Evergreen

The Traverse Area District Library (TADL) officially joined the Michigan Evergreen pilot group today. In addition to the main library and branches, TADL brings with them three independent member libraries: Interlochen Public Library, Fife Lake ... [More] Public Library, and Peninsula Community Library. These four libraries join Branch District Library and Niles District Library in [...] [Less]

Yesterday morning we (Bill Erickson, Sally Murphy aka "Murph", and I ran an Evergreen workshop (rough agenda, presentation, and links to associated resources from that page) for the code4lib 2008 preconference session. My personal goals were: Walk people through a simple Evergreen install Get a small set of bib records …

John Fink John finished processing the 2.1 million bib records on his 1GB machine, but ran into an out-of-memory problem trying to import them into PostgreSQL. He has asked for help from the list. Dan strongly suspects that the lack of memory is a ... [More] serious problem and vowed to make the Laurentian server (with 12GB of RAM) available if that suspicion is confirmed. John wondered whether Pylons would be the new direction for the Evergreen administration interface. For now, the Django admin interface is still the admin interface of choice, but due to the age of the multi-db fork it's likely that a new interface built on Pylons the DBSprockets project (which is still in development). John also noted that it's a huge requirement to have a means of importing bib records and holding without dropping to the command line. Dan concurred, and believes that the Evergreen folk are already working on this on behalf of one of their clients. Art Rhyno After working on the funding proposals last week, Art was primarily occupied by finishing off some KnowledgeOntario work this week and hasn't been able to put in much time on Evergreen. Dan Scott Dan was in Georgia Monday - Thursday for the Acquisitions development session. While contributing to the discussions about acquisitions requirements and workflows, he also wrote a script to generate the 400K of contextual help for the MARC editor from the Library & Archives Canada French translation of the MARC Concise documentation and prepared for the Evergreen pre-conference session he will be leading (with Bill Erickson) at the code4lib conference. [Less]

On Tuesday, February 12 MLC hosted a panel in SL on Evergreen! We were pleased to have speakers Don McMorris from Equinox and Tim Daniels from Georgia Public Library Service. We had a large crowd of librarians both in and out of Michigan attend this event.  Click on the links below to see [...]

Art Rhyno Art has been heads-down in project funding proposals for Conifer this week. He hopes to give a rough demonstration of the use of NewGenLib as a front end for acquisitions and serials with Evergreen at our March 13th meeting in Hamilton. He ... [More] has also discovered the NewGenLib uses the same PostgreSQL Lucene pattern for storing data and making it full-text searchable as OFBiz, and thinks that may be a pattern that we could adopt for alternative discovery layers. John Fink Currently investigating the feasibility of having a functioning circulation system without an integrated acquisitions and serials piece. Current course of thinking would use Horizon acq ser with Evergreen backend for circulation / inventory control and Endeca discovery layer. It will be good to compare notes when we meet in March. Dan Scott Dan has been heads down in project funding proposals for Conifer this week (although not nearly as heads-down as Art). He has also been helping revive the Evergreen documentation project. Volunteer documentation authors will get free training in Evergreen in exchange for their documentation efforts. As a bonus, the training will be recorded and made generally available for download / viewing. [Less]