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Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

Wednesday, March 19

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Developer Hackfest sponsored by BC Libraries Cooperative

Documentation Hackfest

9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Git Tutorial

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Git, the version control system used for Evergreen, is not just for the developers. It’s for anybody who wants to deploy and upgrade Evergreen without losing local tweaks and for anybody who wants to get into the nitty-gritty of following along with changes to Evergreen’s code and documentation.

During this tutorial session, Galen Charlton, Implementation Manager at Equinox, will guide participants through basic Git workflows, including:

• cloning repositories
• making changes to code and/or documentation
• managing branches
• contributing changes and participating in the signoff process
• installing Evergreen from a Git repository.

Presenter: Galen Charlton, Implementation Manager, Equinox Software, Inc.

12 to 1 p.m.

Lunch on your own in Kendall Square

1 to 4 p.m.

Hello Reports! Stumbling Towards the Data You Need

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Reports in Evergreen are quite powerful. Yet, developing a report is often like wandering through a maze of sources, fields, data types, etc., until you get the results you need. This session will be an introduction to the report module, covering the basics of report generation. We’ll cover topics such as managing folders, choosing sources, filtering results, and sharing reports with other users. The session will be based on version 2.4

Presenters: Chauncey Montgomery, Director/Fiscal Officer, Community Library (Sunbury, Ohio) and Jessica Venturo, Applications Support Specialist, Bibliomation, Inc.

4:30 p.m.

Evergreen Executive Oversight Board meeting – Salons 5-7

6:40 to 8:45 p.m.

Trivia Night at Tommy Doyle’s pub

Come joins us for a game of pub trivia that starts at 7 PM at Tommy Doyle’s pub. We will meet at 6:40 in front of the Starbucks at the hotel lobby, then we will walk to the bar.

 

Thursday, March 20

8 to 9 a.m.

Continental Breakfast sponsored by Equinox Software, Inc.

9 to 9:15 a.m.

Welcome Address

9:15 to 9:30 a.m.

State of Evergreen

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9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Keynote Address from David Weinberger

10:30 to 11 a.m.

Morning Break

11 to 11:45 a.m.

It’s Funny Afterwards: Technical Tales of Tragedy… and Recovery

It happens to every library, sometimes during a migration, sometimes during routine events but something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Sometimes the alert comes from an automated text message and sometimes it’s from a phone call with a harried voice on the other end. We almost always hear the music from horror movies starting in our heads. And every long-time admin has at least a few of these stories. Come to hear strange tales of disaster and stranger tales of recoveries both from the presenters and gathered from the wider community – anonymity guaranteed to protect the guilty. Expect one part technology and one part dark slapstick.

Presenters: Galen Charlton, Implementation Manager, Equinox Software, Inc. and Rogan Hamby, SCLENDS

Patron Exceeds Fine Threshold: An End-User Look at Patron Billing

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Starting in the patron’s account and navigating throughout the database, we’ll take a look at different aspects of the patron billing interface. This session will cover how to remove negative balances (that seem to be “stuck”) from patron accounts, the difference between voiding and forgiving fines, briefly discuss different billings-related Reports Sources, and other billing interface topics along the way. This session will be based on the most current version of Evergreen available at conference time.

Presenters: Erica Rohlfs, Education Librarian, Equinox Software, Inc. and Dawn Dale, PINES Helpdesk Manager, Georgia Public Library Service

Evergreen Welcome Panel

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A diverse panel of Evergreen community members will give a brief introduction to the Evergreen project & community. An audience-driven Q&A will follow the introduction. Panelists represent single-plantings and consortia; librarians, directors, developers, admins, and vendors; and all have several years’ experience within the Evergreen project. This is intended for new community members or those who are exploring the project for the first time – come and see what we’re all about and see how you can get involved!

Panelists:  Andrea Buntz Neiman, Librarian II, Public Services, Kent County Public Library; Chauncey Montgomery, Director/Fiscal Officer, Community Library; Ruth Frasur, Director; Hagerstown-Jefferson Township Library; Tanya Prokrym, NC Cardinal Program Manager, State Library of North Carolina; John Clark, Librarian, Maine Balsam Libraries Consortium; Mike Rylander, Director of Research & Development, Equinox Software, Inc.; Grace Dunbar, Vice President, Equinox Software Inc.; Jim Keenan, Library Applications Supervisor, C/W MARS; and Elizabeth McKinney, PINES Program Director, Georgia Public Library Service.

11:45 to 1:15 p.m.

Lunch-Arounds in Kendall Square

1:15 to 2:00 p.m.

Consider the KPAC: Implement and Customize the Children’s Catalog

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Learn how Bibliomation, one of the original development partners of the KPAC (Children’s Catalog), worked with children’s and school librarians to build and implement an easy-to-use, child-friendly, visual discovery interface for the OPAC. Learn how PINES customized the default KPAC with their own graphics and expanded the functionality to meet the needs of their 275+ public library branches. Bibliomation will provide a brief overview of KPAC implementation and configuration, and PINES will provide tips on customizing it for your own library.

Presenters: Terran McCanna, PINES Program Manager, Georgia Public Library Service; Ben Shum, Evergreen Systems Manager, Bibliomation, Inc.; and Amy Terlaga, Assistant Director, User Services, Bibliomation, Inc.

