https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/ 2026-05-07T23:09:52+00:00 https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/ https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.svg text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=abbreviations&rev=1644518097&do=diff Some abbreviations used in the Evergreen project: * ILS, Integrated Library System * ILL, Inter-Library Loan * LCCN, Library of Congress Control Number * OPAC, Online Public Access Catalog * JSPAC, Evergreen's JavaScript OPAC. Deprecated in favor of TPAC. * TPAC, Evergreen's Template Toolkit based OPAC. * KPAC, Kids' OPAC. Alternate version of the Template Toolkit OPAC. text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=booking&rev=1644518097&do=diff Booking Evergreen 1.6.1.0 will contain a new set of features for booking both cataloged and non-cataloged items. This page provides the documentation resources that are presently available for booking, but it should grow in the future to include more. text/html 2026-04-09T23:22:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=cataloging&rev=1775776948&do=diff Cataloging Interest Group For more information visit the Cataloging Interest Group Home Page The Cataloging Interest Group (formerly the Cataloging Working Group) was created to share information about cataloging workflows in Evergreen and allow us to work together to discuss cataloging related development for the benefit of the community. text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=cc_licensing&rev=1644518097&do=diff Licensing Documentation and Tutorials Linked on this Site If you are providing links to external materials, such as videos, PowerPoint, handouts, podcasts, and so forth, make sure in advance you have the rights to post these materials (a good rule of thumb for using other folks' material is "please and thank you are the golden rules"). text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=circ_matrix&rev=1644518097&do=diff This Page Contains Out of Date Material and Needs Updating or Revising; Not Flagged for Removal PINES Circulation Matrix (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) * Please do not edit this page directly. It is designed to reflect the current state of the sytem. Fine Levels text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=client_distribution&rev=1644518097&do=diff Staff Client Distribution Methods These are a few different ways Evergreen administrators are distributing and managing the staff clients. Client on a stick (pine cones) MVLC Note: This is method relies on revisions not available in 1.6.* releases and will probably be useful out of the box once Evergreen reaches version 2.1 text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=code_formatting_standards&rev=1644518097&do=diff Code Formatting Standards FIXME This page is a work in progress and currently NOT official! FIXME General Conventions As a general rule, Evergreen contributions should follow these basic conventions. * Indents - tabs vs. spaces * The general rule for all files needing indentation is 4 space indents, no literal tabs text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=communications&rev=1644518097&do=diff Evergreen Communications Committee The Evergreen Communications Committee was formed at the 2010 Evergreen Conference. The goal of the committee is to identify existing information, communication, collaboration and community resources and provide guidelines to community about how to organize these resources to make it easier for community members to find and use them. Toward that end, the Communications Committee developed text/html 2026-02-16T14:16:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community_servers&rev=1771251418&do=diff community demo servers These demo servers are provided by members/organizations for use by the Evergreen Community. Please reference help/questions related to server problems to the contacts associated with server. More documentation may be found on these pages: text/html 2024-08-25T17:05:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community_tutorials&rev=1724605509&do=diff Community-contributed Documentation and Tutorials Resources developed in and by Evergreen libraries throughout the world. NOTE: Short Videos * Training Videos for the Sitka consortium, produced by BC Libraries Cooperative (current as of September, 2015) * text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community_videos&rev=1644518097&do=diff * Circulation: [Circulating Precats] -- Contributed by Ryan Laverdiere, Greater Laverdiere Family Library Network (October, 2008) text/html 2023-12-06T21:57:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=contacts&rev=1701899848&do=diff Who To Contact For Access/Questions Community Calendar For posting access to the community calendar, contact the Outreach committee. Git See Git. Interest Groups & Committees See Committees. Launchpad You can sign up for Launchpad by creating a free account with Ubuntu One. Listservs See Mailing Lists. For creating a new listserv/Google Group, contact Galen Charlton. text/html 2025-03-20T16:18:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=contributing&rev=1742487498&do=diff Procedures and conventions for contributing to the Evergreen project For the Evergreen ILS Project to continue as a sustainable, community-driven development effort, the community needs to define, in concrete terms, the acceptable procedures by which one can contribute to the overall improvement of Evergreen. There are many ways in which one can contribute, including, but not limited to, QA, bug fixes, code cleanup, new features, enhancements to existing features, entirely new subsystems, end… text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=eg_developer_overview&rev=1644518097&do=diff Evergreen Developer Overview Developing for Evergreen can be a challenge for those new to it. Each piece of Evergreen requires different skills, and many things will require multiple parts of the system be modified. A basic overview of the system shows three distinct areas that one would develop in: text/html 2025-05-01T16:53:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=eg_translations&rev=1746118387&do=diff Evergreen translations Evergreen translations can be found and managed in