The State of EvergreenBob Molyneux

Rowan Public LibrarySalisbury, North Carolina

July 30, 2009

The State of Evergreen

• Georgia’s information policy• PINES

• PINES is a geographically-dispersed, resource- sharing consortium

• EG solved a general problem at a good time in software design and in ILS development

The State of Evergreen - 2

• Evergreen evolves– Growth in numbers of libraries– Growth in types of libraries– Growth in countries– Growth in capabilities

• Community– More people– Diverse skills being added– More vendors

Open source wellsprings

US Public Libraries by Total Expenditures

% expended of total

Top quartile 89%

Bottom three quartiles 11%

Evergreen

• Started in 2004, using open source development principles– Designed to be robust and scalable– It was the first consortial library system

(CLS)– And still the only CLS

• Went live in September 2006 with the migration of PINES to Evergreen

PINES Today

• 50 Public Library Systems• Georgia Public Library Service (the

state library of Georgia)• 275 “org units”• 17.3 million circulations in 2008• Often more than 100,000 circs per

day

Public Library Migrations by yearPublic Library

Systems

2006 45

2007 3

2008 37

2009 79

State of Evergreen ConsortiaEvergreen Academic or PL consortia

July 28, 2009 December 31, 2009

Conifer 4 4

Evergreen Indiana 38 52

Michigan Evergreen 9 11

NTLC 13

PINES 51 51

SC LENDS 3 10

SITKA 18 30

Spruce 1 1

Tsuga 1 1

(Independent) 4 5

Totals 129 178

Academic Libraries Running EvergreenU of PEI William Jessup UniversityConifer

Laurentian UniversityUniversity of WindsorAlgoma University

Columbia Bible College

June, 2009December,

2009Number of countries with libraries running Evergreen 3 5

• Growth in Evergreen’s Capabilities– Acquisitions– Serials– Reserves

• Other development– Tidying up– Tweaking for local requirements

FullfILLment ™

• A bit of the history– Ohio State Library

• The Collaborative

• What will it do?

• Thank you,Bob MolyneuxEquinox Software, Inchttp://www.esilibrary.com/bob@esilibrary.comEvergreen Website:http://www.evergreen-ils.org/