Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile Version of the Evergreen OPAC

Hi Amy: One of the nice things about the TPAC is that it has exactly the same HTML in mobile as in the desktop version. The only difference is in the CSS, which changes how things are displayed (and in the case of status, whether it is displayed), by checking the screen width. In this case, if y

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Anyone willing to answer some general questions about Evergreen ILS?

I'm willing to provide answers. It might make sense to just post your questions to the mailing list, that way the people who are most familiar with particular aspects of Evergreen can answer those questions--for example, there might be libraries that use the built-in self-check functionality who ca

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Chrome OS in consortia?

Our university library has been using Chromebooks for its quick lookup catalogue stations for several years now. They're cheap, easy to use, and easy to centrally administer. You can set them up so that they automatically begin a new session after a certain period of time, protecting those who for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Course Reserves

At Laurentian, we're using https://github.com/dbs/course-reserves (which you can see in action at https://biblio.laurentian.ca/reserves/ ) which we developed and released under the very permissive 3-clause BSD license. It's based on the PHP app that Kevin Beswick created for us 7 years ago that si

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] HTML entities in MARC Record editor

we get what we pay for. > > > > I’m tempted to just use regexp_replace against biblio.record_entry to try > and clean these up, like the example here: https://wiki.evergreen-ils. > org/doku.php?id=scratchpad:random_magic_spells#how_to_ > prune_a_tag_under_the_hood > > &g

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] HTML entities in MARC Record editor

Hi Josh: Quick question: XUL or web staff client? And version? In theory, what you see is what you should get - MARC has no idea what HTML entities are, so "&" in the editor should be displayed as "&" (properly escaped, of course) in the catalogue. If you see & in the biblio.record_entry.mar

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web Client on IOS

I'll add this to the bug, but the underlying reason is that on iOS all browsers are forced to use the Safari browser's engine; this means that any of the standards-based enhancements that Firefox and Chrome bring to other platforms, such as Service Workers (used in the Web Staff Client for offline

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds in the public catalog

ce holds regardless of availability. Signed-off-by: Art Rhyno Signed-off-by: Dan Scott On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: > Dan, > > > > Is this the real fix? The link will then go away on every screen? > > > > That would be wonderful! >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds in the public catalog

I think you want to try "ctx.holds_block.enabled = 'true';" in config.tt2 in your public catalogue configuration file. On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: > All – > > > > IS there a way to prevent the “place a hold” link from showing up in the > public catalog, everywhere??

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Some help setting up.

Bit of a wild guess, but Apache needs to be started or restarted *after* the opensrf services. On Nov 6, 2017 2:38 AM, "Chazya Sinkamba" wrote: Hello, So I set up an evergreen server following the instructions here: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.11/ some months back and loaded sample data (co

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSRF 2.5.1 released

Awesome, thanks! On Sep 12, 2017 9:04 AM, "Galen Charlton" wrote: > Hi Dan, > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Dan Scott wrote: > > Does upgrading OpenSRF from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 just require a restart of > > Evergreen to pick up the changes via the shared librar

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSRF 2.5.1 released

Does upgrading OpenSRF from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 just require a restart of Evergreen to pick up the changes via the shared libraries, or is a recompile of Evergreen required as well? On Sep 11, 2017 5:30 PM, "Galen Charlton" wrote: > Hi, > > OpenSRF 2.5.1 is now available. 2.5.1 is a major bugfix rele

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Z39.50 import in 2.12.4 throws errors

Hi Linda: I have also added this comment to bug $ 1713324 - after our upgrade to 2.12.4 from 2.10, which included a reinstall on Ubuntu 16.04 and a new ejabberd configuration, we had failures when retrieving Z39.50 searches with lots of records in the result set. It looks like that problem was du

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine & pocket labels - Evergreen 2.11

Hi Dan! There are "Spine and pocket label font" settings in the Library Settings Editor that _should_ enable you to set the policies for your library's labels, per http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.11/_settings_overview.html, and which will also hopefully be carried over into the implementation in t

