[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Import MARC for Overdrive (Electronic resource) records

2011-05-02 Thread Vicki Reeves
We are a new single planting currently running 1.6.0.8. We want to add MARC records for our electronic resource records which are mostly Overdrive and Gutenberg (we are a mirror site). The records I have will upload from the Import MARC feature but will only show in the OPAC if I add subfield

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Where should the barcode be?

2011-04-15 Thread Vicki Reeves
We purchase MARC records along with the items we add to our collection. Our vendors are currently putting the bar code number in 852 subfield p. Our tech services dept. reports that when they import new records via MARC Batch Import we sometimes get holdings and sometimes we don't. They assure me

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Showing online resources in the OPAC

2011-04-13 Thread Vicki Reeves
We're trying to figure out how to add records for electronic resources so that they will show in our OPAC. We're on Evergreen 1.6.0.8 I tried adding the subfield 9 to my 856 field. The resources are not showing in the opac and nothing is showing in the asset.URI areas of the database. This

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Showing online resources in the OPAC

2011-04-13 Thread Vicki Reeves
Duhh! I did not set the indicators to 4 and 0. When I reread instructions provided by list members I caught my error, set the indicators and now they show in the OPAC. Thank you. On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 10:30 -0500, Vicki Reeves wrote: We're trying to figure out how to add records

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Showing online resources in the OPAC

2011-04-07 Thread Vicki Reeves
We have some online resources in html format which I want to catalog so that they will show in the OPAC. On the staff side, I can get the link to work by entering the 856 field. However, I can't find anyway to make it come up in the OPAC. I thought about adding a holdings record but that seems

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Showing online resources in the OPAC

2011-04-07 Thread Vicki Reeves
Thanks, everybody, for the help with this one. I can't experiment today because our Evergreen server went down and we're working at getting it back up. (May I say that jabberd has a nasty bite? And so do our circulators who have been scanning books into vi files all day - I hadn't gotten around

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about sharing a copy bucket

2011-03-21 Thread Vicki Reeves
I could swear I saw instructions for making an existing copy bucket into a shared bucket in EG 1.6.0.8 but now that we have staff members who need to do this, I can't find them. Can anyone tell me how or point me in the right direction for the instruction? Thank you.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about sharing a copy bucket

2011-03-21 Thread Vicki Reeves
. Enter the desired bucket number and click OK. 4. The requested bucket now displays. Best of luck! -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Vicki Reeves Sent: Monday, March

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine Labels

2011-03-16 Thread Vicki Reeves
We've just come up in Evergreen 1.6.0.8. Surprise! The only instructions I can find for printing spine labels depends on your having a dotmatrix printer which runs them 1 up. We need them to print on a full sheet of labels. Before we start kludging something to send output through glabels, can

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Update on Beauregard Parish Library

2011-03-15 Thread Vicki Reeves
a free certificate option (class 1) that just requires the applicant to be verified (we use class 2), might be worth a look. Cheers On 03/14/2011 09:25 PM, Vicki Reeves wrote: Thank you, Bob. We'd love to be added to the map. Watch for some more action from the swamps. We are members

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How much does server location matter?

2011-03-15 Thread Vicki Reeves
One fairly reliable way to check connectivity speed is to go to http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Select a city near you and run the test. It checks download and upload speeds. On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 09:57 -0700, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: Judy, If it is a network connectivity issue, it is

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Update on Beauregard Parish Library

2011-03-14 Thread Vicki Reeves
for the support and the help you have given. -- Vicki Reeves vic...@beau.org Beauregard Parish Library

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Update on Beauregard Parish Library

2011-03-14 Thread Vicki Reeves
. If anyone is interested, here is our OPAC: http://loblolly.library.beau.org/opac/en-US/skin/craftsman/xml/index.xml?l=100 And here is our home page: http://library.beau.org Again, thank you for the support and the help you have given. -- Vicki Reeves vic...@beau.org Beauregard Parish

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about editing a batch of MARC records

2011-03-12 Thread Vicki Reeves
, Vicki Reeves wrote: We did not discover until we had our records moved across into Evergreen that our old database did not have the correct value for a non musical sound recording in the 06 (Type of record) field. Rather than having to go back to the load stage, I'm wondering if there is some way