The Import/Export Business: Working with Vandelay in Evergreen

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MARC Batch Import in Evergreen, also known as Vandelay, allows the import of MARC records and holdings into your catalog. In this session, we will walk through the process of uploading and importing MARC records in Evergreen. We will discuss how to set up and use Merge/Overlay Profiles, Record Match Sets, and Holdings Import Profiles. This session will also cover how to export records from Evergreen. You will leave this session with an understanding of how to set up and effectively use MARC Batch Import to achieve an efficient cataloging workflow for your library.

Presenter: Angela Kilsdonk, Education Manager, Equinox Software, Inc.

Training Interest Group

Get together with other Evergreen trainers to share curriculum, tips and tools of the trade. The Training Interest group is open to any and all trainers in Evergreen libraries or consortia who want to share information and learn from their counterparts. Be sure to bring your horror stories as this group can commiserate! Here are some of the agenda items we plan to address at the Evergreen International Conference:

• Discuss training efforts at each institution and provide examples of curriculum if possible.
• What strengths and challenges do you encounter?
• What software or techniques work best for your audience?
• How do you approach updating your curriculum each time you upgrade?
• Brainstorm ideas on how to better collaborate on training efforts on an international level.

Facilitator: Shauna Borger, Professional Development Office Supervisor, Indiana State Library

 

2:15 to 3:00 p.m.

Let’s Get Cooking: How to Spice Up Your Receipt Recipes

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This talk goes over tricks you can use with your custom receipt templates, including how to use barcode fonts, rotate text, insert images, and how to make your receipts more dynamic with conditional logic. These tricks will expose you to HTML, CSS, and Javascript, but will be shared in easy to re-use “recipes” that you can copy into Evergreen.

Presenter: Jason Etheridge, Support Manager, Equinox Software, Inc.

Sys Admin Interest Group

The Evergreen Sys Admin Interest Group has met regularly every conference and is intended for those interested in or working with server or local system administration related to Evergreen, Linux, and many other magical things. With our emphasis on small group discussions, everyone is welcome to come  participate, ask questions, and share their cool approaches to solving problems.

Facilitators: Chris Sharp, PINES System Administrator, Georgia Public Library Service and Ben Shum, Evergreen Systems Manager, Bibliomation, Inc.

Assessment of Staff Needs and Satisfaction in an Evergreen Environment

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Planning the future of Evergreen in your library or consortium? Are you listening to everyone? Gaining perspective and buy-in from all users is crucial to the successful implementation of your plan. This session focuses on the assessment of staff needs and satisfaction, from the director’s office to the circulation desk. A summary of NC Cardinal’s own initiative from conception to completion provides a backdrop to the key elements of conducting such an assessment. Attendees will leave with practical information for administering a survey, including articulating assessment objectives, designing an Evergreen-centric survey instrument, marketing the survey, obtaining results, and interpreting the data.

Presenter: David Green, NC Cardinal Data Specialist, State Library of North Carolina

3:00 to 3:30 p.m.

Afternoon Snack Break sponsored by Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC)

3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

Lightning Talks – New Features

4:15 to 5 p.m.

License to ILL: How Equinox Turned Evergreen 2.0 Into FulfILLment™, an Open Source Resource Sharing Platform

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In 2010, under the direction of OhioNet, Equinox began building FulfILLment, a new model for resource sharing software. Using the core of Evergreen’s scalable and robust infrastructure, FulfILLment offers libraries a new way to think about Inter Library Loan. Gone are the days of emailing (or faxing) requests to other libraries and waiting weeks or months for a response. FulfILLment takes the staff overhead out of ILL by allowing patrons to directly place requests and then making those requests in other ILSes without staff intervention. FulfILLment has been live-tested on Polaris, Horizon, Evergreen and Koha. Aleph, and Symphony connectors have only been tested in a development environment. FulfILLment allows for the creation of granular sharing and circulation policies – some of which were ported to Evergreen to allow for direct manipulation of the “proximity” of org units to allow libraries to adjust for physical distance when that distance may not be reflected in the org tree. In this session, we will cover FulfILLment’s structure, its workflows, and have a live demonstration.

Presenters: Grace Dunbar, V.P., Equinox Software, Inc. and Bill Erickson, Senior Developer, Equinox Software, Inc.

Cataloging Interest Group

Anyone interested in discussing the Cataloging Module is invited to join. We will discuss use of the module, workflows and best practices, existing bugs, future development, documentation, and more.

Facilitators: J. Elaine Hardy, PINES and Collaborative Projects Manager, Georgia Public Library Service, and Beth Longwell, Systems Manager, Sage Library System.

Being the Cat-herder: Managing an Open Source Software Release

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Evergreen 2.5 Release Manager Dan Wells (Library Programmer/Analyst at Calvin College) and Koha 3.14 Release Manager Galen Charlton (Implementation Manager at Equinox) will discuss the fine art of release management, including how to coordinate the efforts of contributors to an open source ILS without being the big boss, when to say yes, and when to say no. Attendees will gain an understanding of how a release gets formed and how both users and developers can help.

Presenters: Galen Charlton, Implementation Manager, Equinox Software, Inc. and Daniel Wells, Library Programmer/Analyst at Calvin College

5:00 p.m.

Welcome Reception, sponsored by the Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (MassLNC)

Friday, March 21

 

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast, sponsored by OverDrive

9:00 to 9:30 a.m.

