PLA and an Evergreen Users Group, Birds of a Feather gathering?
Hi folks, I was wondering if any of you would be interested in gathering together to talk about Evergreen during the Public Library Association’s National Conference (http://www.placonference.org/) in March? Most of the Evergreen developers will be there and we can arrange for a meeting space. The notion is that anyone interested in the project (software, … Continue Reading about PLA and an Evergreen Users Group, Birds of a Feather gathering? →
PINES Consortium welcomes Lake Blackshear Regional Library
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 →
A new path for acquisitions development
In my previous post, AcqFest II: The Chronicles of Code, I described the work that we were doing with and around Woodchip – a specialization of the opentaps enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management systems. The post also described some of the complexity of opentaps – perhaps best demonstrated by the size of a … Continue Reading about A new path for acquisitions development →
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!
Save the time of the reader
Evergreen went live over the Labor Day weekend in 2006. How are the users of PINES adapting to the new ILS? The results of this preliminary analysis show rapid growth in use of PINES libraries. We only have fragmentary data from before the change but the following table shows changes in selected measures of use … Continue Reading about Save the time of the reader →
Laurentian University and Evergreen in an academic context
I’ve been contributing to Evergreen in various ways for a long time now, and strongly hinted back in October that this was becoming more than just a personal involvement with Evergreen. Laurentian University, my employer, recently issued a press release announcing that we have selected Evergreen as our future library system. I think this is … Continue Reading about Laurentian University and Evergreen in an academic context →