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2 <book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
3   xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
4   <info>
5     <title>The Book of Evergreen</title>
6     <author><personname><firstname>Dan</firstname><surname>Scott</surname></personname></author>
7     <copyright><year>2007</year><holder>Dan Scott</holder></copyright>
8   </info>
9
10   <part><title>Preface</title>
11     <chapter><title>Why read this book?</title></chapter>
12     <chapter><title>Conventions</title></chapter>
13     <chapter><title>Getting Evergreen</title></chapter>
14     <chapter><title>Requests for comments</title></chapter>
15   </part>
16
17   <part><title>Introduction</title>
18     <chapter><title>What is Evergreen?</title></chapter>
19     <chapter><title>A brief history of Evergreen</title></chapter>
20     <chapter><title>Is Evergreen right for your library?</title></chapter>
21     <chapter><title>Evergreen architecture</title></chapter>
22     <chapter><title>Evergreen concepts</title>
23       <section><title>Organizational units: consortiums, libraries, and locations</title></section>
24       <section><title>Items: bibliographic records, volumes, and copies</title></section>
25     </chapter>
26     <chapter><title>Scenarios: a tale of two Evergreen systems</title>
27       <section>
28         <title>Scenario 1: Le Grande University</title>
29         <para>
30           Le Grande University is a large academic institution that
31           features one main library and six libraries with specialized
32           collections distributed across campus. Circulation counts are
33           low, search sessions are low volume but lengthy and in-depth,
34           faculty and students make heavy use of shared resource lists
35           and RSS feeds for lists of new resources in areas of interest.
36         </para>
37       </section>
38       <section>
39         <title>Scenario 2: Metropolitan Public Library Consortium</title>
40         <para>
41           The Metropolitan Public Library Consortium consists of one large
42           central reference library, a set of 33 branch libraries in the
43           city core, and 25 branch libraries distributed throughout the five
44           recently amalgamated suburban areas that were once independent public
45           libraries.
46         </para>
47         <para>
48           Circulation counts are extremely high. Search sessions are high
49           volume but typically short in duration and simple title / author
50           searches. Catalog interfaces must be available in many different
51           languages to support the diverse population of patrons. The staff
52           client interface must be available in both official federal
53           languages (French and English).
54         </para>
55       </section>
56     </chapter>
57   </part>
58
59   <part><title>Setting up an Evergreen system</title>
60     <chapter><title>Setting up the router</title></chapter>
61     <chapter><title>Setting up PostgreSQL database</title></chapter>
62     <chapter><title>Setting up the memcached servers</title></chapter>
63     <chapter><title>Configuring Evergreen</title>
64       <section><title>Defining basic connection information (opensrf_core.xml)</title></section>
65       <section><title>Defining Z39.50 sources (opensrf.xml)</title></section>
66       <section><title>Defining an added content service (opensrf.xml)</title></section>
67       <section><title>Setting default login timeouts (opensrf.xml)</title></section>
68       <section><title>Setting circulation policies (opensrf.xml / circ_groups.js)</title></section>
69       <section><title>Defining field mappings (fm_IDL.xml)</title></section>
70     </chapter>
71     <chapter><title>Setting up Apache Web server</title>
72       <section><title>Basic configuration (apache2.conf / httpd.conf)</title></section>
73       <section><title>Defining your virtual host</title></section>
74     </chapter>
75     <chapter><title>Installing the Evergreen staff client</title></chapter>
76     <chapter><title>Troubleshooting</title></chapter>
77   </part>
78
79   <part><title>Administering Evergreen</title>
80     <chapter><title>Starting and stopping Evergreen</title></chapter>
81     <chapter><title>Setting up organizational units</title></chapter>
82     <chapter><title>Generating reports</title></chapter>
83     <chapter><title>Preventing disaster</title></chapter>
84   </part>
85
86   <part><title>Core tasks</title>
87     <chapter><title>Cataloging</title></chapter>
88     <chapter><title>Circulation</title>
89       <section><title>Offline circulation</title></section>
90     </chapter>
91     <chapter><title>Course reserves</title></chapter>
92     <chapter><title>Acquisitions</title></chapter>
93     <chapter><title>Serials</title></chapter>
94   </part>
95
96   <part><title>Customizing Evergreen</title>
97     <partintro>
98       <title>About this section</title>
99       <para>
100         This section is intended to describe the tasks that Evergreen administrators
101         can perform to customize the look and feel of the system for their libraries.
102         All tasks described here will be able to be completed with a rudimentary
103         knowledge of XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
104       </para>
105     </partintro>
106     <chapter><title>Customizing the staff client</title>
107       <section><title>Changing the theme</title></section>
108       <section><title>Changing labels and messages</title></section>
109       <section><title>Changing key mappings</title></section>
110     </chapter>
111     <chapter><title>Customizing the catalog</title>
112       <section><title>Changing the theme</title></section>
113       <section><title>Changing labels and messages</title></section>
114       <section><title>Changing the hit list details</title></section>
115       <section><title>Changing the detailed view details</title></section>
116     </chapter>
117   </part>
118
119   <part><title>Technical reference</title>
120     <partintro>
121       <title>About this section</title>
122       <para>
123         This section will document the Evergreen application programming
124         interfaces (APIs), database schemas, communication protocols,
125         client and catalog design and implementation, and configuration
126         files.
127       </para>
128     </partintro>
129     <chapter><title>Application Programming Interfaces</title>
130       <section><title>OpenSRF</title></section>
131       <section><title>Web services</title></section>
132     </chapter>
133     <chapter><title>Database schemas</title></chapter>
134     <chapter><title>Communication protocols (XMPP + JSON)</title></chapter>
135     <chapter><title>Configuration files</title></chapter>
136   </part>
137 </book>