FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Duluth, GA — August 1, 2012

Lee County Public Library in North Carolina has gone live with Evergreen as part of the NC Cardinal Project. Equinox Software provided data migration

and training services and will continue to provide ongoing technical support for the growing consortium.

Lee County is the 8th of 9 pilot libraries scheduled to go live. NC Cardinal will eventually become a large network of many North Carolina libraries

committed to the goal of sharing resources to provide open access to library holdings to all users no matter where they live. The online catalog for the

consortium can be viewed at www.nccardinal.org.

"It has been very exciting to watch as this new consortium has come together in North Carolina,” says Equinox President, Brad LaJeunesse. “The pilot

libraries have worked very hard to make this a success, and we look forward to partnering with future libraries as NC Cardinal continues to grow."

About Equinox Software, Inc.

Founded by the original Evergreen designers and developers, Equinox Software is a leader in open source solutions for libraries. Their goal is to

engage and support a rapidly growing open source community while assisting libraries in moving away from expensive proprietary vendors and products.

For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.

About Evergreen

Evergreen is a robust, open-source integrated library system best known for its unique ability to meet the needs of very large, high-transaction,

multi-site consortia. However, it has also proven equally successful scaled down for even the smallest libraries. Evergreen now supports over 1,200

libraries of every type-public, academic, special, and school media centers across 4 countries, 31 U.S. states, and 8 Canadian provinces.
For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see

http://evergreen-ils.org.

Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571