Indiana public librarians have an opportunity to earn Technology LEUs at one of many free Solinet workshops over the next few months. Each workshop, which range from 2 to 6 LEUs, is either available online or at a handful of statewide locations. Librarians of all types (special, school, academic, etc.) are welcome to register for any of these technology-based workshops.
Upcoming courses include, Cataloging Visual Materials and Electronic Resources, Web 2.0: Social Software Applications for Libraries (online workshop), What’s Next? Planning for Tomorrow’s Technology Trends in Libraries, and Open Source: Free as in Free (online workshop).
Click here for complete course descriptions and a listing of dates and locations for each workshop. To sign up for a workshop visit WebJunction Indiana’s online calendar.
SIX MORE INDIANA LIBRARIES GO LIVE WITH EVERGREEN
The Colfax-Perry Township Public Library, Jackson County Public Library, Lebanon Public Library, Mooresville Public Library, Plainfield-Guilford Twp Public Library and Union County Public Library all went live with Evergreen within the past week. Evergreen is an open-source integrated library system (ILS) that holds the records of all of the library patrons, circulation transactions, and collection items. These six libraries are among the first eight Indiana libraries to migrate to Evergreen. A total of 19 Indiana libraries are on track for the initial Evergreen installation taking place now through January 2009.
The Indiana State Library, in coordination with the Hussey-Mayfield Public Library (Zionsville), began investigating in 2007 the development of an open-source ILS program based upon the Georgia Evergreen model. Evergreen was developed using open-source software by the Georgia Public Library Service.
“The State Library was impressed by the continued growth and development of the Evergreen software itself, and its flexibility to meet the individual needs of the local library,” said Roberta L. Brooker, Indiana State Librarian. “Evergreen was developed by the library community and possesses many user-friendly modules and applications that best suit the needs of libraries.”
Learn more about Evergreen Indiana by visiting http://www.in.gov/library/5592.htm.
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