The Beacon Falls Public Library went live this morning on BibliOak, Bibliomation's Development Partner Evergreen system. Beacon Falls is the first Connecticut library to go live on Evergreen. The Douglas Library of Hebron will quickly follow them next Monday, March 8th.
Kate Sheehan, our open source implementation coordinator, is spending the entire day with Beacon Falls library staff to help them get more comfortable with using this new whiz-bang open source ILS.
To check out our BibliOak Evergreen web catalog, click here
We here at Bibliomation couldn't be more thrilled for them!
The Bibliomation Open Source Team:
Melissa Lefebvre, Open Source Project Manager
Benjamin Shum, Open Source Software Coordinator
Kate Sheehan, Open Source Implementation Coordinator
-in conjunction with-
Mary Llewellyn, Database Services Manager
Robin Fitch, Cataloger and Trainer
Carol Yarrison, Help Desk Coordinator and Circulation Trainer
Jessica Venturo, Applications Support Specialist and Trainer
--Amy Terlaga
Assistant Director, User Services
Bibliomation, Inc.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
SQL Training - Dan Scott Rocks the House
Well, we just completed two days of intensive SQL training with Dan Scott, and I have to write that it was all we were hoping for and more. Not only did Dan provide us with a comprehensive overview of the basics of writing SQL queries (as well as how to insert, delete, and modify in the Evergreen database), he also delivered to us the core set of library SQL reports we needed for our development partner libraries. Since two of these libraries are going live in March, this was very timely, indeed!
Oh, and for good measure, he also helped Melissa Lefebvre, our open source project manager, figure out how to customize each of our libraries' web catalog pages so that their specific library logo/image appears in the upper left hand corner of the web catalog display. Very cool!
Dan has contributed all of his course materials to the Evergreen community. You can find them here, as a link from his blog post about his two days with us.
Be sure to thank Dan for his efforts - dan{at}coffeecode{dot}net. This is a major contribution to Planet Evergreen!
Amy
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Amy Terlaga
Assistant Director, User Services
Bibliomation
terlaga{at}biblio{dot}org
Oh, and for good measure, he also helped Melissa Lefebvre, our open source project manager, figure out how to customize each of our libraries' web catalog pages so that their specific library logo/image appears in the upper left hand corner of the web catalog display. Very cool!
Dan has contributed all of his course materials to the Evergreen community. You can find them here, as a link from his blog post about his two days with us.
Be sure to thank Dan for his efforts - dan{at}coffeecode{dot}net. This is a major contribution to Planet Evergreen!
Amy
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Amy Terlaga
Assistant Director, User Services
Bibliomation
terlaga{at}biblio{dot}org
Thursday, February 18, 2010
PLA Conference - Evergreen Community Happy Hour!
Come join your friends in the Evergreen community at next month’s PLA conference in Portland!
We’re planning to meet up at Deschutes Brewery for beer and conversation on Thursday, March 25th, at 5:30pm.
http://www.deschutesbrewery.com
If you plan to come, please RSVP to me at terlaga{at}biblio{dot}org.
Hope to see you there!
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Amy Terlaga
Assistant Director, User Services
Bibliomation
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Kids' Catalog Project Gets Underway
It's official - Bibliomation will be partnering with King County Library System (Washington state), the SITKA Libraries (British Columbia), and the PINES library network (Georgia Public Library Service) to develop the specifications for the very first Evergreen kids' catalog.
We will be collaborating with FGI, the Seattle-based web design firm that is also currently working with King County to develop a new interface for the Evergreen adult catalog.
Our first conference call should take place in the coming weeks. At that time we'll work on defining the business objectives of the project and identifying all areas of the project that need to be completed from a creative and technical standpoint. Then, we'll move on to the development of the project plan itself.
Once we have the project plan in place, we'll be looking for additional development partners. If your library system is interested in participating in this exciting and fun project, please drop me an email at terlagaATbiblioDOTorg.
Thanks!
Amy Terlaga
Assistant Director, User Services
Bibliomation
We will be collaborating with FGI, the Seattle-based web design firm that is also currently working with King County to develop a new interface for the Evergreen adult catalog.
Our first conference call should take place in the coming weeks. At that time we'll work on defining the business objectives of the project and identifying all areas of the project that need to be completed from a creative and technical standpoint. Then, we'll move on to the development of the project plan itself.
Once we have the project plan in place, we'll be looking for additional development partners. If your library system is interested in participating in this exciting and fun project, please drop me an email at terlagaATbiblioDOTorg.
Thanks!
Amy Terlaga
Assistant Director, User Services
Bibliomation
Friday, February 5, 2010
True Confessions...
Our own Amy Terlaga was once an open-source-ILS-phobe. She tells the story of her journey from resistance to enthusiastic embrace in this month's Computers in Libraries magazine.
For our Connecticut readers, the article is available through iCONN.
Fear and trembling in Connecticut: (or 'how I learned to stop worrying and love open source') is a must-read!
-Kate
For our Connecticut readers, the article is available through iCONN.
Fear and trembling in Connecticut: (or 'how I learned to stop worrying and love open source') is a must-read!
-Kate
Friday, January 22, 2010
More on the Kid's Catalog
As regular readers know, we've been looking for ideas for a kid's catalog. We posted our original list a few weeks ago and since then, we've held a chat session with our members to brainstorm more ideas, including:
We're working with other consortia to develop a kid's catalog that includes all of the features we need (i.e. the features we currently have in Horizon) and as many of the features we want as possible. Keep the ideas coming!
-Kate
- A title suggestion feature (in addition to spell-check)
- Editable buttons that lead to searches or lists
- Robust sorting
- Moderated reviews that use screen names
- An area for customizable text to promote upcoming events
- Book suggestions/ Reading lists
- Feed of Kid's Events
We're working with other consortia to develop a kid's catalog that includes all of the features we need (i.e. the features we currently have in Horizon) and as many of the features we want as possible. Keep the ideas coming!
-Kate
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Meetup at ALA Midwinter - SC LENDS and Massachusetts
At ALA Midwinter next week, we plan to meet with some of the library directors of SC LENDS (South Carolina) and the three networks in Massachusetts (NOBLE, MVLC, and C/W MARS) with plans to move to Evergreen. It will be sometime on Saturday - either the morning or late afternoon (3:30ish). (We're still coordinating schedules at the moment.) There's a room at the convention center that ALA has set aside for these kinds of informal meetings. It's called the Networking Uncommons and it's located in Lobby B of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, near the entrance to the Exhibit Hall and ALA Store.
This will be our first chance to chat with the South Carolina folks and I'm looking forward to meeting them, to see how their Evergreen system is coming along, what kinds of enhancements they still need, and where we might be able to share in some of the development effort.
If you're interested in participating in or just sitting in on the conversation, drop me an email - terlagaATbiblioDOTorg.
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Amy Terlaga
Assistant Director, User Services
This will be our first chance to chat with the South Carolina folks and I'm looking forward to meeting them, to see how their Evergreen system is coming along, what kinds of enhancements they still need, and where we might be able to share in some of the development effort.
If you're interested in participating in or just sitting in on the conversation, drop me an email - terlagaATbiblioDOTorg.
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Amy Terlaga
Assistant Director, User Services
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