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Archives for 2018

2018 Evergreen Conference Schedule is Now Up!

Thank you to all the presenters who volunteered for this year’s Evergreen International Conference!

This year, we are using an event scheduling tool, Sched, for the conference schedule.  This online tool will allow you to create your own unique conference schedule once you register for the conference and create your account  You can access the schedule in several ways:

-when you register for the conference through Eventbrite (http://bit.ly/2ACZyTj)
-on the Sched.com website doing an event search.

Thanks, too, to all of the members of this year’s Programming subcommittee:
Garry Collum, Kenton County Public Library
Terran McCanna, PINES
Debbie Luchenbill, MOBIUS
Jessica Woolford, Bibliomation

Sincerely,
Debbie Luchenbill
Maegan Bragg
Donna Bacon
The whole 2018 Conference Planning Crew

Evergreen 3.03 and 2.12.9 released

The Evergreen community is pleased to announce two maintenance releases of Evergreen 3.0.3 and 2.12.9.

Evergreen 3.0.3 has the following changes improving on Evergreen 3.0.2:

  • Fixes several issues related to the display of located URIs and records with bib sources in search results.
  • Setting opac_visible to false for a copy location group now hides only the location group itself, rather than also hiding every single copy in the group.
  • Fixes a bug that prevented the copy editor from displaying the fine level and loan duration fields.
  • The “Edit Items” grid action in the Item Status interface will now open in the combined volume/copy editor in batch. This makes the behavior consistent with the “Edit Selected Items” grid action in the copy buckets interface.
  • Staff members are now required to choose a billing type when creating a bill on a user account.
  • The Web client now provides staff users with an alert and option to override when an item with the Lost and Paid status is checked in.
  • Fixes a bug where the Web client offline circ interface was not able to set its working location.
  • Fixes an issue that prevented the ADMIN_COPY_TAG permission from being granted.
  • The MARC editor in the Web staff client now presents bib sources in alphabetical order.
  • Both circulation and grocery bills are now printed when a staff user selects a patron account and clicks “Print Bills”.
  • Fixes an issue in the XUL serials interface the “Receive move/selected” action from succeeding.
  • Fixes a typo in the user password testing interface.

Please note that the upgrade script for 3.0.3 contains a post-transaction command to forcibly update the visibility attributes of all bibs that make use of Located URIs or bib sources. This script may take a while to run on large datasets. If it it running too long, it can be canceled, and administrators can use a psql command detailed in the Release Notes to perform the same action serially over time without blocking writes to bibs.

Evergreen 2.12.9 has a fix that installs NodeJs from source, allowing the web staff client to build without failure.

Please visit the Evergreen downloads page to download the upgraded software and to read full release notes. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the releases!

2017 Evergreen Community Survey

Happy New Year! Now that 2017 is behind us, the Evergreen Outreach Committee is beginning to gather highlight the year’s activities for the 2017 annual report.

We are asking Evergreen libraries and consortia to respond to our annual community survey. The survey is essential for capturing a snapshot of the libraries that make up the Evergreen community.

The survey takes about five minutes to complete and requires the following information that you may need to obtain from a report or another source:

  • Total service population
  • Total number of registered users
  • Total number of circulations in 2017

We are hoping to make the data-gathering process for these surveys a little easier in future years. The information you submit for this year’s survey will be available for you to review/update next year so that you will no longer need to re-submit the same information from year to year.

Whether you are a single, standalone library or a large consortium, we want to hear from you! We’ve received great responses over the past two years, but we also know we missed hearing from many Evergreen sites. Please make sure your library is represented.

The survey is available at https://goo.gl/forms/KgkcgLLiInGm6Pj93.