An Evergreen track at the OLA SuperConference 2009?
Posted on Tue 28 October 2008 in Libraries
Just poked at the OLA SuperConference 2009 schedule (January 28 - 31, 2009) and found four sessions listed that are all about Evergreen. Wow! Check this out:
Date |
Time |
Title |
Description (may be abridged) |
Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Thursday, January 29 |
9:05 am |
“Follow the progress of the Library @ Mohawk.s development of the open source ILS Evergreen. Hear the trials and tribulations and learn from the mistakes and successes that have occurred along the way . we are truly a learning organization on this project. We went live in summer 2008 . come and hear about where we.ve been, where we are and where we hope to be soon.” |
Robert Soulliere, Systems Librarian; Cynthia Williamson, Collection & Access Librarian, Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology |
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Thursday, January 29 |
3:45 pm |
Project Conifer: Evergreen library system for Ontario Universities |
“Find out how the Evergreen open source library system, originally developed for a public library consortium, is being adapted for academic libraries by three Ontario universities. Discussion will focus on the challenges, successes and mistakes (err, .learning opportunities.) of the project.” |
John Fink, Digital Technologies Development Librarian, McMaster University; Dan Scott, Systems Librarian, Laurentian University |
Friday, January 30 |
9:05 am |
“Join an Evergreen developer on a tour of the architecture and source code of the Evergreen library system [...] Get ready to get your hands dirty with Evergreen . this will be a session filled with code!” |
William Erickson, Vice President, Software Development & Integration, Equinox Software Inc; Dan Scott, Systems Librarian, Laurentian University |
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Saturday, January 31 |
10:40 am |
“Discover the Chinese version of Evergreen along with various multilingual issues related MARC standards, encoding, indexing, searching, and sorting especially associated with Chinese language.” |
Jason Zou, Systems Librarian, Lakehead University; Guoying (Grace) Liu, Systems Librarian, Leddy Library, University of Windsor |
I was responsible for the sole Evergreen presentation at OLA SuperConference 2008 - it's awesome to see a lot more people jumping in this year! I'm keenly anticipating this conference - we'll have to set up at least one Evergreen "Birds of a Feather" session.