Weekly Update – September 13, 2011
Evergreen Indiana Phone Notification System Maintenance
On Monday, September 19th, 2011 at 9:30PM the Evergreen Indiana phone system will be temporarily taken offline for routine maintenance and to allow for its relocation for our new telephone company. We anticipate having the system back online by 9AM Tuesday, September 20th, 2011, therefore no calls should be missed. We’ll provide updates should our telephone company run into any complications which would set the online time back.
Catalog freeze
There will be a Modified Catalog Freeze from Friday at 8am, September 23 to Tuesday at 8am, September 27. There can be no original cataloging in the system. Items can be added to existing bibliographic records but creation of new bibliographic records is prohibited.
New administration training available in WebJunction
The Indiana State Library has created a self-paced tutorial for mastering the Evergreen Indiana Administration functions. If you need a refresher or want to make sure you’ve got a handle on all of the many and various administration functions, sign-up for this class. As new libraries join the consortium, we will continue to ask that they come to the Indiana State Library to learn face-to-face with an instructor in the Admin/Reports class, this online self-paced tutorial will be available and recommended soon after migration day.
Register here
Minimum and recommended system requirements
As suggested by the OPAC committee at their recent meeting on August 25, the minimum and recommended system requirements for running Evergreen Indiana appear below. If your library workstations do not meet the minimum or recommended requirements, you can experience symptoms such as slow performance on your staff clients or delayed search response time.
System hardware for each workstation running Evergreen staff client
Windows
Recommended Hardware
Windows XP or later
2GB RAM or greater
Dual Core CPU or greater
Broadband internet connection
Minimum Hardware
Windows XP or later
1GB RAM (at least 300MB RAM must be available to staff client under normal system load)
Pentium 4 or newer processor
200MB of hard drive space
Mac
Operating System Version
Mac OS X 10 or later
Minimum Hardware
Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 processor or greater 512 MB of RAM
200 MB hard drive space
Internet connection
Work with your provider to prioritize Evergreen traffic. ENA will prioritize Evergreen traffic for e-Rate members. If you are not an e-Rate participant you will need to contact your provider and work with them.
Blue reciprocal borrower cards
Many people verified their updated total reciprocal borrower number last week. Libraries will have until September 30 to give the Evergreen Indiana Coordinator an updated total reciprocal borrowers or the number on the attached PDF below will be ordered for them. Please see Weekly Update – September 7, 2011 for more information about blue reciprocal borrower cards.