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Linking from OCLC WorldCat to Evergreen

ch I _think_ is the stock Evergreen configuration. Your mileage may vary, though! On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Dan Scott wrote: > Hi Irene: > > Here's what we use (taken from our FirstSearch configuration information, > as login changes to the WorldCat Registry late last year seem

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Linking from OCLC WorldCat to Evergreen

Hi Irene: Here's what we use (taken from our FirstSearch configuration information, as login changes to the WorldCat Registry late last year seem to have removed my ability to access the info that way...) ISBN: https://example.org/eg/opac/results?qtype=identifier%7Cisbn&query= ISSN: https://examp

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Book Jacket Images in TPAC

OpenLibrary here. If we had more person-hours, I'd love to have our staff scanning covers for new books (which are the biggest source of blanks in OpenLibrary) so that everyone would benefit, but then we'd likely need to double-catalogue the books (once in Evergreen, once in OpenLibrary). Ah well.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] FW: Evergreen Acquistions vs some other method

We use Evergreen Acquisitions. I'm not sure it's possible to use all of it, there's a lot there. What we use is basic Fund management, POs, and invoices so that selectors can track their budgets accurately over the course of the year. We're not using EDI or MARC Order Records yet. We treat everyth

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Proposal for release manager

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote: > From my stand point in looking forward to rolling out the web based staff > client at service locations I like this plan quite a bit. I also want to > see finding ways to make SIP more secure since (tragically) I don't think > vendors will be

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Adding BookCovers to Evergreen ILS

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Geoff Sams wrote: > We have some folks who I’ve encouraged to start doing this within our > consortium, to great effect. It’s also been helpful with that handful of > incorrect images here and there. > Awesome! As an OpenLibrary user, I thank you and your conso

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Adding BookCovers to Evergreen ILS

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Jayaraj JR wrote: > We are currently on 2.8.1. We have observed that a lot of titles appear in > the catalog without book jacket images. It is configured to use from > OpenLibrary book covers. How can we add multiple service providers like > Librarything for image

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Duplicate entry in authors.tt2 (is this bug 958954?)

It sounds like there are a few issues here, let me see if I can separate them out: a) bug: relator term $e is not being recognized as the relator, but is included in the text display along with parenthetical notation for the default relationship (e.g. 700 = (added author)) b) bug: multiple $4 rela

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Resetting karma in IRC

+1; also please store a copy of the sqlite database somewhere (working/random.git?) in case some day we want to look back at how karma ebbs and flows over the years (after returning from a weekend vacation with no internet access. None! No cold sweats even.) On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Kath

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Authority records

Hi Eva: On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Cerninakova Eva wrote: > Hi all, > > > We are currently trying to implement Czech National authorities into > Evergreen and have some question concerning authority records (and may be > contribution to the debate on authorities during Evergreen conferen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Format of $0 identifiers for authority control

Hi Jane: On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Jane Sandberg wrote: > Hi all, > > When I authorize a heading in the cataloging interface, it adds a $0 > subfield in the form (LINN)190374, in which LINN is the name of my > consortium, and 190374 is an identifier taken from the authority > record's 001

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and Zotero - encoding problems

users of SuperCat feeds) happy can do so until we figure out how to fix the problem properly. Dan On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Linda Jansova wrote: > Thank you in advance, Dan! > > Linda > > > On 04/08/2015 05:29 PM, Dan Scott wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and Zotero - encoding problems

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Linda Jansova wrote: > Hi, > > Our colleagues in Jabok Library would like to promote the usage of their > Evergreen OPAC as Zotero source data so that their patrons (and others of > course) would be able to import individual bibliographic records to Zotero > refer

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC and bootstrap

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:24:38PM -0400, Michael Schell wrote: Hi All, With the move toward using the bootstrap framework for the web client I was wondering if there have been discussions about integrating it into the TPAC? This is something we have been working on at our library so I thought I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing authority record via Z39.50