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about a permission setting

2011-03-10 Thread Vicki Reeves
* -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Vicki Reeves Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 6:52 PM To: Dan Wells Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about circulation limits

2011-03-09 Thread Vicki Reeves
a difference. Thank you -- Vicki Reeves vic...@beau.org Beauregard Parish Library

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Questions (possibly dumb) about 'in transit' status

2011-03-09 Thread Vicki Reeves
Do items marked as 'in transit' automatically change to some other status or do we need to change them manually? Thank you. -- Vicki Reeves vic...@beau.org Beauregard Parish Library

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about a permission setting

2011-03-09 Thread Vicki Reeves
? Thank you -- Vicki Reeves vic...@beau.org Beauregard Parish Library

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about a permission setting

2011-03-09 Thread Vicki Reeves
On 3/9/2011 at 5:22 PM, Vicki Reeves vic...@beau.org wrote: We need to change the Circulation Library on batches of items. When I login as admin I can do this using 'Edit item attributes'. In any other user I can see the 'Edit item attributes' screen but I can't change the Circulation

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about 'grocery' billing

2011-03-08 Thread Vicki Reeves
Beauregard Loblolly (the Evergreen wanabee in Louisiana) held a staff training day for Evergreen yesterday. As we tested the system we realized that we were not quite ready to go live so we're fixing some issues (mostly permissions) and we'll try again next weekend. One surprising issue was that

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question about 'grocery' billing

2011-03-08 Thread Vicki Reeves
Thank you. That changed it on the bill patron screen when the staff member is putting in the bill. But when we call the patron up and look at his bills, it still shows grocery. On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 13:03 -0500, Mike Rylander wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Vicki Reeves vic...@beau.org

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC: Craftsman skin

2011-03-08 Thread Vicki Reeves
When (sometimes feels like IF) Beauregard goes live we plan to use craftsman. I agree that it is more attractive than the default. On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 16:19 -0800, Tara Robertson wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if the craftsman skin is being maintained. I recall Equinox contracted another

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How to add a field to OPAC display

2011-03-05 Thread Vicki Reeves
Sorry to be such a pest but here's another one I can't find the answer to... We want what is entered in MARC 521 to show in our OPAC display. Anyone know where to make that change? Thank you.

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem registering workstations

2011-03-04 Thread Vicki Reeves
It's been a long hard battle but if we can get past a few remaining hurdles, we're due to come up in Evergreen 1.6.0.8 on Tuesday. I will appreciate any hints to help with this one: Our staff users have permission to register workstations at the consortium level so I'm thinking anyone should be

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem registering workstations

2011-03-04 Thread Vicki Reeves
Never mind ... I think I got it. I didn't have checks in the location boxes at the top of the user's permission list. I added the checks and now we can register workstations. On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 10:03 -0600, Vicki Reeves wrote: It's been a long hard battle but if we can get past a few

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem registering workstations

2011-03-04 Thread Vicki Reeves
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 11:06 -0500, Jason Etheridge wrote: Our staff users have permission to register workstations at the consortium level so I'm thinking anyone should be able to register a workstation at any of our locations. But only admin can register workstations. Is there a

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Setting up holds

2011-03-04 Thread Vicki Reeves
I think we have something wrong in our setup for holds. I can put items on hold and the hold correctly shows on the patron's record. However, if I go to check the item out to another patron, I don't get any indication that the item is on hold for another patron. When I check the item back in or

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cataloging templates

2011-03-04 Thread Vicki Reeves
Searching through the archives I saw some talk in 2009 about sharing cataloging templates. Does anyone know if there is a resource where cataloging templates are stored? I'm especially looking for DVD and audio book templates. I'm pretty sure I could make templates for us but I thought I'd ask

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cataloging templates

2011-03-04 Thread Vicki Reeves
Exactly what we need. Thank you. On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 19:45 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/browser/conifer/branches/rel_1_6_1/templates/marc

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hold queues and due dates

2011-02-03 Thread Vicki Reeves
And on the otherside of this issue, knowing the due date does not really indicate when the item will be available. Many items are kept overdue, returned at a different branch (requiring time to transfer) or even returned early. In the library world there is no way to guarentee when an item will

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Loading circu

2011-01-26 Thread Vicki Reeves
Does anyone have any words of wisdom about loading circulation records from our old system (Atriuum) into Evergreen?

