DULUTH, Ga., Feb. 6, 2018 -- Equinox is pleased to announce that they have successfully migrated the Huntingdon County Library to Evergreen within the PaILS SPARK Consortium.

Huntingdon County Library has been serving its community since it was founded in 1935. Their migration at the beginning of January included 5,820 patrons and 41,897 bibliographic records. In addition to the migration, Equinox collaborated with the PaILS SPARK Consortium and Huntingdon County Library to provide deduplication of bibliographic records as well as training, project management and software configuration services.

"Migrating an ILS system can be very challenging for both library staff and for library patrons,” said Lisa Erickson, Executive Director of the Huntingdon County Library.
“The staff at Equinox, as well as those at the PaILS SPARK Consortium, have been great to work with. They've helped with training, troubleshooting, and making sure that our system is working exactly as we need it to. They have provided the expertise to handle all of the details that go into a migration.”

The Pennsylvania Integrated Library System, (PaILS) was founded in June 2011 as a non-profit organization to provide a open source integrated library system. It oversees SPARK, a consortia of Evergreen libraries across Pennsylvania. Equinox and PaILS have been collaborating on the SPARK consortia since 2013.

"I always enjoy the opportunity to assist with library migrations to SPARK. The Huntington migration was particularly special to me, because it was my first full migration performed on the Web Client. It was a pleasure working with the Huntington staff, and they were the perfect group to work with for this transition to the Web Client,” said Erica Rohlfs, project manager for Equinox.

About Equinox Open Library Initiative
Equinox Open Library Initiative Inc. is a nonprofit company engaging in literary, charitable, and educational endeavors serving cultural and knowledge institutions. As the successor to Equinox Software, Inc., the Initiative carries forward a decade of service and experience with Evergreen and other open source library software. At Equinox OLI we help you empower your library with open source technologies. To learn more, please visit https://www.equinoxinitiative.org/.

About Evergreen
Evergreen is an award-winning ILS developed to provide 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, over 1500 libraries around the world 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.

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