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EvergreenOpen Source LMS
(http://www.open-ils.org)
Jonathan FieldTechnical Director – PTFS Europe
Evergreen
Started in 2004, using open source development principles
Designed to be robust and scalable
It was the first 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, 2007-2009
Total 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
The Evergreen Superconsortium
Public Library Migrations by yearPublic 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
Academic Libraries Running Evergreen
U of PEI
William Jessup University
Conifer
Laurentian University
University of Windsor
Algoma University
Columbia Bible College
Facts
Database – PostgreSQL Consortia – Built from the ground up for consortia Clustering supported? - Yes Internationisation – Yes Character encoding – UTF-8 EDI Support – in Version 2 Number of Installations - >100 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 Capabilities
Acquisitions
Serials
Reserves
Other development
Tidying 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 (October, 2009)
New events and notification framework Billing enhancements for lost items Automatic electronic serials support Improved internationalization and localization functions At or near Release 1.6, Evergreen will also release the first
version of the reserves module
Evergreen Roadmap
Release 2.0 (2010)
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
Mobile Device Support
Mobile Device Support - slimpac
EvergreenOpen Source LMS
(http://www.open-ils.org)
Jonathan FieldTechnical Director – PTFS Europe