Infrastructural Manoeuvres has set up Evergreen software on a server (actually more than one) managed by the school ICT (actually by ever changing companies the school contracts). Settings were tuned to the library’s needs and the database populated with bibliographic records of books in the library collection as well as with library users information. This is the core of the library software infrastructure and is what we call “evergreen”, or “the system”. The OPAC (Open Public Access Catalog), or “the catalog”, is what we access at https://catalogue.rietveldacademie.nl and is a slightly customized version of evergreen’s own web interface; the same goes for the staff interface. The library website - https://library.rietveldacademie.nl - is built as an alternative interface to the system and is designed in a way such that library uses and events can interact with the catalog and viceversa. Custom scripts - accessed via bibliotecaris - also use evergreen as backhand.
Evergreen is a highly scalable system, suitable for small libraries as well as for bigger organizations comprising many sub-branches. In terms of administration, in the Staff Interface we find a generic level of ‘System Administration’, and a particular level of “Local Administration”. Because the Rietveld and Sandberg library has a simple and autonomous structure (it is not part of a big consortium of universities nor it is itself the umbrella organization for other libraries) Server settings and Local settings apply to the same single entity.
In Evergreen the Rietveld and Sandberg library is the single main Organizational Unit: “GRA”. This is set in Administration > Server Administration > Organizational Units. GRA is here defined as a Consortium, not because it is one, rather because this is the top level organizational structure type, capable of eventually hosting sub-organizations in the future. The opening times of the Library are also set in this same place.
Sys admin note: Run autogen.sh as opensrf user after changes in organizational data