[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Solid State Drive

2014-07-23 Thread Sue Ciani
Has anyone implemented solid state drives on their database servers? If so, what was your experience? Did it increase response time? Did you put them only on your database server? Susan Ciani Systems Networking Manager C/W MARS, INC 67 Millbrook Street Suite 201 Worcester, MA 01605

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Solid State Drive

2014-07-23 Thread Rogan Hamby
ESI moved out SCLENDS servers to solid state several years ago. It has been wonderful. Honestly, there are issues I hear about from other consortiums that are only vague memories to me now related to record retrieval. Excuse my brevity, sent from my iPhone -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Solid State Drive

2014-07-23 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Sue, We recently switched to new database server hardware for our production environment at the end of May 2014. This included lots of changes though: faster CPUs with better cache, more memory (and faster too, 1866 MHz, whee!), but also SSDs for our main storage. So far, we're still

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Time to refine: Stripping junk tags during Z39.50 import

2014-07-23 Thread Donald Butterworth
Colleagues, As of Tuesday Asbury Seminary is live on Evergreen. We seem to have all the major components working, so now we are moving into the refining stage. Can someone please point me to the documentation that describes how to strip unwanted tags from a bibliographic record when doing a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Time to refine: Stripping junk tags during Z39.50 import

2014-07-23 Thread Kathy Lussier
Congratulations Don! I think http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.6/_marc_import_remove_fields.html is what you're looking for. I hope this helps! Kathy Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128 kluss...@masslnc.org Twitter:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Time to refine: Stripping junk tags during Z39.50 import

2014-07-23 Thread Donald Butterworth
Thanks Kathy! That's just what the doctor ordered. I take it from the documentation though that there is no way to filter out MESH, Sears and other Thesaurus entries. Is there a way to suppress those entries on the PAC display? Don On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Kathy Lussier

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [RM 2.7] Evergreen 2.7 Alpha - Summary

2014-07-23 Thread Ben Shum
Hello folks, So I just finished putting up the 2.7.0-alpha1 files to the Evergreen website's download page. We are a little behind the scheduled date for alpha1, but the extra time allowed us to close out a few bugs that crept in and also review and add a few more new features. Here are some

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [RM 2.7] Evergreen 2.7 Alpha - Summary

2014-07-23 Thread Holly Brennan
Thanks, Ben! I was just wondering how the schedule was holding up. Homer Public Library, which took a timid approach from the start (launching on EG 2.3.4 when 2.4 was available), is now going to try to keep up with the master releases. After rereading your June 5 update yesterday, I circled

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Time to refine: Stripping junk (trash) tags during Z39.50 import

2014-07-23 Thread Gislaine.Hamelin
There is currently no way to limit via indicators. This would require further programming. Gislaine Hamelin Integrated Library Systems Coordinator |Coordonnatrice du système intégrée de la bibliothèque Information Management Division | Division de la gestion de l'information R.H. Coats Building

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics

2014-07-23 Thread Donald Butterworth
Yeah Kelly! It will be great to have more academic libraries using Evergreen. Just off the top of my head, here are some areas that I would like to see refined by academics. Acquisitions: Order Types. Types like firm orders, periodical renewals, standing orders for monographic series, blanket

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Time to refine:Stripping OCLC alphabetic prefixes and zeros

2014-07-23 Thread Donald Butterworth
One more import issue. Is it possible to strip alphabetic characters and/or initials zeros from incoming OCLC records? Is it possible to include the OCLC number in the general keyword index but not include the initial alphabetic characters and zeros? -- Don Butterworth Faculty Associate /

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics

2014-07-23 Thread Kathy Lussier
PAC: Academic flavor. It might be nice to offer a different look to the PAC that defaults to a fuller bibliographic description. This idea is something that I think would be fairly easy to implement by anyone who can customize the OPAC. You could create an academic_template directory, add the

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen website downtime tomorrow, 24 July, at 16:00 Eastern

2014-07-23 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, The Evergreen website will be down for maintenance tomorrow at roughly 4 p.m. EDT. The purpose of the maintenance is to move the VM that runs the website to the new server that GPLS is kindly lending to the Evergreen community. I anticipate that the downtime will be on the order of an hour,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Solid State Drive

2014-07-23 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 16:20 +, Sue Ciani wrote: Has anyone implemented solid state drives on their database servers? If so, what was your experience? Did it increase response time? Did you put them only on your database server? We implemented on SSD from the start in March 2011 for