Just a quick post to announce PINES has grown by another library system: Lake Blackshear Regional. The PINES consortium has now grown to 49 library systems comprised of over 275 physical locations. The database has also grown: PINES is up to 9.3 million items and 1.8 million active users. PINES had over 17 million circulations … Continue Reading about PINES Consortium welcomes Lake Blackshear Regional Library →
Indiana Open Source ILS Initiative
The Indiana State Library and the Hussey Mayfield Memorial Public Library (Zionsville) have announced the Indiana Open Source ILS Initiative. They are embarking on a statewide project to implement Evergreen in a fashion similar to the Georgia PINES consortium. More information can be found in the announcement. Congratulations, and welcome to the community!
The Michigan Evergreen Project
MLC is excited to be a part of the Evergreen community! The Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) is a non-profit membership organization comprised of nearly 600 Michigan libraries of all types. MLC provides libraries a single point of contact for training, group purchasing and technical support for OCLC Products, electronic resources and more. MLC and the … Continue Reading about The Michigan Evergreen Project →
Evergreen Holiday Lunch Party
Equinox hosted a small Evergreen lunch party/gathering yesterday, and it seemed a perfect opportunity to get a picture of many folks who work together all the time, but rarely see each other. Sadly, one of our number had to take the picture–thanks to Lamar Veatch, Georgia State Librarian for performing the picture-taking duty. Happy Holidays … Continue Reading about Evergreen Holiday Lunch Party →
Evergreen Wins Mellon Technology Collaboration Award
The Andrew W. Mellon foundation recently named the Georgia Public Library Service a recipient of the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC) for its work on the Evergreen ILS. As part of the award, GPLS was awarded $50,000 to further the development of Evergreen. More details can be found in the press release. On behalf … Continue Reading about Evergreen Wins Mellon Technology Collaboration Award →
Evergreen’s First Birthday
It’s really hard to believe that it has already been one year since PINES implemented Evergreen. So much has changed in the past year, and Evergreen has already grown up so much. The 1.2 series of the software is on the cusp of going gold, with the 1.4 series following shortly after later this year. … Continue Reading about Evergreen’s First Birthday →