Evergreen walk-through script

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!

• Georgia PINES background
• Evergreen is born (Y2K, 2004 project green light, 2006 go-live)
• Community is growing

• 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

• Basic configuration interfaces
• Pretty Django interface

• 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

• Acquisitions
• Serials
• ERM
• Academic reserves
• A good bulk record import interface
• Authority maintenance interface
• Bilingual staff client