<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Good morning, Outreachers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Here is a new press release for your review.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Ron<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:120%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">NEW
EVERGREEN RELEASE UPGRADES FUNCTIONALITY<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Evergreen Release 3.5 is now available.<span> </span>The latest semi-annual release upgrades
several important functions.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The full MARC editor, billing and payment, hold notification
and patron self-registration processes all have improvements for users and
staff.<span> </span>Updates to the new prototype
Angular catalog also continue.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The release includes contributions from 18 individuals and
12 institutions, continuing progress through the pandemic.<span> </span>The enhancements are overseen by a group of
13 committers who review and approve all software additions to core software for
the general releases.<span> </span>The new release
was overseen by Bill Erickson, software development engineer for the King County
Library System and Chris Sharp, </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">PINES
System Administrator at the Georgia Public Library Service. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span> </span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 5.75pt;line-height:120%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Evergreen continues to be the leading ILS for consortia and
delivers local flexibility and granularity of policies that no other software
can match and 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<a href="http://evergreen-ils.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none"> </span></a></span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://evergreen-ils.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://evergreen-ils.org/</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 5.75pt;line-height:120%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"></span><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 5.75pt;line-height:120%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
</div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Ronald A. Gagnon<br></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Executive Director<br></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">North Of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE)<br></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Danvers, Massachusetts 01923<br>978-777-8844<br></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.noblenet.org" target="_blank">www.noblenet.org</a></span><br></div></div></div></div></div>