Evergreen Oversight Board Update

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9:45 to 10:30 a.m.

Evergreen Is Not an Island: Sharing Lessons From and With Other Projects

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Evergreen is part of a larger ecosystem of F/LOSS projects that serve libraries, archives, and the broader public service and information management community. Equinox Implementation Manager Galen Charlton, who is active in both the Evergreen and Koha projects, will discussion what we can learn from other projects and how we can share technology, designs, ideas about finding resources, as well as the fruits of our experience, both bitter and sweet.

Presenter: Galen Charlton, Implementation Manager, Equinox Software, Inc.

How to Write Clear Development Requirements and Bug Reports

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How do you write something that makes sense to both developers and librarians? You can fail a lot (like we did) or you can learn from our mistakes and successes. Join us as we discuss successful (and not so successful) development requirements. We’ll discuss what you should specify, what you shouldn’t, how to make your desires understood, the importance of flexibility, and how to involve staff. Real examples of ideal, and less than ideal, requirements and bug reports will be dissected. There will be an introduction to LaunchPad and its etiquette. We will also spend a few minutes discussing best practices for development contracts. It’s going to be a fast-paced session with a lot of information, but there will be time for discussion (and handouts !).

Presenters: Chris Sharp, PINES System Administrator, Georgia Public Library Service and Grace Dunbar, V.P., Equinox Software, Inc.

Acquisitions Interest Group

Are you currently using acquisitions?  In the process of implementing acquisitions? Just curious about acquisitions in Evergreen?  If so, the Acquisitions Interest Group is for you.

Anyone interested in discussing the Acquisitions Module is invited to join.  We will be talking about current use of the acquisitions module, workflows and best practices, existing bugs, future development, documentation of the module, and more.

Facilitator: Jennifer Pringle, Sitka Support, BC Libraries Cooperative

10:30 to 11 a.m.

Morning Break

11 to 11:45 a.m.

Batches, Buckets and Bookbags

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Take a tour of some of the ways that you can bring together groups of bibliographic records or copies in the Evergreen staff client to update records, make lists and manage displays, summer reading and other special projects.

Presenter: Elizabeth B. Thomsen, MB (Master of Bucketology), Member Services Manager, NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange

Mutually Assured Quality

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Quality Assurance is a process for monitoring and informing software development so that the software meets the needs and requirements of its end users. The Evergreen community has always had such processes, but there is room for improvement. Jason Etheridge,  Support Manager at Equinox Services, Inc. will go over different QA processes, and focus particularly on continuous integration testing and how to develop more such tests for Evergreen, which is essential for us to gain any real advantage with that strategy. In addition, Denish Patel from OmniTI, the company that performed a performance audit for Evergreen last fall, will talk about database monitoring instrumentation and other performance metrics.

Presenters: Jason Etheridge, Support Manager, Equinox Services, Inc. and Denish Patel, Database Architect, OmniTI

Tiny Budget, Abundant Results: Creating an Online Catalog at Georgia’s Governor’s Mansion with Evergreen

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Since the 1860’s, books have been acquired for and gifted to the Georgia Executive Mansion. As a result, the Mansion now holds in trust for the citizens of the state approximately 3,000 titles by Georgians or about the state. After a 2011 meeting with Georgia’s First Lady and her staff, State Librarian Lamar Veatch and Deputy State Librarian Julie Walker discovered the difficulties Mansion staff had finding any specific title on the shelves since, while there was a card catalog, there were no call numbers and the shelving system was not fully documented or followed. Lamar and Julie tasked the PINES staff with developing a plan to create an online catalog for the Mansion. Operating with a small grant from the Georgia Humanities Council and volunteer catalogers, we created a standalone instance of Evergreen branded to the Mansion and an online catalog for the Mansion staff that will allow also Georgians to discover what titles are held in trust for them at the Mansion.

Presenters:  J. Elaine Hardy, PINES and Collaborative Projects Manager, Georgia Public Library Service, and Chris Sharp, PINES System Administrator, Georgia Public Library Service

11:45 to 1:15 p.m.

Lunch on your own in Kendall Square

1:15 to 2:00 p.m.

Authority Control in Evergreen: The Straight Dope

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Authorities are dope, yo. Used properly, they simplify cataloging and increase patron access to materials through improved discovery capabilities. During this session we will discuss exactly how authority control works in Evergreen, some common but inaccurate assumptions about authority control in Evergreen, and how best to make use of the advanced capabilities that Evergreen provides. We will cover browse integration, automatic record overlay, authority generation, bibliographic and inter-authority record linking, Control Sets and their configuration, and how to make use of local, extra-LoC data and expertise to leverage the full potential of Evergreen’s authority control feature set.

Presenters: Mike Rylander, Director of Research and Development, Equinox Software, Inc. and Angela Kilsdonk, Education Manager, Equinox Software, Inc.

Reports Interest Group

Join us for a spirited discussion on the Evergreen reports module, running reports in SQL, and other methods for getting information out of Evergreen. Anyone interested in reports is welcome to attend.

Facilitator: Jessica Venturo, Applications Support Specialist, Bibliomation, Inc.

Evergreen Availability Monitoring

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This workshop is for Evergreen system administrators who want to decrease their reaction time to incidents within their Evergreen systems, manage small incidents before they become critical, and get more sleep at night knowing that everything is running smoothly. Although the focus is on Nagios, the intention is to discuss principles of monitoring, using Nagios as an example.

