The newsletter for Evergreen open source library software

Volume 2, Issue 10 - November/December, 2009

As a reminder, we post this newsletter to the Evergreen general discussion list as well as to this blog. Cross-posting and forwarding are encouraged.

Evergreen Out and About, Evergreen Development and Documentation Update, Evergreen People, Evergreen Jobs, Lyrasis Evergreen Classes, New Evergreen Libraries, Planet Evergreen, A Few Reminders, Newsletter Administrivia

• Evergreen 1.6.0.0 released!
  • OpenSRF 1.2.0 released!
• Evergreen 1.4.0.7 released!
• Shawn Boyette released a preview of a BuildBot to automate testing of Evergreen and OpenSRF. See http://testing.esilibrary.com/ for a preview (Warning: Firefox 3.5+, Chrome, or Safari required to view site at the moment).
• Robert Soulliere has uploaded videos of Dan Scott's Developer Workshop at FSOSS, 2009, splitting the talk into 9 segments ranging from 4 to 18 minutes each.

Amy Terlaga, of Bibliomation, Inc., in Middlebury, CT, will have her article, "Fear and Trembling in Connecticut (or 'How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Open Source')", published in the January/February 2010 issue of Computers in Libraries. She details her consortium's decision to migrate their libraries to Evergreen, after an initial period of personal open source angst. Amy can be reached at terlaga@biblio.org.

Lyrasis is offering several Evergreen classes in the near future:

Evergreen Circulation Module (Live Online)
2/4/2010, 10:00am-12:00pm EST

Evergreen Cataloging Module (Live Online)
3/3/2010-3/4/2010 2:00pm-4:00pm EST

Evergreen Administration and Reports Module (Live Online)
3/10/2010, 10:00am-12:00pm EST

To register, please see the Lyrasis website.

LYRASIS (created from a merger of SOLINET, PALINET and NELINET) has taught dozens of Evergreen classes. Lyrasis is dedicated to training and instructing Evergreen, and they welcome your comments and suggestions for courses. All of their current course offerings are continuously updated, and Lyrasis plans to add more courses in the future. For comments or questions, contact Lyrasis instructors Jennifer.Bielewski@lyrasis.org or Jenny.Liberatore@lyrasis.org

• Evergreen Indiana
  • Since the previous newsletter, six more library systems in Indiana migrated to Evergreen: Culver-Union Public Township Library, LaGrange Public Library, Monticello-Union Township Public Library, Paoli Public Library, Princeton-Patoka Township Library, and Westfield Washington Public Library. These migrations bring the number of Indiana libraries online with Evergreen up to 48! For more information, see the press release.

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Feel free to forward, share, etc.! The co-wranglers for this newsletter (produced every month–sometimes earlier, sometimes later–what can we say!) are …

Amy Terlaga, Bibliomation, Inc., terlaga@biblio.org Jason Etheridge, Equinox