Posted on Mon 09 August 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
As a librarian who works at a library that primarily uses the Library of Congress classification scheme, I have been interested for a long time in teaching Evergreen to be aware of call number schemes other than Dewey. The problem, in a nutshell, is that Evergreen simply applies an alphabetical …
Posted on Mon 19 July 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
As part of the informal partnership between the International Institute of Social History (IISH) and Project Conifer, I was pleased to be able to spend the last two weeks in Amsterdam, working side-by-side with one of the Institute's developers, Ole Kerpel, on augmenting the support for MARC21 authorities in Evergreen …
Posted on Fri 02 July 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
As an Evergreen developer, I believe our project has a few significant gaps that projects like RSCEL might be able to help address for the overall good of the community by bringing in outside resources to the project. Or perhaps there are skills within the community that don't feel like …
Posted on Fri 02 July 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Occasionally I drop down to the database level to generate some reporting information. You could probably get the same information through the reporter but I like the precision of SQL. Here are a couple of queries that I've put together recently.
Posted on Tue 22 June 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Many of you have undoubtedly seen previous drafts of this article as I worked on it over the past three or four months, but I'm pleased to say that the Easing Gently into OpenSRF article has now been officially published by the code4lib Journal. The goal of the article is …
Posted on Fri 23 April 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2011-04-24 Just noticed the link to the Laurentian detail file was broken - that's what I get for posting early in the morning under the influence of a cold, eh? All fixed up now, though.
This is a quick link to the updated version of the presentation (OpenOffice.org) (PDF …
Posted on Thu 22 April 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2010-04-22 16:24:56: Evidently, "in a few minutes" means tomorrow morning... avid Coffee|Code readers get the early scoop.
I'm going to give a lightning talk in a few minutes about the self-serve password reset mechanism that I added to Evergreen last month, that should see the light …
Posted on Fri 16 April 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Updated 2010-04-27: Fix corrupted characters introduced by copying from my GroupWise client. Thanks to Joe Atzberger for pointing that out.
I set up a secure SIP connection from our self-check machine to our Evergreen server located about 450km away, and thought I would put together a quick blog post on …
Posted on Wed 17 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2010-03-18 - I just realized that now that I have a separate keyword index for titles, I can assign a stronger boost in general to keywords that appear in the title for a keyword search; see update: index weight below.
One of my colleagues just asked me:
So, how does …
Posted on Wed 10 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
In June of 2009 I was moaning about how “Evergreen, by default, has no identifier index for limiting searches by ISBN / ISSN / LCCN / OCLCnum” and that “if [fixing this problem] requires work from me, it will probably be 2010 before any of it happens”. Due to some of the tools …