2022 2:09 PM
The modified cataloging freeze will be begin at 2:45 p.m. ET. We will let you
know as soon as it is lifted.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Evergreen Development and Support Administrator
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691
We’ve implemented this. We let people know beforehand, and have used it as a
way, #1 to remind libraries to be actively managing their staff accounts and #2
hold individuals with continuing ed requirements (generally catalogers)
accountable for staying current on those requirements.
Ruth
Congratulations Michele Morgan!!
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Evergreen Development and Support Administrator
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691
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Terran McCanna via Evergreen-dev
Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 8:58 AM
To:
Hello all,
On behalf of the intrepid Evergreen Outreach Committee, I come to you
soliciting images from the past year for use in the 2021 Evergreen Project
Annual Report. Traditionally, the annual report would include images from the
various events held during the year. In the time of
Jane,
Super duper congratulations mixed with “oh noo” You are going
to sorely missed, but man, what a pleasure it’s been and I’m so glad you’ll
still be a little connected with us.
Ruth Frasur (she/they)
Evergreen Development and Support Administrator
Indiana State Library
140
Hello all,
The Evergreen Conference Committee is working to plan this year's conference.
We will again be fully online because of continued travel uncertainties. We
need your feedback to get us further down the road. Please fill out the short,
linked survey.
Josh,
Would it possibly be easier to use the booking module for this?
Ruth Frasur (she/her)
Evergreen Development and Support Administrator
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691
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Seems like this is something that could be set up using an action/trigger. To
have the “re-request” option, there’d likely need to be some deeper involvement
to query recently cancelled holds and also provide appropriate links for
replacing the hold.
Ruth Frasur (she/her)
Evergreen
Tiffany,
Can we talk about the Expanded Dataset a little during the meeting today? I
know it’s kind of last minute.
Ruth Frasur (she/her)
Evergreen Development and Support Administrator
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-3691
From: Evergreen-general On
Hello all,
I'm at the "not quite beginning" point of gathering information for a project
related to 3rd party patron engagement services such as Patron Point and Orange
Boy and their interaction with Evergreen ILS and would covet your input. Are
there other similar services/companies that you
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