Posted on Fri 30 January 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
*Updated 2009-02-02 to add PDF formatted slides because the free and libre formats just isn't good enough for some people - heh*
The slides, up front and center:
Last year I gave a presentation at the OLA SuperConference 2008 on The State of …
Posted on Mon 26 January 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Just like my last entry, this is a preview of one part of my upcoming session at the OLA SuperConference, Evergreen Exposed: Hacking the open source library system. We know from the last entry that Evergreen internally converts MARC21 to MODS to support item display; and in fact it also …
Posted on Tue 20 January 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
This is a preview of one part of my upcoming session at the OLA SuperConference, Evergreen Exposed: Hacking the open source library system. In the Conifer implementation of Evergreen, at least one of the partners plans to use a decoupled discovery layer rather than the Evergreen OPAC. So we needed …
Posted on Fri 21 November 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
As I announced on the Evergreen mailing lists last night:
One month after the first release candidate of Evergreen 1.4.0.0, the
Evergreen development team is pleased to announce the availability of
Evergreen 1.4.0.0, release candidate 2, from
http://open-ils.org/downloads.php
A partial …
Posted on Tue 28 October 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Just poked at the OLA SuperConference 2009 schedule (January 28 - 31, 2009) and found four sessions listed that are all about Evergreen. Wow! Check this out:
Date |
Time |
Title |
Description (may be abridged) |
Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Thursday, January 29 |
9:05 am |
Posted on Thu 23 October 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, FSOSS
In a few minutes I'll be giving a talk with John Fink at the Free Software Open Source Symposium at Seneca College on Evergreen: an enterprise-strength OSS solution for library ossification. I'm jazzed!
Here are the slides: (ODP format) (PDF format).
Posted on Tue 07 October 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2008-10-07 As of changeset 10774, the detailed record view in Evergreen's dynamic catalog is now recognized by Zotero.
I really like Zotero. And it works really well with Evergreen's current "basic search"
because it embeds unAPI links that enable Zotero to
consume MODS representations of the underlying
bibliographic records …
Posted on Sat 04 October 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
On Friday, October 3rd, I had the honour of presenting the progress of Project Conifer with my colleague John Fink to my peers at Access 2008. Project Conifer is the effort to bring the Evergreen open source library system to a consortium of academic libraries in Ontario (Algoma, Laurentian, McMaster …
Posted on Mon 25 August 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
So, after loading 3.7 million records into the Project Conifer test server, we have found that search can be slow. Not really a big surprise, because I've spent very little time tuning the database beyond running a VACUUM FULL and tweaking just a few parameters. But one of the …
Posted on Sat 12 July 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I've posted a second revision of the "academic reserves" requirements RFC. I'm not looking to boil the ocean with the first iteration of academic reserves for Evergreen (that's what third-party systems like ReservesDirect and Ares are for), but I am hoping that by engaging the community in a discussion we …