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The State of Evergreen Bob Molyneux Rowan Public Library Salisbury, North Carolina July 30, 2009

The State of Evergreen Bob Molyneux Rowan Public Library Salisbury, North Carolina July 30, 2009. The State of Evergreen. Georgia’s information policy PINES PINES is a geographically-dispersed, resource- sharing consortium

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The State of Evergreen Bob Molyneux Rowan Public Library Salisbury, North Carolina July 30, 2009

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  1. The State of Evergreen Bob Molyneux Rowan Public Library Salisbury, North Carolina July 30, 2009

  2. The State of Evergreen • Georgia’s information policy • PINES • PINES is a geographically-dispersed, resource- sharing consortium • EG solved a general problem at a good time in software design and in ILS development

  3. The State of Evergreen - 2 • Evergreen evolves • Growth in numbers of libraries • Growth in types of libraries • Growth in countries • Growth in capabilities • Community • More people • Diverse skills being added • More vendors

  4. Open source wellsprings

  5. Evergreen • Started in 2004, using open source development principles • Designed to be robust and scalable • It was the first consortial library system (CLS) • And still the only CLS • Went live in September 2006 with the migration of PINES to Evergreen

  6. PINES Today • 50 Public Library Systems • Georgia Public Library Service (the state library of Georgia) • 275 “org units” • 17.3 million circulations in 2008 • Often more than 100,000 circs per day

  7. Public Library Migrations by year

  8. State of Evergreen Consortia

  9. Academic Libraries Running Evergreen U of PEI William Jessup University Conifer Laurentian University University of Windsor Algoma University Columbia Bible College

  10. Growth in Evergreen’s Capabilities • Acquisitions • Serials • Reserves • Other development • Tidying up • Tweaking for local requirements

  11. FullfILLment ™ • A bit of the history • Ohio State Library • The Collaborative • What will it do?

  12. Thank you, Bob Molyneux Equinox Software, Inc http://www.esilibrary.com/ bob@esilibrary.com Evergreen Website: http://www.evergreen-ils.org/

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