Re: [Evergreen-general] Hold Notices Once per Day?

2024-04-15 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
We limit SMS and Phone hold pickup notices to only send out one a day, but it isn't at a certain time. We send them out within 20-30 minutes of the last item for that patron being put on the holdshelf. With email hold pickup notices, we don't try to limit the number per day, but we do wait to

Re: [Evergreen-general] Chromebox for computer labs?

2024-01-26 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello Kevin, good to hear from you. We currently use Cassie with our chromebooks that we checkout for in library use along with Google Workspace management. We check them out for the day, so we don't really need the Cassie computer management, but using it for printing made that part easy.

Re: [Evergreen-general] Sharing plans for changing library selector in Angular staff catalog

2024-01-23 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
We have several locations that staff make use of but are hidden from the public catalog. ILL Locations - We have a central ILL OU for each region. That isn't something that most staff need, only the ILL staff. We have a local customization to hide ILL items from staff search results unless the

Re: [Evergreen-general] Images from URLS in MARC records?

2024-01-03 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
If I was going to tackle this as a one off project, and wanted to make use of existing functionality, I would get a list of all the bibs and image urls, and then make use of a bash script or regular expressions to download all the images, name them with the bib id and save them in the proper

[Evergreen-general] osrf_http_translator - EG 3.11.1 - Cache error and failed transaction begin

2023-10-24 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello, I noticed that with our EG 3.11.1 system it isn't possible to create a new part in the AngularJS catalog/Dojo interface, /eg/conify/global/biblio/monograph_part?r=188963 for example. When the save button is pressed to create a new part, there is a CONNECT call and then a call to

Re: [Evergreen-general] Activating POs stopped working a few days after 3.11 upgrade

2023-10-13 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
g to test, at least! >> >> Tiffany >> >> Tiffany Little, PINES Bibliographic Projects Manager >> >> -- >> >> Georgia Public Library Service >> >> 2872 Woodcock Blvd, Suite 250 | Atlanta, GA 30341 >> &g

Re: [Evergreen-general] Activating POs stopped working a few days after 3.11 upgrade

2023-10-13 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
> > Join our email list <http://georgialibraries.org/> for stories of Georgia > libraries making an impact in our communities. > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 9:35 AM Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general < > evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote: > >&g

[Evergreen-general] Activating POs stopped working a few days after 3.11 upgrade

2023-10-13 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello, I'm looking for troubleshooting advice. We upgraded to 3.11 on Saturday, and for the first two days we were open (10/10 and 10/11) new orders worked fine. EDI messages generated and sent to B, B generated responses. On Thursday afternoon my coworker that handles acquisitions and

Re: [Evergreen-general] Ways to handle shelving location names?

2023-08-14 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
We went the other way, we have 2 shelving locations. Main and New. So we basically don't use them. We float everything between our 23 branches and LINK Sites(small sites open less than 10 hours a week). So dealing with floating with different shelving locations from one location to another

Re: [Evergreen-general] Baker & Taylor Content Cafe Cover Art

2023-08-04 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
t; *Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium* >> >> *Evergreen Community Development Initiative* >> >> Indiana State Library >> >> 140 N. Senate Ave. >> >> Indianapolis, IN 46204 >> >> (317) 232-3691 >> >> >> >>

[Evergreen-general] Baker & Taylor Content Cafe Cover Art

2023-08-03 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello, is anyone else tracking all the stale cover art that they come across through Content Cafe? I'm getting frustrated with it because the B content cafe support staff have stopped responding to my emails about the issues, and none of the reported issues ever get resolved. I have a list of 20

Re: [Evergreen-general] EDI - Vendor changed the ISBN/Identifier - how to deal with

2023-04-10 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
| tlit...@georgialibraries.org > > Join our email list <http://georgialibraries.org/> for stories of Georgia > libraries making an impact in our communities. > > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 12:32 PM Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general < > evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org>

Re: [Evergreen-general] SMS notice bounce backs

2023-02-08 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
level? > > Diane Disbro > Pronouns: she/her > Circulation Coordinator > Scenic Regional Library > 251 Union Plaza Drive > Union, MO 63084 > (636) 583-0652 ext 110 > ddis...@scenicregional.org > > > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 11:31 AM Josh Stompro via Evergreen

[Evergreen-general] EDI - Vendor changed the ISBN/Identifier - how to deal with

2023-02-08 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello, we have an EDI order where the ISBN that we sent in the initial order was changed by B to something different in the Invoice response. So the item still shows up as backordered even though we have it and it was included in the invoice message. We have tried adding the new ISBN to the bib,

Re: [Evergreen-general] SMS notice bounce backs

2023-02-08 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Just in case you were looking for alternatives, We switched from the email sms gateway to using an API provided by a vendor (flowroute) back in 2018 and that works so much better. No need to know the carrier of the user. And we can check each message for deliverability with another api call later

Re: [Evergreen-general] How do you keep your OCLC holdings up to date?