Hi Eva: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 01:05:32PM +0100, Cerninakova Eva wrote: Hi all, I would like to ask you for comments or Ideas in following problem: We are planing implementation of Czech nation authorities in our Evergreen at the time. Considering various workflow scenarios we discovered that

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] About Evergreen OPAC for Mobile Devices

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Tony Bandy wrote: > Hi Dan, folks, > > > > Thanks for the note! Currently we’re running 2.7.2 of Evergreen. I know > we have been working with the CSS to adjust colors, and the table for > checked out items for this particular library, but I wasn’t sure if that

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Search URL's for evergreen opac

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Walz, Jennifer wrote: > All – > > > >I had asked previously for help with a search form / widget for our web > page. THANK YOU for the guidance. > > > > Now we need to link our OCLC / Firstsearch interface. They ask for > search strings. Is there a stand

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Insert relators in evergreen database

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1407507 may be what you're looking for... On 30 Jan 2015 13:29, "Erick AR" wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am trying to do something but I'm stuck > I want to add this list of relators to the evergreen database > > http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relacode.html

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Books on Reserve in Evergreen

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Janice Huber < janice.hu...@asburyseminary.edu> wrote: > Can anyone point me in the right direction to figure out how Evergreen > handles books on Reserve? > Meaning books placed on a reserve shelf for a professor, for a particular > class, for that term to circul

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Making patron data invisible for other libraries in consortium?

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, skolk...@upcmail.cz wrote: > Hi, > > Here in the Czech Republic we are just considering a pilot project for a > simple consortium of two libraries (so far, in our country there are only > single plantings). However, the two libraries would be two separate legal >

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

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:11:50AM -0400, Kelly Drake wrote: Dear Evergreen Community, For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of 10 academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration to Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and spoke with mem

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.5.2 Subject Browse Index

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 06:10:11PM +, Janet Schrader wrote: I apologize if I'm misunderstanding this. Will the separators cause the subject in the browse list to behave the same way the headings do in our bib record display? I think subject headings in browse and in the bib record should b

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client update 2014-05-09 / UI lists for sprint 1; packaging, etc.

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Bill Erickson wrote: > Hi All, > > I don't have any specific feedback requests this time, but feedback is of > course always welcome / appreciated. > > http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:browser_staff:dev_notes Feedback: this looks awesome, Bill. Your ch

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Call for vote: Release Manager 2.7

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:01:45PM -0400, Jeff Godin wrote: Greetings! I'd like to call for a vote on Ben Shum's proposal to be Release Manager for Evergreen 2.7. Ben's proposal can be found in the list archives: http://georgialibraries.markmail.org/thread/b23u62e6rhebjkhk or http://libmail.geo

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] spine label printers

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Elisabeth Keppler wrote: > Ours still look good, too. We do cover them with Scotch 845 book tape which > is UV-resistant, so that might help. We found that the stock thermal labels, when exposed to sunlight or fluorescent light (read: our entire library), faded q

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser staff feedback request / integration

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:25:56AM -0400, McCanna, Terran wrote: My preference would be to leave the existing client as is (with the exception of bug fixes, etc.), but to offer the browser-based modules as options once they become available. My reasons for this are: 1) It will allow for indept

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Minutes of the resource allocator summit

Hi, I unfortunately wasn't able to attend the Resource Allocator Summit but wanted to reply to a few of the points in the minutes; hopefully Ben & Kathy's report out to the community will be able to address some of these questions. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Galen Charlton wrote: > Equin

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Time to upgrade demo.evergreencatalog.com to 2.6?

