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====== Local Admin Policies and Procedures ====== | ====== Local Admin Policies and Procedures ====== | ||
- | This is a working document that is currently being updated. Most of the Local Admin documentation | + | ===== Introduction ===== |
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+ | The Georgia Library PINES Program ([[http:// | ||
+ | staff of the Georgia Public Library Service ([[http:// | ||
+ | GPLS staff" throughout this manual) on behalf of the PINES Libraries. | ||
+ | system administration of the PINES Integrated Library System (ILS) software ([[http:// | ||
+ | Helpdesk support ([[http:// | ||
+ | issues; providing training and documentation regarding agreed-upon policies and procedures; and other requests. | ||
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+ | Other responsibilities for the effective implementation of the PINES software fall on the local library system administrators, | ||
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+ | ===== The PINES Local System Administrator ===== | ||
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+ | Each PINES library system is required to have a Local System Administrator who is responsible for being a single point of contact for consortium-level technical information. This staff person is also considered | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | creating and running statistical reports, and submitting tickets to the GPLS Helpdesk. | ||
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+ | ===== The Evergreen “LocalAdmin” Role ===== | ||
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+ | PINES staff members are each assigned a permissions profile or " | ||
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+ | Each PINES member library system | ||
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+ | 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 | ||
+ | it is recommended to limit this role to only two or three trusted individuals at the most. | ||
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+ | **Certification** | ||
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+ | Due to the nature of the role and the high level of responsibility for staff account security and maintenance each LocalAdmin has, PINES has implemented a certification requirement for local administration permissions (announced October 2021). In order to be granted these permissions, | ||
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+ | - Be designated to the role by their library system director (via a Helpdesk ticket). | ||
+ | - 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, | ||
+ | * 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 maintain 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 " | ||
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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 Administrators are responsible exists in the Evergreen Staff Client. | ||
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+ | ===== The Evergreen Staff Client ===== | ||
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+ | The Evergreen Staff Client is web-based and designed to run within the Firefox or Chrome web browser. Local Admins do not need to install client software, but will be required to configure and troubleshoot issues. Configuration tasks may include registering workstations, | ||
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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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