The Law Society of British Columbia Goes Live with Evergreen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA – March 18, 2009
The Law Society of British Columbia has gone live with Evergreen, the consortial-quality open-source library automation software. Jeremy Buhler, a graduate student from SLAIS at UBS, did most of the work developing the main page and migrating data. Buhler has recently begun working with British Columbia SITKA as a trainer/help desk specialist.
The Law Society of British Columbia is the governing body of the legal profession in BC. The LSBC Resource Centre is a legal research collection serving Law Society and staff with around 1400 bibliographic records in their database.
According to Christine Gergich, Records Analyst for the Law Society, “The switch to Evergreen has significantly improved access to and administration of our collection.” Gergich added, “We are delighted to be part of a growing number of Evergreen users in British Columbia.”
“The ability of libraries such as the Law Society to ‘go it alone’ with Evergreen only proves the openness and ease of use of this software,” said Brad LaJeunesse, Equinox company president. “The Law Society joins a growing stream of libraries moving toward Evergreen for its features, flexibility, and forward-looking development path.”

About Evergreen

Evergreen is consortial-quality, open-source library software initially developed to support Georgia PINES, a resource-sharing consortium with over 270 public libraries. Evergreen was designed from the ground up to be robust, fault-tolerant, service-oriented, and standards-based. Evergreen nimbly evolves to meet the needs of very large, high-transaction, multi-site consortia, while elegantly scaling down to the smallest library sites.
The growing, multinational Evergreen development community has shepherded Evergreen through a series of carefully-planned releases that have further strengthened Evergreen’s consortial capabilities while adding popular and useful functionality. Evergreen 2.0, due out in 2009, will add acquisitions, serials, and reserves to Evergreen’s outstanding functionality.
From its debut in September 2006, Evergreen has earned acclaim and praise from users worldwide, including a Technology Collaboration Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional Evergreen implementations include consortial projects such as Evergreen Indiana, Michigan Evergreen and British Columbia SITKA, and libraries such as Kent County Public Library in Maryland, Marshall Public Library in Missouri, the National Weather Center Library, and the University of Prince Edward Island.
Other libraries contracting with Equinox software for future Evergreen services include King County Library System, a public library system in Washington State); the thirteen libraries of Natural Resources Canada; North Texas Regional Library System; and SC LENDS, a project of the South Carolina State Library. A number of libraries “go it alone” with Evergreen by providing their own migration and support, which further demonstrates the power, ease, and reliability of this state-of-the-art library software.
For more information about Evergreen, visit http://evergreen-ils.org

About Equinox Software, Inc.
Founded by the original Evergreen designers and developers, Equinox Software is a growing team of skilled developers and other professionals who provide comprehensive support for Evergreen, the consortial-quality, open source Integrated Library System (ILS). Equinox develops, supports, trains, migrates, integrates, and consults on Evergreen, and engages with the rapidly expanding Evergreen community. Instead of one-size-fits-all support, Equinox works closely with libraries to ensure Evergreen is implemented in the manner that best fits their individual needs.

In addition to support, custom development and integration services, Equinox offers complete Evergreen hosting packages for libraries wishing to outsource their ILS infrastructure. Equinox also provides consulting services for libraries seeking more insight into the value proposition of open source software.

Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571
For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.

Evergreen is open source software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL. Evergreen and the Evergreen logo are trademarks of the Georgia Public Library Service.

Dawn Roberts Joins Equinox Software as Director of Marketing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA – March 16, 2009

Equinox Software, Inc., the support and development company for Evergreen open-source library software, welcomes Dawn Roberts as Director of Marketing. Roberts will play a key role in helping to establish the company’s presence at industry trade shows and exhibitions.
Roberts has been serving as Equinox’s Event Manager on a contract basis while running her own event services company for the past year and a half. She brings over 15 years of event management experience to her role with particular focus in the library industry. Roberts has been a consistent presence at ALA Annual, ALA Midwinter, and PLA Meetings for the past ten years.
Roberts said, “I am extremely proud to be a part of the up and coming open source library market with the best team in the business.”

Brad LaJeunesse, Equinox company president, added, “Roberts’ expertise will help our growing team of “Evergreen Experts” connect with present and future users at events and ensure Equinox and Evergreen have a strong marketing presence. We now have approximately 100 library systems using Evergreen, with more coming on board every month, so Roberts’ arrival is timely.”

Roberts resides in Huntsville, Alabama and is part of the growing group of teleworkers at Equinox Software.

About Evergreen

Evergreen is consortial-quality, open-source library software initially developed to support Georgia PINES, a resource-sharing consortium with over 270 public libraries. Evergreen was designed from the ground up to be robust, fault-tolerant, service-oriented, and standards-based. Evergreen nimbly evolves to meet the needs of very large, high-transaction, multi-site consortia, while elegantly scaling down to the smallest library sites.
The growing multinational Evergreen development community has shepherded Evergreen through a series of carefully-planned releases that have further strengthened Evergreen’s consortial capabilities while adding popular and useful functionality. Evergreen 2.0, due out in 2009, will add acquisitions, serials, and reserves to Evergreen’s outstanding functionality.
From its debut in September 2006, Evergreen has earned acclaim and praise from users worldwide, including a Technology Collaboration Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional Evergreen implementations include consortial projects such as Evergreen Indiana, Michigan Evergreen and British Columbia SITKA, and libraries such as Kent County Public Library in Maryland, Marshall Public Library in Missouri, the National Weather Center Library, and the University of Prince Edward Island.
Other libraries contracting with Equinox software for future Evergreen services include King County Library System, a public library system in Washington State), the thirteen libraries of Natural Resources Canada, and North Texas Regional Library System. A number of libraries “go it alone” with Evergreen by providing their own migration and support, which further demonstrates the power, ease, and reliability of this state-of-the-art library software.
For more information about Evergreen, visit http://evergreen-ils.org

About Equinox Software, Inc.
Founded by the original Evergreen designers and developers, Equinox Software is a growing team of skilled developers and other professionals who provide comprehensive support for Evergreen, the consortial-quality, open source Integrated Library System (ILS). Equinox develops, supports, trains, migrates, integrates, and consults on Evergreen, and engages with the rapidly expanding Evergreen community. Instead of one-size-fits-all support, Equinox works closely with libraries to ensure Evergreen is implemented in the manner that best fits their individual needs.

