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| The full conference schedule is available below. The Program Descriptions page provides more details about each session. Presentation slides will be posted to the Program Descriptions page after the conference. |
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Note: All times are shown in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-08:00)
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 (Pre-Conference) |
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Additional pre-conference registration fee required (includes all sessions on Track 1 & Track 2)The Hackfests and the Dev Hackfest Presentation on Track 3 are all free and do not require a separate registration fee. |
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| 9:30am | Leadership: Planning for the Future of our Systems, People, and Open-Source Projects BJ Colvin, King County Library System |
Carrying Both Ends of the Conversation: How to Develop for Both Aspen Discovery and Evergreen Galen Charlton, Equinox Open Library Initiative |
Dev Hackfest presentation: Getting Started in Evergreen Development Jane Sandberg, Community Member, Bill Erickson, King County Library System |
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| 12:00-1:30pm | Lunch (on your own) | |||
| 1:30pm | Two Roads to Enlightenment: Journeys in Strategic Planning from Two Library Consortia Courtney Brown, Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium; Jeanette Lundgren, C/W MARS, Inc. |
Taming Evergreen Blake Graham-Henderson, MOBIUS |
Dev Hackfest &
DIG Hackfest
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| Evening | Game Room / Social Activity | |||
Thursday, April 9, 2026 |
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| 7:30 – 9:00am | Breakfast | |||
| 8:00 – 8:45am | Acquisitions Interest Group
Tiffany Little, PINES |
Evergreen Admin Working Group, Permissions Working Group and Reports Interest
Elizabeth Davis, PaILS and Susan Morrison, PINES |
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| 9:00 – 9:30am | Welcome and Announcements | |||
| 9:30 – 10:30am | Keynote Speaker
Heidi Daniel, |
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| 10:30 – 10:55am | Morning Break/Snack | |||
| 10:55 – 11:45am | Board/Membership Meeting
The Evergreen Project Board |
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| 11:45 – 1:30pm | Lunch (on your own) | |||
| 1:30 – 2:00pm | Lightning Talks | |||
| 2:10 – 3:00pm | Foundational Tools: An Overview of Evergreen Project Infrastructure Galen Charlton, Equinox Open Library Initiative |
Inventories are the mothers of retention: Inventorying collections in Evergreen Chris Amorosi, NOBLE | Lost in Translation: Decoding and fixing EDI error messages Tiffany Little, PINES |
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| 3:00 – 3:50pm | Afternoon Break & Vendor Showcase / Snack | |||
| 4:00 – 4:50pm | Using Reports to Aid in Collection Development Samantha O’Connor, NC Cardinal/State Library of North Carolina | Creating and Updating MARC Authority Records Carol Witt, C/W MARS | Small SIPS: privacy protections for ILS patron data Jeanette Lundgren, Chris Hancock, & Jason Stephenson, C/W MARS |
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| 6:30 – 8:30pm | Reception / Interest Group Showcase | |||
| Evening | Game Room | |||
Friday, April 10, 2026 |
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| 7:30 – 9:00am | Breakfast | |||
| 8:00 – 8:45am | Cataloging Interest Group Jennifer Weston, Equinox |
System Admin Interest Group Chris Sharp, PINES |
Consortia Leaders Interest Group Katie Greenleaf Martin, PaILS/SPARK |
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| 9:00 – 9:30am | Center Stage – Angular Circulation – What is it? Bill Erickson, King County Library System; Michele Morgan, NOBLE; and Jennifer Weston, Equinox Open Library Initiative |
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| 9:40 – 10:30am | Angles on Angular Circulation Michele Morgan, NOBLE |
From “Huh?” to “Aha!”: Making Training Programs That Click Kate Coleman, Missouri Evergreen |
Developers aren’t mind readers: How to write requirements, use cases, and user stories Andrea Buntz Neiman, Equinox Open Library Initiative |
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| 10:30 – 10:55am | Morning Break/Snack | |||
| 10:55 – 11:45am | Building Together: How Collaboration Elevates Development Kathy Lussier, NOBLE |
Holding It Together: How PINES Refined Resource Sharing for a Sustainable Future Terran McCanna & Susan Morrison, PINES |
Administering Evergreen The PINES Way Chris Sharp, PINES |
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| 11:45 – 1:30pm | Lunch (on your own) | |||
| 1:30 – 2:20pm | Catalog Searching Skills: The Next Level Jennifer Weston, Equinox Open Library Initiative, and Kate Coleman, Missouri Evergreen |
From Opt-In to Opt-Out: Opt-In Notification Settings in Evergreen and the Quest for Clarity Ian Skelskey, Bibliomation, Inc. |
Many Paths To Go Down: A Comparison of Evergreen and Aspen Indexing Galen Charlton & Mike Rylander, Equinox Open Library Initiative |
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| 2:30 – 3:20pm | Feeling Ruth-less: New Features in Evergreen (AKA, The Andrea and Katie Show: Pilot Episode) Andrea Buntz Neiman, Equinox Open Library Initiative & Katie Greenleaf Martin, PaILS/SPARK |
Data, Dashboards, and More!
John Amundson & Jason Stephenson, CW MARS |
Streamlining Patron Registration at KCLS Bill Erickson, King County Library System |
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| 3:20 – 3:40pm | Afternoon Break / Snack | |||
| 3:40 – 4:10pm | Lightning Talks | |||
| 4:15 – 5:05pm | Beyond the Spreadsheet: Why and How to start using Acquisitions Tiffany Little, PINES |
Batches, Baskets, and Buckets Elizabeth Thomsen, NOBLE |
Spatial is Special – helping PA libraries understand where their patrons are coming from Katie Greenleaf Martin, PaILS/SPARK, Galen Charlton, Equinox Open Library Initiative |
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| 6:15pm | Dine Arounds | |||
| 8:30pm | Social Activity (TBD) | |||
| Evening | Game Room | |||
Saturday, April 11, 2026 |
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| 7:30 – 9:00am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00 – 10:00am | Developer Update | ||
| 10:00 – 10:30am | Break | ||
| 10:30 – 11:15am | Built to Last: What the Grateful Dead Can Teach Us About Successful Open-Source Communities Kathy Lussier, NOBLE |
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| 11:15 – 12:00am | Wrap-Up Activity / Community Engagement – Table Topics The Evergreen Project Board |
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