And two more things from Dan Scott of Conifer (though we didn’t know about this before we went to press with the newsletter): he’s giving a keynote at NELINET’s conference on October 9th with the title “Developing a crush on Evergreen” about Conifer and the state of Evergreen, and will also be giving a talk about Evergreen at the Free Software and Open Source Symposium 2009.
Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category
Dan Scott, speaker extraordinaire
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Evergreen Demo Schedule at ALA Annual 2009
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Equinox Evergreen Demonstration Schedule, ALA Annual 2009 (Chicago, Chicago!)
All presentations at Booth 4051. Share with people headed to ALA who are curious about Evergreen!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
10:00 a.m.
Evergreen Overview Demonstration
Presented by Shae Tetterton
1:00 p.m.
Evergreen Overview Demonstration
Presented by Shae Tetterton
3:30 p.m.
Acquisitions Preview Demonstration
Presented by Shae Tetterton
Sunday, July 12, 2009
10:00 a.m.
Evergreen Overview Demonstration
Presented by Shae Tetterton
12:00 p.m.
Open Source Jeopardy
Presented by Karen Schneider
3:00 p.m.
Evergreen Overview Demonstration
Presented by Shae Tetterton
Monday, July 13, 2009
1:30 p.m.
Evergreen Overview Demonstration
Presented by Shae Tetterton
3:00 p.m.
Acquisitions Preview Demonstration
Presented by Shae Tetterton
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
10:00 a.m.
Open Source Jeopardy
Presented by Karen Schneider
11:30 a.m.
Evergreen Overview Demonstration
Presented by Shae Tetterton
See you there!
Evergreen social function on Sunday, July 12, 5:30-7:30
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009One last (pre-departure) reminder before some of us head to ALA Annual in Chicago: Equinox Software is also hosting an Evergreen social function on Sunday, July 12, 5:30-7:30 at the Wine Cellar Room of the Chicago Firehouse Restaurant, 1401 S. Michigan Avenue. Please RSVP to events@esilibrary.com if you think you might show up so we have a good head count.
This event is open to Evergreen users, open source advocates, friends of Evergreen, people who like the color evergreen, and of course, their partners, spouses, support vendors, fellow travelers, etc. Hope to see you there!
And it’s 10…9…8… and off we go!
Evergreen Newsletter, June 2009
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009The newsletter for Evergreen open source library software
Volume 2, Issue 6 — June, 2009
As a reminder, we will also post this newsletter to the Evergreen general discussion list. Cross-posting and forwarding is encouraged.
In This Issue…
Evergreen Out and About (including Evergreen at ALA Annual 2009), MFHD Webinar, Evergreen Conference Recap, MLA Honors Ruth Dukelow, Evergreen Development Update, Evergreen Jobs, Evergreen Hires, Lyrasis Evergreen Classes, Planet Evergreen, New Evergreen Libraries, Newsletter Administrivia
Out and About: An Evergreen Calendar
Also see: http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar
If you have Evergreen-related events to add (talks, conferences, etc.), just email events@evergreen-ils.org.
American Library Association Annual Conference (Chicago, Illinois, July 9-15). Evergreen folks from all over will be exhibiting, presenting, meeting with people, and so forth!
Some highlights:
- Equinox Software will be at the ALA exhibits at Booth # 4051 [note, this is a correction]. If you’d like to schedule an appointment for a one-on-one conversation about Evergreen, email events@esilibrary.com. Shae Tetterton will be demoing Evergreen a few times, and there might even be another slot for “Open Source Jeopardy.”
- Equinox Software is also hosting an Evergreen social function on Sunday, July 12, 5:30-7:30 at the Wine Cellar Room of the Chicago Firehouse Restaurant, 1401 S. Michigan Avenue. Please RSVP to events@esilibrary.com if you think you might show up so we have a good head count.
