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Greenwood Public Library (Ind.) Goes Evergreen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA – May 11, 2009

Ovid-Elsie Area Schools (Mich.) Go Live with Evergreen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA — May 8, 2009 — CORRECTION

Ovid-Elsie Area Schools in Elsie, Michigan have gone live with Evergreen, the consortial-quality open-source library automation software. Equinox Software Inc., “The Evergreen Experts,” oversaw data migration and software configuration.

Ovid-Elsie Area Schools (Mich.) Become First K-12 Library Powered By Evergreen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA – May 7, 2009

Ovid-Elsie Area Schools in Elsie, Michigan has become the first K-12 library to go live with Evergreen, the consortial-quality open-source library automation software. Equinox Software Inc., “The Evergreen Experts,” oversaw data migration and software configuration.

Georgia PINES Survey: Evergreen Delivers

MAY 6, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ATLANTA — Georgia PINES, the statewide consortium powered by Evergreen open source library software, has achieved the highest-ever user satisfaction ratings in the five-year history of its annual survey. Based on the 2009 survey, 19 out of 20 respondents (95.6 percent) would recommend the Evergreen-powered PINES system to friends, according to Chris Sharp, PINES Program Manager.

MAY 6, 2009 – For several years, Kirtas Technologies has provided digitizing systems, services and software to university and public libraries, corporations, government agencies, and other organizations requiring outstanding quality digital images for their rare and out-of-print books, manuscripts and other important documents.

Equinox Software and PTFS Europe Form Evergreen Partnership
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA – May 5, 2009

EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing allows readers to see into the future with an “electronic brain”… but are we the first to find this technology?

The BBC recently reported that Britain has developed an “electronic brain” — a web technology that not only revolutionizes the way individuals surf the net, but the way knowledge is gathered.

South Central Library System, with headquarters in Madison WI, provides service to 52 libraries located in 7 counties with a service population of 800,000. LINK is the consortium of the 41 SCLS members that share an integrated library system. With annual circulation of over 11.6 million, nearly 3 million holds filled annually, 826,000 bibliographic records, and over 3 million item records, LINK will be one of the largest installations of Koha to date.

Evergreen Indiana Launches Two More Libraries, Bringing Total to 26
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Norcross, GA – April 27, 2009

"Our strategy to move library management systems to Web scale builds on OCLC's 40-year history of innovation and cooperation," said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. "In 1967, OCLC Founder Fred Kilgour revealed a strategy to create an online union catalog through shared cataloging in order to reduce individual transaction costs for libraries. The result has been WorldCat, which has saved libraries millions of dollars in cataloging and interlibrary loan costs.