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Regional Evergreen User Groups | ====== Evergreen User Groups ====== |
| **Resource & Sharing Cooperative of Evergreen Libraries (RSCEL)** |
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Southern Ontario Evergreen User Group | RSCEL ([[http://rscel.org|rscel.org]]) was established after King County Library System (KCLS) received the "Empowered by Open Source" grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). It continues to be a place to share information related to Open Source Library Software (OSLS) adoption (see [[http://rscel.org/evergreen/moving/resources|http://rscel.org/evergreen/moving/resources]]) and there's also a directory of Evergreen Initiatives living there (see [[http://rscel.org/evergreen/about/projects|http://rscel.org/evergreen/about/projects]]). The directory case be used to find people from projects similar to yours. |
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The Southern Ontario Evergreen User Group currently has 2 meetings per year. The first meeting falls after the annual Evergreen Conference and the 2nd in November. The inaugural meeting was held at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus, Niagara College on May 11, 2011. | ===== ===== Regional Evergreen User Groups ===== ===== |
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Libraries represented included: Niagara College, Mohawk College, Lincoln Public Library, Fort Erie Public Library, Pelham Public Library, Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library, North Bay Public Library and a representative from Project Sitka. | **[[Southern_Ontario_User_Group|Southern Ontario Evergreen User Group]]** |
| User Group Launched: May 11, 2011 |
| Libraries represented: Niagara College, Mohawk College, Lincoln Public Library, Fort Erie Public Library, Pelham Public Library, Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library, North Bay Public Library and a representative from Project Sitka. |
| Meeting Schedule: Two meetings per year. Next one is planned for November, 2012 |
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Agenda from first meeting: | |
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Co-chaired by Gordana Vitez and Cynthia Williamson | |
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Opening remarks – Gordana Vitez | |
1. Participant Introductions | |
2. Possible Topics for Discussion: Sharing reports, email notification, reports in SQL, fines/overdues, cataloguing – buckets, inventory, reserves. | |
3. Additional discussion topics: Documentation--Sitka, Indiana documentation, listservs for additional documentation suggestions, fines, overdues, email notices. | |
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As this was the first meeting of the user group, some time was devoted to the attendees and how they would like to see the meeting progress. | |
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Lunch | |
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Afternoon Breakout sessions | |
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1. Circulation: libraries discussed workflows for handling overdue notices, discussion on time-consuming nature of overdues. | |
2. Cataloguing: libraries shared cataloguing tips and tricks. | |
3. Reports: Mark Bucholtz took us through some of the Evergreen database schema, gave us some tips for finding tables and columns, and created an SQL statement to find “Claims Returned” items. | |
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