[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics

[Kathy Lussier]

> PAC: Academic flavor.
> It might be nice to offer a different look to the PAC that defaults to 
> a fuller bibliographic description. 
This idea is something that I think would be fairly easy to implement by 
anyone who can customize the OPAC. You could create an academic_template 
directory, add the customized tt2 file there, and then contribute those 
changes to the community along with some documentation telling people 
how to point to this directory in eg.conf if they want to use an 
academic flavor.

We have sites that do use a fuller bibliographic description than the 
default, but I think they do so because they find it to be useful for 
all of their libraries, not just their academics. Are there other things 
you (or other academics out there) would like to see in the academic 
flavor of the catalog?

Kathy


Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
klussier at masslnc.org
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On 7/23/2014 3:23 PM, Donald Butterworth wrote:
> Yeah Kelly!
>
> It will be great to have more academic libraries using Evergreen.
>
> Just off the top of my head, here are some areas that I would like to 
> see refined by academics.
>
> Acquisitions: Order Types.
> Types like firm orders, periodical renewals, standing orders for 
> monographic series, blanket orders, multi-part monographs
>
> Acquisitions: EDI periodical renewals.
> We would really like to see electronic invoicing and ordering work for 
> our EBSCO subscriptions.
>
> PAC: Academic flavor.
> It might be nice to offer a different look to the PAC that defaults to 
> a fuller bibliographic description.
>
> PAC: Federated searching
> I would love to not have to spend many thousands of dollars annually, 
> for EBSCO Discover.
>
> Cataloging: Volumes
> The way that volume numbering is treated in Evergreen needs to be 
> revisited in the light of publications that have 
> Fascicles/Volumes/Parts that need to be reflected on a single call number.
>
> Reports:
> Out of the box reports that deal with the specific kinds of statistics 
> required by Accrediting Agencies.
>
> Welcome Aboard!
>
> Don
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Kelly Drake <kelly at flo.org 
> <mailto:kelly at flo.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     Dear Evergreen Community,
>
>
>     For the past year, Fenway Libraries Online (FLO), a consortium of
>     10 academic libraries in Boston, has been considering a migration
>     to Evergreen. Many members of the Evergreen community met and
>     spoke with members of FLO during this year’s annual conference in
>     Boston. Thank you for your time, patience and information. All
>     your comments and suggestions convinced us to continue pursuing a
>     migration to Evergreen.
>
>
>     Our investigation also suggested that it would be helpful to build
>     an academic interest group within the larger Evergreen community. 
>     This group would be focused solely on academic issues as they
>     relate to the ILS. Several existing Evergreen libraries
>     and consortia have already expressed interest in the group and we
>     have tentatively called it "Academics for Evergreen".
>
>
>     To be most effective, Academics for Evergreen would be composed of
>     any individuals or institutions that have an interest in enhancing
>     the academic-related functions of Evergreen. Once formed, the
>     group will identify the academic-related functions that most need
>     attention and work to build knowledge, consensus, and resources to
>     move moving these issues forward.  So far we have identified a few
>     of the possible issues, such as streamlined creation and
>     management of authority records, enhanced search and browse by
>     authority, support for multiple subject heading schema, improved
>     staff workflows and possible improvements to course reserves
>     integration. This list is by no means exhaustive and needs the
>     participation of the Evergreen community to improve and refine it.
>
>
>     Please respond and let us know if you are interested, have
>     suggestions for moving these issues forward, or if you have any
>     questions.
>
>
>     Thank you,
>
>
>     Kelly Drake
>     Systems Librarian
>     Fenway Libraries Online
>     Boston, MA 02115
>     617-442-2384
>
>     Conference calls:
>         Boston: 617-989-5050
>         Toll-free: 877-532-8229
>         Conference ID: 933794
>     Web conferencing:
>     https://join.me/flomeeting
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Don Butterworth
> Faculty Associate / Librarian III
> B.L. Fisher Library
> Asbury Theological Seminary
> don.butterworth at asburyseminary.edu 
> <mailto:don.butterworth at asburyseminary.edu>
> (859) 858-2227

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