<div><div><div><div>Thanks for the suggestions, Jim. I like the idea of you using the newsletters Amy has done so far like this so we can see how it would work. Can you do that?</div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>
Lori</div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Jim Craner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@galecia.com" target="_blank">jim@galecia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Re: "preparing newsletters inside Drupal" -- first up, I honestly
just ignored the newsletters until this thread but after going back
and looking at the ones in my archives, there is some *great*
content there. Nice job, Amy!<br>
<br>
So this is actually a good issue for us to stop, step back, and look
at the bigger picture:<br>
<br>
* The primary goal of the newsletter is to provide a regular look at
"high-level" news of importance in the Evergreen community.<br>
<br>
* Some of this news is from content on an existing EG site, but a
lot of it looks like great stuff that only shows up in the
newsletter. We need to make sure this content is captured somewhere
besides the mailing list archives!<br>
<br>
With that said, here's a suggestion for making the newsletter
process a little more modern:<br>
<br>
* Instead of community members submitting items to Amy and them
sitting in her queue until the next newsletter, Amy (or someone else
working with her in this role) would enter each story as a news item
("Article") on the Drupal site and "publish to the front page."
That gets the news out to the public -- and into the Google search
index -- in a timely manner.<br>
<br>
* We still want to publish the newsletter for those folks who don't
visit the website regularly or use RSS so Amy (or the Newsletter
Manager) would still periodically send out the newsletter with those
news items. But instead of just copying and pasting the whole item,
we'll want to do the "Title, first few lines or summary, then a
'Click here to read more on our website!'" strategy. <br>
<br>
We want to do this for each story so that the newsletter story isn't
the final step in engaging the reader on the topic but is instead a
bridge to the website, where related content is available AND where
we can easily monitor the reader to see which articles are being
read and if the viewers are coming from email, Google, other sites,
etc.<br>
<br>
* Drupal does have two modules that offer the ability to
automatically generate newsletters for community members that the
Newsletter Manager could use instead of just manually generating an
email on the general list. <br>
<br>
I recommend *against* using them in the foreseeable future because I
think we need to keep the general list as the primary email
communication vehicle. We can still offer individual
subscription/notification features on the website itself but the
general mailing list is "where it's at" right now :-)<br>
<br>
{However, eventually (like 18-36 months out) we'd probably want to
unify mailing list subscription functionality and website
authentication so that Evergreen community members would have a
single set of credentials for all Evergreen-related functionality.}<br>
<br>
I'd be happy to enter some of the older newsletters just as archived
"Articles" on the new site for history's sake. Amy, do you keep a
copy of all of those or should I cull through the archives?<br>
<br>
Does anyone have thoughts or questions about this process,
especially Amy? :) <br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Jim<br>
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On 10/12/2012 02:33 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">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.
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September-October 2012</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Evergreen Hack-A-Way</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The agenda can be found here:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:hackfest:egfall2012" target="_blank">http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:hackfest:egfall2012</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Look for an update on the
Hack-A-Way in our next newsletter.</p>
<p>------------------------------------ </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">FulfILLment Update<br>
by Suzannah Lipscomb</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p> </p>
<p>DIG Gathering</p>
<p> </p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Evergreen Development – News</p>
<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">The
Massachusetts Library Network is starting its next
round of development with a focus on improving the
retrieval of search results in Evergreen. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">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:</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(50,50,50)"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(50,50,50)">Allowing
MARC Field Weighting in Relevance Ranking without
Breaking the Ability to Exclude Search Terms</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(50,50,50)"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(50,50,50)">Activity
Metric for Relevance Algorithm</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(50,50,50)"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(50,50,50)">More
Control Over Stemming</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(50,50,50)"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(50,50,50)">Synonym
list for search terms</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(50,50,50)"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(50,50,50)">Ability
to Browse by Author, Title and Subject</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(50,50,50)"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(50,50,50)">Staff-Friendly
Call Number Browse</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(50,50,50)"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(50,50,50)">Traditional
Operators for Boolean Searches</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:2.25pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(50,50,50)">Simple method for excluding
electronic resources from search results</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(50,50,50)"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(50,50,50)">Expanded
Facets</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">More
detailed descriptions are available at </span><a href="http://masslnc.cwmars.org/node/2550" target="_blank">http://masslnc.cwmars.org/node/2550</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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 <a href="mailto:klussier@masslnc.org" target="_blank">klussier@masslnc.org</a>.</p>
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<p> </p>
<p>The Bibliomation consortium has contracted with four
different developers to produce thirteen different
enhancements. To see a list of these enhancements, go
to <a href="http://biblio.org/2012/10/10/evergreen-enhancements/" target="_blank">http://biblio.org/2012/10/10/evergreen-enhancements/</a></p>
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<p> </p>
<p>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. </p>
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<p> </p>
<p>Evergreen Libraries - Update</p>
<p> </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>------------------------------------ </p>
<p> </p>
<p>SCLENDS is bringing up three new county library
systems in October - Lee, Clarendon and Lancaster
counties.</p>
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<p> </p>
<pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">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 </span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Public Library that migrated to COOL-CAT earlier this year.</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">COOL-CAT is the shared Evergreen catalog of the Consortium of Ohio Libraries.</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">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 <a href="mailto:terlaga@biblio.org" target="_blank">terlaga@biblio.org</a>.</span></pre>
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