<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Good catch Ruth, corrected and sent.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Happy Thanksgiving to all!</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><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 9:34 AM Frasur, Ruth <<a href="mailto:RFrasur@library.in.gov">RFrasur@library.in.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.75pt;line-height:120%">This is great. My only suggestion would be to change this sentence “<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Evergreen 3.8 continues to deliver
the most interoperability for libraries …” to “Evergreen 3.8 delivers the most interoperability for libraries…” The sentence preceding it includes “continues to.”</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> evergreen-outreach <<a href="mailto:evergreen-outreach-bounces@list.evergreen-ils.org" target="_blank">evergreen-outreach-bounces@list.evergreen-ils.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gagnon, Ron via evergreen-outreach<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 19, 2021 3:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Evergreen Outreach Committee <<a href="mailto:evergreen-outreach@list.evergreen-ils.org" target="_blank">evergreen-outreach@list.evergreen-ils.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [evergreen-outreach] For Consideration: Release 3.8 Press Release<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">USABILITY IMPROVEMENTS IN NEW EVERGREEN RELEASE</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-6046762658654411763gmail-msonospacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Usability and interface improvements highlight Evergreen’s new Release 3.8, the latest semi-annual software update.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-m_-6046762658654411763gmail-msonospacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Patron notes, messages and alerts are now in an improved consolidated interface for better service. Acquisitions also enjoys interface improvements
via a more modern interface and other usability improvements including a new fund administration interface.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-m_-6046762658654411763gmail-msonospacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Even more options are available to customize system handling of hold requests based on the pickup library. Use of item cover images is expanded
in the system to the borrower’s account displays for quicker identification of requests and loans.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-m_-6046762658654411763gmail-msonospacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Forty-seven individuals contributed code, translations, documentations, patches, and tests to this release of Evergreen.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.75pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana",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. Evergreen 3.8 continues to deliver the most interoperability for libraries via its truly open APIs and is available to all for download at no cost from the Evergreen web site at<a href="https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=9ef3bc1b-c168853d-9ef7f51b-867666c9b37a-a2e7b9737113f697&q=1&e=a44f09c6-e811-483a-93cd-2a80143cac74&u=http%3A%2F%2Fevergreen-ils.org%2F" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.75pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.75pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Verdana",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:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="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>