Posted on Sat 12 July 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I wrote a long blog post about the distributed version control workflow that the two Laurentian students working on Evergreen (Kevin Beswick and Craig Ricciuto) are using successfully this summer, only to lose the post to a session timeout and my own lack of caution (note to self: if writing …
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 …
As Mark Leggott mentioned in Vendor to Open Source ILS in 1 Month #1, I had the pleasure of assisting the migration of the University of Prince Edward Island library system from Unicorn to Evergreen. A little over a year ago, in discussing the business case for open source library …
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 …
Okay, this is definitely a lame thing to be thinking about at midnight on a Saturday, but I was just playing with the shelf browser in the Evergreen representation of our 780,000 bibliographic records (okay, that is definitely the wrong thing to be doing at midnight on a Saturday …
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 10 April 2008 in misc • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen
Occasionally on the #OpenILS-Evergreen IRC channel, a question comes up what kind of hardware a site should buy if they're getting serious about trying out Evergreen. I had exactly the same chat with Mike Rylander back in December, so I thought it might be useful to share the strategy we …
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: