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

[Faith Chao]

Dear All,
Is there anyone who is working on a Chinese version of Evergreen? We are a non profit organization (also named Evergreen) supporting a number of rural libraries in rural China and are in need of finding a good workable software like Evergreen.
Thanks,
Faith Chao
President,
Evergreen Education Foundation 
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From: Open-ils-general <open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org> on behalf of McCanna, Terran <tmccanna at georgialibraries.org>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 7:07 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Discussions on Evergreen search

Thank you for coordinating this, Kathy!!!


Terran McCanna
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-235-7138
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Lussier" <klussier at masslnc.org>
To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 5:54:11 PM
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Discussions on Evergreen search

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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Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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