The Indiana State Library and the Hussey Mayfield Memorial Public Library (Zionsville) have announced the Indiana Open Source ILS Initiative. They are embarking on a statewide project to implement Evergreen in a fashion similar to the Georgia PINES consortium.
More information can be found in the announcement. Congratulations, and welcome to the community!
Will they share the results of their development/invesment (extending Evergreen) with the community? I think that would be a very good gesture…
Why would the state library set up a competing service to the Indiana Shared Library Catalog, which is also switching to an open source ILS (koha)?
To answer this:
András Kardos Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Will they share the results of their development/invesment (extending Evergreen) with the community? I think that would be a very good gesture…
YES!
As to Tom,
You will have to ask the State Library on this one. Thanks. Rick
Hussey-Mayfield Library.
Be advised that the link (under labeled “announcement”) has been (re)moved. The Indiana Evergreen page now appears to be http://www.in.gov/library/evergreen.htm
–Don (ESI)