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    March 27th, 2014LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Duluth, GA —March 27, 2014

    Marvin Memorial Library has gone live on Evergreen as part of the Consortium of Ohio Libraries (COOL). They are the 11th library system to join the consortium. Equinox Software oversaw the data migration and will continue to provide system hosting and technical support to the entire COOL consortium.

    The Marvin Memorial Public Library began as a reading room in 1897 with a collection of 300 books. Dan Marvin, a local Civil War veteran and uncle of the first librarian, donated a home to the city to be used as a library. A large addition was made to the home in 1981 with most of the children’s collection being housed in the original house while the adult collection was moved to the new area. Today, Marvin Memorial Public Library houses over 59,000 bibliographic items and provides services to 6,000 patrons.

    Shae Tetterton, Equinox Director of Sales, says “It's always a pleasure to work with our growing consortia. The Marvin Library Director, Kathy Webb, was just wonderful. She made the most of this transition by reviewing and revamping library policies and procedures as needed. Marvin is sure to be a great addition to the COOL and Evergreen communities.”

    About Equinox Software, Inc.

    Equinox was founded by the original developers and designers of the Evergreen ILS. We are wholly devoted to the support and development of open source software in libraries, focusing on Evergreen, Koha, and the FulfILLment ILL system. We wrote over 80% of the Evergreen code base and continue to contribute more new features, bug fixes, and documentation than any other organization. Our team is fanatical about providing exceptional technical support. Over 98% of our support ticket responses are graded as “Excellent” by our customers. At Equinox, we are proud to be librarians. In fact, almost half of us have our ML(I)S. We understand you because we *are* you.
    We are Equinox, and we’d like to be awesome for you.

    For more information on Equinox, 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 NC Cardinal, 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

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