Posted on Tue 24 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Well, I'm finally back from Atlanta and the Evergreen AcqFest. I'll apologize right off the top for not providing more blog updates over the course of the weekend, but the requirements and design discussions were pretty intense so I didn't want to risk continuously missing subtle but important details and …
Posted on Wed 18 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Libraries
Bill Denton, you are a genius!
So, my colleague Bill Denton recently landed a job as the Web Librarian at York University. While chatting idly with him, err, strengthening my professional network, I related a tale of mock woe and bitterness about how York had turned me down for a …
Posted on Wed 18 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
So I'm taking off tomorrow for Atlanta to spend four days deeply immersed in discussing, designing, planning, and implementing Evergreen's acquisitions and serials support. At least that's the plan. In our spare time (heh), we're going to tackle the internationalization infrastructure as well. The spirit of the event is modelled …
Posted on Sat 07 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
So, yesterday afternoon Mike Rylander from the Evergreen (a.k.a Open-ILS) project pushed out the first release candidate of Evergreen 1.2.0. Hurrah! If you tried installing Evergreen before, but got hung up on some of the build, install, or configuration steps, I think you'll find this release …
You've heard of the SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory) before. This morning we were treated to the SCO (Sudbury Comedian Observatory) project; while walking through the Farmer's Market, Lynn spotted a familiar face at a table. It turned out that this single table had Deb McGrath, Robin Duke, Teresa Pavlinek, Jayne …
Posted on Sun 24 June 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Correction update: 2007/06/26Wow. I am incredibly embarassed. Somehow, I made a very stupid mistake in my summary of the State Library
of Ohio ILS Options Discussion Meeting Minutes - April 24, 2007. The mistake was that I incorrectly attributed Joshua Ferraro of LibLime with making statements about Evergreen …
Amazing. 365.25 days have flown past and Amber is now a walking one year old featuring approximately six teeth, fuzzy / curly hair, and an extremely expressive personality. We held a party for her on her birthday and were lucky to have family and friends visit and call to share …
Posted on Wed 25 April 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
After much iteration and minor bug-squashing in my configuration, I am pleased to announce the Evergreen on Gentoo VMWare image is available for download. The download itself is approximately 500MB as a zipped image; when you unzip the image, it will require approximately 6GB of disk space. (1)
Basic instructions …
Posted on Sun 22 April 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Due to a sad event, Art Rhyno asked me to be his co-presenter at the OLITA Digital Odyssey 2007. Our broad subject was Evergreen, more specifically introducing the Evergreen ILS to an audience that was aware of Evergreen's existence but wanted to know more about it from both a technical …
Posted on Wed 18 April 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Many of you know that I have been working on step-by-step instructions for installing Evergreen on Gentoo on the official Evergreen documentation wiki. At the same time, I have been working on using that documentation to create a VMWare image of Evergreen -- this avocation dates all the way back to …