In addition to support, custom development and integration services, Equinox offers complete Evergreen hosting packages for libraries wishing to outsource their ILS infrastructure. Equinox also provides consulting services for libraries seeking more insight into the value proposition of open source software.

Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571
For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.

Evergreen is open source software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL. Evergreen and the Evergreen logo are trademarks of the Georgia Public Library Service.

Ebooks and Econtent 2009

London University College May 12th 2009

www.econtent2009.com

Innovation has been a key theme in they content industries over the past few years and the last has been particularly eventful – whether that’s technological developments such as ebook readers and e-ink, new techniques including social networking, the use of search for publish and discover and republishing and re purposing content or new business models. This year’s Ebooks and Econtent will focus on these developments and ask how they are or might impact on all involved in content production, delivery, management and trading. As usual it will be of interest to a mixed audience of professionals from publishing, library and related communities and will feature key speakers including Talis’ Richard Wallis – who will provide a keynote on technological change. Other invited are Ruth Jones, Strategy Director of Ingram Publishing and one of the world’s largest e-publishers – Ruth has also held senior positions in the library world before moving to publishing and Timo Hanny of a Nature.com, an expert on social networking and its publishing impact. Other speakers will cover repurposing, open access publishing, industry trends and models.

For further information and registration please go to

www.econtent2009.com

Times are tough. Library funding is down, library use is up, and people are asking more and more questions demanding more and more time from their public library staff. In response to these increasing demands on library resources, Library Development staff at the Washington State Library have been compiling resources and trying to find ways to help their libraries cope in Washington State.

The result: resource pages for library users and library staff.

"Resources for library users collects helpful web sites dealing with employment resources, job-hunting, resumes and skills-building, economic information, and technological training.

Resources for library staff includes grant and stimulus information, specific databases for consideration, promotion and advocacy information aimed at the services libraries provide in tough economic times.

Some of the resources listed are Washington State specific, but there is plenty there for everyone. Libraries are encouraged to copy the lists or parts of the lists as they like, and provide feedback on the blog if there are any resources they feel are missing.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Brandie Baumann, communications coordinator
800.397.1552; bcrpress@bcr.org

AURORA, Colo., March 11, 2009 — The Oregon State Library is participating in BCR’s Shelf2Life program, bringing its collections of pre-1923 U.S.-published monographs in the fields of genealogy and family history to the public through a print-on-demand program available through hundreds of online book retailers.

“Through this project, these valuable records and narratives of American families will be available to readers across Oregon and the world,” commented Jim Scheppke, Oregon State Librarian. “The State Library is always striving to innovate and adapt their collections and delivery options. By participating in the Shelf2Life Program, the library provides their citizens access to this important content in ways we have never been able to in the past.”

“State library agencies are often overlooked as resources for substantive historical references,” noted Brenda Bailey-Hainer, BCR President and CEO. “I’m delighted that the Shelf2Life Program will make these narratives and records housed at the Oregon State Library more easily accessible beyond the region.”

The Oregon State Library’s Genealogy and Family History Collection is a project that sheds light on the wealth of materials hidden in U.S. libraries. The Collection brings to life critical pre-1923 books that catalog birth, death, marriage, property and migration records of specific families. Many of these families followed interesting immigration and movement patterns from western Europe and beyond to the United States more than 200 years ago. In addition to documenting lines of descendants, these books include information such as last wills and testaments, period photographs of towns, buildings and landscapes, portraits of family members and descriptions of business interactions. Encompassing such comprehensive and personal information, this collection will appeal to professional genealogists and family history researchers, as well as descendants and casual historians.

BCR’s Shelf2Life program was created to help libraries and cultural heritage organizations share their collections with new audiences. By making it easy for libraries to digitize and widen access to their collections, BCR's Shelf2Life program helps libraries increase the visibility, use and recognition of their important collections. The program helps researchers, collectors and readers by putting these editions within easy reach — in print-on-demand or electronic format.

About Oregon State Library
Providing services for over 100 years, the mission of the State Library is to provide quality information services to Oregon state government; provide reading materials to blind and print-disabled Oregonians; and to provide leadership, grants and other assistance to improve local library service for all Oregonians. In order to continue to meet this mission and their high level of service to the citizens of the state of Oregon, the Oregon State Library continually strives to innovate and adapt their collections and delivery options. By participating in the Shelf2Life Program, the library provides their citizens access to this important content in ways they have never been able to in the past.

About BCR
BCR brings libraries together for greater success by expanding their knowledge, reach and power. They offer a broad range of solutions and their hands-on, personal attention to each member enables them to deliver effective and timely solutions that help libraries keep pace with new developments in technology and services. BCR is the nation’s oldest and most established multistate library cooperative. Since 1935, the BCR team has helped libraries learn new skills, reach patrons, increase productivity and save money. BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit headquartered in Aurora, Colorado. For more information, visit www.BCR.org or email info@BCR.org.