Weekly Update – May 10, 2011
Evergreen Indiana Annual Meeting
Thank you to all who attended the Evergreen Indiana Annual Meeting on Friday, May 6! There were many great presentations, discussions, questions, and productive committee meetings. Just a reminder, Megan Maurer will be sending out a survey soon to solicit feedback and suggestions for our meeting next year. At the bottom of this post, you will find all of the conference presentations and handouts. Again, thank you to our presenters and our attendees!
Incoming Library
On May 6, 2011, the Evergreen Indiana Executive Committee voted to approve the newest member of Evergreen Indiana: Osgood Public Library. Congratulations Osgood Public Library! We look forward to working with you!
OPAC committee call-out
The OPAC committee is looking for new committee members to serve an annual term. It was determined recently that there are several important issues the committee needs to tackle in terms of the OPAC interface so the committee is being reconvened. The chair of the committee is Alexis Caudell. If interested, please email Shauna Borger and Alexis Caudell.
Cataloging Patch
There was a patch placed in Evergreen Indiana to allow new items to be created at an “in-process” status when going through the edit item attributes screen. The patch doesn’t address the “fast item add” option. Any item added using the “fast item add” option results in a status of “available.” This will be fixed in the next upgrade. Please see the Evergreen Indiana Blog – Troubleshooting page for more patches that have been applied and bugs that have been widely reported.
Reciprocal Borrowers
A discussion concerning confusion on different definitions of reciprocal borrowers in the Evergreen Indiana circulation procedures came up at the Evergreen Indiana Annual Conference on Friday. A brief explanation is below.
Circulation Procedures, Page 2 and 3
First RB definition: Library A is an Evergreen Indiana library. Library A and Library B had a reciprocal borrower agreement before Library A became an Evergreen Indiana library wherein patrons from both libraries could borrow materials from either library. Now Library A is an Evergreen Indiana library so those patrons to whom the agreement applied, received Evergreen Indiana RB cards.
Second RB definition: Library C is an Evergreen Indiana library. Township D has contracted with Library C to allow residents in Township D library services at a rate less than the non-resident library fee. Library C assigns these patrons as RB patrons.
Each RB card is only valid at the issuing Evergreen Indiana library.
Please see Circulation Procedures, Appendix A, Page 15 for detailed RB borrowing privileges and information
Conference Presentations
Inventory, Alexis Caudell and Christine Sterle
Handout
Using Video and Online Social Networks to Promote Evergreen Indiana and Your Libraries, William R. Buckley
Handout
What’s new in 2.0, Megan Maurer
Tech Talk, Adam B. Bowling, Alexis Caudell
Stat cat reporting, Mike Peters
Handout
MARC/Cataloging, Janet Buckley, Judy Hill
Keynote speech, Resource sharing in Indiana, Jim Corridan
eIndiana Digital Consortium, Connie Bruder, Mary Glasser
Reports and What I learned at Evergreen International, Wendy Knapp, Jason Boyer, Shauna Borger, Jessica Jacko Barnes
Power and Pitfalls of RFID, Patty Dwyer Wanninger