Hi: I see that http://demo.evergreencatalog.com is still running 2.5.0; now that we're rapidly approaching 2.6 (fingers crossed), would it be possible to upgrade it to 2.6? I can only imagine that this would help documentation writers, testing, training, and marketing efforts if we can link to ex

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] "undo-ing" copy location edits

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Holly Brennan wrote: > We just started using a shelving location of ‘Display’ for items that > have been pulled from their normal locations in order to be… you guessed > it… on display. (Currently it’s **Fossils**) > > > > Using a copy bucket to change the locatio

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Auto-Renewal Functionality

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Scott Thomas wrote: > I am wonder if this type of functionality has ever been discussed for > Evergreen: an item would be renewed automatically at the end of a loan > period assuming there are no holds on the item or anything other issues > with the patron or the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Macros

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:27 AM, tmccanna wrote: > Yes, we just tested the library URL linking at PINES and it works great! > We'll be implementing it soon. > Good to hear! Thanks to MassLNC for sponsoring the development of the feature :) As a heads-up, in 2.6 we've added "Library info pages" t

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.6-alpha1 Available for Testing [RM2.6]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Jeff Godin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Dan Scott wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Dan Wells wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> The first packaged release of Evergreen 2.6, al

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.6-alpha1 Available for Testing [RM2.6]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Dan Wells wrote: > Hello all, > > The first packaged release of Evergreen 2.6, alpha1, is now available for > download and testing. > > > *http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/previews/Evergreen-ILS-2.6-alpha1.tar.gz*

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Macros

On 22 Jan 2014 19:51, "Michael Peters" wrote: > > Buzzy, > > > > Holly’s suggestion is a great one, and makes for an easy workaround. > > > > For what it’s worth, library website URL isn’t stored anywhere in the database, but perhaps it could be a good addition to actor.org_unit? Actually, it's a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Updating the Roster of Evergreen Libraries

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich < alexey.la...@mnsu.edu> wrote: > On 2013-12-20, at 13:32 , Erica Rohlfs wrote: > > > Happy Holidays! > > > > I would like to begin updating the Roster of Evergreen Libraries on the > Evergreen Wiki. It’s been on my to-do list for a few

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] It's Newsletter Time!

Would it be worthwhile prodding each of the release managers for an update? It would be nice to see something about 2.6 in the newsletter (roadmap, timeline, release manager, process enhancements, etc), too, now that 2.5 has hit release candidate. The last dev meeting touched on some of this, IIRC.

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen paid support services: Coffeecode Consulting

Hello, I would like to maintain a listing on the "Evergreen Paid Support Services" per the recently adopted Evergreen Oversight Board policy. Name: Coffeecode Consulting Contact person: Dan Scott Contact email: d...@coffeecode.net Web site: http://consulting.coffeecode.net (spe

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bug bounties

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 05:35:04PM -0400, Rogan Hamby wrote: > I haven't heard any dissents and at least two in favors of (you and I) so > in the spirit of a meritocracy I would say Kathy that at the least if you > want to come up with a model of how to handle it, go ahead and let's start > poking

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC Subfield suppression

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:20:31PM -0400, Donald Butterworth wrote: > Oh blast! I meant to include that information. I'm sorry. We are on 2.3.2 > so that explains why it isn't working. Thanks for bearing with us as we > wade deeper into the pool. In the IRC channel, Ben Shum also noted that the 2.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC Subfield suppression

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:31:13PM -0400, Donald Butterworth wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We just downloaded a title in Chinese and the subfield $6 is displaying as > text in the 245 field. Plus the linking 880 tags are not displaying at all. > I don't suppose there's a check-box somewhere that will

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] MARC templates to share?

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Tony Bandy wrote: > Thanks Dan, I saw the Conifer link that was mentioned here, > http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:customization:cat, > but it gave me a 404 and the page never loaded.I will head on over to > the git.evergreen-ils.or

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] MARC templates to share?

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Tony Bandy wrote: > Hi all, > > We've been working on adding some MARC templates to our system and saw the > link mentioned here in the documentation, > http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.1/html/catalogingtemplates.html. > > Does anyone have any MARC templates they c

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SQL Query Performance

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:43:18AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > On 04/26/2013 11:17 AM, Galen Charlton wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Martha Driscoll > >wrote: > >>In our database of 3,161,189 copies, cutting out the deleted copies > >>eliminates only 904 copies.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] EG2013 dinner for family attendees?

Spot (somewhere on the spectrum of Swiss Chalet or Kelsey's, they > have "Pirate Paks" which is like food in a boat) > - Red Robin (sit-down burgers, Robson @ Thurlow, I have never been) > > Have fun! > > ~J > > > > > > > > > >

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] EG2013 dinner for family attendees?

