[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Newsletter, Jan-Feb 2013

[Amy Terlaga]

EVERGREEN NEWSLETTER / JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2013

 

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International Evergreen Conference 2013 in Vancouver, BC
By Tara Robertson



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The full conference schedule is up on the website and there's a bunch of
awesome sessions in both the main track and the technical track:
http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/schedule/

Two recent additions to the program include John van Rassel from the
Innisfil Public Library who will talk about how migrating to Evergreen 5
years ago was a catalyst for organizational change. Innisfil PL are doing so
many interesting things like a maker lab drop ins
(http://www.innisfil.library.on.ca/maker-labs) and planning for a maker
space in their new branch. They also recently launched a community based
history digitization project using Islandora at
http://www.ourstoriesinnisfil.ca
http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/schedule/session-descriptions/#fiveyears

Jeff Godin is doing a session on APIs:
http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/schedule/session-descriptions/#apis

We're getting close to capacity so register now:
http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/registration/

See you in Vancouver!

 

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EVERGREEN LIBRARIES UPDATE

 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: The International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam
migrates to a new version Evergreen

 

The International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam (IISG), the
Netherlands, is pleased to announce the successful migration to a new
version of Evergreen, the 2.2 rc1. 

The International Institute of Social History, the world's largest
documentation and research center in the field of social history, that first
started to use Evergreen in September 2011, just migrated for the first time
to a new version, Evergreen 2.2 rc1. After an extensive research and
development process the in-house developer Vyacheslav Tykhonov managed to do
all the work successfully and he migrated all data to this new version. This
was a very important update, which will bring substantial improvements to
existing features, solving a lot of bugs.  So at the moment IISG is using a
good working and stable library system.

 

This major update brought lots of improvements to existing functions as well
as some absolutely new features, like creating the possibility for any chart
to be shared on any website. Basic Evergreen functionality was extended with
Digital Humanities tools to make graphic representations of data stored in
the library system, such as visualization tools, maps and timelines.

 

See for examples of these possibilities:

 

Pie presenting all materials stored in IISG:

http://api.socialhistoryservices.org/evergreen/charts/report.pie.all.html

 

Chart for all materials published from 1900 till 2000:

http://api.socialhistoryservices.org/evergreen/charts/report.1900.html

 

Chart for all materials published from 2000:

http://api.socialhistoryservices.org/evergreen/charts/report.2000.html

 

Visual material on our current queen:

http://api.socialhistoryservices.org/evergreen/timeline/beatrix.html

 

Visual material on our soon to-be king:

http://api.socialhistoryservices.org/evergreen/timeline/willem.html

 

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Eva Cerninakova of the Czech Republic reports, "In January we launched Czech
Evergreen DokuWiki.  We are still in the beginning [stages] yet it is a very
important step for the 'miniature' Czech Evergreen community  as we hope
this will help us to  promote Evergreen among the libraries in the Czech
Republic. 

Czech Evergreen DokuWiki is currently available at
http://knihovna.jabok.cz/evergreen-dokuwiki/ (for a future we are planning
to open up Czech Evergreen domain)." 

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The COOL Consortium in Ohio would like to announce that the Worch Memorial
Public Library is now live on the system.  Here's a link to more
information:  http://info.cool-cat.org/?p=167

 

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The Mobius Consortium in Missouri just had their ninth library system, the
Albany Carnegie system, go live.  A lot has happened with the Missouri
Evergreen public library consortium in the last few months.  Debbie
Luchenbill was hired as the new Evergreen Coordinator and she began at the
end of August.  There are now eight (almost nine!) libraries live on the
system and 16 libraries officially part of Missouri Evergreen, with more to
join soon. By August of 2013, thirteen libraries will be live.  MOBIUS, a
nonprofit library consortium based in Columbia, MO, is hosting and managing
Missouri Evergreen with LSTA funds from the Missouri State Library, a
division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

 

 


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If you have any news for the next issue of the Evergreen newsletter, the
March-April issue, please email this news to Amy Terlaga at
terlaga at biblio.org.  The next issue will be the Conference issue and will be
sent out the week following the April conference.

 

 

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Bibliomation, Inc.

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Middlebury, CT  06762

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