[Evergreen-web-team] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Newsletter / September-October 2012
Lori Bowen Ayre
lori.ayre at galecia.com
Fri Oct 12 15:33:10 EDT 2012
Nice update, Amy! Web Team....can we prepare these newsletters inside
Drupal? I'm thinking it would be nice to be able to make it look more like
a newsletter and we may as well start archiving them there now if we can.
Jim?
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<Lori.Ayre at galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID,
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org> wrote:
> Evergreen Newsletter / September-October 2012****
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> The Evergreen Hack-A-Way****
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> The first annual Evergreen Hack-a-Way is now underway in Duluth, Georgia
> and is being sponsored by Equinox. The goal of the Hack-A-Way is to
> provide an opportunity, at the midway point each year between conferences,
> for developers to meet in person and to continue the momentum they develop
> at the conference. This in person collaboration, while working on
> Evergreen coding projects, is extremely useful.****
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> In attendance are Dan Wells, Ben Shum, Thomas Berezansky, Rogan Hamby,
> Dwayne Nance from NoveList, Bill Erickson, Mike Rylander, Lebbeous
> Fogle-Weekly, Galen Charlton, Jason Etheridge, Chris Sharp, plus Dan Scott
> and a few remote folks on the Google Hangout.****
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> The agenda can be found here:****
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> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:hackfest:egfall2012****
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> Look for an update on the Hack-A-Way in our next newsletter.****
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> FulfILLment Update
> by Suzannah Lipscomb****
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> The Pacific Library Partnership, consisting of three libraries in
> California, has contracted with Equinox Software, Inc. to test
> FulfILLment. The partnership consists of Los Gatos Public Library,
> Peninsula Library System (the city of San Mateo only), and Santa Cruz
> Public Library. These libraries currently use Koha, Millennium, and
> Evergreen as their ILS. Lori Bowen Ayre, The Galecia Group, is serving as
> a consultant on this project as part of the Open Source - Open Libraries
> project. The partners will be testing FulfILLment to see if it can meet
> their requirements for managing physical item resource sharing between
> independent library systems. FulfILLment was developed by Equinox
> developers with funding from OHIONET and other development partners
> including: the State Libraries of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, South Carolina,
> Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and WiLS. It is anticipated that FulfILLment
> version 1.0-RC1 will be available in the spring/summer of 2013.****
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> FulfILLment is generally described as an open source ILL software, but it
> is so much more. It is an open source, regional resource-sharing system
> between disparate ILS. It was designed to bridge otherwise incompatible
> software products so that different libraries can continue to use their
> current ILS while obtaining many benefits enjoyed by libraries using
> Evergreen in resource-sharing consortia. The development of LAIs (Local
> Automation Integrator) in FulfILLment makes this possible by allowing the
> participating libraries to obtain bibliographic and other relevant
> information from each library's current automation system and making this
> information accessible over the internet. FulfILLment is also scalable.
> If necessary, new custom LAIs can be developed in future versions of
> FulfILLment to allow even more libraries to join and enjoy all that
> FulfILLment has to offer.****
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> DIG Gathering****
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> On Friday October 5th, six members of DIG got together at Berklee College
> of Music in Boston, for what we hope will be become an at least annual
> opportunity to collaborate face to face outside of the Evergreem
> conference. In attendance we had Ben Shum, Kathy Lussier, Jim Keenan, Tim
> Spindler, June Rayner, and Yamil Suarez. The main achievement of our
> gathering on Friday was to do an inventory of what documentation sections
> exist in older official documentation (EG 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2), but not in
> the 2.3 documentation. As well as tracking down what has made it to the 2.3
> documentation already. One key issue that came up and that we tried to
> research is that we would all like to find an automated way, instead of the
> current manual way, to covert the older documentation that is formatted in
> the DocBook format to the current AsciiDoc format.****
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> Evergreen Development – News****
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> The Massachusetts Library Network is starting its next round of
> development with a focus on improving the retrieval of search results in
> Evergreen. ****
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> The MassLNC consortia have identified several possible enhancements for
> this project and plan to seek quotes for development in October. The
> enhancements MassLNC is pursuing are:****
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> **· **Allowing MARC Field Weighting in Relevance Ranking without
> Breaking the Ability to Exclude Search Terms****
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> **· **Activity Metric for Relevance Algorithm****
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> **· **More Control Over Stemming****
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> **· **Synonym list for search terms****
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> **· **Ability to Browse by Author, Title and Subject****
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> **· **Staff-Friendly Call Number Browse****
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> **· **Traditional Operators for Boolean Searches****
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> **· **Simple method for excluding electronic resources from
> search results****
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> **· **Expanded Facets****
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> More detailed descriptions are available at
> http://masslnc.cwmars.org/node/2550.****
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> MassLNC is interested in hearing feedback on these enhancements from other
> Evergreen libraries and in finding partners to help in sponsoring this
> work. Send any comments along to Kathy Lussier at klussier at masslnc.org.***
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> The Bibliomation consortium has contracted with four different developers
> to produce thirteen different enhancements. To see a list of these
> enhancements, go to http://biblio.org/2012/10/10/evergreen-enhancements/**
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> Niagara Evergreen Consortium is funding the porting of organizational unit
> hiding in the JSPAC (Java Script OPAC) to the TPAC (Template Toolkit OPAC)
> in Evergreen open source ILS. They also originally funded this development
> in the JSPAC. Equinox developers are spearheading the development
> project. Equinox anticipates that the coding will be completed no later
> than the end of September. Once the coding is complete, it will be
> submitted to the Evergreen Community for inclusion in the next major
> release of Evergreen. ****
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> Evergreen Libraries - Update****
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> Missouri Evergreen has gone live with 4 libraries implemented so far.
> Poplar Bluff Public Library, Grundy County Library, Marshall Public Library
> and Carrollton Public Library are all now sharing their materials through
> the Missouri Evergreen Consortium. MOBIUS, a nonprofit library consortium
> based in Columbia, MO is hosting and managing Missouri Evergreen with LSTA
> funds from the Missouri State Library. Over the next year nine more
> Missouri public libraries will be joining. We hope to have more members
> join over the next several years.****
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> SCLENDS is bringing up three new county library systems in October - Lee,
> Clarendon and Lancaster counties.****
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> On August 9th, Mt. Gilead Public Library and Cardington-Lincoln Public Library went live in COOL-CAT. Mt. Gilead and Cardington-Lincoln are the fourth and fifth libraries to migrate into the system. They join Community Library (Sunbury), Germantown Public Library, and Selover ****
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> Public Library that migrated to COOL-CAT earlier this year.****
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> COOL-CAT is the shared Evergreen catalog of the Consortium of Ohio Libraries.****
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> If you have any news for the next issue of the Evergreen newsletter, the November-December issue, please email this news to Amy Terlaga at terlaga at biblio.org.****
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