The Evergreen ILS went live this morning in 252 Georgia libraries!
Evergreen is an Open Source Integrated Library System (ILS) that the Georgia Public Library System has been developing over the past couple of years. The impact of this on the state of library software could be tremendous. Not only did they bypass all of the major vendors (because it would have meant that many, many libraries would have needed to change far too many of their policies and practices), but they have created a flexible system that allows the hundreds of libraries that will use it the ability to configure it the way they need/want.
This is the open source project that I have watched with the most interest. Congrats on reaching this major milestone!
Their press release is available here in MS Word format.
