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!
Intro: what's going on!
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:
Bookbags
Administration interfaces
Staff client
Log in / registration
Offline mode
Circulation
Checkout / Discharge
Patron registration
Receipt printing
Cataloging
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)?