This document is built on the information provided by Thomas Berezansky on the Evergreen wiki. I just tried to make it more user friendly to someone like me. It describes some of the components of Evergreen such as OpenSRF (including the specific Perl modules used), PostgreSQL (including a description of each schema), Fieldmapper IDL, and the OPAC and staff client.
Tom's original work is here: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=eg_developer_overview
This just in via the Evergreen Mailling list (http://open-ils.org/listserv.php):
The Sitka team has produced four step-by-step videos on Evergreen Booking. Hosted by Jennifer Pringle, Sitka Trainer, the videos walk through Booking administration and general functionality for staff.
The videos are licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0 and are available here:
http://videos.cooperative.bclibraries.ca/
And there's more! The Sitka team has also produced several videos about Reports and they are planning to do a series on Acquisitions! Stay tuned.
Evergreen 2.1 was released on June 18th and can be downloaded here:
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php
Evergreen 2.1 contains lots of enhancements including:
The arrival of Evergreen 2.1 is welcome news to the community!
Good news for all Evergreen Users!
The Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes the Evergreen project as its newest member. Evergreen joins twenty-six other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects.
Conservancy and the Evergreen community, including librarians, developers, and documenters, are excited to announce that Evergreen is now a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy. By joining the Conservancy, Evergreen obtains the benefits of a formal non-profit organizational structure while keeping the project focused on software development and documentation. Some benefits of joining the Conservancy include the ability to collect donations, hold assets on behalf of the project, and some protection of the lead developers of the project from personal liability when engaging in the activities of the project.
About Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a home to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. As a fiscal sponsor for FLOSS projects, the Conservancy provides member projects with financial and administrative services and FLOSS project policy and non-profit oversight. This allows software developers and documenters to focus on those activities exclusively. A full list of Conservancy member project benefits is available on Conservancy's website. The Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, incorporated in New York State.
About Evergreen
The Evergreen Project develops an open source ILS (integrated library system) used by hundreds of libraries across the world. The software, also called Evergreen, is used by libraries to provide their public catalog interface as well as to manage back-of-house operations such as circulation (checkouts and checkins), acquisition and cataloging of library materials, and sharing resources among groups of libraries and consortia on the same Evergreen system. Evergreen is designed to be scalable and supports library operations ranging from a small high school to large state-wide consortia. Evergreen is released under the GPL version 2 or later. The project homepage is http://evergreen-ils.org/.
Marshall Breeding announced the results of his 2010 ILS Survey and two of the big winners in this year's report are Koha and Evergreen. And, interestingly, the big loser was none other than SirsiDynix.
According the Breeding's data, 150 libraries migrated to Evergreen (I say migrated but his stats often reflect a "contract" not necessarily a migration) and 133 migrated to Koha. In contrast, only 53 libraries migrated to a SirsiDynix product, 48 to Agent Verso, and 28 to Millennium.
Of the 150 libraries migrating to Evergreen, 89 of them came from a SirsiDynix product.
To put it all in even more stark contrast, note that 50 libraries migrated to Koha with ByWater Solutions (versus the other 83 or migrated to Koha with another service provider or did it on their own). That's almost twice as many new customers as Millennium gained in 2010 and only 2 fewer than Sirsi/Dynix.
See Breeding's data for yourself: ILS Reverse Turnover for 2010 and ILS Turnover in 2010.