Posted on Tue 24 June 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
The following summary is taken almost directly from an email I wrote to one of the would-be participants who was, sadly, prevented from making it to Yerevan due to travel complications. I meant to clean this up earlier and post it, but have not yet found the time - so I …
Posted on Mon 16 June 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I was in Armenia last week, leading a workshop on open source library systems along with Henri Damien Laurent from BibLibre. My charge was to introduce Evergreen and lead participants in two days of hands-on experience with the system; Henri took on the same task for Koha. I cannot say …
Posted on Mon 14 April 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, PostgreSQL
Update 2008-05-01: Fixed a typo for sysctl: -a parameter simply shows all settings; -w parameter is needed to write the setting. Duh.
Once you have decided on and acquired your test hardware for Evergreen, you need to think about tuning your PostgreSQL database server. Once you start loading bibliographic records …
Posted on Thu 27 March 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Project Conifer is the effort by McMaster University, University of Windsor, and Laurentian University to put together a consortial instance of Evergreen. A few weeks back, we agreed that May 2009 would be our go-live date. So the clock is ticking quite loudly in my ears.
Today I got an …
Posted on Sat 15 March 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
On Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to join a distinguished panel
of speakers and a crowded music hall at VALE's Next Generation Academic Library System Symposium at The College of New Jersey. I had been invited to
present an update on the state of acquisitions support in Evergreen, as well …
Posted on Tue 26 February 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
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:
Posted on Sat 02 February 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Well, despite getting less than four hours of broken sleep before my 9:00 am presentation, I think I successfully delivered an update on Evergreen:State of the Open ILS to approximately 45 people at the OLA Super Conference today. There were some great questions from the audience that kept …
Posted on Tue 06 November 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
Hey folks, if you're interested in working at Laurentian University, we've got a couple of tenure-track positions looking for qualified people who can stand the thought of working with me... (nothing like narrowing the field dramatically, ah well). The following position descriptions are straight out of the Employment Vacancies page …
Posted on Fri 12 October 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
This is slightly in advance of our official press release, which is currently in translation, but I will be giving / have given a lightning talk at Access 2007 on this subject and have decided to make the following materials available:
Posted on Tue 02 October 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I've been working on automating the delivery of electronic documents to our patrons; most of the work over the summer was spent in ensuring that we had our legal and policy bases covered. I read through the documentation for Ariel, our chosen ILL software, to ensure that everything we wanted …