Evergreen ILS

Open Source Library Software

Evergreen Outreach

Evergreen Contributor of the Month

Who are the unsung heroes of Evergreen?

An open source project takes a community effort to be successful, and the Outreach Committee recently decided to start a community acknowledgement program.  We’re looking for nominations of community members who YOU think deserve a bit of extra recognition.

Every month, the Outreach Committee will select one community member to feature on the website.

Please use this form to submit your nominations.  We do ask for your email in case we have any questions, but all nominations will be kept confidential.

Any questions can be directed to Andrea Buntz Neiman via abneiman@equinoxinitiative.org or abneiman in IRC.

All About T-Shirts 2018 Edition

We on the Evergreen Outreach Committee have had a bunch of great questions from community members in the last few weeks. While we will continue to answer questions by email, Facebook and so on I thought it might be good to gather all of the information together in one place for easy reference.  

First of all, we currently have one t-shirt available as of March 2018 and that is the IRC t-shirt that went on sale last year with the quote from IRC that says, “I’m not a cataloger but I know enough MARC to be fun at parties”.  This shirt is black with green text and the Evergreen logo with our website on it. We have this shirt in sizes from women’s small to men’s 2X.

As of the 2018 conference we will have two more shirts to bring the total to three designs but the availability will be a little different.  One will be another shirt perennial design. It will be similar to last year’s but with the new quote voted upon by the community, “You never know what trouble you’ll get into reading the documentation.”  That one, along with the first, will available to purchase at the conference in limited quantities. However, after feedback from last year, sizes will be expanded to 3X for men and women. The print run will be fairly small so don’t drag your feet on picking one up!

There will also be a conference t-shirt for the first time featuring the 2018 conference logo.  These are only guaranteed via pre-order. We will be ordering them in batches. If we don’t get the exact number needed for a batch we may order a few more to get qualification for a higher discount.  If we do, we will sell the extras at the conference but we will not be able to guarantee a number or sizes available. T-shirts that are pre-ordered will be delivered at the conference to attendees. If you’re not attending the conference you are welcome to have an attendee pick yours up for you, just contact myself (Rogan Hamby) or another outreach committee person to make arrangements.  We don’t, currently, have any plans to ship shirts out individually.

We’ve had pre-orders available for a little while but had questions about sizes.  Initially, we were not able to offer 3X or larger sizes but now we can. The ordering page has been updated to reflect both being able to order those larger sizes now and upgrading if you’ve already ordered a smaller shirt.  If you do this you will only be charged for the price difference between your previous order and the upgrade.

Order here: https://evergreen-ils.org/merchandise/conference-t-shirt/

Postscript,

These make great summer reading shirts for staff if your library allows it!

Evergreen Project Represents at ALA Midwinter

The Evergreen project highlighted the web client and the modern workflows it supports during the recent American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter 2018 meeting.

Elizabeth Thomsen of NOBLE facilitated the session.  Shae Tetterton of Equinox Open Library Initiative highlighted new features of the web client while Debbie Luchenbill of MOBIUS talked about plans for the upcoming Evergreen conference in St. Charles, Missouri.

The Evergreen Outreach Committee plans these programs during the ALA midwinter meetings and annual conferences to increase Evergreen’s visibility in the larger library community and to connect with existing users who we may not see at the Evergreen conference or through other community channels.

The Outreach Committee started this effort at ALA Annual 2015 in San Francisco when the community, using donations from Evergreen sites, sponsored an exhibit booth at the conference. Although the community has not sponsored a booth since that time, the Outreach Committee has committed to scheduling programs since that time as a way to showcase the software and community to potential and existing users.

Plans are already underway for our upcoming program at ALA Annual in New Orleans, called Tech gurus optional, which will focus on the many different ways libraries can host and support an open-source system.