Updates Newsletter

Weekly Update – October 8, 2013

Quote of the Week

“I have been made happy repeatedly when my library has been able to secure books for me on a vast array of subjects from libraries in the Evergreen System. My one daughter lives near Plainfield. I often take movies/books there for granddaughters to share with me. It is not uncommon for me to accidently leave a book there and I love that they then can return the books to the Plainfield Library—an Evergreen Library member. Evergreen is win-win in my book. Take note of that pun, too!”— Sharon Barnett, Patron, Jackson County Public Library

Reminder: Dedupe

The Evergreen Indiana servers will be unavailable October 12 (at or after 5pm EDT)-14 for patron and staff use during a record deduplication cycle. Services are expected to resume by 8am EDT on Tuesday, October 15. Libraries open during these days are asked to use offline mode. Thank you for your patience!

The eIDC (Overdrive) catalog will be available for patrons to use during this downtime.

A brief tutorial on how to use the offline mode (standalone) is now available on the Quick Tutorials page.

Calling all EI Bookkeepers

The information for the upcoming bookkeeping training for the Evergreen Indiana Intra-library Payment Program has been released to the Payment Program Contacts group. If your library’s contacts have not received the invitation, please confirm that you have completed the Payment Program Contacts survey.

Fall Development Queue Results – Top Picks

The results of the Fall 2013 Development Queue survey are in! The items with the most interest (in descending order of interest) are:

  1. Better icons (MVF) in the TPAC
  2. Display series info in the TPAC
  3. Show e-resources differently from supplemental e-materials in the TPAC
  4. Option to exclude electronic resources
  5. Configurable/more easily exportable spine labels
  6. Acknowledge multiple alerts/confirmations simultaneously
  7. Bibliographic record cloning

Upcoming Evergreen Indiana Training Opportunities

October 10
Basic Circulation, 9am-12pm, Indiana State Library, Room 428
Holds, 1-3pm, Indiana State Library, Room 428
October 29
2013 Fall Evergreen Indiana Patron Services Roundtable, 10am-12pm, Webinar
November 14
Advanced Cataloging, Part I, 9am-12pm, Webinar
November 15
Advanced Cataloging, Part II, 9am-12pm, Webinar
November 21
2013 Fall Evergreen Indiana Cataloging Roundtable, 10am-12pm, Webinar