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I have a smorgasbord of stuff I want to talk about today. Some of these are recurring questions the PINES/Evergreen team seems to get, some are in response to issues raised in library blog-land or email lists, and a couple are news from the development group. There’s something for everyone on this buffet of a … Continue Reading about Smorgasbord →

PINES is circulating books. Patrons are finding stuff. Catalogers are cataloging. PINES central staff members are still in-country and not in fear for their lives. We’ve done it, but we didn’t get here without a lot of hard work and lessons learned. For posterity’s sake, herein lies the tome of the Evergreen migration. The good, … Continue Reading about Migration Post-Mortem →

The past 5 days have been super-busy, as anyone who has migrated ILS’s knows. Bottom line: we made it. PINES is running on Evergreen. We really appreciate all of the well-wishes and support we received during this stressful time. We’re planning on writing up a full post-mortem on the migration and go-live as soon as … Continue Reading about Success →