EvergreenOpen Source LMS
(http://www.open-ils.org)
Jonathan FieldTechnical Director – PTFS Europe
Evergreen
Started in 2004, using open source development principlesConceived by Georgia Public Library Service
Design team of Four
Designed to be robust and scalable and secure
It was the first truly consortial library system
Evergreen launched
October 5th 2006, Evergreen went live in Georgia PINES OPAC Patron Self Service Cataloguing Circulation Reporting
PINES Today
50 Public Library Systems
Georgia Public Library Service (the state library of Georgia)
275 branches
17.3 million circulations in 2008
Often more than 100,000 circs per day
Summary circulation statistics at PINES for the day after Memorial Day,
2007-2009Total for Day
Maximum / hour
Maximum / minute
Maximum / second
May 29, 2007 96,326 11,305
May 27, 2008 100,427 12,227 331 9
May 26, 2009 106,093 12,251 322 19
Since then ……Evergreen evolves
Growth in numbers of libraries
Growth in types of libraries
Growth in countries
Growth in capabilities
CommunityMore people
Diverse skills being added
More vendors (Number of vendors known to offer Evergreen services: 6)
The Evergreen Superconsortium
Public Library Migrations by year
Public Library Systems
2006 46
2007 3
2008 37
2009 68
Large Urban Public Library
Public Library Totals
PopulationServed
TotalCirculations
Book and Serial
Volumes
PublicLibrary
Systemsoutlet
s
2006 4,379,592 18,129,888 8,137,915 46 241
2007 66,126 310,128 209,994 3 8
2008 965,491 6,922,871 3,350,120 37 72
2009 to date 184,193 1,909,231 858,672 17 26
2009 projected 1,848,734 10,853,156 4,383,586 68 155
2006-2009 7,259,943 36,216,043 16,081,615 171 476
King County, 2010
1,205,095
19,121,913
3,146,400 1 51
Some Evergreen Libraries
Georgia PINES - 275+ public libraries
SITKA (British Columbia) – 24 public libraries
Evergreen Indiana – 40 public libraries
Project Conifer – Canadian Academic Consortium
Mahatma Education Society – India
Kent County Public Library – Maryland
Armenia – National Academy of Sciences
Academic Libraries Running Evergreen
U of PEI
William Jessup University
Conifer
Laurentian University
University of Windsor
Algoma University
Columbia Bible College
Facts Database – PostgreSQL
Number of languages used in Evergreen code: 6 (Perl, C, JavaScript, XHTML, Staff Client - Mozilla XUL, Dojo JavaScript Framework, Python)
All communication between the staff client and server is encrypted via 128-bit secure sockets layer (SSL) connections
Character encoding – UTF-8
Clustering supported? – Yes (using commodity hardware)
Consortia – Built from the ground up for consortia
Internationisation – Yes
Libraries known to run Evergreen as of September 5, 2009: 454
Biggest Installation – Georgina PINES (over 270 libraries)
Feature List Google search syntax and spelling Bookbags and RSS Patron Self Service Circulation & Patron Interface Cataloguing
Z39.50 client MARC Editor with contextual help Authority support “bucket” support
Feature List Reporting Interface Offline Circulation “slimpac” supports accessibility and
mobile devices Powerful permissions control
Growth in Evergreen’s CapabilitiesAcquisitions
Serials
Reserves
Other developmentTidying up
Tweaking for local requirements
Evergreen Myths
“Evergreen is great for public library consortiums with hundreds of branches, but doesn't scale down.”
Evergreen is in production in school libraries
Evergreen can run on a laptop with 1.5 GB RAM (50,000 records)
Evergreen VMWare images run happily in 512 MB of RAM
Evergreen Roadmap
Release 1.6 (November, 2009) Acquisitions Preview New events and notification framework Billing enhancements for lost items Automatic electronic serials support (MFHD) Improved internationalization and localization
functions
Evergreen Roadmap
Release 2.0 (2010) Full Acquisitions (including EDI support) Recalls Reserves enhancements Paper and electronic serials prediction and check-in More language sets
Evergreen Roadmap
Post-2.0 Development FulfiLLment (Inter-ILS resource sharing) Inbound telephony Outbound telephony Inventory management
EvergreenOpen Source LMS
(http://www.open-ils.org)
Jonathan FieldTechnical Director – PTFS Europe