[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] a flurry of newbie questions

[Justin Hopkins 📖]

Tom,

If you can manage it on such short notice I'd highly recommend the
Evergreen conference, which is right around the corner.

https://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg16/

Sitting down with a group of people at the conference and chatting for
a while would save you many, many hours of email :-)

Cheers,
Justin

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Ben Shum <ben at evergreener.net> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Welcome and cheers to your new installation!  This mailing list can be
> a great place to ask questions, so do not worry about asking them.
> Though, I will caveat that by saying we may not always have the answer
> to your question and as a project of volunteers it can take a little
> time too (especially on weekends) ;)
>
> Re: 1) edit default landing page -- presuming you mean the main
> catalog itself, there is some general documentation available in the
> official Evergreen docs.  I'll point you to a link like
> http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.10/_designing_your_catalog.html ,
> there are probably other pages that may prove useful too.
>
> I'll leave the ISBN/MARC/migration-like questions for some other folks
> to attempt answering if they can.  Your questions sound like you're
> trying to jumpstart your collection into Evergreen data doesn't sound
> unreasonable in theory, but I don't have as much practical experience
> on those approaches.  Getting a good source for "quality" MARC data
> can be interesting, depending on how your catalogers feel about it...
>
> As far as community interaction goes, the mailing list is definitely
> the most visible communication method we have other than IRC.  Social
> media is used sometimes for dispensing project announcements, but I do
> not know how often the community uses it for actual interactions.
>
> Hope this helps a little,
>
> -- Ben
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:49 PM, tom <scrawler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have successfully installed evergreen 2.10.1  and the staff client on a
>> box I set up for the purpose. Now that I've achieved this particular
>> success, I have  a gazillion random, stupid, off-topic,  and potentially
>> rtfm-worthy questions about evergreen and library management. I hope I don't
>> become unbearably annoying.
>>
>> First, I'd like to edit the default landing page to change colors, logos,
>> etc. Are there guidelines? I shouldn't have any problems with html or css,
>> but I was wondering if it was documented somewhere.
>>
>> This may be wishful thinking, but can I add titles using nothing but a list
>> of isbns? I would love to generate shelf-ready spine and barcode labels
>> based on such a list. I've investigated marc records and the application
>> "marcedit", but gads, it's alot to process, and I was hoping evergreen could
>> help.
>>
>> How about patron and title import from follette-destiny?
>>
>> I'd like to put every existing book in my library's inventory into a list by
>> hand--title, author, description, and whatever else--and then get that list
>> into evergreen. Many books are old enough that there is no isbn barcode to
>> scan for the info.
>>
>> That's enough for now. Are there places other than this list and irc for
>> community interaction? I'm following evergreen on google plus, but I
>> couldn't find much else. I don't do facebook or twitter.
>>
>> Thanks, and thanks for your patience.



-- 
Regards,
Justin