[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Implementing and using Evergreen Serials

[Dan Scott]

We use MFHD serials, which may not be the serials your academic
customer is looking for. However, our cataloguers like it, and it works well
for providing a view of what you have in the collection, but it
doesn't support circulation or claiming, and checkin is a matter of
copying & editing a MARC field... the process is roughly
http://biblio.laurentian.ca/tickets/conifer/wiki/cataloguingEditingSerials
(although the way to get to the Edit MFHD Record button changes with
TPAC).

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org> wrote:
> Hi Jennifer,
>
> You may want to look at the documentation at
> http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.3/_serials.html instead of the link you
> found. It looks fairly similar, but the official docs is where any new
> serials functionality will be updated. For example, the "Group Serials
> Issues in the Template Toolkit OPAC" documentation is there and provides an
> alternate method to display serials information in your catalog. When I was
> first using serials, I found the documentation very helpful and easy to
> follow.
>
> As far as workflow, I don't know if this is the case with all of our
> libraries, but I think many prefer to use the alternate serials control view
> to create their distributions and prediction patterns, but then prefer to
> use the serials control view when receiving issues. It's also good to know
> that special issues can only be created in the alternate serials control
> view.
>
> We do have some wishlist items and bugs that we've come across. Most of
> these can be found at (sorry for the incredibly long URL):
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscriber=&field.structural_subscriber=&field.tag=serials&field.tags_combinator=ANY&field.has_cve.used=&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.affects_me.used=&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_branches.used=&field.has_branches=on&field.has_no_branches.used=&field.has_no_branches=on&field.has_blueprints.used=&field.has_blueprints=on&field.has_no_blueprints.used=&field.has_no_blueprints=on
>
> Or you can use the shortened URL: http://bit.ly/V2xaMm
>
> None of them jump out at me as being worthier of mention than others.
>
> Also, Lebbeous and Dan Wells are always super helpful if you come across any
> questions or problems as you try to set it up.
>
> Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions.
>
> Kathy
>
> Kathy Lussier
> Project Coordinator
> Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
> (508) 343-0128
> klussier at masslnc.org
> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
>
>
> On 1/15/2013 1:56 PM, Jennifer Bielewski wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am interested in speaking with Evergreen users that are using the
>> Serials functions in Evergreen particularly if you are an Academic library.
>> I'm happy to provide a summary of any discussion. Im interested in
>> libraries workflow and implementation of using Serials in EG. I have seen
>> the
>> Using the Serials Module - Evergreen from
>> open-ils.org/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=serials, but have no working
>> knowledge of using Serials in EG, it's all just in theory.
>>
>> I'm curious about changes in workflow, bugs, permissions etc that we need
>> to set up or be aware of during implementation, and any tricks to using.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Jennifer Bielewski
>> LYRASIS
>> 1-800-999-8558
>
>