Launchpad. Evergreen is translated with Open permissions - it means anyone can submit translations directly to the project in Launchpad ( registration is required to edit the translations). Understanding the translations workflow text/html 2024-08-25T18:16:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=events&rev=1724609761&do=diff Evergreen Community Events * Evergreen International Conference (annual) * Includes Hackfest, a one-day developer and contributor workshop * ALA Conference meetups * Hack-a-way - Developer and contributor retreat (annual) * Bug Squashing and Feedback Fest - week-long community testing events for bug fixes and new feature (2-3 times per year) text/html 2024-08-25T17:37:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_conference_presentations&rev=1724607424&do=diff Evergreen Conference Presentations Evergreen International Conference Presentations 2024 Conference Presentations Online Conference 2023 Conference Presentations Worcester, MA 2022 Conference Presentations Online Conference 2021 Conference Presentations Online Conference 2020 Conference Presentations Online Conference 2019 Conference Presentations Valley Forge, PA 2018 Conference Presentations St. Charles, MO 2017 Conference Presentations Covington, KY 2016 Conference Presentations … text/html 2024-08-13T16:49:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin&rev=1723567770&do=diff User Comments Evergreen Administration Documentation CONTENT NEEDS UPDATING / 2-3-11 Note: This section of documentation is NEW, and is currently being made. Additions/changes/suggestions to be made to the Wiki in general (including this page) should be forwarded via E-Mail to open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org text/html 2026-05-07T19:16:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs&rev=1778181371&do=diff Evergreen Documentation Interest Group (DIG) The Evergreen DIG was established in May 2009 at the first Evergreen International Conference, where members of the Evergreen community committed to developing single-source, standards-based documentation for Evergreen. Since then, DIG has been actively working toward that goal. text/html 2022-06-16T21:47:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports&rev=1655416070&do=diff Evergreen Reports All content has been moved to Reports Interest Group. text/html 2025-07-26T21:06:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=faqs&rev=1753564002&do=diff Some questions which aren't frequently asked (yet), but have been asked Personal Library Use I read on your website that someone used Evergreen in their personal/home library. How would I go about doing that? While this is possible, there are a few things to consider: text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=georgia_pines&rev=1644518098&do=diff Georgia PINES * Georgia PINES text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=ntlstraining&rev=1644518097&do=diff NTLS Training Outline and Schedule This Page May Need Updating or Revising Materials for the July, 2009 training in Fort Worth. Training Schedule * July 23rd AM 9:00-9:30 (Setup and configuration) * July 23rd AM 9:30-12:30 (Circulation) * July 23rd PM 1:30-4:30 (Cataloging) text/html 2024-08-25T16:47:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=opac&rev=1724604445&do=diff OPAC Design * CSS For Customizing OPAC * JQuery For Customizing OPAC * Accessibility * Bootstrap 5 upgrade * New Devs Bootstrap OPAC docs * Design docs * MARC field display * Bibtemplate slots and the unAPI text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=open-ils&rev=1644518097&do=diff User Comments open-ils * server_installation * Staff Client Development * OPAC development * Backend OpenSRF API * Evergreen Administration Documentation text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=opensrf_over_http&rev=1644518097&do=diff As posted on the open-ils-dev mailing list: ---------- Bill and I have been puzzling over how to give HTTP clients support for the more advanced features of OpenSRF, such as stateful, transactional sessions and streaming responses. The main problem is that HTTP is entirely stateless on its own, and OpenSRF is not. The second biggest problem is that most current HTTP clients do not lend themselves to the kind of connection control we'd like to have. text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=opensrf&rev=1644518097&do=diff User Comments OpenSRF Application Development and Administration * OpenSRF Basics -- Installation, setup and basic Application development text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=osx_client_install&rev=1644518097&do=diff XULRunner operates a bit differently under OSX. The Mozilla Developer Center contains information that you'll need. There seems to be issues with the community provided package (currently 1.8.1.3), although ver 1.8.0.4 has been successfully used. The staff client data from the ./staff_client/build directory must be placed somewhere on the machine (e.g. ~/Desktop/Evergreen_Staff_Client). text/html 2026-04-01T19:57:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=outreach&rev=1775073476&do=diff Evergreen Outreach Committee The goal of the Outreach Committee is to organize activities to increase the visibility of Evergreen in the larger library community. The committee will also establish a fund for activities that support this goal. Outreach Committee Members text/html 2024-07-18T13:20:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=poeditor&rev=1721308829&do=diff Working with Poeditor.com Join the Project Request to join the POEditor Evergreen project. An Evergreen admin will need to approve you before you can add translations. If you want to help with the translation process, ask on the Evergreen General email list. text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=pre_beta_schedule&rev=1644518097&do=diff Evergreen Pre-Beta Schedule === "Statistical Reporting" Release, Pre-Thanksgiving Break (Nov 24, 2005) === * OPAC * Initial Authority Control -- YAY! * Holds links -- 11/14/05 * MyOPAC -- updating user info -- 11/15/05 * Staff client user integration text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=redhat_evergreen_cluster&rev=1644518097&do=diff Installing an Evergreen cluster on Redhat Obviously this document is a little dated now anyway, and