The past 5 days have been super-busy, as anyone who has migrated ILS’s knows. Bottom line: we made it. PINES is running on Evergreen. We really appreciate all of the well-wishes and support we received during this stressful time. We’re planning on writing up a full post-mortem on the migration and go-live as soon as … Continue Reading about Success →
T Minus Two Weeks and Counting…
That’s right, folks. We’re only two weeks away from the PINES consortium migrating to the Evergreen ILS. Two weeks. It’s hard to believe. Someone dropped me an email yesterday and mentioned that there hasn’t been any recent activity on this blog. Yeah… sorry about that, but things have been very busy internally (as any PINES … Continue Reading about T Minus Two Weeks and Counting… →
Fresh Evergreen Beta Cut (version Beta .05)
Hot out of the oven! The latest Evergreen release: Beta .05. Downloads at the usual spot. Thanks to everyone who has been reporting bugs and sending in suggestions. Many suggestions have been integrated and bugs fixed in this latest release, including enhancements in cataloging and a more powerful Z39.50 client. More to come shortly…
Evergreen has reached Beta
It’s hard to believe it has been almost 2 years since we started down the path to create a powerful, flexible, open source, enterprise-class ILS. I’m very happy to report today that we’ve reach an important milestone on this journey: Beta. The PINES libraries have already been working hard on an internal release of the … Continue Reading about Evergreen has reached Beta →
Behind the Curtain
In about every meeting or presentation we participate in, we’re asked about the PINES/Evergreen servers, what they are, where they live, how many there are… basically, what is behind the green curtain? Some PINES librarians that attended the focus group meetings we held in February got an opportunity to take a tour of the datacenter … Continue Reading about Behind the Curtain →
Evergreen Pre-Beta Release
The Evergreen Pre-Beta is here. For the impatient that just want to jump in: the OPAC is at http://demo.gapines.org. We strongly recommend Firefox when viewing the OPAC. The staff client is available for download from http://www.open-ils.org/cvs.html. Okay, for those that are still reading: there is still a ton of work to do before Evergreen hits … Continue Reading about Evergreen Pre-Beta Release →