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Linux.com berichtet über das Open-Source Bibliothekssystem Evergreen, das von einem Konsortium von Ã?Bs im US-Bundesstaat Georgia entwickelt wurde, und kommt zu folgender Feststellung:Librarians are not all strangers to open sourceÃ?ber die Funktionalitäten von Evergreen ist u.a. zu lesen:In fact, the catalog has many features and innovations that are lacking in non-free systems. It does on-the-fly spellcheck and gives search suggestions and adds additional content, such as book covers, reviews, and excerpts. The Shelf Browser shows items ordered along a "virtual" shelf built out of the holdings of the entire system. Patrons can create "bookbags," which are lists that contain a selected collection of annotated titles. Bookbags can be kept private or shared as a regular Web page or as Atom or RSS feeds.Nach Angaben der Direktorin des PINES-Verbundes war die Migration von Sirsi Unicorn nach Evergreen die einfachste seit 25 Jahren!