2023-02-08 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello Benjamin, we use the OCLC Metadata api to keep our holdings up to date in OCLC on a twice daily basis. It is a process based off of a custom db table that just holds all the OCLC numbers found in our DB, and a few bash and perl scripts. We don't try and track last copies being withdrawn,

Re: [Evergreen-general] Filling hold items from home library first

2022-09-21 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello Mark, just to add to the answers so far. There is a feature called hold stalling that was intended to address this... but it has downsides in its pre 3.8 release state. Hold stalling turns off opportunistic capture for a certain period after a hold is placed, to try and make sure that the

Re: [Evergreen-general] Untargeted expiration

2022-09-21 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
I have a memory of that message being caused by the hold feature that loops through item circ locations in sequence for targeting.. If it tries all possible locations a certain number of times, and an item isn't captured it cancels the hold with that message. Feature may be called target loops?

[Evergreen-general] Auto disable/enable hotspots - Franklin Pintrac - mobile beacon

2022-08-05 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello, we are using Mobile Beacon to provide service for hotspots for checkout, and since we are using Franklin T9/T10 hotspots, we can make use of Franklin's pintrac MDM to configure and manage them. We currently are manually disabling them when they are a few days overdue, and then manually

Re: [Evergreen-general] Phone notification solutions

2022-05-25 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
We have been running Asterisk + VOIP sip trunks through flowroute for our hold pickup and overdue calls since 2016 or so. It mostly works, but we have a few problem rural telecoms in our area that often give us trouble. I've tried various different sip providers (Twillio, Telnyx) and they all

[Evergreen-general] Quipu eCard experience

2022-04-15 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello, we are looking at implementing the Quipu eCard service. I see that several large systems[1] have gone live with it and the integration code has been shared[2]. I'm just curious how the setup process went and how the day to day usage has been with it? Do you use it to create eCards or

Re: [Evergreen-general] Floating and non matching shelving locations

2022-01-18 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
; > evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote: > >> Hi Josh, >> >> Just want to flag that the Shelving Location Order feature currently >> doesn't work. >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1861526 >> >> Jennifer >> >> Quoti

Re: [Evergreen-general] Floating and non matching shelving locations

2022-01-14 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
ral@list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Just want to flag that the Shelving Location Order feature currently > doesn't work. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1861526 > > Jennifer > > Quoting Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general > : > &

Re: [Evergreen-general] Address Autocomplete Feature

2022-01-14 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello, I just wanted to check one more time to see if anyone else would have any interest in working on an address autocomplete feature with us. This is the feature that allows you to just start typing a house number and it would give you a list of all the valid addresses that start with that

[Evergreen-general] Floating and non matching shelving locations

2022-01-14 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello, We currently don't make much use of shelving locations in our systems because we don't standardize them at all our locations. So one branch will have a separate shelf for Westerns while another will shelve all adult fiction together. One site will shelve all the Juvenile Fiction and J

[Evergreen-general] Address Autocomplete Feature

2021-11-10 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello, we are interested in adding in postal address autocomplete via a commercial service such as SmartyStreets. We would like it to be added to any address related form in evergreen, but would probably start out with the patron edit/registration form. Has anyone already worked on something

Re: [Evergreen-general] Hourly / End of the day checkouts, in building use checkouts

2021-10-26 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Jeff, thank you very much for letting me know about this behavior. We just tried it out and this seems like the simplest solution to get us most of the way there. Josh On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 12:46 PM Jeff Godin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 1:32 PM Josh Stompro via Evergreen-gene

Re: [Evergreen-general] Hourly / End of the day checkouts, in building use checkouts

2021-10-26 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
trator* > > Indiana State Library > > 140 N. Senate Ave. > > Indianapolis, IN 46204 > > (317) 232-3691 > > > > *From:* Evergreen-general < > evergreen-general-boun...@list.evergreen-ils.org> *On Behalf Of *Josh > Stompro via Evergreen-general > *Sent:

[Evergreen-general] Hourly / End of the day checkouts, in building use checkouts

2021-10-26 Thread Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general
Hello, we are looking at circulating laptops for in building use only, and are looking into options for how to handle the checkout timing. We would like to check out each item until the end of the day. So if a branch closes at 9pm, then we would always set the due date to 9pm for any checkouts