Presenter: Michael Tate, Equinox Software, Inc.

2:15 to 3:00 p.m.

Three (Dozen) Is a Crowd — Deduplication

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Dealing with duplicate records is an ongoing challenge for library catalogs large and small, but particularly for consortial Evergreen catalogs. Equinox Implementation Manager Galen Charlton will discuss the state of the art of identifying and merging duplicate records using tools inside and outside of Evergreen. Galen will cover not only the mechanics, but the process for planning deduplication and record cleanup projects.

Presenter: Galen Charlton, Implementation Manager, Equinox Software, Inc.

A Practical Serials Walkthrough

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We intend to provide a start-to-finish, practical walkthrough of a Serials workflow, focusing on the entry of subscription metadata and ancillary information (via the Alternate Serial Control View), an exploration of the Pattern Code Wizard, and the two interfaces for receiving serial items. We will also address how “controlled” serials in Evergreen can be combined with legacy holdings to inform richer displays in library OPACs.

Presenters: Erica Rohlfs, Education Librarian, Equinox Software, Inc. and Bill Erickson, Senior Software Developer, Equinox Software, Inc.

Is Getting There Half the Fun? Leadership and Change Management from Top to Bottom in Migrating to Evergreen

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Leading and managing through a migration to Evergreen can be a challenge at all levels of a library system, whether at a consortial center or an individual institution. The needs of everyone engaged in the migration process cover ground that may not be familiar to everyone, may call on people to adopt new attitudes and behaviors, and go beyond good project planning and solid technical expertise. How do you deal with all of it? In this session, drawing on the experience of multiple Evergreen migrations and successful leadership and change management practices, you will get a comprehensive toolkit to take away covering each level and every phase of a migration from conception to post-rollout. The session will address the top to bottom needs of those charged with leading and managing change within various levels of organizations and between partners in a consortial settings.

Presenter: Jim Keenan, Library Applications Supervisor, C/W MARS and business consultant who has worked with several organizations, including the Integral Institute.

3:00 to 3:30 p.m.

Afternoon Snack Break, sponsored by Bibliomation, Inc.

3:30 to 4 p.m.

Lightning Talks

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4:15 to 5 p.m.

Structured Library Data: Holdings, Libraries, and Beyond

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Since the 2.2 release, Evergreen has published schema.org structured data from the TPAC by default, enabling search engines to understand what bibliographic records are available at your libraries. But important pieces, such as copy-level data, were missing. In this session, learn what Dan Scott has done with Evergreen as part of the W3C schema.org Bibliographic Extension community group efforts to publish more complete structured library data on the web. We’ll show how the data that your library already manages in Evergreen–such as holdings, hours of operation, and branch locations–can be expressed in the schema.org vocabulary, and explore what that means for the future of libraries.

Presenter: Dan Scott, Systems Librarian, Laurentian University

Authorities Interest Group

Do you need more information about Authorities? Come join us for discussion on the latest innovations and practices in Evergreen. We’ll also talk about the use of Authority Control in cataloging and the OPAC, workflows, improvements, bugs and documentation.

Facilitator: Laurie Kulik, Database Manager, Merrimack Valley Library Consortium

Academic Reserves with a Drizzle of Syrup

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With 20 academic libraries in two different library consortia, MassLNC had a need for a solid course reserves system before moving to Evergreen. The Syrup Course Reserves System, developed by Art Rhyno and Graham Fawcett at the University of Windsor (Conifer), offered a full-featured solution for a reserves management system that was also tightly integrated with Evergreen. Library staff can scan item barcodes to add titles to a course reserves list; update Evergreen parameters (circ modifiers, copy locations, call numbers) from the Syrup interface; and authentic users against the Evergreen database. This session will provide an overview of Syrup, including initial installation and configuration, integration with Evergreen, and daily workflow for using Syrup in a library.

Presenter: Kathy Lussier, Coordinator, Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (MassLNC)

Friday Evening Activities

5:45 p.m.

Dine-Arounds

Meet in front of the Starbucks in the hotel lobby.

8:00 p.m.

Pub Crawl

Meet in Mead Hall bar, 4 Cambridge Center, around the corner of the hotel.

Saturday, March 22

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast, sponsored by Emerald Data Networks

9:00 to 9:30 a.m.

Developer Update

9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Exploring a Browser-Based Staff Client

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In 2013, due to limitations with the existing staff client, the Evergreen community decided it was time to replace XULRunner with a browser-based client. This change will put Evergreen in a much better position going forward and it will solve a lot of long-standing staff client issues, but it also creates a new set of challenges. In this session, I will discuss the benefits, the challenges, and how we got here to begin with. I will also take an in-depth look at the state of the Evergreen staff client, including the technologies in play, and how we as a community anticipate the project will evolve going forward.

Presenter: Bill Erickson, Senior Software Developer, Equinox Software, Inc.

10:50 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Taking the Ack Out of Acquisitions

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This session will provide an in-depth look into using the Acquisitions Module. We’ll cover the initial administrative set-up, typical selecting, ordering, receiving, and invoicing workflows, and running fiscal year end. Looking at 2.4 or later.

