The newsletter for Evergreen open source library software

Volume 2, Issue 9 - October, 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

Michigan Evergreen Demo Schedule at MLA Nov 4-5: Michigan Evergreen staff will be demonstrating the Evergreen open-source ILS software at the Michigan Library Association conference in Lansing on November 4-5 in the MLC booth (#201-203). If you’re attending the MLA conference, please stop by and check it out!

Friday, December 11, 2009 How's It Going?: An Inside Look at Bibliomation's Migration to Evergreen 9:30 coffee, 10:00-noon meeting Middlebury PL: Online Registration coming soon at www.ctlibrarians.org.

• LibraryThing for Libraries is now available for Evergreen. As announced by LibraryThing, "We've integrated both the Catalog Enhancements (tags, tag browser, recommendations, other editions and translations) and the Reviews Enhancement (300,000 LibraryThing reviews, patron reviewing, Facebook app, blog widgets)."
  • For more information, check out the original announcement on the LibraryThing Blog and see it in action on the Kent County Public Library's catalogue.
• First Developer Meeting on IRC on October 16, 2009.
  • Announcement
  • Stats
  • Agenda and Meeting Notes
• Dan Scott giving an Evergreen Developer Workshop and Presentation at FSOSS 2009 in Toronto, ON, Canada.
• Video of Mike Rylander's talk at Access 2009 in P.E.I. is available online.
• The Evergreen Documentation Interest Group (DIG) had their monthly meeting on October 21st and discussed, among other things, licensing issues for documentation, how to organize the documentation being written, how best to help volunteers learn DocBook, and the progress being made so far. Anyone interested can listen to recordings of past meetings online.
  • To learn more about DIG, please visit our wiki page. We're always looking for people interested in helping out with our documentation efforts, whether by writing new documentation, testing and editing existing documentation, converting documentation to DocBook format, or any number of other essential tasks both big and small. If you think you might be interested in helping out, contact the DIG facilitators at docs@evergreen-ils.org.

• A list of the Evergreen regulars on IRC is available on the Wiki
• Bibliomation has been spotlighting their people on the BOSS blog:
  • Kate Sheehan
  • Melissa Lefebvre
  • Ben Shum

Equinox Software has a slew of openings, including Educational Services Manager, System Administrator, Sales Executive, and Software Developer (the more the merrier).

Lyrasis is offering two Evergreen classes in the near future:

Evergreen Acquisitions Module (Live Online)

11/11/2009 and 11/12/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST

Evergreen Administration and Statistics Module (Live Online)

12/3/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST

To register, please see the Lyrasis website.

For close to a year, Lyrasis (created from a merger of SOLINET and PALINET) 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

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