- In Chicago, at (but not part of) the ALA Annual 2009 Conference, there will be an open source unconference on Saturday, July 11, 9:30am-12:15pm. “This event is being put on by King County Library System and The Galecia Group who have been working together on some OS projects for the last year and a half. Our enthusiasm for Open Source Library System software continues to grow and we recognize that it is one of those “the more the merrier” kinds of situations. We want to hear what others are doing, tell people what we’re doing, and get more people involved.†Interested? Request an oss4pl2009 wiki account
- Also try to catch this program (Catherine Lemmer of Evergreen Indiana will be a panelist): Saturday, July 11, 1:30 – 3:00: What Can $930 Million Do for Library Services Nationwide? The Impact and Future Directions of LSTA. Sponsored by ASCLA SLAS. How do states use their LSTA dollars to improve library services? In an IMLS study, Himmel and Wilson examined all of the states’ five year evaluations, and reported on the observed major trends. A panel of speakers will present new directions of states’ projects.
WilsWorld (Madison, Wisconsin, July 28-29). Karen Schneider to do a plenary session and a couple other spots. Karen spoke at one of the earliest WilsWorld conferences and is excited to return!
Webinar: Evergreen ILS and MARC Format for Holdings Data (MFHD)
By popular demand — if you didn’t see this program at Evergreen International Conference, or you did but you’d like to see it again, here’s a live version to attend!
Presenter: David J. Fiander, Web Services Librarian, University of Western Ontario
Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET
Reserve your Webinar seat now
This talk will provide some real-world examples of serial publication patterns that can be challenging to interpret, show how those patterns can be described using the MARC Format for Holdings Data, describe how most integrated library systems currently implement MFHD, and discuss the challenges faced in implementing MFHD for Evergreen open source library automation software.
Recap: Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009
Program slidesets and videos are on the Conference wiki. To date videos have been uploaded for the opening remarks and opening and closing keynotes.
These blog posts, tweets, and pictures also wrapped up events:
http://www.librarian.net/tag/eg09/
http://hashtags.org/tag/eg09
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/eg09/
http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=206
And the Documentation Interest Group was formed, and since then has developed a 90-day timeline with tasks, deliverables, and a lot of volunteers!
Ruth Dukelow Honored by Michigan Library Association
The Michigan Library Association 2009 Librarian of the Year is Ruth Dukelow, of the Michigan Library Consortium. MLA noted, “Ruth has been involved in many statewide projects.” Indeed, like Michigan Evergreen! Read more about Ruth’s successes on MLA’s Professional Awards page
Evergreen Development Update
Evergreen 1.6 is imminent, and it has some terrific features. Some of the highlights include shelving locations displayed in the copy summary; a new events and notifications framework; a toggle-able button bar in the staff client for common search functions; “fast item add†in the MARC editor; billing enhancements; a tool for exposing additional MARC elements in the OPAC record display; initial MARC Format for Holdings Data (MFHD) functionality; and much more.
Plus, Release 1.6 exposes the acquisitions functionality completed to date in the Admin menu, so you can explore, review, discuss, and provide feedback!
Also see the Evergreen Roadmap for a full list of enhancements in 1.6 and for a top-level view of what’s coming in 2.0.
Evergreen Jobs!
See this posting about several job openings for Evergreen-related work—all new positions! Have a listing? Share it with the newsletter or post it to the Evergreen list!
Evergreen People!
Equinox Software Inc., “The Evergreen Experts,†recently hired Steve Callender as a Technical Support Specialist and Grace Dunbar as a Project Manager. These are both new positions within Equinox. Steve is originally from Anaheim and has 8 years of experience in technical support and development. Grace has considerable library experience, most recently as the head librarian for Savannah College of Art and Design.
Lyrasis Rolls Out More Evergreen Training Classes
Evergreen classes are offered online by Lyrasis (nee Solinet) on the following dates and times:
6/30/2009 10a.m.-11 a.m. Lyrasis Evergreen Guided Tour. FREE!
