Evergreen
Evergreen is an open source library system that was developed for the Georgia PINES library system and is now being used by several other library systems in Michigan, Indiana and Canada. Evergreen’s focus is on large, consortial systems.
- Evergreen — This is the official website for the Evergreen library system
- Evergreen Community Blog — Includes the monthly newsletter and other posts of general interest to the community
- Equinox Software — Website for a company that offers services for Evergreen, including data migration, installation, consultation, training, support and hosting.
- Planet Evergreen — The Planet Evergreen blog aggregator brings together posts from several different Evergreen blogs, and is a good source for news from the Evergreen community.
- Evergreen Open ILS Photostream — Evergreen on Flickr
Open Source
“The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.” — The Open Source Initiative
- Open Source Initiative — “The OSI are the stewards of the Open Source Definition (OSD) and the community-recognized body for reviewing and approving licenses as OSD-conformant.”
- Free Software Foundation — “The FSF has a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.”