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The State of EvergreenQ1 2010
Bob Molyneux
April 22, 2010
Walk down memory lane
December, 1999 PINES goes live (26 systems, 98 outlets)
June, 2004 - Lamar Veatch commits the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) to a one year test of an open source initiative to develop a consortial library system
September 5, 2006, Evergreen goes live (46 systems)
November, 2007, Prince Rupert Public Library, Prince Rupert, BC
June, 2008, University of Prince Edward Island
November, 2008, Tsuga (Innisfil, Ontario, Public Library)
June, 2009, National Resources Canada
Changing Nature of FUD
Open source? You going to use code written by a bunch of dope-smokin' hippies?
Evergreen is only in Georgia Evergreen is only in public libraries Evergreen doesn't have acquisitions.
What is Evergreen?
First Consortial Library System Provide an online catalog for the consortium Provide means for resources to be shared Designed for a geographically dispersed, resource
sharing network
Consortial principles
Uniformity of policies? Scale
Transactions Keeping the database current
Searches Non-linearity of scale Politics Limits?
Wellsprings of open source
US Public Libraries by Total Expenditures Q1: 89% of total dollars (2,200+) Q2-Q4: 11% of total dollars (6,800-)
Evergreen ecosystem
Growth in the community More nodes Superconsortium
The Evergreen Superconsortium
Cooperation between consortia First instance with Equinox as midwife Latest: Kids' OPAC
Bibliomation KCLS GPLS Sitka
Data!
Public Libraries Running Evergreen
By year
Systems Outlets PopServed
TotalCircs
2006 45 246 4.6m 17.2m
2007 4 8 68k 320k
2008 37 87 963k 6.9m
2009 75 149 1.7m 10.7m
Q1 2010 17 21 109k 372k
Totals 178 511 7.4m 35.5m
Systems in ConsortiaQ1 2010
Conifer 15
Evergreen Indiana 62
Michigan Evergreen
11
NTLC 13
PINES 51
SC LENDS 10
SITKA 30
Spruce 4
Tsuga 1
Totals 197
Evergreen Installations by Types of Library
Count of systems
Type
Academic 12Public 178School 2Special 12State libraries 2
Begging for data
Pop Quiz
What month did FlorencePLJoin SC LENDS?
Information Inflection point?
What’s ahead?
Evergreen singularity?
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