Posted on Fri 05 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
UPDATE 2010-03-05 I just backported Warren's patch for sorting Z39.50 servers to rel_1_6_0 (it counts as a bug fix), so expect to see it in the Evergreen 1.6.0.4 release. Yay!
In Evergreen 1.6, Z39.50 target server configuration (for copy-cataloguing targets) moves …
Posted on Thu 04 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Let's pretend your national library asked you to submit a set of records with holdings representing all of the various formats in your library system. Let's also pretend that you're really lucky and you're running Evergreen. Here's what you would do to get one example of each combination of item …
Posted on Mon 01 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
To summarize the results of the Evergreen developer workshop at the OLA SuperConference, I think things went pretty well. The primary focus this time was on the nuts and bolts of building a minimal OpenSRF service and I saw the lights go on in a number of faces as I …
Posted on Tue 23 February 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Hey all - if you're coming to the Evergreen developer workshop at the OLA SuperConference 2010, there's one thing you can do to prepare. As this is a hands-on workshop (how else can you learn!), I'm hoping many or most of you will have laptops. And ideally, your laptop will have …
Posted on Sat 20 February 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I've been a bit quiet for the last two weeks, ostensibly because I've been on vacation. However, much of the time I was preparing to deliver a two-day introduction to SQL for Evergreen to the good people at Bibliomation. On Wednesday I flew down to Middlebury, CT - Bibliomation central - and …
Posted on Thu 28 January 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Given the the awards that Project Conifer will be presented with at the OLA SuperConference, this might be a good opportunity to mention the Customizing and Extending Evergreen: a guide for geeks workshop that I'll be giving on Wednesday, February 24th. The workshop description promises:
Together, we will break OpenSRF …
Posted on Thu 28 January 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
The Ontario Library Association (OLA) announced its 2010 OLA and OLA Divisional Award winners today, and to my great surprise Project Conifer was named the winner of two awards:
Posted on Wed 09 December 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
C# isn't in my go-to list of programming languages, but I can understand why others would be interested in developing applications in C#. So it's good news to the C# community of library developers (it would be interesting to find out how many of you are out there) that there …
Posted on Tue 17 November 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2010-05-31 Running through the process again, I found a few typos in the pg_dump commands, so I fixed those up.
I'm working on a project to compare our electronic journal holdings with our print journal holdings. This is probably a task …
Posted on Tue 10 November 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
There must be other people who have much more intelligent things than me with the TXT dump of SFX holdings that you can generate via the Web administration interface, but as I've gone through this process at least twice and rediscovered it each time, perhaps I'll save myself an hour …