[evergreen-outreach] Proposed Release 3.9 Press Release

[Gagnon, Ron]

Good afternoon,
Here is a proposed press release for Release 3.9.  Please let me know if
you have any suggestions.

Ron




For Immediate Release

For more information contact Ron Gagnon, Evergreen Outreach Committee,
gagnon at noblenet.org, 978-777-8844


LOCALIZATION FOCUS OF NEW EVERGREEN ILS RELEASE

New localization customizations to improve service and efficiency are the
highlights of Evergreen’s new Release 3.9, the latest semi-annual software
update.

Notices can now be generated based on the preferred language of the
cardholder.

The staff portal can be customized to include local links and
documentation. Links and services are able to be added, changed or removed
as needed locally for each library or branch to improve efficiency.

A new Simple Reports option focused on ease of use and simplicity is
available in the staff client. Intended to provide an alternate access
point for running reports, Simple Reports will coexist with the main
Reports interface used for more complex reports.  Reports and schedules can
be edited at any time as needed.

Libraries can share their carousels of cover images of new titles or
topical displays developed for the Evergreen catalog to an external site,
such as the library's own web site.

Library staff may upload a custom jacket/cover image for a given
bibliographic record via a new interface for display in the staff client
and OPAC, useful for local titles.

Evergreen can now act as an OAI-PMH data provider, exposing the catalog to
harvesting through the OAI2 protocol for larger metadata projects.



Thirty-one individuals contributed code, translations, documentations,
patches, and tests to this release of Evergreen, and 22 organizations
supported or contributed to the release.  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 continues to be the leading ILS for consortia and delivers local
flexibility and granularity of policies that no other software can match.
Evergreen 3.9 delivers the most interoperability for libraries via its
truly open APIs.  Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU
GPL, version 2 or later and is available to all for download at no cost
from the Evergreen web site at https://evergreen-ils.org/
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-- 
Ronald A. Gagnon
Executive Director
North Of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE)
Danvers, Massachusetts  01923
978-777-8844
www.noblenet.org
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