Caswell County Public Library Joins NC Cardinal Live on Evergreen
January 23 , 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Duluth, GA —January 23, 2013
Caswell County Public Library has gone live on Evergreen as the eleventh library to join the NC Cardinal consortium. Equinox Software oversaw both data migration and staff training. ESI will also continue to provide on-going system administration and technical support for the entire consortium. Almost 30,000 bib items and 9,000 patrons were migrated to the combined catalog. The online catalog for entire consortium can be viewed at www.nccardinal.org.
Equinox President, Brad LaJeunesse, says, “2013 is shaping up to be a big year for the NC Cardinal consortium. The success of the initial installations has raised a lot of interest from other libraries and given a huge amount of momentum toward a statewide system.”
About Equinox Software, Inc.
Founded in 2007 by the original Evergreen developers, Equinox remains deeply committed to being an active and enthusiastic voice in the open source community. Equinox's unparalleled depth of knowledge regarding libraries and library data is reflected in our services which include implementation, development, support, hosting, and educational services for both Evergreen and Koha software. For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.
About Evergreen
Evergreen is an award-winning ILS developed with the intent of providing an open source product able to meet the diverse needs of consortia and high transaction public libraries. However, it has proven to be equally successful in smaller installations including special and academic libraries. Today, almost 1200 libraries across the US and Canada are using Evergreen including King Country Public Library, SC Lends, and B.C Sitka. For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.
Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571