Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-12 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi all, I was following the discussion from the DIG hack-a-way today, but didn't have time to chime in. +1 to Jason's comments. I think we have some disagreement on the proposed addition to the policy, but, overall, my sense is that the community is fairly happy with how the original policy

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-12 Thread Sharp, Chris
For the record, +1 Chris - Original Message - > From: "Jason Etheridge" > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 2:08:38 PM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladim

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-12 Thread Jason Etheridge
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich wrote: > Vendors, we would appreciate if you could show your support for the Evergreen > community by linking back to our web site at http://www.evergreen-ils.org/. Speaking as an individual, I would prefer that we keep this a require

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-12 Thread Justin Hopkins
Hi everyone! I've been watching this discussion for the last few days now. As it's been going on for quite some time, I've finally decided to share my thoughts. There have been several comments about the work required to maintain this page. Some folks seem to feel it's quite a bit of effort

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Compatible receipt printers

2014-09-12 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
On 2014-09-11, at 16:05 , William McDuff wrote: > While people are answering this, does anyone have any experience with > making a Epson T-T88IV receipt printer with Ubuntu Linux? Hello, William. Not specifically, but I’ve had experience with installing printers on Linux. I may be typing now w

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-12 Thread Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
Perhaps by moving the link-back paragraph out of the “must” section and some minor wording changes the issue of appearing to mandate specific content on third-party websites could be avoided, for example: -- Getting Listed on the Evergreen Paid Support Services Page Companies and non-p

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-12 Thread Rogan Hamby
Here's part of my confusion, we already say that vendors listed are supposed to have an Evergreen offering page. This is copy and pasted from the "Getting Listed on the Evergreen Paid Support Services Page" on the WIKI: "Show support for the Evergreen community by adding a visible link on their E

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Tag 880 indexing for CJK characters

2014-09-12 Thread Elizabeth B. Thomsen
We index the 880s -- you can see an example of a record displaying 880s here: http://evergreen.noblenet.org/eg/opac/record/2720030 Here's a link to search results for titles with Beijing (北京) http://evergreen.noblenet.org/eg/opac/results?query=%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC&qtype=title&fg%3Aadvanced=&locg=1

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Tag 880 indexing for CJK characters

2014-09-12 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Agatha, I'm not 100% familiar with this area of Evergreen, but I know that there is general support for linking of tag 880 to the corresponding entries for display purposes in the catalog. For example, this is an example bib record on one of my test systems: http://theory.biblio.org/eg/opac/re

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-12 Thread Rogan Hamby
So, I admit I'm perplexed by this, you see it as policing vendors rather than helping them to provide it even as an option? On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Jason Stephenson wrote: > Sent from my peronal email because I'm answering in my role as a vendor > and independent community member and no

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Tag 880 indexing for CJK characters

2014-09-12 Thread catalog library
I am a consultant librarian for a new college in Hong Kong which plans to commence in Sept 2015. I came to study the implementation of the system in a local server, and encounter the configuration in indexing the Chinese characters in tag 880s. May I seek a pointer from you that whether the Everg

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

2014-09-12 Thread Jason Stephenson
Sent from my peronal email because I'm answering in my role as a vendor and independent community member and not in my role at MVLC. On 09/11/2014 04:27 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote: > What I'm curious to know from Brad and other vendors is if this is > something they would want to do. There have been a