Since October, Lyrasis (created from a merger of SOLINET and PALINET) has taught close to 25 Evergreen classes, with over 100 students! 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
Planet Evergreen
Can’t get enough news about Evergreen open source software? Subscribe to or read Planet Evergreen, an aggregator for Evergreen-related posts, at http://planet.evergreen-ils.org . Have a blog that talks about Evergreen? To add your blog to the Planet Evergreen blog aggregator, send email to Dan Scott
Evergreen on Facebook
Evergreen has a growing Facebook group. We are post events to this group, well as press releases for new Evergreen libraries and systems and other related news. The group now has close to 300 members. If you’re on Facebook, join our group. If you aren’t on Facebook and you don’t think you’re the Facebook “type,” give it a try. You might be surprised by who’s on Facebook!
A Few Reminders
Webinars and videos: Don’t forget the section on the Evergreen wiki devoted to community-contributed documentation and tutorials.
Evergreen also has a Flickr set
New Evergreen Libraries: Welcome Aboard!
Also see the growing list of Evergreen libraries
Natural Resources Canada
- Calgary
- Edmonton
- Fredericton
- Ottawa
- Quebec
- Sault Ste. Marie
- Varennes
- Vancouver
- Victoria
SITKA (British Columbia)
Their first multibranch site, Lillooet Area Library Association, went live on May 26. It includes the Lillooet, Gold Bridge, Bridge River and a Book Bus.
Project Conifer
- Algoma University
- Laurentian University
- Northern Ontario School of Medicine
- University of Windsor
- And others
Michigan Evergreen:
Oscoda Public Library
Evergreen Indiana:
Huntington Public Library
South Carolina LENDS:
South Carolina State Library
Beaufort County Library
Union County Public Library
Columbia Bible College
If you’d like to follow along as libraries join the Evergreen community, you can subscribe to the Equinox press release feed, which will announce most known Evergreen implementations (or follow the Facebook group mentioned above).
Newsletter Administrivia
Feel free to forward, share, etc.!
We try to get this out by mid-month (it’s still June, isn’t it?).
The co-wranglers for this newsletter are Karen Schneider, Equinox Community Librarian and John Fink, Digital Technologies Development Librarian at McMaster University.
Evergreen International Conference 2009: Standing Together
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009A holiday weekend immediately followed “eg09,” as we tagged it, so it will be next week most likely before we see all the slides, pictures, blog posts, and whatnot associated with Evergreen International Conference 2009.
In some ways the Evergreen conference felt like a joyous family gathering, the kind where you connect with relatives you have only heard about through family folklore. For the first time ever, that which is “Evergreen” was in one place at one time, sharing common goals and interests. This will happen again many more times, but it will never happen again for the very first time.
It was a terrific event by all accounts, with a remarkable level of energy and excitement that began building in Wednesday’s “anyfests” for coding, sysadmin training, and documentation planning, then moved smoothly into a terrific opening-night reception.
On Thursday, Lamar Veatch, state librarian for Georgia, set the tone for the conference by beginning his opening remarks with the international recording of Stand By Me. (Sounds as if Evergreen now has a theme song?) Joe Lucia then gave an amazing opening keynote address, “Song of the Open Road.” We then all moved into a day and a half of bogglingly wonderful programs, table talks, Birds of a Feather sessions, keynotes, dine-arounds, pub crawls, and more.
On Friday we closed out our conference with a development update, three lightning talks, the last programs, and Jessamyn West’s closing keynote. Then we adjourned.. and it was all over, for the very first time!
Joe Lucia and Jessamyn West to keynote at Evergreen Conference
Thursday, February 5th, 2009We are delighted to announce that Jessamyn West and Joe Lucia will be keynote speakers at the first-ever Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22 at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia!
(See the conference website for developing information — early-bird registration opens February 18, and we’re signing hotel contracts as we speak. Start thinking about programs you could present at the conference!)
Jessamyn West is a librarian living in rural Vermont solving technology problems for schools and libraries. She has been speaking on the intersection of libraries, technology and politics since 2003 and has given presentations in twenty-six U.S. states, three Australian states and three Canadian provinces.
