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Access To Serials: Integrating Sfx With Evergreen Open Source Ils, Guoying Liu, Huoxin Zheng
Access To Serials: Integrating Sfx With Evergreen Open Source Ils, Guoying Liu, Huoxin Zheng
Leddy Library Publications
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to address the integration of SFX link resolver with Evergreen open source integrated library system (ILS). It also aims to describe a method to incorporate print serials into SFX.
Design/methodology/approach - A print serials project has been proposed and implemented to integrate print and electronic serials at University of Windsor Leddy Library. It contains two sub-projects: to incorporate all forms of serials in SFX; and to integrate SFX with the Evergreen library catalogue for serials access. Various issues associated with print serials and open source software were also investigated.
Findings - A …
Chinese Localisation Of Evergreen: An Open Source Integrated Library System, Qing Zou, Liu Guoying
Chinese Localisation Of Evergreen: An Open Source Integrated Library System, Qing Zou, Liu Guoying
Leddy Library Publications
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate various issues related to Chinese language localisation in Evergreen, an open source integrated library system (ILS).
Design/methodology/approach - A Simplified Chinese version of Evergreen was implemented and tested and various issues such as encoding, indexing, searching, and sorting specifically associated with Simplified Chinese language were investigated.
Findings - The paper finds that Unicode eases a lot of ILS development problems. However, having another language version of an ILS does not simply require the translation from one language to another. Indexing, searching, sorting and other locale related issues should be tackled …