As I'm sitting in the airport with my spouse, my 6 year old, and my 4 year old, I was wondering if anyone else attending the conference with children in tow would be interested in getting together for a dinner to give the children a chance to meet and significant others a chance to (potentially) co

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Heads-up: PostgreSQL security release coming on April 4, 2013

As Evergreen is built with PostgreSQL at the core, the following PostgreSQL news announcement should be of concern to Evergreen administrators: """ Upcoming PostgreSQL Security Release: April 4, 2013 Posted on 2013-03-28 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group will be releasing a security update

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cucumber for QA

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 03:49:26PM -0800, James Fournie wrote: > Hi there, > > One of the suggestions I made with regard to QA in the recent IRC > meeting, was to look into Cucumber for testing. I thought I'd follow > up a bit. Caveat that this is not a QA silver bullet, just exploring > some t

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen and QA

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:38:22PM -0500, W. Brad LaJeunesse wrote: > Fellow Evergreeners: > > At the "future of the staff client" developer meeting Quality Assurance > (QA) came up repeatedly. This is a serious issue that affects every one of > us. It obviously affects all users of Evergreen, whe

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: Question for List-Serve -- Thanks and New Question

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 09:48:42AM -0500, Donald Butterworth wrote: > Thanks everyone for the replies. The “unapi” solution seems to do the > trick. > > > > More of an academic question now that I have a solution (had actually found > the Examples link and worked through all the possibilities

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: Question for List-Serve

A technical response: Substitute marcxml-full for mods in the URL. On Feb 6, 2013 4:14 PM, "Donald Butterworth" < don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu> wrote: > Wise ones, > > We use a freeware product called JTacq to > enhance our tech services workflow. One of t

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Implementing and using Evergreen Serials

We use MFHD serials, which may not be the serials your academic customer is looking for. However, our cataloguers like it, and it works well for providing a view of what you have in the collection, but it doesn't support circulation or claiming, and checkin is a matter of copying & editing a MARC f

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:07:58PM -0500, Kathy Lussier wrote: > Hi Alexey, > >>I think a lot of the "Is it going to be a huge pain to upgrade? Or is it > >>just a minor upgrade?" angst would be diminished if we (devs and release > >>managers) did a better job of communicating expectations about ea

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 03:21:08PM -0500, Rogan Hamby wrote: > I would disagree. It's not this one: > http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=versioning > > But, I would propose that we are following one based largely on the > developer's perception of what are major and minor features and i

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Sending E Mail Notification

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 04:04:38PM +0530, Jayaraj JR wrote: > Dear Sir, > > E Mail notifications are not working with our Evergreen installation. > We have configured action / trigger mechanism. Is Evergreen uses any > particular protocol for sending e mail. We are using Evergreen 2.2 in > U

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Updating patron expiration dates??

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 01:02:12PM -0500, Tony Bandy wrote: > Hi all, > > Does group membership affect the editing abilities of an account on > Evergreen? > > For example, one of the local sys admins at our libraries is attempting to > go in and update their staff accounts expiration dates. For

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error: Upgrade the Evergreen database schema

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:09:58AM -0500, Jason Stephenson wrote: > Quoting Jason Stephenson : > > >Quoting Araik Manukyan : > > > >>Dear Jason, > >> > >>We have simply added *-v eg_version=2.3.1* to the script so that it became > >> > >>*psql -U evergreen -h localhost -v eg_version=2.3.1 -f > >>v

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Ripping slony out for replication

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:24:37PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Hello, > > So I was told that if I was able to rip slony out for replication of > PostgreSQL with Evergreen, that the Evergreen community would be > interested in this. > > Well, you can, easily. If you are running PostgreSQL 9

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Academic bibliographic reserves

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:35:27AM -0500, Donald Butterworth wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We are still thinking through our organizational structure and have run > into the issue of academic reserves. Although the titles we check out for > material that is placed on reserve is diminishing every year,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] JSPAC removal blockers, what and which are they?