Jessamyn also gained YouTube fame with her video documenting installing Ubuntu on a public library computer. Jessamyn could be said to be a big fan of “open” — open source, open access, open libraries. She has written and published widely, and also maintains the highly popular, long-lived and immensely readable blog, librarian.net.
Joe Lucia is the University Librarian and director of Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University. His advocacy for open source led his library to develop Vufind, an open-source discovery layer for library catalogs. Villanova University recently received a prestigious $50,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for the Project VuFind software.
Joe was also recently elected president of PALINET, one of the largest and oldest regional U.S. library networks, serving 600 institutional members in the mid-Atlantic region.
These are just TWO of the many wonderful reasons to attend the first-ever Evergreen International Conference this May. See you there!
Evergreen Newsletter, January 2009
Friday, January 16th, 2009The newsletter for Evergreen open source library software
Volume 2, Issue 1 — January, 2009
Double the fun!
As a reminder, we will post this newsletter to the Evergreen general discussion list (see all Evergreen lists) and to the Evergreen blog. Cross-posting and forwarding is encouraged.
In This Issue…
Evergreen Out and About, Evergreen 1.4.0 To Debut, New OPAC Skin on Demo, SOLINET Classes, Evergreen Conference, New Developers, New Evergreen Libraries, Documentation Update, Newsletter Administrivia.
Out and About: An Evergreen Calendar
Let us know and we’ll add your “out and about with Evergreen” events to this calendar!
ALA Midwinter 2009 (Denver, Jan 23 – 27): Visit Equinox Software at Booth 522, sit in on a demo, or mingle with fellow travelers at an Evergreen social function (informally called Birds of a Feather Nosh Together) Saturday, January 24, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, at a very nice locale near the Denver convention center. RSVP to events@esilibrary.com. See the Equinox booth and event demo schedule
Ontario Library Association 2009 (Toronto, Jan 28-31): Evergreen galore! Expect a Birds of a Feather get-together, plus enjoy the Evergreen-related programs. Dan Scott also has an excellent post describing the Evergreen programs at OLA.
Electronic Resources & Libraries (Los Angeles, Feb 9 -12): Hello, California! Equinox Community Librarian Karen Schneider will participate on an ILS discussion panel.
Code4Lib 2009 (Providence, Feb 23-26): Evergreen developer Mike Rylander and Community Librarian Karen Schneider will be at Code4Lib, as will other members of the Evergreen community. You can anticipate at at least one Birds of a Feather at this popular annual conference. Equinox Software Inc. is a proud sponsor of Code4Lib at the Silver level ($2,500).
Computers in Libraries (March 30 – April 1) will feature a rock-out, boffo panel of Evergreen Divas: Karen Schneider from Equinox, Ruth Dukelow from Michigan Library Consortium, and Karen Collier and Andrea Neiman of Kent County Library in Maryland.
British Columbia Library Association (Burnaby, April 16-18) will feature a talk by Karen Schneider on creativity and open source.
Evergreen International Conference (Athens, Georgia, May 20 – 22, 2009). Our first global conference! See more about this exciting event below.
Evergreen 1.4.0 “Gold” Debuts Soon
Evergreen 1.4.0 Gold (the official release for 1.4.0) will be released by the end of January.  We’ll post to the blog when the code, images, staff clients, logins etc. are available.
New OPAC Skin Debuts!
“Craftsman,” the new OPAC skin, a handsome rethinking of the design funded by Georgia Public Library Service, is now live on the Evergreen demo catalog — though you have to know where to look (the default directory is changed to craftsman).
Note that some functionality for “demo” may be missing when you look at it, because demo is running a more current version of Evergreen than was available when the OPAC redesign project began. But by early February we will have skins for both 1.2.3.* and 1.4.*
SOLINET Rolls Out More Evergreen Training Classes
SOLINET continues to offer free online Evergreen demos, January 21st (2-3pm), February 12th (10-11am) and March 31st (11am-noon).These free demos provide overviews of Evergreen’s popular features and gives participants a chance to ask questions in a training environment.
