Birds Gathered, No Feathers Ruffled
No, despite the title, this isn’t a belated April Fools joke. 🙂 We had around 50 people descend on the Marriott City Center during PLA for the Evergreen Birds of a Feather gathering. Evergreen stakeholders seemed to be well distributed around the room and it was just an informal gathering with food and much chatting. … Continue Reading about Birds Gathered, No Feathers Ruffled →
Evergreen Scales Down. Way down.
Much ado has been made about Evergreen’s ability to scale up with both its service-oriented architecture and consortia-savvy interfaces, and as folks witnessed at PLA, it can also scale down to the size of a laptop. Well, now we have really done it. We have taken the n-tier concept to the extreme and have introduced … Continue Reading about Evergreen Scales Down. Way down. →
Why do you do it that way? (or, design rationale)
Yesterday I was explaining to some librarians how Evergreen relates Items (the actual physical barcoded material that circulates) to Volumes (where the Call Number lives) to Bib Records (which contains the MARC), and one person was curious and asked, “why do you do it that way?” The short answer is because it’s good design, but … Continue Reading about Why do you do it that way? (or, design rationale) →