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====== Local Admin Policies and Procedures ====== | ====== Local Admin Policies and Procedures ====== | ||
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- | //This is a working document that is currently being updated. Most of the Local Admin documentation is still available at [[https:// | ||
===== Introduction ===== | ===== Introduction ===== | ||
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===== The Evergreen “LocalAdmin” Role ===== | ===== The Evergreen “LocalAdmin” Role ===== | ||
- | PINES staff members are each assigned a permissions profile or " | + | PINES staff members are each assigned a permissions profile or " |
- | At the local system level, the highest-level permissions profile is LocalAdmin. This role can only be | + | |
- | assigned by PINES/GPLS staff at the request of a PINES Library Director. Evergreen allows more | + | Each PINES member library system is required to have a designated "PINES Local Administrator" |
- | than one LocalAdmin staff per library system, so this role can be assigned to others as needed, though | + | |
- | it is recommended to limit this role to only two or three trusted individuals at the most. Staff with | + | This role can only be assigned by PINES/GPLS staff at the request of a PINES Library Director. Evergreen allows more than one LocalAdmin staff per library system, so this role can be assigned to others as needed, though |
- | the LocalAdmin | + | it is recommended to limit this role to only two or three trusted individuals at the most. |
- | LocalAdmin may also assign permission levels | + | |
- | add specific | + | **Certification** |
- | the "Local System | + | |
+ | Due to the nature of the role and the high level of responsibility for staff account security | ||
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+ | - Be designated | ||
+ | - Complete the [[https:// | ||
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+ | <note important> | ||
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+ | ===== About Evergreen ===== | ||
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+ | Evergreen is the integrated library system (ILS) originally developed by the Georgia Public Library | ||
+ | Service specifically for use by PINES. Evergreen is open source, which means that the source code, | ||
+ | the human-readable computer files written by programmers, | ||
+ | for nearly any purpose. This results in some practical advantages for PINES: | ||
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+ | * There are no licensing fees associated with downloading and installing the software | ||
+ | * There is an “Evergreen Community” of developers, documentation writers, and fellow end users who, like PINES, contribute to the feature set of Evergreen to the benefit of all. PINES library staff are encouraged to participate in the larger Evergreen Community as much as possible. | ||
+ | * Since Evergreen was originally written to accommodate PINES policies and procedures, there are far fewer workarounds as there would be for an off-the-shelf proprietary ILS | ||
+ | * PINES/GPLS staff maintains an Evergreen development queue of feature requests made by PINES librarians and directors, meaning PINES library staff still have a hand in the design of Evergreen. | ||
+ | * Proprietorship of the "Evergreen" | ||
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+ | Evergreen is built as a web-based client-server program. The PINES implementation of Evergreen is hosted on a server cluster, a group of servers configured to act as one server. This cluster, and its server-level software programs, is managed by PINES/GPLS staff and USG IT staff. The administration for which Local System | ||
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+ | ===== The Evergreen Staff Client ===== | ||
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+ | The Evergreen Staff Client is web-based | ||
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+ | The PINES staff does not recommend and cannot currently support the use of Chrome OS devices (Chromebooks, | ||
+ | ===== Copying ===== | ||
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+ | This documentation was created by the Georgia Public Library Service for the PINES Program. It is | ||
+ | licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (CC BY-SA 2.0). A | ||
+ | summary of the conditions of that license is here: http:// | ||
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