Freelance work for acquisitions documentation writers
Some stakeholders in the Evergreen community have an immediate need for writers who can produce well-written documentation for acquisitions services in library automation software. Librarians and other library workers who use, configure, or manage library acquisitions systems are the audience for this documentation. This is freelance work to begin in September, 2008 and be completed … Continue Reading about Freelance work for acquisitions documentation writers →
Evergreen at two
On June 4, 2004, Lamar Veatch, State Librarian of Georgia committed the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) to a one year test of an open source initiative to develop a new kind of software: a consortial library system. Georgia had for many years (at least since the 1940’s) pursued a fairly consistent policy—subject to the … Continue Reading about Evergreen at two →
What’s in a name? (open-ils.org to evergreen-ils.org)
The Evergreen community has been discussing changing the domain for Evergreen’s project site from open-ils.org to evergreen-ils.org. “Discussion” may be too strong a word… it’s more like consensus, at least from members of the Evergreen community who have been reading the list the last two weeks. The majority opinion seems to be that this has … Continue Reading about What’s in a name? (open-ils.org to evergreen-ils.org) →