FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Duluth, GA —August 9, 2013

Equinox Software is proud to announce that Albemarle Regional Library has gone live on Evergreen as part of the NC Cardinal consortium. Equinox Software provides system administration and technical support to the entire NC Cardinal Consortium and oversaw both data migration and staff training for the newest member libraries.

Albemarle Regional Library has seven branches across four North Carolina Counties and a regional office that serves the entire system. They are the fifteenth library system to go live as part of NC Cardinal, the state-wide resource sharing initiative of the North Carolina State Library. The online catalog for the entire consortium can be viewed at www.nccardinal.org.

Shae Tetterton, Equinox Project Manager says, “Watching NC Cardinal grow this year has been very exciting and Albemarle is a wonderful addition to this already strong consortium. I must also give the NC State Library folks kudos for sending several staff out to the branches to make sure the go live was as smooth as possible.”

“We are thrilled that the library will be able to join a growing consortium of North Carolina public libraries and be able to offer resources that may otherwise be out of reach to our patrons,” says Gary Hoyle, Regional Library Director.

About Equinox Software, Inc.

Founded in 2007 by the original Evergreen developers, Equinox remains deeply committed to being an active and enthusiastic voice in the open source community. Equinox's unparalleled depth of knowledge regarding libraries and library data is reflected in our services which include implementation, development, support, hosting, and educational services for both Evergreen and Koha software.

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

About Evergreen

Evergreen is an award-winning ILS developed with the intent of providing an open source product able to meet the diverse needs of consortia and high transaction public libraries. However, it has proven to be equally successful in smaller installations including special and academic libraries. Today, almost 1200 libraries across the US and Canada are using Evergreen including King Country Public Library, SC Lends, and B.C Sitka.

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