[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] acquisitions redux

[Remington Steed]

Regarding speed issues in the Acquisitions module, this bug shows has good discussion about potential improvements:
 
"Extremely slow batch marc loading in 2.2 Vandelay"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1024095
 
Remington

 
 
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Remington Steed
Electronic Resources Specialist
Hekman Library, Calvin College
http://library.calvin.edu/
>>> On 7/19/2012 at 10:46 AM, <stephen.elfstrand at mnsu.edu> wrote:

Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:41:05 +0000
From: "Elfstrand, Stephen F" <stephen.elfstrand at mnsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 73, Issue 24

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 of doing to improve that aspect of Evergreen Acq.

PALS has also been working on Acq documentation and has sent in some revisions, but I'm not sure if they have been incorporated into the official docs yet. I hope Sitka will also contribute their improvements to Acq documentation and that those too can be included in the official docs.

Jed:  has KCLS begun using Acq and if so have you seen the slowness?


Stephen Elfstrand
PALS

-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:05:44 -0400
From: "Mary Llewellyn" <mllewell at biblio.org<mailto:mllewell at biblio.org>>
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** RE:  acquisitions redux

Hi all,

We are a consortium with some libraries that used Acquisitions in our old system. (They are all public libraries, not academic.)  When we migrated to Evergreen, Acquisitions had moved from being a preview to being a flawed, though functional part of the system. However, some of our acq libraries dropped using it because it was slow and clunky workflow.

However, since we've upgraded to Evergreen 2.2, we've seen a lot of improvements in Acquisitions. Most of our libraries use Title Source and upload their orders to Evergreen in a MARC file. In the past, our aggravation was that staff had to manually link each lineitem to the catalog, or risk creating duplicate records in the catalog. Since the upgrade, the uploading process works with the Vandelay loader to automatically match existing bib records and associate the lineitems with those bibs.

Since this improvement, a couple of member libraries have contacted me to get them started in using Acquisitions.

We are looking forward to further improvements, especially in the area of invoicing.

For more detail about how we use Acquisitions, I'm happy to share the documentation that I wrote for our libraries.
http://biblio.org/dbs/Acq%20Table%20of%20Contents.htm

Mary

Mary Llewellyn
Database Manager
Bibliomation, Inc.
Middlebury, CT
mllewell at biblio.org<mailto:mllewell at biblio.org>
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