[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Evergreen Newsletter, September 2009

[Karen Schneider]

Evergreen Newsletter

*The newsletter for Evergreen open source library software http://evergreen
-ils.org*

*Volume 2, Issue 8 -- September, 2009 *

As a reminder, we post this newsletter to the Evergreen general discussion
list (see all Evergreen lists at http://evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php) and
to the Evergreen blog (http://evergreen-ils.org/blog). Cross-posting and
forwarding is encouraged.
In This Issue…

Evergreen Out and About, Evergreen Development Update, Evergreen
Post-Birthday Links, Evergreen People, Lyrasis Evergreen Classes, New
Evergreen Libraries, Newsletter Administrivia
 Out and About: An Evergreen Calendar

Access 2009 (9/30-10/3): Evergreen developer Mike Rylander and Equinox
project manager Shae Tetterton will be there, and there are many open source
and Evergreen events there as well. See http://vre2.upei.ca/access2009/

North Carolina Library Association (10/6-10/9): Equinox Software has a booth
there, come by and say hello, or ask for a demo!

Indiana Library Federation (10/18-10/20): come see Equinox Software at the
exhibits!

If you have Evergreen-related events to add (talks, conferences, etc.), just
email events at evergreen-ils.org.

Evergreen Post-Birthday Links

Evergreen celebrated its third birthday on September 5, and there were two
blog posts marking the occasion:

Evergreen at 3: Reflections and Memories
http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=228

The Evergreen Index (with apologies to Harper's Index):
http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=235

Documentation Interest Group: Onward, XML Soldiers!

The needs assessment for the Evergreen Documentation Interest Group couldn't
have been plainer about the future direction of the DIG. The full report is
here: http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=257

"The needs assessment group of the Evergreen Documentation Interest Group
(DIG) recommends that activities to produce single-source, XML-based
project-wide Evergreen documentation commence immediately in these four
areas: reports; installation, upgrading, and migrations; cataloging; and
circulation. (Note: the DIG concurred at the September 9 meeting, and work
has commenced.)"

We are forging ahead in that direction!

The wiki page for the DIG has been reorganized and is easier to navigate:
 http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:dig

Meanwhile, Paul Weiss, DIG co-facilitator, has moved on to a new,
non-Evergreen position, and two DIG members have volunteered to step in as
facilitators, something the DIG will ratify at its next meeting in a couple
of weeks (TBA on the documentation list). Thanks and good-by to Paul!

Finally, a big, hearty thank you to Mike Peters (Evergreen Indiana) for
setting up a test server for the DIG.

Come on board--there's room for many-a-more!  Email
docs at evergreen-ils.orgfor more info.

 Evergreen Development Update

Evergreen 1.4.0.6 and Evergreen Release Candidate 1.6.0.0RC1 both recently
debuted, and the roll-outs for both, but particularly 1.6, were very smooth.


See the Evergreen Roadmap for a top-level view of what’s coming in 2.0:
 <http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:evergreen_roadmap>

http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:evergreen_roadmap

Evergreen Jobs

Mohawk College (Ontario) has an opening for a library applications
specialist:

http://www.mohawkcollege.ca/Explore/jobs/currentjobopps/fulltimeSSopps/comp_2423.html

Evergreen People
* *

*HIRES*: Equinox Software Inc., “The Evergreen Experts,” recently hired two
more developers: Joe Atzberger and Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley.

Joe's previous position was as a Koha developer for LibLime.  He also worked
several previous years as a Technical Specialist supporting INFOhio K-12
libraries and their migrations on SirsiDynix and MultiLIS platforms.  Joe
came by the library world naturally:  both his parents also love books, have
English degrees, and his mom is a Reference Librarian.

For the past three years, Lebbeous worked for an information security firm
in Cleveland, Ohio, where he primarily wrote software using open source
tools.  He has applied his passion for programming to diverse problems
including vulnerability assessment, network perimeter management, log
analysis, and more.  Lebbeous also enjoys history, following college
football, and video games (sometimes to his wife's chagrin).
Lyrasis Evergreen Training Classes

Lyrasis is offering two Evergreen classes in the near future:

Evergreen Circulation Module (Live Online)

10/22/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST

Evergreen Administration and Statistics Module (Live Online)

10/22/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST

To register please see the Lyrasis website at:
http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes%20and%20Events/Catalog/E/Evergreen
%20Catalog%20Module%20Live%20Online.aspx
 For close to a year, Lyrasis (created from a merger of SOLINET and PALINET)
has taught dozens of Evergreen classes. Lyrasis is dedicated to training and
instructing Evergreen, and they welcome your comments and suggestions for
courses. All of their current course offerings are continuously updated, and
Lyrasis plans to add more courses in the future. For comments or questions,
contact Lyrasis instructors *Jennifer.Bielewski at lyrasis.org* or
Jenny.Liberatore at lyrasis.org
Planet Evergreen

Can't get enough news about Evergreen open source software? Subscribe to or
read Planet Evergreen, an aggregator for Evergreen-related posts, at
http://planet.evergreen-ils.org . Have a blog that talks about Evergreen? To
add your blog to the Planet Evergreen blog aggregator, send email to Dan
Scott at dan at coffeecode.net
Evergreen on Facebook

Evergreen has a growing Facebook group at the not-so-mnemonic address of
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6396639614  We are now posting events
to this group, such as the Evergreen conference and the ALA Midwinter
get-together, as well as press releases for new Evergreen libraries and
systems and other related news. The group now has well over 300 members.
 A Few Reminders

*Webinars and videos*: Don't forget the section on the Evergreen wiki devoted
to community-contributed documentation and
tutorials<http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community_tutorials>
.

Evergreen also has a Flickr set: http://flickr.com/photos/evergreen-ils/
New Evergreen Libraries: Welcome Aboard!

See the growing list of Evergreen libraries at:

http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_libraries

This list is open to all Evergreen libraries, from commercially-supported to
"grow-your-own." Please add your library if it's not there!

Highlights from the latest additions:

*North Texas Library Consortium* (NTLC) just rolled out 13 libraries on a
shared catalog. Everything's bigger in Texas! Welcome aboard, NTLC!

*Sitka *in British Columbia rolled out three more libraries, Gibsons
District Public Library, Sechelt Public Library, and Castlegar Public
Library, for a total of 24 libraries on a shared catalog.

 If you'd like to follow along as libraries join the Evergreen community,
you can subscribe to the Equinox press release feed, which will announce
most known Evergreen implementations (or follow the Facebook group mentioned
above). The Equinox press release feed
<http://esilibrary.com/esi/news.rss>was recently tweaked to make it
easier to track and share the releases.
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*Newsletter Administrivia *

Feel free to forward, share, etc.!
The co-wranglers for this newsletter (produced every month… sometimes
earlier, sometimes later… what can we say!) are Karen Schneider, Equinox
Community Librarian and John Fink, Digital Technologies Development
Librarian at McMaster University.
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