SOLINET also offers three fee-based online classes on Evergreen modules. All class times are Eastern Standard:
Evergreen Circulation: OPAC searching, navigating the staff client, creating and maintaining patron accounts, using tools and options, check in/check out and other circulation procedures such as creating and maintaining holds. Offered February 3rd (10am-noon) and March 31st (2-4pm).
Evergreen Cataloging: This is now a 2-day class that covers creating, editing and merging records; transferring items; using buckets; and importing/exporting records. Offered January 29th-30th (2-4pm) and March 24th-25th (10am-noon).
Evergreen Local Administration and Statistics: A more advanced class that covers configuring Evergreen locally, setting user permissions, creating templates for printing receipts and running reports. Offered February 4th (2-4pm) and March 25th (10am-noon).
To register for Evergreen training (including the free demo), just visit Solinet’s Educational Services Registration website.
For questions, contact SOLINET trainers Jennifer Bielewski and Jenny Liberatore, 1-800-999-8558 or jbielewski@solinet.net
Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009
Website up
! http://www.solinet.net/evergreen
Questions? Sponsorship and exhibits requests? Program submissions? Email events@evergreen-ils.org
The first-ever Evergreen International Conference is just around the corner!
Here are the top ten tidbits about this wonderful, can’t-miss conference:
1. Takes place May 20-22, 2009 at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia, a very attractive university town with great restaurants and pubs, just one hour from the Atlanta airport
2. Registration opens Wednesday, February 18, 2009, on the conference website http://www.solinet.net/evergreen
3. Call for programs closes 5 p.m. EST on March 2, 2009 — programs are on three tracks: Library Administration, Front-line Users, and Tech Topics.
4. May 20 is an all-day Hackfest (no additional registration fee) in the comfortable environs of the Classic Center
5. The conference kicks off the evening of May 21 with a no-conflict Vendor Reception
6. May 21 – 22 features fascinating programs, long breaks where you can network with peers, and a networking luncheon and Table Talk Breakfast
7. User-led 5-minute lightning talks will spark up the conference, while Birds of a Feather sessions offer even more opportunities to commune with like-minded peers about topics of interest.
8. Sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities abound — sponsor at a specific level (Gold, Silver, Platinum), sponsor one of our many events, or just exhibit!
9. Fascinating keynote speakers are being lined up now!
10. Affordable accommodations, superb local meal values, and the Classic Center has free wifi!
The 2009 Evergreen Conference is being jointly coordinated by Georgia Public Library Service, Equinox Software, SOLINET, and several others in the Evergreen community, including Catherine Lemmer of Indiana Evergreen.
Evergreen on Facebook
Evergreen has a Facebook group with almost 250 members! We are now posting events to this group, such as the Evergreen conference and the ALA Midwinter get-together, as well as press releases for new Evergreen libraries and systems and other related news. If you’re on Facebook, join our group. If you aren’t on Facebook and you don’t think you’re the Facebook “type,” give it a try. You might be surprised by who’s on Facebook!
New Evergreen Developers at Equinox!
Since November, two new developers have joined the Equinox team of “Evergreen Experts”: Laura McFarland and Scott McKellar. You can read about Laura — Scott’s so new we haven’t interviewed him yet for the blog, though there is a press release.
New Evergreen Libraries: Welcome Aboard!
Below are the newest Evergreen libraries — the Evergreen installations known to have taken place in December, 2008 or early January, 2009. Also see the growing list of Evergreen libraries.
Evergreen Indiana: Jennings County, Brownstown, Melton, Butler, Odon Winklepleck*, and Brazil Public Libraries
* Yes, we think that’s a cute name, too.
If you’d like to follow along as libraries join the Evergreen community, you can subscribe to the Equinox press release feed, which will announce most known Evergreen implementations (or follow the Facebook group mentioned above). The Equinox press release feed was recently tweaked to make it easier to track and share the releases.
