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The State of Evergreen
Q1 2010
Bob Molyneux
April 22, 2010

Walk down memory lane
December, 1999 PINES goes live (26 systems, 98 outlets)
June, 2004 - Lamar Veatch commits the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) to a one year test of an open source initiative to develop a consortial library system
September 5, 2006, Evergreen goes live (46 systems)
November, 2007, Prince Rupert Public Library, Prince Rupert, BC
June, 2008, University of Prince Edward Island
November, 2008, Tsuga (Innisfil, Ontario, Public Library)
June, 2009, National Resources Canada

Changing Nature of FUD
Open source? You going to use code written by a bunch of dope-smokin' hippies?
Evergreen is only in Georgia
Evergreen is only in public libraries
Evergreen doesn't have acquisitions.

What is Evergreen?
First Consortial Library System
Provide an online catalog for the consortium
Provide means for resources to be shared
Designed for a geographically dispersed, resource sharing network

Consortial principles
Uniformity of policies?
Scale
Transactions
Keeping the database current
Searches
Non-linearity of scale
Politics
Limits?

Wellsprings of open source
US Public Libraries by Total Expenditures
Q1: 89% of total dollars (2,200+)
Q2-Q4: 11% of total dollars (6,800-)

Evergreen ecosystem
Growth in the community
More nodes
Superconsortium

The Evergreen Superconsortium
Cooperation between consortia
First instance with Equinox as midwife
Latest: Kids' OPAC
Bibliomation
KCLS
GPLS
Sitka

Public Libraries Running Evergreen
By year
Systems Outlets Pop Served Total Circs 2006 45 246 4.6m 17.2m 2007 4 8 68k 320k 2008 37 87 963k 6.9m 2009 75 149 1.7m 10.7m Q1 2010 17 21 109k 372k Totals 178 511 7.4m 35.5m

Systems in Consortia Q1 2010 Conifer 15 Evergreen Indiana 62 Michigan Evergreen 11 NTLC 13 PINES 51 SC LENDS 10 SITKA 30 Spruce 4 Tsuga 1 Totals 197

Evergreen Installations by Types of Library
Count of systems
Type Academic 12 Public 178 School 2 Special 12 State libraries 2

Begging for data

Pop Quiz

What month did FlorencePL Join SC LENDS?

Information Inflection point?
What’s ahead?
Evergreen singularity?

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