Staff Accounts, Workstations, and Org Units

Logging In

Library Supervisors can request logins and passwords for their new staff. 

Logins in Evergreen control your permissions level, or what you can do. 

After initial login, staff are encourage to change their passwords to something private and secure. 

Workstations

A workstation is the specific library location that you are registered for use on the web browser on your particular computer. The first time you login into the Evergreen Staff Interface in new browser or a new computer you will need to register a workstation.  

Workstations in Evergreen are browser specific, and store your setting preferences, what and how you see things, and can control your Print Settings. 

Follow the Best Practices for using the Browser to clearing your browser cache frequently. 

Org Unit/System/Short Code

Evergreen is structured in hierarchy of Organization Units (org unit). 

• The top hierarchy is the consortium level, SELCO in our region. Some settings in Evergreen are controlled at the Consortium Level and are inherited by the next level(s) of org units. 

• The second level is the System Level. The system level, or -SYS code is used to control settings among multiple physical locations. Some settings in Evergreen are controlled at the System Level. 

• The third level is the Short Code, this is the physical location. It is often called Branch Level. The Short Code is the three letter code before -SYS.  

In SELCO's Evergreen setup, System levels do not have items or borrowers, therefore typically you are using the Short Code for reports or day to day actions. Some settings can be controlled at branch level. 

For more information on Organizational Units see the official documentation.

Depth

Some settings in Evergreen, in particular Age Hold Protection, use the concept of Depth to determine if certain actions or behaviors are allowed by patrons or locations. Depth controls how far down the hierarchy something is allowed or not allowed by assigning numerical values to the Consortium, System and Branch level.