[Evergreen-general] Evergreen 3.8.0 released

2021-11-05 Thread Galen Charlton via Evergreen-general
Evergreen 3.8.0 is now available for download from https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/ This is a major release with various new features and enhancements, including: * Angular rewrites of several staff interfaces: Acquisitions administration Holdings maintenance and item attributes editor

[Evergreen-general] Cataloging Group – Name Change & Nov Meeting Date Change

2021-11-05 Thread Jennifer Weston via Evergreen-general
*NAME CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT* The Evergreen Cataloging Working Group is changing its name! The group will now be known as the* Cataloging Interest Group.* The name change reflects our desire to cast a wider net into the Evergreen community to connect with anyone interested in Cataloger or

[Evergreen-general] Hack-A-Way 2021 and 2022

2021-11-05 Thread Rogan Hamby via Evergreen-general
I'd like to thank everyone that came out to the Hack-A-Way this year, our tenth! Again, many thanks to Evergreen Indiana for hosting us this year and to Keith Kaffenberger for his hard work in putting the event together. However, as one Hack-A-Way ends another one begins being planned, hopefully

Re: [Evergreen-general] See yesterday's pull list?

2021-11-05 Thread Terran McCanna via Evergreen-general
I'm excited about the new settings, I think these could definitely reduce unnecessary transits for us. Since 3.8 will also be adding geolocation data to org units, another great wish list project would be for the holds targeter to be able to take geographic distance into account as well. Terran

Re: [Evergreen-general] See yesterday's pull list?

2021-11-05 Thread Rogan Hamby via Evergreen-general
Hi John, You are correct and it has been merged so it will be in 3.8 when it is released. On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 9:54 AM John Amundson via Evergreen-general < evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote: > Hello, all. > > CW MARS had this same issue, so we contracted with Equinox to try to

Re: [Evergreen-general] See yesterday's pull list?

2021-11-05 Thread John Amundson via Evergreen-general
Hello, all. CW MARS had this same issue, so we contracted with Equinox to try to improve the situation Michele describes. This resulted in 2 new library settings: - "Pickup Library Soft Stalling Interval" - "Pickup Library Hard Stalling Interval" The first is an alternative to the

Re: [Evergreen-general] See yesterday's pull list?

2021-11-05 Thread Morgan, Michele via Evergreen-general
Hi Diane, We have also run into the situation you describe in our consortium. Patrons place holds all hours of the day and night, so it's not infrequent that a patron places a hold at their library for an item that's on the shelf, and a day or two later, find that another library's item is in