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:21:36PM -0500, Mike Rylander wrote: > Well, do don't really know, exactly. But, thanks to Kathy Lussier and Ben > Shum, we learned at the dev IRC meeting this week that we have a good > starting point. It lives at > http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:opac

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Status of new book: "Evergreen in Action"

So stay tuned - we'll have an update for you soon! 1. https://plus.google.com/u/0/102508317458716178274 / http://twitter.com/search?q=%23egils 2. http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=865 3. "We" are Lindsay Stratton, Robert Soulliere, Kathy Lussier, Jim Keenan, Dan Scott 4. Like ad

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Client 2.3.0 grabbing and not releasing memory

On Dec 4, 2012 8:46 AM, "Galen Charlton" wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Bob Neeper wrote: >> >> The only solution so far has been to completely exit the client many, many times during the day. >> Our director said Saturday, the East CIRC (Has the most activity) client took

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] All Search Results are not showing in TPAC

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 11:10:01AM +0530, Jayaraj JR wrote: > Dear Sir, > > We are using Evergreen 2.2.2. While searching using a keyword through JSPAC > will display correct results. When the same search is made using TPAC, it > will also show the same number of results. > > But the details of t

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] I STILL need your stories! (Evergreen Newsletter)

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Amy Terlaga wrote: > Thanks, Dan - I can certainly highlight the new committers. And Kathy's > writing something up about the last developer's meeting. > > Are you saying you can on this? > >Thomas and I went to the Google Summer of Code Mentors' summit, but we >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] circs.tt2 files

The git commit log is generally helpful when you want to trace changes and the associated rationale for changes. In this case, you're probably looking at http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=commitdiff;h=f64b4a4aca8884e46e1e60c7a4a38fd7e9157952- the old style was fine for an English-onl

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] I STILL need your stories! (Evergreen Newsletter)

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:33:32PM -0500, Amy Terlaga wrote: > Hi all- > > There's still time to get your Evergreen news in! You have until this > Friday, end of day. > > Don't miss your opportunity to be featured in the November/December issue of > the Evergreen newsletter. > > (Seriously, I'm

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] TPAC [%content%]

Hi Michael: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:21:17PM -0500, Michael Schell wrote: > I've been playing with creating a new template for the TPAC and have > only learned enough to be dangerous.  Can anyone explain where > [%content%] in the base.tt2 file pulls from?  There are a few > things it is showing

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Apostrophe and Title Searches (still an issue?)

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:53:05PM -0500, Tony Bandy wrote: > Hi all, > > After upgrading to 2.3, we're noticing the apostrophe issue when doing > title searching in the catalog. Specifically, when using the apostrophe, > titles never get found. Hi Tony: Please provide more details. What is th

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Library Communications Framework

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:12:29PM -0800, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: > I think instead of inviting BIC to use Evergreen, it would be more fruitful > for we, US Libraries, build on the work they've done to look beyond those > many protocols (from among the "yet another" you mention) that a) are > implem

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Communications Framework

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:13:01AM -0800, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: > I have just returned from the UK where I met with BIC and CILIP (Chartered > Institute of Library and Information Professionals) representatives as well > as RFID vendors. > > BIC has commissioned of a new set of library interopera

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OpenSRF 2.1.2 release

As of November 18, 2012, the OpenSRF 2.1.2 release is available for download from the OpenSRF downloads page at http://evergreen-ils.org/opensrf.php This release corrects a problem where OpenSRF 2.1.1 clients were unable to access the shared configuration section of opensrf_core.xml, resulting in

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Dymo printer settings

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:32:47PM +, Jesse Ephraim wrote: > We use the Dymo LabelWriter 450 > I can put you in contact with the staff member who set it up, if you > like. If you and Jane opt to have a conversation off-list, can one of you please post the resolution back on the mailing list? T

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] grace period and reserve materials

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:01:55PM -0500, Gordana Vitez wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a question re: hourly loan materials, like reserves, that > accrue fines at an hourly rate. How are other libraries dealing with > the grace period for these hourly loans? Ideally, we'd like to see > fines ch

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Updating Instructions from 2.2 to 2.3

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 09:24:43AM +0530, Jayaraj JR wrote: > Dear Sir, > >When can we get the updating instructions of Evergreen from version > 2.2 to 2.3. Robert Soulliere wrote up these instructions as part of the documentation some time ago: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.3/_upgrade

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile catalog?

