Community Update: New Features in 1.4 and Platform Heads-up
This post offers a heads-up about features in Evergreen 1.4, the next major Evergreen release, due out by early fall 2008, and also offers some information specific to PostgreSQL and OpenSRF. New features in Evergreen 1.4 Internationalization support for the OPAC and staff client. User interfaces, messages, currencies, dates, etc. will all be displayed according … Continue Reading about Community Update: New Features in 1.4 and Platform Heads-up →
The Evergreen Head-bob
I have been stewing about my maiden post on this blog for some time, so here goes. I presented or talked about Evergreen and open source seven times at ALA Annual 2008. (Seven times, I tell you, seven times!) It was a great experience, and part of the joy came from the many moments when … Continue Reading about The Evergreen Head-bob →
A Riff on Small
In A Riff on Big, I dealt with the skewed nature of library distributions in the United States (although the finding is more generally applicable)—that is, there few big libraries and many small libraries. Moreover, the big libraries are really, really big and the small libraries are really, really small. However, the critical question is … Continue Reading about A Riff on Small →