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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.

Evergreen 3.0.2 and 2.12.8 released

The Evergreen community is pleased to announce two maintenance releases of Evergreen 3.0.2 and 2.12.8.

Evergreen 3.0.2 has the following changes improving on Evergreen 3.0.1:

  • Copy templates created in XUL Holdings Maintenance will now be automatically converted and displayed in the web staff client’s volume/copy editor.
  • The list of report templates now includes a column indicating whether the template was originally created in the XUL staff client or the web staff client; staff need to know this since report templates created in one interface cannot be edited in the other.
  • Call number prefixes and suffixes are now displayed in various grids in the web staff client.
  • Many patron fields have been redacted from the web staff client’s patron and record holds grids, leaving patron name, username, and ID.
  • Fixes two bugs where patron records could fail to be saved upon editing.
  • The web staff patron editor now better warns staff users about duplicate names, IDs, phone numbers, and email addresses.
  • Human readable labels are now displayed for certain fields in standing penalty records.
  • The patron summary in the web staff client now correctly displays primary and secondary ID values.
  • The web staff client’s billing full details page now displays information about the staff user that created a payment.
  • The web staff client now requires staff users to explicitly set a billing type when adding a manual bill.
  • The web staff client’s patron bill annotation modal now works.
  • Patron barcode search completion in the web staff client now allows the user to select from all of the matching patron records.
  • The Hold Shelf Slip print template in the web staff client now has access to the call number.
  • The Checkout Receipt print template in the web staff client now can include summary financial information, incuding current balance, total paid on outstanding fines, and total owed.
  • The web staff print templates for current and historical bills can now include copy barcode and title.
  • Fixes a bug that resulted in some catalog searches unexpectedly timing out.
  • Fixes a bug that resulted in catalog searches that specify a location limit returning incorrect results.
  • Fixes a bug where deleted copies could make records visible in the public catalog.
  • Fixes a bug where certain queries on copies used in the public catalog could be very slow.
  • Fixes a bug place a hold request in the public catalog could result in “forgetting” the type and library of the user’s previous search.
  • The web staff client now respects staff user session timeouts, and will log out all open tabs if a user’s session has timed out.
  • The web staff Z39.50 page will now give the staff user an alert if they attempt to import a record with a duplicate TCN.
  • Fixes a bug that prevented copy notes, copy tags, and copy bucket entries from being deleted.
  • Fixes a bug that made using the volume/copy editor to change a copy’s price problematic.
  • The administration interface for hard due dates now ensures that new (or edited) ceiling dates have their time component set to end of day, resolving an issue where ceiling dates would not be applied during the ceiling date itself.
  • The web staff client can now include dynamic information in browser tab titles, e.g., “Smith, Jane – Checkout”.
  • The Concerto sample data set now includes data allowing for testing placing holds on monographic parts.
  • Asset merging during bibliographic record merging now correctly recognizes call number prefixes and suffixes and deletes disused call number records.
  • Fixes a bug where displaying user surveys could result in PCRUD drone starvation.
  • Fixes a bug where pg_restore of an Evergreen database could fail to create certain indexes on the actor.usr table.

Evergreen 2.12.8 has the following changes improving on Evergreen 2.12.7

  • Many patron fields have been redacted from the web staff client’s patron and record holds grids, leaving patron name, username, and ID.
  • Fixes two bugs where patron records could fail to be saved upon editing.
  • The patron summary in the web staff client now correctly displays primary and secondary ID values.
  • Patron barcode search completion in the web staff client now allows the user to select from all of the matching patron records.
  • The web staff print templates for current and historical bills can now include copy barcode and title.
  • Fixes a bug that resulted in some catalog searches unexpectedly timing out.
  • Fixes a bug where placing a hold request in the public catalog could result in “forgetting” the type and library of the user’s previous search.
  • Fixes a bug that made using the volume/copy editor to change a copy’s price problematic.
  • The administration interface for hard due dates now ensures that new (or edited) ceiling dates have their time component set to end of day, resolving an issue where ceiling dates would not be applied during the ceiling date itself.
  • Asset merging during bibliographic record merging now correctly recognizes call number prefixes and suffixes and deletes disused call number records.
  • The Concerto sample data set now includes data allowing for testing placing holds on monographic parts.
  • Fixes a bug where displaying user surveys could result in PCRUD drone starvation.
  • Fixes a bug where pg_restore of an Evergreen database could fail to create certain indexes on the actor.usr table.

Please visit the Evergreen downloads page to download the upgraded software and to read full release notes.