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Evergreen 2016 International Conference – Site Selected

The Evergreen 2016 Conference Site Selection Committee has chosen the site for the 2016 Evergreen conference.

The Evergreen group to host Evergreen International 2016:

NC Cardinal in Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh looks to be a very dynamic venue, with great restaurants, museums, art galleries, brewery tours, and night life.  Included in the proposal:  Raleigh is one of the “Top 10 Tastiest Towns in the South” according to Southern Living.

Congratulations, NC Cardinal!

Submitted by The Evergreen 2016 Conference Site Selection Committee

Evergreen web team extends protocol support

In light of the upcoming adoption of HTTP/2, the Evergreen web team decided to survey the space of online information-sharing protocols.

Since a span of 26 years has evidently not proven sufficient to shake all the bugs out of HTTP, we’ve decided to hedge our bets and extend our Internet presence to include support for a protocol that’s been patiently waiting in the wings… just in case.

We are therefore pleased to announce the availability of

gopher://gopher.evergreen-ils.org/

We are proud to join the ever-expanding Gophersphere, and hope members of the Evergreen community find this to be a useful, if light-hearted, historical resource.

To join in the fun, install your favorite Gopher client and start exploring! Here’s a little preview:

[Screenshot of the Evergreen Gopher System view using the UMN client]

Enjoy!

Evergreen 2.8.0 released

The Evergreen community is pleased to announce the release of version 2.8.0 of the Evergreen open source integrated library system. Please visit the download page to get it!

New features and enhancements of note in Evergreen 2.8.0 include:

  • Acquisitions improvements to help prevent the creation of duplicate orders and duplicate purchase order names.
  • In the select list and PO view interfaces, beside the line item ID, the number of catalog copies already owned is now displayed.
  • A new Apache access handler that allows resources on an Evergreen webs server, or which are proxied via an Evergreen web server, to be authenticated using user’s Evergreen credentials.
  • Copy locations can now be marked as deleted. This allows information about disused copy locations to be retained for reporting purposes without cluttering up location selection drop-downs.
  • Support for matching authority records during MARC import. Matches can be made against MARC tag/subfield entries and against a record’s normalized heading and thesaurus.
  • Patron message center: a new mechanism via which messages can be sent to patrons for them to read while logged into the public catalog.
  • A new option to stop billing activity on zero-balance billed transaction, which will help reduce the incidence of patron accounts with negative balances.
  • New options to void lost item and long overdue billings if a loan is marked as claims returned.
  • The staff interface for placing holds now offers the ability to place additional holds on the same title.
  • The active date of a copy record is now displayed more clearly.
  • A number of enhancements have been made to the public catalog to better support discoverability by web search engines.
  • There is now a direct link to “My Lists” from the “My Account” area in the top upper-right part of the public catalog.
  • There is a new option for TPAC to show more details by default.

For more information about what’s in the release, check out the release notes.

As release manager, I would like to thank the many people and institutions who contributed to this release in various ways, including testing, writing documentation, writing code, helping project teams and committees to run smoothly, and providing financial support.

Enjoy!