Berklee College of Music is sponsoring development to add an auto-suggest feature to Evergreen Open Source ILS search interfaces. 

Read all about it here:  http://blog.esilibrary.com/

Cheers!

Suzannah

Good news for all Evergreen Users!

The Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes the Evergreen project as its newest member. Evergreen joins twenty-six other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects.

Conservancy and the Evergreen community, including librarians, developers, and documenters, are excited to announce that Evergreen is now a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

By joining the Conservancy, Evergreen obtains the benefits of a formal non-profit organizational structure while keeping the project focused on software development and documentation. Some benefits of joining the Conservancy include the ability to collect donations, hold assets on behalf of the project, and some protection of the lead developers of the project from personal liability when engaging in the activities of the project.

 Marshall Breeding announced the results of his 2010 ILS Survey and two of the big winners in this year's report are Koha and Evergreen.  And, interestingly, the big loser was none other than SirsiDynix.  

Grace Dunbar of Equinox recently posted a note to the Documentation List a link to the first draft of Release Notes for 2.0.

They are available here:  http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=feature_list_2_0

I tried to update the KCLS Requirements to reflect those that made it in 2.0 but I only got as far as the circulation requirements!  Some are clearly the same requirements and others have changed a bit so it was a bit hard to match.  

Lots of great, new features in 2.0!!!  If you want to try it out, the source code is available here:  http://www.open-ils.org/downloads.php.  Currently on alpha 5 release.  Beta will be next!

Jed Moffitt's first post launch update for staff at KCLS since Go-Live on September 23, 2010...

Dear KCLS Staff:

Thank you!

Continuation of Jed Moffitt's pre-launch updates for staff at KCLS. 

Attached is the sixth update in this series...

Dear KCLS Staff:

Continuation of Jed Moffitt's pre-launch updates for staff at KCLS.

Attached is the fifth update in this series... 

Dear KCLS Staff:

Starting July 23, 2010, Jed Moffitt (IT Services Director at KCLS) began sending out staff emails to keep people informed of progress being made in the move toward Evergreen.

Attached is the first update in this series...

Dear KCLS Staff: 

KCLS put together a screencast for their staff introducing the new patron interface for their Evergreen system.  I'd say "OPAC" but it is much more than simply an OPAC.  

Take a peek:  http://www.kcls.org/evergreenopac/EvergreenOPACDemo.swf