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The results of a survey into third-party hardware products which are compatible with Evergreen is now available.

Evergreen Compatibility

Pioneer Library System in New York has selected Evergreen as their next-generation ILS. Pioneer will migrate all of its 42 public libraries to Evergreen with a planned implementation date of late summer, 2010. Equinox Software will provide data migration, software configuration, and post-migration technical support. The Pioneer Library System serves the forty-two mostly small and rural public libraries in Ontario, Wayne, Wyoming and Livingston counties. The consortium currently uses SirsiDynix Unicorn.

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Marshall Breeding has published his 2009 LMS survey of installed and turned over systems.
http://www.librarytechnology.org/blog.pl?ThreadID=151

If these numbers are right, there were 634 installed systems in 2009
Of these, 265 were Koha or Evergreen, that’s 42%
In total, though, 307 were OSS LMS, that’s 48%

The biggest other player was SirsiDynix Symphony with 84 installations (13%), of which 72 of these were from Dynix and Horizon (their legacy systems).

After that, it was Apollo with 44 (7%).

I know these figures aren’t statistically absolutely accurate (and very North America biased) but, even still, these are impressive numbers for OSS LMS! I imagine they are indicative.

Going the other way, looking at the largest replaced systems, Dynix comes in top with 101 and Horizon second with 96, no real surprise there. Unicorn has 27.

Koha – Liblime has 26 but, all but one, stuck with OSS and moved to another provider. No one left Evergreen.

Kirtland Community College has gone live with Evergreen, the consortial, open-source library automation software. Equinox Software, Inc., the support and development company established by the original Evergreen developers, provided migration assistance for the project and will provide ongoing technical support. The server for the new installation is being hosted at the college and members of the Michigan Library Consortium provided staff training.

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The Ontario Library Association (OLA) have given two awards to Project Conifer (the Evergreen library consortium).

• The Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA) Special Achievement Award
• The Ontario Library Information Technology Association (OLITA) Award for Technical Innovation

Full Report here

Equinox have, another, two new recruits; Rob Herrmann and Sally Fortin. Ron is taking the role of Sales Executive and Sally is the new Educational Services Manager. Good to see the continued growth of their team.

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Equinox software have helped add the final three pilot members to the South Carolina library resource sharing network.

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The Evergreen Documentation Interest Group (DIG) has voted to accept the following proposals for Evergreen Documentation Licensing. The vote took place December 21, 2009 – January 4, 2010 on the Documentation Interest Group Mailing List. There were 18 yes votes and 0 no votes, for a unanimous decision.

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Apparently not, according to this article from Pingdom. It is still widely used and is the backbome of some big web sites (listed in the article). Of course, it is the backbome of Koha and Evergreen too!

I was at the first Evergreen International Conference in Athens, Georgia, last year. It was an excellent event. Well run and excellent content. For the second annual Evergreen conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan has been selected as the venue. The conference will take place April 21-23, 2010 at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel. The conference is co-hosted by the Grand Rapids Public Library and Equinox Software. Full details here.