[Yhslug] georgia public libraries' open source project

[Phil Shapiro]

this article is upbeat and inspiring. i wonder if arlington county public
libraries have considered going open source?



Title 	   	Librarians stake their future on open source
Date 	   	2006.12.21 16:01
Author 	   	StoneLion
Topic 	   	
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/04/1538214

A group of librarians at the Georgia Public Library Service has developed an
open source, enterprise-class library management system that may revolutionize
the way large-scale libraries are run.

The system, Evergreen, whose 1.0 release came in November, is an Integrated
Library System (ILS): the software that manages, catalogs, and tracks the
circulation of library holdings. It's written in C, JavaScript and Perl, is
GPLed, runs on Linux with Apache, uses a PostgreSQL database, Jabber for
messaging and XUL as client-side software. The system allows easy clustering and
is based entirely on open protocols.

Evergreen powers the GPLS' network of libraries, PINES (Public Information
Network for Electronic Services), consisting of 44 different public library
systems in 123 counties covering almost the entire state of Georgia -- 252
member libraries in all. The system has 8.8 million items in its index and 1.6
million active cardholders. In fiscal year 2006, there were almost half a
million loans made between its libraries.


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