[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Discussions on Evergreen search

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

During the dev hack-a-way in November, we had a discussion regarding 
Evergreen search. The discussion happened at the request of MassLNC 
after we had some local discussions regarding what our overall goals for 
Evergreen search are. We view  search as one of the most important 
pieces of the ILS, if not the most important. It's what allows our users 
to find those resources we spend so much time cataloging so that they 
can then place holds on them, check them out from the library, or access 
them in some other way.

I left the hack-a-way with an action item to start a larger community 
discussion where we could identify some high-level goals for what we 
want Evergreen search to be and where we could define what we consider 
to be important factors in search relevance.

I would like to start this discussion with some focus-group-like 
discussions in IRC where community members could identify the features 
they like about the current search and where they see room for 
improvement. My hope is that these discussions can help us define what 
we consider to be an ideal search system for Evergreen and allow the dev 
community to explore options for making that ideal search system happen.

I think the discussions will work best if they are not too large, so I 
anticipate scheduling two or three or more depending on interest. If you 
are interested in participating, please fill out the Doodle at 
http://doodle.com/poll/hkdy3u5255u3rpmr. I'll try my best to schedule 
these discussions so that anyone who shows interest through the Doodle 
poll has a chance to participate.

I have also talked to Yamil Suarez about scheduling some "Intro to IRC" 
sessions ahead of time so that people who are unfamiliar with IRC have a 
chance to learn about it before the scheduled search discussions.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!

Kathy

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Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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