Evergreen Availability Monitoring with a focus on Nagios

Presentation will be availabe online

http://www.esilibrary.com/~mtate/

Nagios will allow some granular monitoring, which makes troubleshooting or problem solving easier. These Nagios plug-ins will be available into the GIT repository.

Michael Tate & Galen Charlton, Equinox Software

Bill Erickson, Equinox Software

Dan Scott, Laurentian University, Canada

Template Toolkit OPAC (TPAC)

Why TPAC?

Agonizing amount of time to load the JavaScript OPAC. KCLS was funding development of a low-bandwidth OPAC, so the project moved forward.

As of April 2012

Megan Maurer, Evergreen Indiana

Sharon Herbert, SITKA, British Columbia

Indiana Evergreen Experience

Used a test server environment for 2.1 to begin configuring and training of four pilot libraries. The four libraries were various sizes chosen by the State Library, which administers the Evergreen consortia.

Feedback was that the amount of work was overlapping what they were already doing. For example, the amount of time it took to input a purchase order.

 Ben Shum, Bibliomation

Jason Stephenson, Evergreen Indiana

These two guys ran a session prior to this one, and they really know their stuff. They spent the presentation examining the SQL tables and how the exceptions to the rules. Some policies are set via exceptions.

Lisa Hill, King County Library System

OPAC Display Committee initiatied Patron Usability

Wireframes of custom design

Interviewed patrons visiting library randomly to participate in a 15 minute usability study.

Evergreen 2.1 Upgrade

Speed improved with template toolkit

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They got 11,000 complaints 85% were about speed of the OPAC. It was VERY slow. 

RDA development started in 2005 with a focus on description and access, designed for digital environments, is a optimized to be a web-based tool. The implementation day is March 31, 2013. The Library of Congress website is a great resource for local training plan.  loc.gov/ada/rda

RDA will be the new content standard to replace AACR2. It is not an encoding standard and will not replace MARC. It is a stepping stone or bridge to a new way of describing bibliographic resources. It is based on FRBR and FRAD, so its good to understand FRBR first to understand RDA.

FRBR

MassLNC: Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative

Collaboration and collegiality among three distinct organizations

Kathy Lussier, MassLNC

Larry Rungren, MVLC

Elizabeth Thomsen, NOBLE

Tim Spindler, CW MARS

Larry Rungren, MVLC

Jed Moffitt, King County Library System

Lori Ayre, Galecia Group

Discussion

KCLS requirements were a long, huge list. What was leanred was to make it more bite sized.

For developers getting involved, they will be trying to work on the customer\'s needs, but they should push it out soon so that the community can react to it.

Anoop Atre & Jennifer Turner, PALS

Groups within EG Community

1. DIG: Documentation Interest Group
2. Reports Group came from the 2009 EG Conference
3. Communications & Web Team
4. Conferences: Athens, Grand Rapids, Atlanta, Indianapolis, next year Vancouver, CA

Developers & System Admins

The main communication tools are the mailing Lists and IRC Chat. Developers have meetings in the IRC channel, which can be daunting at first.

Documentation Interest Group: DIG

Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager

Jono Bacon is a leading community manager, engineering manager, consultant and author. He works as the Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical.

Presentation: Connecting with Community

For starters he is not familiar with library software, but what he is seeing a shared sense of goal within the EG community.