Evergreen Enhancements - Developers Selected

Bibliomation has reviewed the quote submissions from the Evergreen developers and based on our priorities and the available funds for this fiscal year, we will be working with four different developers on thirteen of our original twenty-eight enhancement requests.

The four Evergreen developers are Thomas Berezansky, Equinox, Catalyst IT Services, and EDOCEO.

To see the full list of enhancements that we will be moving forward with, go to http://biblio.org/2012/10/10/evergreen-enhancements/

If you have any questions about any of our enhancements, you can contact Amy Terlaga at terlaga AT biblio DOT org.

Evergreen Enhancements - Our Wish List Items

Earlier this year, we surveyed our member libraries, asking them to submit their most desired wish list items for Evergreen development.  We collected these items and added them to IdeaTorrent, an open source idea submission and voting software solution.  Then we gave our libraries the month of May to vote for their favorite enhancement ideas.  Bibliomation's ILS Steering Committee then reviewed the top vote-getters and worked with Bibliomation headquarters staff to determine which suggestions could be done in house, which were already planned in an upcoming Evergreen release, which were not viable at all, and which ones would make the list of those requests submitted to developers for quote.

We've included a total of thirty enhancement requests, covering the following categories:  Acquisitions, Cataloging, Checkout/Checkin, Holds, Miscellaneous, Notices, Patrons, and Searching.  This Evergreen Enhancement Request for Development quote is being sent out to select developers with the deadline of Friday, September 14th.  Our enhancement development funds are not unlimited so we'll have to decide from that list which ones we can afford to include in this wave of development.

If you're curious to see our enhancement request list for development, you can view it here.

If you have questions about this post, you can email Amy Terlaga at terlaga@biblio.org.

One Year of Evergreen

Happy Evergreen Anniversary to us!

Bibliomation came up on Evergreen 2.0 on June 3, 2011. Since then, we've upgraded to 2.2 and TPAC, with countless small fixes (including some backported 2.1 features) along the way.

Since we've been live, we've circulated 5.7 million items, and we've added 891,000 items and 61,274 patrons. A healthy year, to be sure.

Our little Evergreen sapling has matured and will keep getting stronger. Each patch, tweak, and upgrade has improved Evergreen and made life under this growing tree just that much better.






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