[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen to Highlight Innovative Catalog Features at ALA

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

The Evergreen community will be highlighting some of the ways the 
Evergreen catalog helps users find the material that they need at the 
American Library Association Conference in Chicago later this month.

It's a Popularity Contest -- Innovation in the Evergreen Catalog 
(https://www.eventscribe.com/2017/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=267920) 
is scheduled for 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 24 in room W177 in 
McCormick Place. Elizabeth Thomsen from NOBLE will facilitate the session.

If you're attending ALA, please join us for this meetup. If you're not 
attending ALA, please share this information with others in your 
Evergreen library / consortium so that they know of this opportunity to 
learn about these features and to meet with other Evergreen users and 
those who are interested in using Evergreen. I think there are probably 
a lot of Evergreen users out there who do not subscribe to this list, 
but who attend ALA and might be interested in this program.

In this session, we'll look at features that help users find the 
material they want. The use of popularity data to enhance the relevance 
of search results is just one new feature in the Evergreen library 
system catalog. In addition to recent circulations, relevancy in 
Evergreen can be enhanced by taking into account the number of copies 
held, the number of holds, or newness. The factors offer a range of 
possibilities that can be customized for each library’s needs and 
clientele, and are available in Evergreen’s current release.

Also in the most recent release, Evergreen has improved on its 
long-standing ability to group formats and editions. Wading through long 
pages of search results that are primarily different formats and 
editions of the same work can be tedious for users. With Evergreen, the 
catalog is able to help the user find the work they’re seeking in fewer 
screens before narrowing in on the specific edition they want. Even 
better, if they don’t care about an edition, Evergreen will allow them 
to place a hold across multiple editions of a work to make the process 
easier for them.

Evergreen has built upon this popular feature by adding quick links in 
the record to other formats and editions of the work.

Attendees are also encouraged to ask other questions about Evergreen or 
the open-source community that supports it.

We hope to see you there!

-- 
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
klussier at masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier