Posted on Sat 03 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
If you're working on or interested in working on the Evergreen open source library system, and you can be in the Toronto area on October 29th, 2009, you might want to spend $75 and register for the Free Software Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) to be held at the Seneca@York …
Posted on Tue 15 September 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Most recently, the latest Software Freedom Law Show focuses on the subject of how to choose a license for your software project's documentation. The episode was a direct response to a dent I had sent to one of the hosts, Bradley Kuhn, suggesting the subject. I thought the Evergreen Documentation …
Posted on Mon 29 June 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
UPDATE 2010-03-10 See More granular identifier indexes for your Evergreen SRU / Z39.50 servers for some recommended enhancements to the target parser and Evergreen's identifier index capabilities
Laurentian University is part of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), and a user of the centrally hosted Ontario Scholars Portal SFX …
Posted on Fri 05 June 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I was fortunate to be invited to give a talk (OpenOffice.org Impress / PDF ) on Evergreen's progress on the
globalization front at the first ever Evergreen International Conference. My friend
Tigran Zargaryan from the Fundamental Science Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia gave a …
Posted on Wed 27 May 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Yes, all of a sudden and rather quietly, Evergreen has serials support.
A few weeks ago, I finished hooking up a rudimentary serials holdings display based on David Fiander's MFHD parsing code to our production instance of Evergreen. We loaded our MFHD records from our legacy system into Evergreen and …
Posted on Mon 11 May 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I awoke around 4:48 am today. At the time, I thought it was just our baby kicking away excitedly. However, later this afternoon, I realized that it had been almost exactly a week ago, around 4:30 am on Monday, May 4th that I sent a broadcast email message …
Posted on Mon 13 April 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
This Easter weekend I had the opportunity to play with someone's iPod Touch. Of course, the only thing I tried was the Evergreen 1.4 catalogue interface. Lo and behold, it came up just fine on Safari in all of its heavily dynamic JavaScript and less-than-XHTML-compliant glory - even sporting several …
Posted on Mon 02 March 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
It's hard to take good photos of these devices
Almost exactly a year ago, Jason Etheridge (the primary developer of the Evergreen staff client) and I managed to get our hands on a developer edition of the Nokia N810 Internet tablet device. It's a nifty little handheld computer that packs …
Posted on Sun 08 February 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Updated 2009-02-25 00:29 EST: Corrected setuptools installation step.
Updated 2009-02-08 23:39 EST: Trimmed width of some of the <pre> code sections for better formatting. Created bzr repository for unicorn2evergreen scripts at http://bzr.coffeecode.net/unicorn2evergreen
I did this once a long time ago for the Robertson Library …
Posted on Sun 01 February 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update 2009-02-19: uploaded diffs from Evergreen 1.4.0.2 (EG_exposed.tar.gz) for adding details to record summary; and Bill Erickson's slides and code examples are also available for download
The slides: Evergreen exposed, part 1 (OpenOffice)
My second presentation at the OLA SuperConference 2009 was Evergreen Exposed …