[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Status of new book: "Evergreen in Action"

[Cynthia Williamson]

Hi Everyone - I'd like to wish our book writers at great big
congratulations!!
Confession:  I work with Robert.
I have seen the first version of the book - it's great.  You folks should
be very proud of yourselves.  Aside from the fabulousness of having an
actual book about Evergreen (Mohawk will be purchasing a couple at least, I
promise) - this book means so much more.  Our college's new academic plan
talks about "openness" in more than one way e.g. instructor created
content.  I plan to be waving the Evergreen book around as an example of
what some smart and dedicated folks can do given time and support.  I look
forward to being able to support this kind of work in MPOW however and
whenever I can. As a Collections librarian, I confess to being more than a
little tired of signing on the dotted line to purchase big collections of
stuff only some of which we need.  Helping with the creation and curation
of such treasures as *Evergreen in Action* is something I very much look
forward to.

Again, Congratulations to Dan, Robert, Kathy, Lindsay and Jim.

Warm Regards,
Cynthia
PS I am wildly jealous of your time on the Google campus!!  [?]


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> As you might have gathered from a couple of mentions on other threads,
> various social media sites[1], an article in the Linux Weekly News, and
> the Evergreen blog[2], we[3] went to Google last week and wrote a book.
>
> "Yeah yeah yeah, enough rambling," I can hear you say, "where's the
> book?"
>
> Right. We're just polishing up a few last bits[4] before we publish it
> publicly... our goal is to make paid and free versions available, with
> all proceeds from the paid versions going to the Evergreen project, and
> we hope to have everything ready by the end of the week.[5]
>
> So stay tuned - we'll have an update for you soon!
>
> 1. https://plus.google.com/u/0/102508317458716178274 /
>    http://twitter.com/search?q=%23egils
> 2. http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=865
> 3. "We" are Lindsay Stratton, Robert Soulliere, Kathy Lussier, Jim
>    Keenan, Dan Scott
> 4. Like adding the authors' names somewhere, and fixing some
>    formatting glitches...
> 5. Just in time for certain holidays!
>



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