Presenters: Jennifer Pringle, Sitka Support, BC Libraries Cooperative and Tim Spindler, Manager of Library Applications, C/W MARS

SQL for Librarians

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Any good reference librarian wants to know exactly where their data comes from and with your ILS’s data being crucial, why trust it to a reporter that shapes it for you? Learn the power of not only the basics of the structured query language to read and manipulate Evergreen’s database but learn how you can teach yourself.

Presenter: Rogan Hamby, SCLENDS

 

Wednesday | Thursday | Friday| Saturday

Wednesday, May 13

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Developers Hackfest (Mountainview Room)
Sponsored by Equinox

Documentation Hackfest (Riverview Room a.m, Cebu Lounge p.m.)

1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

SQL: There and Back Again (Riverview Room)

Every time you have to learn something it’s an adventure. Some adventures involve running from dragons. Usually it involves staring at a scream and muttering unkind things. However, you don’t have to go wandering off without a map. In this workshop we will go over some basic of SQL queries in the Evergreen database and step through some practical reports step by step.

Presenter: Rogan Hamby, Operations Director SCLENDS / Headquarters Manager York County Library System

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Thursday, May 14

7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Breakfast (Gorge Room)
Sponsored by BC Libraries Cooperative

Consortium leaders meeting (Gorge Room)

9 to 9:15 a.m.

Welcome Address and Announcements (Gorge Room)

9:15 to 9:30 a.m.

State of Evergreen (Gorge Room) [slides for State of Initiatives and Outreach; slides for State of Evergreen Development]

9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Keynote Address by Joseph Janes (Gorge Room)
Sponsored by Hood River County Library District

10:30 to 11 a.m.

Morning Break

11 to 11:45 a.m.

Taboo: Circulation Policy Modifications (Columbia Room)

Not really taboo…in this overview, we’ll take a look at modifying an existing Evergreen circulation policy, where we’ll discuss some of the under-utilized options within the circulation policies. We will tie Circulation Limit Sets in with those policies and take a look at the default Circulation Matchpoint Weights within Evergreen.

Presenter: Erica Rohlfs (erohlfs@esilibrary.com), Project Manager, Equinox Software, Inc. (ESI)

Oh! The Places Acquisitions Can Go! (Riverview Room)

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go. You’ll get mixed up of course, as you already know. You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that life’s a great balancing act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)
-Oh the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss.

Acquisitions users have long development wish lists. In this session, we will facilitate a discussion of Acquisitions users’ top ten development wishes and produce a collaborative, prioritized development list of five. We will also begin requirements and use case gathering to prepare a requirements document for the community to share and use while seeking development funding and to propel Acquisitions forward in a way that will benefit the entire community.

Presenters: Leslie St. John, Georgia Public Library Service, PINES Acquisitions Consultant, lstjohn@georgialibraries.org; J. Elaine Hardy, Georgia Public Library Services, PINES & Collaborative Projects Manager, ehardy@georgialibraries.org

Running with the Bulls: “Master”ing Production (Mountainview Room)

Administering Evergreen and keeping up to date with the latest features and bug fixes can be complicated with so many changes and upgrade scripts between major versions. Come learn from two leading organizations who operate on the cutting (bleeding!) edge of Evergreen development by tracking master using git and see what common pitfalls and, more importantly, triumphs can result from living life a little more dangerously.

Presenters: Benjamin Shum (bshum@biblio.org), Evergreen Systems Manager, Bibliomation and Jason Stephenson (jstephenson@mvlc.org), Assistant Director for Technology Services, Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC)

11:45 to 1:45 p.m.

Lunch (around town)

Acquisitions Interest Group Lunch Time Meeting

Facilitator: Christine Burns

1:45 to 2:15 p.m.

Lightning Talks (Gorge Room)

• Evergreen Book Carousels by Blake Graham-Henderson [slides]
• Documentation: Success Counts on You! by Lynn Floyd [slides]
• Evergreen Overdrive API Integration by Christine Burns [slides]

2:30 to 3:15 p.m.

Cataloging Interest Group (Riverview Room)

Come and join the discussion on cataloging in Evergreen

Facilitators: Elaine Hardy, Beth Longwell

Keep Calm and Self-Check On (Columbia Room) [slides]

Are your libraries looking for an easy and cost-effective self-check solution? Do you believe an Evergreen self-check set up is difficult or requires new equipment? Learn from two library consortiums many of the ins and outs of what it takes to implement an Evergreen self-check kiosk. This discussion will help demystify the hardware and software requirements needed to run a functional self-check machine, offer ideas for the set up of custom self-check receipt templates, as well provide tips on how to improve the overall self-check experience for patrons.

Presenters: Melissa Ceraso (mceraso@biblio.org) Evergreen Systems Specialist, Bibliomation, and Brent Mills (brent@hoodriverlibrary.org), Systems Librarian, Sage Library System

An Introduction to Automated Evergreen Configuration with Ansible (Mountainview Room)

Building a large Evergreen installation can involve installing various components on many servers. How do you do this consistently without making mistakes? Scripts are one way, but how do you make further changes to the system without keeping a large library of scripts that have to be run in just the right order? A configuration management system can automate everything from virtual machine provisioning to updating your OPAC templates, while being idempotent means that changes can be made at any time and the system will always end up in the expected state. This talk will focus on using the Ansible management system but most of the concepts apply to other popular systems such as Puppet, Chef, and Salt.

