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Evergreen Newsletter, October 2009
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.
In This Issue
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
Out and About: An Evergreen Calendar
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.
Evergreen Development and Documentation Update
- 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.
- 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.
Evergreen People
- A list of the Evergreen regulars on IRC is available on the Wiki
- Bibliomation has been spotlighting their people on the BOSS blog:
- King County Library System, in Washington state, was awarded a $998,556 IMLS grant.
They will use the grant to develop a peer-to-peer library community support model for open source migrations and future software development.
Evergreen Jobs
Equinox Software has a slew of openings, including Educational Services Manager, System Administrator, Sales Executive, and Software Developer (the more the merrier).
Lyrasis Evergreen Classes
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
New Evergreen Libraries: Welcome Aboard!
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- Jay County Public Library migrated to Evergreen October 8, 2009.
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- Calhoun Public Library went live on Oct 15, 2009.
- Chesterfield Public Library went live on Oct 15, 2009.
- Dorchester Public Library went live on Oct 15, 2009.
- York Public Library went live on Oct 15, 2009.
- Greater Laverdiere Family Library Network, one of the first personal libraries to use Evergreen.
Planet Evergreen
Can’t get enough news about Evergreen open source software? Subscribe to or read Planet Evergreen, an aggregator for Evergreen-related posts. Have a blog that talks about Evergreen? To add your blog to the Planet Evergreen blog aggregator, send email to Dan Scott at dan@coffeecode.net
Latest entries on Planet Evergreen:
A Few Reminders
Evergreen has a Flickr set and a Facebook group.
Bibliomation has a Facebook group for their Open Source Project.
Newsletter Administrivia
Feel free to forward, share, etc.! The co-wranglers for this newsletter (produced every month–sometimes earlier, sometimes later–what can we say!) are …
Jason Etheridge, Equinox
Amy Terlaga, Bibliomation, terlagaATbiblioDOTorg