the reader should know that as of May 2012 RHEL and CentOS targets in the prerequisites installer "Makefile.install" have been removed. It's not that we think it's impossible to get Evergreen working on these systems (we know it isn't, at least in the former case), but that we haven't had anyone share with the community up-to-date working Redhat configs or volunteer to test them. Start here if y… text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=redhat_evergreen_trunk&rev=1644518097&do=diff Installing Evergreen Trunk on Redhat Obviously this document is a little dated now anyway, and the reader should know that as of May 2012 RHEL and CentOS targets in the prerequisites installer "Makefile.install" have been removed. It's not that we think it's impossible to get Evergreen working on these systems (we know it isn't, at least in the former case), but that we haven't had anyone share with the community up-to-date working Redhat configs or volunteer to test them. Start here if you wa… text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=redhat_opensrf_trunk&rev=1644518097&do=diff Installing OpenSRF Trunk on Redhat The following steps have been tested on Redhat x86 (32-bit) and x86-64 (64-bit) platforms. ---------- In the following instructions, you are asked to perform certain steps as either the root user or the opensrf user. text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=scratchpad&rev=1644518097&do=diff this is a test testing 2012-06-15 This week in 06/17 testing text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=serials_interest_group&rev=1644518097&do=diff Serials Interest Group text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=southern_ontario_user_group&rev=1644518098&do=diff Southern Ontario Evergreen User Group 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 at May 11, 2011 meeting: 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. text/html 2025-12-11T16:10:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=start&rev=1765469432&do=diff Evergreen ILS Wiki Community * Evergreen Community Calendar * Evergreen Committees and Interest Groups * Community meeting schedule and Interest Group wiki page links * Development meetings * Community Events * Evergreen Governance * Evergreen Membership Community Demo Servers * Community/Public Demo Servers - For demonstrations, development, testing, etc. * Bug Squashing and Feedback Fest - Additional servers are available during community testing events Community Library… text/html 2024-07-29T21:35:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=student_success_working_group&rev=1722288945&do=diff See Evergreen for Academics for an earlier iteration of this group. Student Success Working Group Email List * Eg-student-success -- Subscribe, unsubscribe or management your subscription * Send messages to the group: eg-student-success@list.evergreen-ils.org. Meetings and agendas text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=taskforce_meetings_2012-09-28-agenda&rev=1644518097&do=diff Evergreen Reports Taskforce Meeting Agenda: 2012-09-28 Time: 2:30 pm Eastern Place: #Evergreen IRC channel. Anyone interested in reports is welcome to attend. * Introductions and Volunteer for Minutes (we will also attempt to use the bot) * Review and approval of the text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=user_groups&rev=1644518098&do=diff 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 text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=versioning&rev=1644518097&do=diff Versioning The Versioning Scheme (as of Evergreen 2.1.0) The Evergreen project uses a double-decimal format, such as "2.0.1", for both Evergreen and OpenSRF releases. Major, minor, and patch releases The first number (in our example, the number "2") is a "Major" version number. This number is incremented when the release includes major feature updates. text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=videoconference_licenses&rev=1644518098&do=diff Videoconference licenses Note: Google Hangouts/Google Meets is free for up to 25 people. This is a list of Evergreen libraries that have licenses for videoconference software. Please add your library to this list if (and only if) you're willing and allowed to use your license for video discussions that make Evergreen even better. text/html 2023-07-13T13:04:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=website_administration&rev=1689253496&do=diff Website Administration Initial page detailing components of Evergreen's websites and people with responsibilities. This page should be considered a snapshot at time to show the effort made to make these services available and the redundancy of administration. This page is not actively maintained. Please use the Evergreen-ILS mailing list and text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=website_migration&rev=1644518097&do=diff Website Migration This is a documentation of the process for migrating data from the old web server to the new one being generously setup by PINES for the community. Server we are migrating to lupin.georgialibraries.org Check List * phasefx has proof-of-concepted wiki and text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=webteam&rev=1644518097&do=diff Evergreen Web Team The Evergreen Web Team is responsible for the ongoing care and feeding of the Evergreen web site. The web team welcomes any volunteers interested in helping ensure that content on the web site remains fresh and up to date. Much of our communication happens via the text/html 2022-02-10T18:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=z39.50_targets&rev=1644518097&do=diff Z39.50 Targets Z39.50 targets for the Evergreen staff client are stored in the file /openils/conf/opensrf.xml. Username/password prompts in the staff client can be suppressed (e.g. for LoC) by setting auth='f' on a corresponding entry in config.z3950_source text/html 2024-08-25T17:10:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=zzz_archive&rev=1724605854&do=diff Archived Pages These contain outdated information and are no longer being maintained. * Roster of Known Evergreen Libraries * (Deprecated) Server side installation instructions - (Please go to the "Downloads" page for the latest installation instructions.) For use with installing older versions of Evergreen