[evergreen-outreach] Press Releases

[rogan.hamby at gmail.com]

+1, they look great!

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:07 PM Deborah Luchenbill <
deborah at mobiusconsortium.org> wrote:

> +1 Looks great, Ron!  Thanks!
>
> Debbie Luchenbill
> Evergreen Coordinator
> MOBIUS
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>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 1:49 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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