[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Updating the Roster of Evergreen Libraries

[Remington Steed]

I have two thoughts about how we collect information about libraries running Evergreen.  

1. At a minimum, I think we should add a step to the Evergreen installation/upgrade instructions that says something like "Please email [address of whomever wants to maintain the list] with your organization's name, city, and a link to your organization's website."  We could also ask for version information, depending on how important we think that is.

2. If we want to do more than send emails to a wiki page manager, we could try something like the former RSCEL, which used to contain an online directory of Evergreen libraries (http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/).  It sounds like the site was taken down in or before July 2013.  I think it was an improvement on the wiki approach, though it still required individual sites to register and maintain their Evergreen info.  Here are some recent conversations about it RSCEL.  Does anyone know if there are any plans to revive it or to do anything similar?

http://irc.evergreen-ils.org/evergreen/2013-07-09#i_11289

http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/2012-May/006804.html

Remington

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Remington Steed
Electronic Resources Specialist
Hekman Library, Calvin College
http://library.calvin.edu/

> -----Original Message-----
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> general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of James R Shaw
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 12:28 PM
> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Updating the Roster of Evergreen Libraries
> 
> Aleksey,
> As a new site coming online, the version information will be helpful as I
> would know which sites have installed the same (current) version that I am
> working to install and would have the same/similar installation/build
> issues. We are also building from scratch with no conversion--which appears
> to be uncommon.
> -------------------------
> Rev. James R Shaw
> Vice President of Administration - CIO/CTO
> Walther Theological Seminary
> +++
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >On 2013-12-20, at 13:32 , Erica Rohlfs <erohlfs at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Happy Holidays!
> >>
> >> I would like to begin updating the Roster of Evergreen Libraries on the
> >> Evergreen Wiki.
> >> It?s been on my to-do list for a few months now. My hope is to have it
> >> updated in time to,
> >> hopefully, help whoever volunteers to work on the Evergreen map.
> >> ...<snip>
> >
> >Question: how important is it to have all the extra info, like Evergreen
> >versions, OS, databases,
> > etc, on this particular page? It is interesting information, but if it is
> > not kept current,
> >it is not very useful ? just noise.
> >
> > Aleksey Lazar
> > IS Developer and Integrator - PALS
> > http://www.mnpals.org/