This script contributed by Dan Scott, Laurentian University, based on a presentation to the library in October 2007 - feel free to annotate, add to, or improve!
Intro: what's going on!
Georgia PINES background
Evergreen is born (Y2K, 2004 project green light, 2006 go-live)
Community is growing
Catalogue
Basic search:
Relevance-ranked results
ANDed by default
Search syntax like Google [cats dogs] vs. [cats -dogs] vs. ["cats and dogs"]
No stopwords: "To be or not to be", "it" on title
Results:
Facets (subjects, authors, series)
Spell check (search for "zoup")
Shelf browse
Place hold (volume-level hold in catalogue, item holds currently only through staff client)
Added content is supported
Advanced search:
Reorder search results
Limit by form, type, language, audience
Bookbags
Shared (in catalogue or via RSS) or private use only
No practical limit on number of bookbags or items in bookbaks
Administration interfaces
Basic configuration interfaces
Pretty Django interface
Staff client
Log in / registration
Offline mode
Circulation
Checkout / Discharge
Patron registration
Receipt printing
Cataloging
Z39.50 copy cataloging
Manual adjustments to record
New records from templates
Basic authority support
Reporting
Walk through data relationships, transforms
Basic graphing capabilities
CSV / Excel output (no stupid field truncation / forced page headers!)
Scheduler, email delivery
What's missing (from an academic library perspective)?