Presenter: Jason Boyer (jboyer@library.in.gov), MIS Supervisor / Evergreen Indiana System Administrator, Indiana State Library / Evergreen Indiana

3:30 to 4:15 p.m.

Welcome to the Evergreen Community (Mountainview Room) [slides]

This session is intended for new members to the Evergreen community. Ever wonder what mailing list is right for what question? Ever wonder what the heck IRC is? Who owns Evergreen? Who are these vendors and are they your vendor and what do they do? What do other libraries do? How does it all fit together? We can’t promise to answer every question but from a short review of the history of Evergreen to the current community at large we will give an overview of Evergreen the community rather than the software, with plenty of time for questions and attempted answers.

Presenters: Rogan Hamby (rogan.hamby@yclibrary.net), SCLENDS &York County Library System, Yamil Suarez, (ysuarez@berklee.edu), Berklee College of Music, Grace Dunbar (gdunbar@esilibrary.com), Equinox Software, Andrea Buntz Neiman (aneiman@kent.lib.md.us), Kent County Public Library

Making the Most of Evergreen Reports (Columbia Room) [slides and handout]

Evergreen’s built-in report-creating feature is powerful, extensible, and allows for very fine-grained and targeted data retrieval. This session covers the design of the reports interface and how you can select and join together the best sources you can for your libraries’ reporting needs. We’ll peek under the hood some so you’ll understand better how Evergreen reports work from the database up. Includes practical real-life examples gleaned from years of supporting and troubleshooting PINES reports.

Presenter: Chris Sharp (csharp@georgialibraries.org), PINES System Administrator, Georgia Public Library Service

Oh CRUD, my API has a Flesh Wound (Riverview Room) [slides]

Evergreen provides a bevy of ways to access and control data within the ILS. As the system matures and evolves, developers strive to create faster, lighter, and more flexible APIs for building interfaces, programmatic system interaction (scripting, etc.), and improving 3rd-party integration.

To shed light on the current state of the art in Evergreen, I’ll review of some of the newer API components (PCRUD, flat fielder, etc.), focusing primarily on those used with the new browser client, do a quick recap of the Evergreen IDL, and discuss how we control API access with permissions, etc.

Presenter: Bill Erickson (berickxx@gmail.com), Software Development Engineer, King County Library System

4:15 to 4:45 p.m.

Afternoon Break

4:45 to 5:30 p.m.

Reports Interest Group (Columbia Room)

Come and join us for discussion on reports.

Facilitator: Jessica Venturo, Bibliomation

Hiding Deep in the Woods: Reader Privacy and Evergreen (Riverview Room) [slides]

Protecting the privacy of our patrons and their reading and information seeking is a core library value – but one that can be achieved only through constant vigilance.  We’ll discuss techniques for keeping an Evergreen system secure from leaks of patron data; policies on how much personally identifying information to keep, and for how long; and how to integrate Evergreen with other software securely.

Presenter: Galen Charlton (gmc@esilibrary.com), Infrastructure and Added Services Manager, Equinox Software

Metadata and Maps (Mountainview Room) [slides and Git repo]

Library data contains a wealth of well-curated information. The level of detail within even a simple MARC record far exceeds most metadata used to describe items found in popular online websites. Additionally, anonymized circulation data can help libraries plan their collections and service patron needs.

This presentation will describe the process of extracting a big data set from The Co-op’s shared Sitka catalogue and the methods used to publish it as open data. We will explore how this open data intersects with other open data sets published by government and other organizations. Finally, conference attendees will be shown how to use this open data to visualize knowledge to make strategic decisions.

For example, subject headings are rich metadata within MARC; subject headings can illustrate collection concentrations across the different libraries within Sitka. Circulation data can show borrowing patterns and interests. Both of these data sets can interact with other geographic and government open data sets for interesting, and sometimes surprising, results.

Presenter: Liam Whalen (liam.whalen@bc.libraries.coop), Systems Specialist, The BC Libraries Cooperative

5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Reception (Gorge Room)

7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Evergreen Oversight Board Meeting (Mt. Hood Room)

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Friday, May 15

7:30 to 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast (Gorge Room)
Sponsored by PaILS

Consortium Leaders Meeting (Gorge Room)

9:00 to 9:30 a.m.

Evergreen Oversight Board Update (Gorge Room)

9:45 to 10:30 a.m.

Receipt Template Magic (Columbia Room)

You don’t need to know code to spice up your receipt templates. This program will walk you through step by step on how to copy what you want and paste it where it goes in the receipt template editor. Full receipt examples will be shown with what you need to do to make them look professional and amazing.

Presenter: Tina Jordan (tjordan@chestateelibrary.org), Assistant Director, Chestatee Regional Library System, Member of the Georgia PINES System

Prepare to Share! (Riverview Room)

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Join us for an inside look at the benefits and mechanics of resource sharing within a public library consortium using Evergreen. Since beginning resource sharing in 2013, the growing NC Cardinal consortium has shipped an average of 90,000 items a month among member libraries who share a single online catalog. This presentation will detail how it all happens with a focus on implementing a new resource sharing workflow, including a look at the patron experience, streamlining movement of materials, tracking, and reporting.  We will also discuss how to protect parts of your collection based on age or format, as well as the strategy of opportunistic holds and soft stalling intervals. An overview of best practices will be provided along with examples of tools to track all incoming and outgoing items, creating transit reports, gathering statistics, and providing administrative updates.

