[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquistions development list from EG conference

Rogan Hamby rogan.hamby at yclibrary.net
Wed Jun 3 21:23:43 EDT 2015


If I'm interpreting you correctly what you'd like are views that bring
together things you commonly need so that reports are easier to construct.
That makes perfect sense to me.  Specifying what sources would be useful to
combine into new sources would be the next step so that we can start a
wishlist item for them.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:29 PM, St. John, Leslie <
lstjohn at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> Rogan,
>
> For me, it is not so much that Evergreen isn't allowing reports its more
> that they are so hard to construct from the existing sources.  Acq has a
> lot of tables and finding the one that meets your reporting needs is fairly
> daunting.  So my wish would be for a couple of sources along the lines of
> the "Classic Circulation View" or the "Classic Item List".  I've spent a
> considerable amount of time crafting a report that brings together line
> item information with fund detail information so that fund debits can be
> identified as to line item, po and invoice.  There are a couple more
> reports that I'd like to have that combine some of the same pieces of line
> items and fund data.  Does that help answer your question?
> I hope others will contribute.   I really hated missing your session on
> report sources, maybe next time if you do it again?
>
>
> Leslie St. John
> PINES Consultant
> Georgia Public Library Service
> A Unit of the University System of Georgia
> 1800 Century Place, Suite 150
> Atlanta, GA 30345-4304
> lstjohn at georgialibraries.org
> www.gapines.org
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Rogan Hamby" <rogan.hamby at yclibrary.net>
> *To: *"Evergreen Discussion Group" <
> open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> *Sent: *Monday, June 1, 2015 2:45:25 PM
>
> *Subject: *Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquistions development list from
> EG        conference
>
> The need for more acquisitions sources was brought up in the reporting
> interest group as well.  I'd be curious to know what reports people need to
> run that Evergreen isn't allowing now.  It might be more data sources or it
> might be that changes to existing data sources would accomodate them.
> Either way that can sometimes be easier to do than the bigger development
> stuff.  We're just starting up with Acquisitions here so I'm interested in
> what we can do to smooth things out before we get deeper into using it
> ourselves.
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Hardy, Elaine <ehardy at georgialibraries.org
> > wrote:
>
>> Not that was brought up in the meeting. It is certainly something we can
>> discuss here
>>
>>
>>
>> *Elaine*
>>
>>
>>
>> J. Elaine Hardy
>> PINES & Collaborative Projects Manager
>> Georgia Public Library Service
>> 1800 Century Place, Ste 150
>> Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
>>
>>
>>
>> 404.235.7128
>> 404.235.7201, fax
>> ehardy at georgialibraries.org
>> www.georgialibraries.org
>> www.georgialibraries.org/pines
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Open-ils-general [mailto:
>> open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Rogan
>> Hamby
>> *Sent:* Monday, June 01, 2015 1:11 PM
>> *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group
>> *Subject:* Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Acquistions development list from EG
>> conference
>>
>>
>>
>> I noticed one line item requesting acquisitions sources for reports.  Was
>> there a consensus of what sources were needed?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Hardy, Elaine <
>> ehardy at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
>>
>> At the 2015 Evergreen Conference, acquisitions interface users and the
>> Acquisitions Working Group created a list of development priorities for the
>> interface. The attached list is divided into the ranked requests and
>> requests that are desired; but lower priority to attendees.
>>
>> The list is just a list at this point. We also have not created Launchpad
>> bugs for these. There may be some already; but, I wanted to get this out
>> quickly to start discussion so have not yet matched any to the list. If you
>> know of any already reported, please let me know and I will reference them.
>>
>> As we discuss the list and gather more information to further explain the
>> individual items, I will begin creating requirements documents that we can
>> then post to the community to solicit funds to assist in development and
>> that should be appropriate to use to guide the development.
>>
>> Please let me know if there are other issues that should be added. Also,
>> I could create a poll from the list so that those that did not have the
>> opportunity to attend the conference can vote on the request ranking, if
>> desired.
>>
>> So, let’s start the discussion ---- the list is attached as a pdf and as
>> MSWord. I can create it as a Google doc if needed as well.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Elaine*
>>
>>
>>
>> J. Elaine Hardy
>> PINES & Collaborative Projects Manager
>> Georgia Public Library Service
>> 1800 Century Place, Ste 150
>> Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
>>
>>
>>
>> 404.235.7128
>> 404.235.7201, fax
>> ehardy at georgialibraries.org
>> www.georgialibraries.org
>> www.georgialibraries.org/pines
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
>>
>> Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
>>
>> York County Library System
>>
>>
>>
>> “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to
>> suit me.”
>> ― C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis>
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
> Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
> York County Library System
>
> “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit
> me.”
> ― C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis>
>
>


-- 

Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
York County Library System

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit
me.”
― C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis>
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