[Evergreen-governance-l] Fwd: Details of Evergreen sign up for Conservancy

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Galen,

I prefer your longer description and I wonder if we could tweak that (and
the first one if we decide to use it) to clarify that the sharing of
resources is between libraries on the shared Evergreen system.  I don't want
to create the impression that there is an ILL type component built into
Evergreen because that is certainly not the case.  Featuring the sharing
capabilities is a good idea but let's just be clear about the limits of the
sharing pool.

I modified your description slightly below (added a reference to cataloging
too):

"The Evergreen Project develops an open source ILS (integrated library
system) used by hundreds of libraries across the world. The software, also
called Evergreen, is used by libraries to provide their public catalog
interface as well as to manage back-of-house operations such as circulation
(checkouts and checkins), acquisition and cataloging of library materials,
and sharing resources among groups of libraries and consortia on the same
Evergreen system.  Evergreen is designed to be scalable and supports library
operations ranging from a small high school to large state-wide consortia.
 Evergreen is released under the GPL."

Lori

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Moving some of the discussion to the governance mailing list so that we
> don't need to bug Bradley with the wordsmithing.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
> >  (9) We need a small paragraph describing your project, and the canonical
> >      URL to link to for our member list at
> >      http://sfconservancy.org/members/.  Take a look there
> >      to get a sense what other projects have sent.
>
> The description of the Evergreen project that was used for the Google
> Summer of Code is probably a good point to start.  A version that matches
> what the other projects have done to describe themselves is:
>
> "The Evergreen Project develops an open source ILS (integrated library
> system) used by approximately 950 libraries. The software, also called
> Evergreen, is used by libraries to provide their public catalog interface as
> well as to manage back-of-house operations such as circulation (checkouts
> and checkins), acquisition of library materials, and sharing resources among
> groups of libraries."
>
> A slightly longer version that mentions the distinctive features of
> Evergreen (and accounts for growth) might be:
>
> "The Evergreen Project develops an open source ILS (integrated library
> system) used by hundreds of libraries across the world. The software, also
> called Evergreen, is used by libraries to provide their public catalog
> interface as well as to manage back-of-house operations such as circulation
> (checkouts and checkins), acquisition of library materials, and sharing
> resources among groups of libraries.  Evergreen is designed to be scalable
> and supports library operations ranging from a small high school to large
> state-wide consortia.  Evergreen is released under the GPL."
>
> For reference, the full description as used by GSoC is at
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/evergreen_ils.
>
> Any suggestions for the description to provide to the SFC?
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
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