Presenter: Jennifer Dale (daleji@forsyth.cc) and Jonathan Furr (furrjt@forsyth.cc), Technical Services, Forsyth County Public Library (NC Cardinal)

Troubleshooting with Evergreen Server Logs (Mountainview Room) [handout]

Your helpdesk is filling up with requests that all say “Evergreen is acting CRAZY!” and you’re at the end of your rope about what to do next. Never fear, because the servers are telling you all kinds of things that can help you see what’s going wrong. Master the art of Linux and Evergreen log diving to help you keep your library’s favorite open source ILS stable and your users happy. Targeted towards Evergreen system administrators.

Presenter: Chris Sharp (csharp@georgialibraries.org), PINES System Administrator, Georgia Public Library Service

10:30 to 11 a.m.

Morning Break

11 to 11:45 a.m.

James Bond 007 on Blu-ray (Columbia Room)

We’ll discuss the use of the Physical Characteristic Wizard to create or edit your 007 MARC tags and how this can help make your Format Icons appear in the OPAC. We’ll also take a look at how to make small adjustments to the wording displayed alongside those Format Icons.

Presenter: Erica Rohlfs (erohlfs@esilibrary.com), Project Manager, Equinox Software, Inc. (ESI)

Getting what you want in your next development project (Riverview Room) [slides]

Hooray! You’ve finally raised the funds you need for the new enhancement you want to roll into Evergreen. You contract with a developer, the work is done, and, after taking a quick look at it, you approve the final project, looking forward to the day when you upgrade to a release where you can use the feature. When the time arrives, though, you discover that it doesn’t work exactly the way you expected or contains bugs that weren’t discovered in light testing. In this session, we’ll look at ways to make sure you really get what you want out of your next development project by learning how to clearly communicate project requirements and how to thoroughly test the final code.

Presenter: Kathy Lussier (klussier@masslnc.org), Project Coordinator, Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative

Sys Admin Interest Group (Mountainview Room)

Come join fellow staff for discussion on a variety of systems topics.

Facilitators: Chris Sharp, Ben Shum

11:45 to 1:45 p.m.

Lunch (around town)

1:45 to 2:15 p.m.

Lightning Talks (Gorge Room)

2:30 to 3:15 p.m.

Acquisitions Rodeo, Part 2: EDI Wrangling (Riverview Room)

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EDI allows users of the Evergreen Acquisitions module to seamlessly send purchase orders to vendors and receive order-related messages and invoices directly in the ILS. During this session we will cover the administrative staff client setup for EDI in Evergreen. Topics will include the configuration of Provider accounts and EDI accounts, as well as a discussion of the server level configuration needed to enable Evergreen to send and receive EDI messages. We will also cover a basic acquisitions workflow that illustrates the use of EDI, including copy overlay.

Presenter: Angela Kilsdonk (akilsdonk@esilibrary.com), Education Manager, Equinox Software

Adding Data Sources to the Reporter (Mountainview Room) [slides]

The reporter is a flexible tool for accessing the Evergreen database but why be limited to the ingrained ILS data? We will discuss when it makes sense to add a new data source, what kinds of data can be added and who you will need on your team to make it happen and take advantage of it. We will talk about the roles of technical and non-technical staff in the planning. As we do we will look at different practical examples of extending your database such as simplifying complex reports, easy to reference historic data and adding poverty rates and census growth.

Presenter: Rogan Hamby (rogan.hamby@yclibrary.net), Operations Director, SCLENDS & Headquarters Manager, York County Library System

Angling for a new Staff Interface (Columbia Room) [slides]

The forthcoming web-based staff interface for Evergreen uses a JavaScript framework called AngularJS. AngularJS offers a number of ways to ease putting new interfaces together quickly such as tight integration of promises/deferred objects, extending HTML via local directives, and an integrated test framework – and can help make Evergreen UI development (even more) fun. During this presentation, which will include some hands-on exercise, Bill, Mike and Galen will give an introduction to AngularJS with a focus on how it’s used in Evergreen. By the end of the session, attendees have gained knowledge that they can immediately apply to working on Evergreen’s web staff interface. To perform the exercises, attendees are expected to be familiar with JavaScript .

Presenters: Bill Erickson (berickxx@gmail.com), Software Development Engineer, King County Library System; Mike Rylander (miker@esilibrary.com), President, Equinox Software; Galen Charlton (gmc@esilibrary.com), Infrastructure and Added Services Manager, Equinox Software

3:30 to 4:15 p.m.

To Float or Not to Float: A consortium’s play-by-play to implement floating groups (Mountainview Room)

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Several library systems within NC Cardinal used the float flag feature within Evergreen. It wasn’t enough! Our libraries requested a variety of floating scenarios – items that stay wherever they land, items that return to the home library, and items that only float between specific branches. Our libraries switched to using floating groups once they became available within Evergreen. This session examines the need for floating groups, explains how floating groups work, describes the issues that we encountered during implementation, and highlights points to consider before implementation. Attendees will leave with a basic understanding of floating group logic and practical examples of their application.