Documentation Update
Since November, we’ve seen some excellent cataloging documentation come out of Evergreen libraries (Indiana produced a great document originally developed by Michigan; a contract documentation specialist, and Vandelay documentation is getting a once-over. There have been bits and pieces written about acquisitions, and the reporting documentation is due a major edit. McMaster University also has a technical writing intern from Seneca College, Betty Ing.
A Few Reminders
Webinars and videos: Don’t forget the section on the Evergreen wiki devoted to community-contributed documentation and tutorials.
Evergreen 2.0: As noted earlier, development for Evergreen 2.0 (planned to include acquisitions, serials, and reserves) is on an intentionally slow track through early January while the Evergreen developers focus on other development priorities, but will resume production for a roll-out targeted by late May, 2009. In the meantime, if you haven’t done so already, see the Evergreen acquisitions roadmap.
Evergreen also has a Flickr set and Delicious bookmarks:
Delicious: http://delicious.com/evergreenils
Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/evergreen-ils/
Newsletter Administrivia
Feel free to forward, share, etc.!
The deadline for the Evergreen newsletter is the last working day before the first of the month… feel free to submit items earlier. The co-wranglers for this newsletter are Karen Schneider, Equinox Community Librarian and John Fink, Digital Technologies Development librarian at McMaster University.
Evergreen Program at Computers in Libraries
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008This will get a repeat in the Evergreen newsletter, but it’s worth its own blurb. (Is this the first Evergreen-related program at Computers in Libraries, or as tweeters and taggers often call it, CiL?)
If you’re going to CiL2009, hope to see you at this program! Sounds like we have a good start of a Birds of a Feather/meetup/whatever –Â if you’ll be there, comment with your best meetup times.
Program title: Open Source Implementations
Presenters: Karen Collier, Public Services Librarian & Andrea Neiman, Technical Services Librarian, Kent County Public Library; Ruth Dukelow, Associate Director, Michigan Library Consortium; Karen Schneider, Equinox Software
Program: “This session showcases recent successes with open source library software, including the first public library in Maryland to go live with open source library automation software, and another experience migrating to a multilibrary installation. Speakers discuss why they chose open source software, describe what was involved in selecting and implementing an open source library ILS, compare traditional versus open source licensing models, describe what went right, and lessons-learned, and address some of the challenges and opportunities open source software presents in library settings.”
Save the Date! Evergreen Conference, May 20-22, 2009
Monday, October 20th, 2008We can now announce it! The first-ever Evergreen Conference will be May 20-22, 2009 at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia, following the Georgia PINES annual meeting. The Classic Center is commodiou
s and lovely, and Athens, just an hour from Atlanta, is a fun place with a nice downtown just in walking distance from the Center.
The Evergreen Conference is being planned by Georgia Public Library Service, SOLINET, and Equinox Software.
What to expect
The details are still being worked out, but expect a lively mix of speakers, lightning talks, Birds of a Feather (topic discussions organized on-site), and of course, a hackfest! To encourage mingling and sharing, plenty of time will be factored in for breaks and meals.
Hackfest joy!
Hackfest-types: it’s reasonable to assume that May 20 will be a full-day hackfest opportunity. (For those unfamiliar with this term, a “hackfest” is a time for developers to get together and work like mad on projects, like the Evergreen SOPAC and LibX projects worked on at Access 2008.) The hackfest may overlap with PINES meeting activities on the 20th, but we’re anticipating that’s not an issue.
Lightning Strikes — Twice, Thrice, Many Times!
The Evergreen Conference will also likely feature the increasingly-popular lightning talks (sometimes called Thunder Talks or Five-Minute Madness). This weekend at LITA Forum someone commented that she learned more from lightning talks than from longer sessions. Perhaps when people only have 5 minutes to present, they get focused.
The conference might also solicit lightning-talk topics online in advance, or offer a mix of pre-submitted topics and on-site reports. (Access 2008 did a particularly nice job of incorporating Hackfest reports into its schedule.)
What else? Questions? Suggestions? Ideas? Pecha Kucha? Time set aside for an Evergreen Maypole Dance?