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Admin functions locking up

2011-01-26 Thread Vicki Reeves
We are having a problem with the Administrative functions. From time to time the first 5 items on the Admin menu lock up and refuse to let the admin into them. The error message is Internal Server Error. This is usually cleared up if we run autogen.sh but that is not working on tonight's

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question on editing the OPAC web page

2011-01-25 Thread Vicki Reeves
[mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Vicki Reeves Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:26 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question on editing the OPAC web page I want to replace the link to GALILEO in the footer of the OPAC

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question on editing the OPAC web page

2011-01-25 Thread Vicki Reeves
. Regards, June -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Vicki Reeves Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:26 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC start page

2011-01-24 Thread Vicki Reeves
Thank you. This sounds like exactly what we needed. On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 22:26 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:35:01PM -0600, Vicki Reeves wrote: We have gotten some bib and holdings records to load. We celebrated by playing in the OPAC. But that gave us a new issue

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Wanting to fall in love with Evergreen

2011-01-19 Thread Vicki Reeves
We've been struggling for weeks to get our records into Evergreen. We can get the patron records in with SQL. Importing bib records is working ok but, of course, they have 852 fields and no holdings. We have some theories on what might work for getting circulation and reserve records across but

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need help with asset.copy.transparancy

2011-01-12 Thread Vicki Reeves
We're trying to load our records into Evergreen 1.6.0.8. The patron records go in just fine but we're having major issues getting our bib and holdings records to load. When we dump our MARC records through mangle_marc.pl it looks like we have good records coming out. The records appear to go in

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Need advice on circulation limits

2010-12-23 Thread Vicki Reeves
Is there a way to place a 'special circumstances' limit the number of items a patron can check out. For example, we usually limit new patrons and patrons who are paying off a fine in installments to checking out 3 items at a time. Can someone suggest a way to do this in Evergreen? Thank you.

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing records into Evergreen

2010-12-21 Thread Vicki Reeves
We are trying to move from Booksys' Atriuum into Evergreen 1.6.0.8. In our current setup, the records for an item which is on order may be a very brief author/title entry or a full marc record. We plan to try the Evergreen acquisitions program provided that we can figure out how. Can we batch

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] New install problem with settings

2010-12-16 Thread Vicki Reeves
We are a parish (think county) library with 5 branches trying to migrate from a vendor system into Evergreen. While our library materials will need to be assigned to the branches, our patron database is shared by all branches. Does anyone have experience with this setup who might tell us how the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] New install problem with settings

2010-12-16 Thread Vicki Reeves
-Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Vicki Reeves Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 3:32 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] New install problem with settings

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: bib and copy batches, WAS Is there a resource for initial setup

2010-09-11 Thread Vicki Reeves
Thank you. I think this is what I needed. On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 20:46 -0400, Dan Scott wrote: On 10 September 2010 16:29, Metcalf, Steve metca...@evergreen.edu wrote: I'm using the 1.6.0.6 client and Evergreen 1.6.0.7. I've got a file of MARC records, with item-level data for each record

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is there a resource for initial setup

2010-09-10 Thread Vicki Reeves
Street Florence, SC 29506 843-413-7069 -Original Message- From: Vicki Reeves vic...@beau.org To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils- gene...@list.georgialibraries.org Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:07:23 -0500 Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is there a resource for initial setup We

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Library Catalog

2010-08-17 Thread Vicki Reeves
Figured I'd jump in here and save others who run Linux Desktops a little time - no to mention the nice support person who answers their phone. Jtacq looks like a nice program. However, it will only run on Windows or Mac. On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:17 -0400, Don Butterworth wrote: Hi Colm, I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Report for long overdue items? - Apologies

2010-02-23 Thread Vicki Reeves
I realize that this is small comfort ... but most of us who have been on lists for awhile have had cause to regret not taking that last look to see just who we're sending to. On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 16:12 -0500, Soulliere, Robert wrote: I deeply and sincerely apologize to GPLS and the Evergreen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Exit button in 1.6

2009-12-08 Thread Vicki Reeves
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 07:54 -0800, Teresa Eckford wrote: I really like this listserv - though most of it is way over my head technically, I've picked up some good tips and it's cool to read about the programming details involved. Now if only some of our patrons would embrace Evergreen with