Presenters: Tanya Prokrym (tanya.prokrym@ncdcr.gov), Program Manager, NC Cardinal, State Library of North Carolina and Elisabeth Keppler (keppleep@forsyth.cc), Technical Services Supervisor, Forsyth County Public Library (NC Cardinal) 

Evergreen and Design: From UX to UI (Riverview Room)

A piece of software is only as good as its user interface (UI). With no UI, a program is useless, and a bad interface can make it even worse, taking it from worthless to destructive. But what are some elements of good UI design, and how can they lead to a better user experience (UX)? In this session we will introduce some fundamental design principles, explore specific recommendations from experts in human-computer interaction, and see how some of these ideas might be applied to both the nascent web staff client and future Evergreen interfaces.

Presenter: Dan Wells (dbw2@calvin.edu), Library Programmer/Analyst, Hekman Library (Calvin College)

Evergreen Search Tune-up: Tips and tricks to taking the default search indexes and making them more awesome (Columbia Room) [slides]

Evergreen offers sites a lot of flexibility in adjusting the default indexes that are used for search. In this session, MassLNC Project Coordinator Kathy Lussier will offer a peak into the database to demonstrate how the default search indexes are configured, show where to go when determining why a particular search didn’t work as expected, and discuss the factors that make some records more relevant than others on the results page. She’ll also demonstrate how to configure new indexes, either to accommodate a field not covered by the default index or to make specific MARC fields more relevant than others.

Presenter: Kathy Lussier (klussier@masslnc.org), Project Coordinator, Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative

4:15 to 4:45 p.m.

Afternoon Break

4:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Authorities Interest Group + Authority Control in Evergreen (Mountainview Room)

Meeting of the Authorities Interest Group will begin with an overview of how authority control works in Evergreen and how to best to make use of the advanced capabilities that Evergreen provides. Potential topics for the session include browse integration, automatic record overlay, authority generation, bibliographic and inter-authority record linking, Control Sets and their configuration, and how to make use of local, extra-LoC data and expertise to leverage the full potential of Evergreen’s authority control feature set.

Presenters: Mike Rylander (miker@esilibrary.com), President, Equinox Software and Angela Kilsdonk (akilsdonk@esilibrary.com, Education Manager, Equinox Software 

Badges? We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges! or: How to Encourage Participation (Riverview Room) [slides]

How can your organization get more people excited about the opportunities available to participate in the design, testing, documentation, governance, and general love of Evergreen? We will focus on ways to create a local environment that will foster and reward participation. We will explore all the wonderful ways in which the average Evergreen user can contribute to the improvement of the project and what organizations can do to support them. No SQL, git, Perl, or IRC required.

Presenter: Grace Dunbar (grace@esilibrary.com), Vice President, Equinox Software

Catalog: What A Mess! (Columbia Room) [slides]

Do you suffer from large print syndrome? Do you experience 856 pains from the subfield z? Do you wake up and find that your DVD icons have decided to be phonograph? Have you noticed that search results look redundant? Then this is for you! I am sure we all struggle to keep items attached to the right things. This is a programmatic approach to solve the problem. We will speak in detail about how we solved this issue and created software to distill the information. We would like to share the employed algorithms that we used to turn perl and SQL into a catalog cleanup aid. We will show code and queries so bring your code parser and query planner TI-85.

Presenters: Blake GH (blake@mobiusconsortium.org) Justin Hopkins (justin@mobiusconsortium.org), Evergreen Programmer / IT Manager, MOBIUS – Missouri Evergreen Consortium

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Saturday, May 16

 7:30 to 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast (Gorge Room)

9:00 to 9:30 a.m.

Developer Update (Gorge Room) [slides]

9:30 to 10:00 a.m.

Web Client Update (Gorge Room) [slides]

10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Morning break

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Easiest OPAC Setup Ever (Mountainview Room)

Do you use the oldest computers in your library for your OPACs? Do those computers run at a snail’s pace? Are your patrons always complaining about slowness? There is a better way! See how easy and inexpensive it is to use a Chromebox for your OPACs. You will never use an old computer again!

Presenter: Tina Jordan (tjordan@chestateelibrary.org), Assistant Director, Chestatee Regional Library System, Member of the Georgia PINES System

Lifecycle of an Evergreen Bug (Riverview Room)

Our Evergreen community tracks software bugs via the Launchpad website. How do you use Launchpad to report bugs? What else do you need to say or include when reporting bugs to the community? How do bugs get fixed? How do you track the status of bug fixes? These questions and more will be answered by community bug experts with an eye on noting potential problems with our current bug reporting process and looking towards establishing best practices for the future.

Presenter: Benjamin Shum (bshum@biblio.org), Evergreen Systems Manager, Bibliomation, Erica Rohlfs (erohlfs@esilibrary.com), Project Manager, Equinox Software, Inc. (ESI)

Jane in the Forest: Starting to do Linked Data with Evergreen (Columbia Room) [slides]

Linked Data has been on the radar of librarians for years, but unless one is already working with RDF triple-stores and the like, it can be a little hard to see how the Linked Data future will look like for ILSs. Adapting some of the ideas of the original Jane-athon [http://www.rdatoolkit.org/janeathon] session at ALA Midwinter 2015 in Chicago, we will go through an exercise of putting together small sets of RDA metadata as RDF… then seeing how that data can be used in the Evergreen.  By the end, attendees will have learned a bit not just about the theory of Linked Data, but how working with it can work in practice.

Presenter: Galen Charlton (gmc@esilibrary.com), Infrastructure and Added Services Manager, Equinox Software Inc.