EvergreenOpen Source LMS

(http://www.open-ils.org)

Jonathan FieldTechnical Director – PTFS Europe

Evergreen

Started in 2004, using open source development principlesConceived by Georgia Public Library Service

Design team of Four

Designed to be robust and scalable and secure

It was the first truly consortial library system

Evergreen launched

October 5th 2006, Evergreen went live in Georgia PINES OPAC Patron Self Service Cataloguing Circulation Reporting

PINES Today

50 Public Library Systems

Georgia Public Library Service (the state library of Georgia)

275 branches

17.3 million circulations in 2008

Often more than 100,000 circs per day

Summary circulation statistics at PINES for the day after Memorial Day,

2007-2009Total for Day

Maximum / hour

Maximum / minute

Maximum / second

May 29, 2007 96,326 11,305

May 27, 2008 100,427 12,227 331 9

May 26, 2009 106,093 12,251 322 19

Since then ……Evergreen evolves

Growth in numbers of libraries

Growth in types of libraries

Growth in countries

Growth in capabilities

CommunityMore people

Diverse skills being added

More vendors (Number of vendors known to offer Evergreen services: 6)

The Evergreen Superconsortium

Public Library Migrations by year

Public Library Systems

2006 46

2007 3

2008 37

2009 68

Large Urban Public Library

Public Library Totals

PopulationServed

TotalCirculations

Book and Serial

Volumes

PublicLibrary

Systemsoutlet

s

2006 4,379,592 18,129,888 8,137,915 46 241

2007 66,126 310,128 209,994 3 8

2008 965,491 6,922,871 3,350,120 37 72

2009 to date 184,193 1,909,231 858,672 17 26

2009 projected 1,848,734 10,853,156 4,383,586 68 155

2006-2009 7,259,943 36,216,043 16,081,615 171 476

King County, 2010

1,205,095

19,121,913

3,146,400 1 51

Some Evergreen Libraries

Georgia PINES - 275+ public libraries

SITKA (British Columbia) – 24 public libraries

Evergreen Indiana – 40 public libraries

Project Conifer – Canadian Academic Consortium

Mahatma Education Society – India

Kent County Public Library – Maryland

Armenia – National Academy of Sciences

Academic Libraries Running Evergreen

U of PEI

William Jessup University

Conifer

Laurentian University

University of Windsor

Algoma University

Columbia Bible College

Facts Database – PostgreSQL

Number of languages used in Evergreen code: 6 (Perl, C, JavaScript, XHTML, Staff Client - Mozilla XUL, Dojo JavaScript Framework, Python)

All communication between the staff client and server is encrypted via 128-bit secure sockets layer (SSL) connections

Character encoding – UTF-8

Clustering supported? – Yes (using commodity hardware)

Consortia – Built from the ground up for consortia

Internationisation – Yes

Libraries known to run Evergreen as of September 5, 2009: 454

Biggest Installation – Georgina PINES (over 270 libraries)

Feature List Google search syntax and spelling Bookbags and RSS Patron Self Service Circulation & Patron Interface Cataloguing

Z39.50 client MARC Editor with contextual help Authority support “bucket” support

Feature List Reporting Interface Offline Circulation “slimpac” supports accessibility and

mobile devices Powerful permissions control

Growth in Evergreen’s CapabilitiesAcquisitions

Serials

Reserves

Other developmentTidying up

Tweaking for local requirements

Evergreen Myths

“Evergreen is great for public library consortiums with hundreds of branches, but doesn't scale down.”

Evergreen is in production in school libraries

Evergreen can run on a laptop with 1.5 GB RAM (50,000 records)

Evergreen VMWare images run happily in 512 MB of RAM

Evergreen Roadmap

Release 1.6 (November, 2009) Acquisitions Preview New events and notification framework Billing enhancements for lost items Automatic electronic serials support (MFHD) Improved internationalization and localization

functions

Evergreen Roadmap

Release 2.0 (2010) Full Acquisitions (including EDI support) Recalls Reserves enhancements Paper and electronic serials prediction and check-in More language sets

Evergreen Roadmap

Post-2.0 Development FulfiLLment (Inter-ILS resource sharing) Inbound telephony Outbound telephony Inventory management

EvergreenOpen Source LMS

(http://www.open-ils.org)

Jonathan FieldTechnical Director – PTFS Europe