[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC decisions

2013-04-12 Thread Donald Butterworth
Colleagues, Our data is loading into Evergreen and we will soon need to make some decisions on the OPAC. One of the features that I will really miss, is the ability to do browse searches. VuFind is an open source OPAC option that includes browse searches. I see that the Pennsylvania Integrated

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC decisions

2013-04-12 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi Don, MassLNC and Bibliomation have sponsored a development project to provide an alphabetical browse in the Evergreen catalog. It should be available in time for 2.5. More details are available at http://blog.esilibrary.com/2013/02/18/930/. Kathy Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] egcon2013: tech track livestream

2013-04-12 Thread Tara Robertson
I'm sitting on the floor of a packed room for David Busby's (awesome) session Searching with Solr. Tune into the livestream here: http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/live/ Here's what's on today (right now it's 10:12am Vancouver time): http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/schedule/#fri Wish you were

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IMPORTANT: Upcoming security release

2013-04-12 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Wednesday, 17 April 2013, the Evergreen release managers and maintainers will be putting out security releases for Evergreen 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and master. The security releases will resolve a serious vulnerability, and we strongly recommend that all Evergreen users install the update

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question regarding Evergreen and transit between libraries

2013-04-12 Thread Deana Cunningham
Hi, We are a county library system that is in the process of moving to Evergreen. Our current ILS does not deal appropriately with transits between smaller branches, and I am wondering if Evergreen will do any better. We have a situation where all items between branches have to go through the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question regarding Evergreen and transit between libraries

2013-04-12 Thread Aaron Zsembery
On April 12, 2013 at 1:28:57 PM Deana Cunningham deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org wrote: Does anyone deal with a similar situation? Can anyone tell me if Evergreen can handle multiple transit times appropriately? In Evergreen, you scan the item to put it into In transit status at the

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2013 Hack-A-Way

2013-04-12 Thread Rogan Hamby
This morning the developers announced the 2013 Hack-A-Way! Last year's experiment in providing the developers a mid year chance to keep up the momentum of collaboration they had at the conference was a big success and we are going to continue it. As we did last year I am asking for potential

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question regarding Evergreen and transit between libraries

2013-04-12 Thread Rene Belling
We are a City/County Library System that has a total of 10 branches scattered across the county. Evergreen sends the item checked in straight to each branch whether it is to fill a request, or to return the item to the owning branch. As Aaron answered, Evergreen doesn't care how long it takes

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC decisions

2013-04-12 Thread Mieke Stroo
Hi Don, The International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam is using Vu-Find with Evergreen. You can check it out on http://search.socialhistory.org. We are of course very happy to answer all questions you might have here on the list. Regards, Mieke Stroo