Re: [Evergreen-general] Paperback vs. Hardcover Records

2024-03-20 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
We also combine different editions and formats like paperback and hardcover on bib records, to reduce "duplicate" records and to make title holds simpler, and also get regular requests to separate paperbacks. However, we are also now using Aspen discovery which groups formats by default, and the

Re: [Evergreen-general] Is anybody interested in talking about Aspen discovery?

2023-06-29 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
*** > -- > > LARL's interested in this topic, > > We are very seriously considering this discovery layer. > > > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 2:57 PM Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general < > evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org> wro

[Evergreen-general] Is anybody interested in talking about Aspen discovery?

2023-06-28 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
Hi all, We recently rolled out the Aspen discovery layer, and are finding a number of features that were in our Evergreen OPAC that are not (yet) supported in Aspen, and that our patrons very vocally miss. I know there are at least a few other Evergreen sites using Aspen, so I'm thinking it

Re: [Evergreen-general] Novelist and record harvesting - API vs. holdings uploads

2023-06-07 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
I think we should be looking very seriously at Evergreen's APIs and improving the documentation, functionality, performance, etc. More vendors and services are moving to APIs, not just for holdings, but user and transaction data as well. Speaking personally, I run holdings uploads for Novelist and

Re: [Evergreen-general] Documentation for item status

2023-05-25 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
Hi Benjamin, Here are a few thoughts, some of which are documented in places... - Besides staff editing an item directly, what are the other conditions that cause the item status to change, and how do they change? - Check In, aka Process Items in Ye Olden Evergreene Tymes, does most

[Evergreen-general] Rethinking staff user accounts, authentication, login, workstations, etc.

2023-03-01 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
Hi, Here in Westchester we centrally manage all of our member libraries' staff user accounts, using Active Directory and LDAP. We manage most staff users' Evergreen access, network access, and devices, through VDI. One major source of friction is that workstation is required at login, and

Re: [Evergreen-general] Money Shcema (was Next Reports Interest Group Meeting - October 26 at 3 PM at the Evergreen Hack A Way!)

2022-10-27 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
een-general@list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote: > On 10/27/22 09:41, Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general wrote: > > Hi all - > > > > Kind of a random nitpicky question about Evergreen data tables... > > > > In the database, I'm looking at money schema, specif

Re: [Evergreen-general] Next Reports Interest Group Meeting - October 26 at 3 PM at the Evergreen Hack A Way!

2022-10-27 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
Hi all - Kind of a random nitpicky question about Evergreen data tables... In the database, I'm looking at money schema, specifically the various billable/billing summary tables and wondering if the transactions included that do not have last billing anything or total owed values were returned

Re: [Evergreen-general] Server-side print templates

2022-08-17 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
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Re: [Evergreen-general] Server-side print templates

2022-08-17 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
Our print templates are saved to the server, and I'm happy to share whatever insights I have. *Lindsay Stratton* *Systems Librarian* Westchester Library System 570 Taxter Rd., 4th Floor Elmsford, NY 10523 lstrat...@wlsmail.org On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:26 PM Frasur, Ruth via Evergreen-general

Re: [Evergreen-general] UPDATE_COPY permission

2022-08-17 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
Yes, replacing a barcode requires the UPDATE_COPY permission. However, if one is attempting to use the Replace Barcode function, from the Circulation Menu or an Actions menu, it will silently fail. Editing a barcode in the holdings editor displays the permission failure dialogue. *Lindsay

Re: [Evergreen-general] Patron Pronouns

2022-04-04 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
Hi Millissa, We've been recommending libraries adding preferred as an alert in Messages > Penalties and Messages. This adds the pronouns in a section below the name, which is a helpful display location, although the text is highlighted red and the "alert" type causes the name to be highlighted

[Evergreen-general] Metabib classes and fields documentation/info

2022-03-23 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
Hi, I'm doing a deep dive into search config and am wondering what the "Buoyant?" and "Restrict?" fields in the config.metabib_class table do/mean. A dokuwiki page, Bibliographic Indexing in Evergreen ( https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=documentation:indexing), is, so far, the only

Re: [Evergreen-general] Most Circulations in Past Year

2022-01-27 Thread Lindsay Stratton via Evergreen-general
Hi Deanna, To add to Terran's suggestion - if your library anonymizes/ages data, you will probably want to use the Combined Aged and Active Circulations source! That will ensure you get all the circs, not just those still associated with patrons. Lindsay *Lindsay Stratton* *Systems Librarian*