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:10:38PM -0500, Aaron Zsembery wrote: > On Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 2:30:59 PM "Buzzy Nielsen" > wrote: > > I think it's a lot more accessible, and less hassle, > > for our patrons if we don't require them to go out and download a > > separate app to access somethin

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Security releases: OpenSRF 2.1.1; Evergreen 2.3.1, 2.2.3, 2.14

The Evergreen development team has announced security releases for the currently maintained versions of OpenSRF and Evergreen. Please see http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=828 for complete details.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile catalog?

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:46:53AM -0500, Kathy Lussier wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't know the best way to develop and maintain an Evergreen > mobile site, but I wouldn't say the native catalog is particularly > mobile friendly. The GRPL example is much closer to what I would > call a mobile friend

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile catalog?

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 09:06:13AM -0500, Ben Shum wrote: > I think you're thinking of the Bill Erickson's "Beanstalk" simple > TPAC that was a sample mobile catalog. > http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/collab/berick/beanstalk > > Also, I guess Bill Ott

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile catalog?

On Nov 7, 2012 8:11 PM, "Dan Scott" wrote: > > > On Nov 7, 2012 7:42 PM, "Buzzy Nielsen" wrote: > > > > Mostly its formatting. I'm currently looking at it on the stock browser on a phone running CyanogenMod 10, and in order to use it effectively,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mobile catalog?

On Nov 7, 2012 6:58 PM, "Buzzy Nielsen" wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone out there have a TPAC mobile catalog? We've been tentatively exploring the possibility of having a mobile catalog here in the Sage Library System, but we don't quite know where to get started. Is there already a mobile

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.3 colors.tt2 and CSS

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:38:08PM -0500, Tony Bandy wrote: > Hi all, > > I apologize in advance if this is the wrong list or it's been discussed > already, but given 2.3 and the colors.tt2, is there a similar option for > the regular stylesheet CSS? Can each library have their own version of the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen and Apple

Hi James: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 04:32:22PM +, James Wagner wrote: > I've had several patrons come into the library saying they couldn't access > their accounts from their Apple products. Two have been using Safari on their > computers, one person was using an iPad 2 (upgraded to 3?), and a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Whoops... RDA is a coming!!

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 04:33:53PM +, Lisa Hill wrote: > Hi Folks- > RDA- which I am being told does not stand for retirement day approaching is > set for 3/31/2013. > > What that means for KCLS(and likely some others on this list) is that > we will see an onslaught of records with the publi

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need Help for Upgrading

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:28:07AM +0530, Jayaraj JR wrote: > Sir, > > We ( Indian Institute of Science Education and Research > -Thiruvananthapuram ) have been using Evergreen version 1.6.0.0 for > automating the Library Oparations. Now we would like to upgrade to the > latest stable version. I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] authority validation

Looks like it's been reported as this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1013783 - there is a patch for part of the problem. If you're paying for support and you're being asked to pay for development to fix a regression, that sounds weird. On Sep 28, 2012 12:53 PM, "Gordana Vitez" wro

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen on OS other than Ubuntu or Debian

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 03:09:50PM +, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich wrote: > Dan, that's good to know, thank you. I also found your blog post [1] > interesting and informative. I guess, I was kind of curious why Apache had to > run as opensrf, but not curious enough to ask. > > Thinking strate

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen on OS other than Ubuntu or Debian

I'm likely the only person running Fedora - on my laptop - and I would not recommend it for a production server as it has a very limited support lifetime. I know there are some sites running RHEL or white box variations thereof, but there's not really an active champion of those distros and thus n

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