[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Donate to Support Evergreen Outreach Effort

[Ron Gagnon]

To raise the profile of Evergreen for libraries considering moving to a new
library system, a new outreach effort has begun.

Evergreen has largely been missing from the major library conferences such
as ALA where libraries do much of their system shopping -- not in the
conference program, not in the exhibit hall and not in programs -- in
contrast to the exhibit hall booths of the commercial systems.  Companies
like Equinox are exhibitors, but they are not exclusively Evergreen, also
supporting Koha, and are there to market their services of course.

That will change this summer, as the Evergreen Outreach Committee will have
a booth in the exhibit hall for the first time, at the June ALA Annual
Conference in San Francisco.  The Evergreen Oversight Committee has
approved an 18-month plan to make sure librarians know about Evergreen, but
there is a cost for booth rental, etc., and that's one place where we need
your help -- in addition to spreading the word yourself!

Please visit the "Support the Evergreen Outreach Campaign" page at
http://evergreen-ils.org/outreach-support/ and consider making a donation
to support the costs of the conference booth. Approximately $20,000 is
needed for the effort through December, 2016.

More users of Evergreen could bring more funding for development, and more
developers, to grow and improve Evergreen.  Many small libraries are
joining Evergreen groups, but there are few large library system converting
to Evergreen, and the larger systems tend to have more development
resources.

At the booth we will be showing the Evergreen system and distributing fact
sheets, and yes, we are in the program!

The three MassLNC library networks -- the Central/Western Massachusetts
Automated Resource Sharing (C/W MARS), the Merrimack Valley Library
Consortium (MVLC) and the North Of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE) -- are
funding the booth rental costs for this summer's ALA conference, which are
lower for first-time exhibitors, to start the effort.  We need your help to
continue the effort and gain more Evergreen users.

And visit us in San Francisco at booth number 3345!

Ron
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Ronald A. Gagnon
Executive Director
North Of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE)
Danvers, Massachusetts  01923
978-777-8844
www.noblenet.org
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