[evergreen-outreach] Press Releases

[Andrea Buntz Neiman]

+1, thanks Ron!

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:49 PM Gagnon, Ron <gagnon at noblenet.org> wrote:

> Good afternoon,
> I have two press releases that I would like to send out over the coming
> weeks.  I will be away on vacation next week.  Here they are:
>
> EVERGREEN COMMUNITY HOLDS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
>
> The 2019 Evergreen International Conference was held recently in Valley
> Forge, Pennsylvania, for users and potential users of the Evergreen library
> management system.
>
> The three-day conference, plus a preconference day, had 169 attendees for
> sessions ranging all across library and system interests.  Topics included
> resource sharing, collection development, e-resources, cataloging,
> acquisitions, coding, features in upcoming releases and eight different
> interest groups.
>
> The keynote speaker was Ather Sharif, award-winning expert on improving
> web accessibility for people with disabilities.
>
> At the conference, it was announced that 40 members of the Evergreen
> community had written software accepted into Evergreen’s two releases since
> last year’s meeting with 754 separate commits and 49 people had tested and
> approved software, demonstrating the continued strength and participation
> of the Evergreen community.
>
> Local arrangements and expertise were provided by the Pennsylvania
> Integrated Library System (PaILS).
>
> Evergreen continues to be the leading ILS for consortia and delivers local
> flexibility and granularity of policies that no other software can match.
> Evergreen 3.3 continues to deliver the most interoperability for libraries
> via its truly open APIs.  Evergreen 3.3 is available to all for download at
> no cost from the Evergreen web site at https://evergreen-ils.org/
> Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or
> later.
>
> The Evergreen community is made up of individuals, libraries, companies,
> and other organizations that support the Evergreen Integrated Library
> System. Evergreen is highly-scalable software that helps patrons find
> library materials and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those
> materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries. More than 2,000
> libraries around the world use Evergreen
>
>
> EVERGREEN PROJECT NAMES TWO NEW CORE COMMITTERS
>
>
> The Evergreen library system community named two new core committers at
> their recent Evergreen International Conference, Jane Sandberg of
> Linn-Benton Community College and Jason Boyer of the Indiana State
> Library.  The 13 active core committers are entrusted with the
> responsibility of approving new code for Evergreen's semi-annual releases.
>
> Jane Sandberg
>
> Jane Sandberg is the Electronic Resources Librarian at Linn-Benton
> Community College.  She's been interested in open source library software
> since her library school days, an interest that only intensified when she
> started using Evergreen in 2013.  She also founded and leads the Student
> Success Working Group which focuses on connecting academic and school
> libraries in the Evergreen community.  Jane has also been focusing on ways
> to improve accessibility in the Evergreen OPAC and staff client.
>
> Jane is thrilled to be a core committer.  In this role, she is looking
> forward to developing her skills at providing feedback on submitted
> patches, and doing what she can to move Evergreen forward.  “It’s a really
> exciting project to work with the build team and be one of the first people
> to see what the next build looks like.”
>
> -----
> Jason Boyer
>
> Jason Boyer is the head of the MIS Division of the Indiana State Library
> and has worked in libraries since 2000. He has worked in an Evergreen
> library since 2008 and has been contributing patches nearly as long. Jason
> is vice president of the Evergreen Project board and a member of the
> planning committee for the annual Evergreen International Conference.
>
> Jason is honored to be added as a core committer; Evergreen is very
> important to him and the opportunity to have a more direct impact on its
> progress is exciting. He also hopes to assist others in improving Evergreen
> by also offering feedback and support to patch writers and testers.
>
>
> Evergreen continues to be the leading ILS for consortia and delivers local
> flexibility and granularity of policies that no other software can match.
> Evergreen 3.3 continues to deliver the most interoperability for libraries
> via its truly open APIs.  Evergreen 3.3 is available to all for download at
> no cost from the Evergreen web site at https://evergreen-ils.org/
> Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or
> later.
>
> The Evergreen community is made up of individuals, libraries, companies,
> and other organizations that support the Evergreen Integrated Library
> System. Evergreen is highly-scalable software that helps patrons find
> library materials and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those
> materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries. More than 2,000
> libraries around the world use Evergreen
>
>
>
> Please let me know if you see any problems or have any thoughts.
> Thanks,
> Ron
>
> --
> Ronald A. Gagnon
> Executive Director
> North Of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE)
> Danvers, Massachusetts  01923
> 978-777-8844
> www.noblenet.org
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Andrea Buntz Neiman, MLS
Project Manager for Software Development
Equinox Open Library Initiative
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