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Evergreen Highlights Opportunities for Modern Workflows at ALA Midwinter

With the changing services libraries offer to their patrons, staff workflows are quickly changing as we strive to keep up with our customers’ high expectations. Library systems also need to adapt to support these modern workflows.

The Evergreen community is leading a session at the 2018 American Library Association Midwinter meeting to show how Evergreen 3.0 is helping libraries serve their users in the modern age. Evergreen at the desk, on the road, and everywhere in between is scheduled for 1 to 2 p.m. at the Colorado Convention Center, Mile High 1E.

Released this fall, Evergreen 3.0 features a new client that can run in a web browser on a desktop, tablet, or mobile phone. In addition to a new modern interface and new way of doing business, Evergreen 3.0 brings us many new features like digital bookplates, batch-editing of user records, public catalog support for linking to maps of shelving locations, and more robust infrastructure.

The session will also highlight new features expected in the March 2018 Evergreen release and provide opportunities for attendees to ask question about Evergreen and the community that supports it.

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!