It has trickled through the grapevine that there is misinformation floating around which states that Michigan Evergreen requires all items for a given title to be attached to a single bibliographic record, regardless of edition, publisher, etc.

Michigan Evergreen definitely requires a separate bib record for each edition/year/editor/etc.  One of the main requirements of our cataloging policies is that the item in hand match the bib record exactly.  If it is not an exact match, holdings cannot be attached until a correct bib record is located or created.

If you have any questions or conerns regarding this issue, please take a look at the Michigan Evergreen Cataloging Policies and/or contact Evette Atkin or Megan Dudek.

We covered OPAC and Circulation functionality.  Here’s the initial feedback we heard from BDL:

“-the software seems so easy, you almost don’t need any training (up to that ILL part)
-the handouts handouts were very good, and make it easy to follow all the steps (even the ILL part)
-it was very nice having Evette and Elaine float around helping people”

Next week we return to Coldwater for three more days of training – another day on OPAC/Circ for staff who missed yesterday’s training, a day on copy cataloging, and a day on Admin issues.

For me, it was really exciting to see how easily the BDL staff picked up on how to use Evergreen.  The software is pretty intuitive which helps!  Once BDL goes live in a few weeks, it will be interesting to see how it works for them in real life.

We begin training for Branch District Library staff next week with OPAC and Circulation training on July 14, followed by three more days of training the next week — Copy Cataloging, Admin, and another session of OPAC/Circ.  Our goal is to have Branch’s staff trained and ready to go prior to their August 4 “go live” date.