Weekly Update – August 27, 2013

Evergreen Indiana Down for Maintenance

The system will be down for a scheduled maintenance after 5pm on Sunday, September 8, 2013. Barring unexpected complications, libraries should expect processes to return to normal on Monday, September 9, 2013.

Evergreen International Annual Conference

The Evergreen International Annual Conference will be held on March 19-22, 2014 at the Boston Marriott Cambridge. They are surveying potential attendees for schedule and program recommendations through August 28 (tomorrow!). Registration information will be shared once it is available.

Printer Survey Results

Thanks to everyone for the quick feedback on your in-house printers! The overwhelming majority of you either export or manually create your spine labels in an external template (Word/Excel) and print your labels using your standard printers. The results are as follows:

Receipt Printer Spine Label Printers
BIXOLON SRP-350 Toshiba
Citizen IDP3540 TSC TTP-2247
Citizens CD-S500 Wasp
Epson M-129H Wasp WPL305E
Epson TM-T20 Zebra TLP 2844 (DISCONTINUED)
Epson TM-T88IV Zebra TLP 2844-Z (DISCONTINUED)
Epson TM-T88V
Epson TM-U220 (note: requires special driver)
Epson TM-U220D
Epson TM-U220PD
Ithaca iTherm 280
Star TSP100
Star TSP600
Star TSP650

Meetings

The Cataloging Committee will meet at 10am on Thursday, September 5, 2013 at Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library.

Member News

Happy 5 Year Anniversary to Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library! August 25, 2013 marked five years since HMMPL migrated onto the Evergreen ILS and became the first active member of Evergreen Indiana. Congratulations!

Deadlines

Reminder: please contact Anna Goben this week if you are interested in a group buy of eIDC OverDrive bookmarks. We are still pricing the smart guides.

Check your stocks of barcodes and library cards! The buying pool session will be open next week, September 2-6, 2013. Visit the buying pool page for instructions on how to participate.

Upcoming Evergreen Indiana training opportunities

September 12
Basic Cataloging, 10am-1pm, West Lafayette Public Library
Local Administration, 2-4pm, West Lafayette Public Library
September 17
Basic Circulation, 10am-1pm, West Lafayette Public Library
Holds, 2-4pm, West Lafayette Public Library