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Evergreen User Groups
Resource & Sharing Cooperative of Evergreen Libraries (RSCEL)
RSCEL (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) and there's also a directory of Evergreen Initiatives living there (see http://rscel.org/evergreen/about/projects). The directory case be used to find people from projects similar to yours.
===== Regional Evergreen User Groups =====
Southern Ontario Evergreen User Group
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.
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.
Agenda from first meeting:
Co-chaired by Gordana Vitez and Cynthia Williamson
Opening remarks – Gordana Vitez
- Participant Introductions
- Possible Topics for Discussion: Sharing reports, email notification, reports in SQL, fines/overdues, cataloguing – buckets, inventory, reserves.
- Additional discussion topics: Documentation–Sitka, Indiana documentation, listservs for additional documentation suggestions, fines, overdues, email notices.
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.
Lunch
Afternoon Breakout sessions
- Circulation: libraries discussed workflows for handling overdue notices, discussion on time-consuming nature of overdues.
- Cataloguing: libraries shared cataloguing tips and tricks.
- 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.