The State of Evergreen Bob Molyneux Rowan Public Library Salisbury, North Carolina July 30, 2009

The State of Evergreen Georgia’s information policy PINES PINES is a geographically-dispersed, resource- sharing consortium EG solved a general problem at a good time in software design and in ILS development

The State of Evergreen - 2 Evergreen evolves – Growth in numbers of libraries – Growth in types of libraries – Growth in countries – Growth in capabilities Community – More people – Diverse skills being added – More vendors

Open source wellsprings US Public Libraries by Total Expenditures % expended of total Top quartile89% Bottom three quartiles11%

Evergreen Started in 2004, using open source development principles – Designed to be robust and scalable – It was the first consortial library system (CLS) – And still the only CLS Went live in September 2006 with the migration of PINES to Evergreen

PINES Today 50 Public Library Systems Georgia Public Library Service (the state library of Georgia) 275 “org units” 17.3 million circulations in 2008 Often more than 100,000 circs per day

Public Library Migrations by year Public Library Systems

State of Evergreen Consortia Evergreen Academic or PL consortia July 28, 2009December 31, 2009 Conifer44 Evergreen Indiana3852 Michigan Evergreen911 NTLC13 PINES51 SC LENDS310 SITKA1830 Spruce11 Tsuga11 (Independent)45 Totals129178

Academic Libraries Running Evergreen U of PEI William Jessup University Conifer Laurentian University University of Windsor Algoma University Columbia Bible College

June, 2009 December, 2009 Number of countries with libraries running Evergreen35

Growth in Evergreen’s Capabilities – Acquisitions – Serials – Reserves Other development – Tidying up – Tweaking for local requirements

FullfILLment ™ A bit of the history –Ohio State Library The Collaborative What will it do?

Thank you, Bob Molyneux Equinox Software, Inc Evergreen Website: