[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Add PALS to new Evergreen Paid Support Services

2013-08-15 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
Companies and non-profit organizations providing Evergreen services can take the following steps to be added to the page. * PALS * Stephen Elfstrand, Executive Director * stephen.elfstr...@mnsu.edu * https://www.mnpals.org/ * PALS Evergreen Services include: Data M

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] NCIP to OCLC VDX

2013-04-29 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
Dear Devlist, & General List In Minnesota we have a state-wide resource sharing gateway that uses VDX from OCLC. The work on NCIP that has been done already focuses in NICP for III (Innovative Interfaces) and we were told by OCLC that it will not work with VDX. Since NCIP between Evergreen and

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] The Evergreen of the future

2013-03-22 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
At this time the improvements in Evergreen are mostly driven by demand from existing users with the ability to code or pay for the improvements they want. And certainly that's good, but is it enough? Perhaps we need to think about a strategic plan for Evergreen development to make it the best

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-03-22 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
one great release a year than two per year that have issues along with the improvements. Stephen From: Mike Rylander [mailto:mrylan...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:47 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Cc: Elfstrand, Stephen F Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergre

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-02-28 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
In speaking to several Evergreen users one of the points made was that there are a lot of direct calls to the database from the client, that the queries are not designed to optimize performance and could be improved. I'd like to see this issue investigated. Another observation is that that it s

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen In Action

2012-12-18 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
Thanks all for doing this. I've purchased several copies and asked my staff to review it in detail. Stephen F. Elfstrand PALS Executive Director ML3022 Mn. St. Univ. - Mankato Mankato MN 56001 507.389.2000 http://www.mnpals.org/

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Authorities

2012-12-06 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
Yikes it's that serious , I had no idea. I know nothing about Authorities and how it is supposed to work in Evergreen. Is it using string matching to effect the changes? Or does it use a linked data model? Re: Evergreen Authorities I wouldn't do much beyond the basics until https://bugs.laun

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP2

2012-12-06 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
We've Implemented SIP2 for Authentication with OverDrive. Pretty simple I think, It could be a lightning round maybe. I doubt it would need a whole session Stephen F. Elfstrand PALS Executive Director ML3022 Mn. St. Univ. - Mankato Mankato MN 56001 507.389.2000 http://www.mnpals.org/

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Evergreen '13 - Conference Topics

2012-12-06 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
There are topics I've repeatedly raised in various forums that I don't see on the recently released schedule for the 13 Conference. Any way we can get someone to do a session on these? I would like to see a detailed exposition of FulfILLment Evergreen Authorities NCIP Action Triggers Stephen F.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 73, Issue 24

2012-07-19 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
Thanks for the information on your experience with Acq. I followed the link where the 2.3 feature development it described, but I did not see performance enhancement ( i.e. Speed) mentioned. I am interested to know why slowness is an issue and what the development community is doing or thinking