http://kcls.oss4pl.org Share news about their open source efforts and contribute ideas to the community Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:48:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en King County Library System Awarded Prestigious National Leadership Grant From the Institute of Museum and Library Services ISSAQUAH, Wash., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The King County Library System (KCLS) has been awarded a prestigious National Leadership Grant by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that will fund a ... http://kcls.oss4pl.org/2009/10/26/kcls-awarded-prestigious-national-leadership-grant-from-imls/ Equinox Software sent  An Open Letter to the Evergreen Community today via their blog. It's definitely worth a read: The Equinox Promise: An Open Letter to the Evergreen Community We at Equinox Software feel it is timely to share an evolving document we call the Equinox Promise. We invite engagement and feedback from ... http://kcls.oss4pl.org/2009/09/18/the-equinox-promise/ We're going to be throwing a halfday unconference during ALA this summer! Check our our wiki with all the details here: http://oss4pl2009.pbworks.com/ We'll be posting more details soon and plan to record some of the sessions and make them available here. -Matt Carlson http://kcls.oss4pl.org/2009/05/28/open-source-unconference-during-ala-this-summer/ The Equinox Team is publishing a six-part series on planning successful data migrations.  Karen Schneider posted the first article to their blog, "Migration Nation, Part 1:  Thinking Ahead to a Successful Migration".  It looks like it should be worthwhile reading for anyone thinking of migrating to open source. http://kcls.oss4pl.org/2009/04/02/legacy-ils-to-evergreen-migrations/ http://kcls.oss4pl.org/2009/03/04/a-tale-of-two-business-models/ Hi, The Evergreen Core Project Team (Jed, Matt, Bradley, Paula and myself) will be posting to this blog to keep you, and anyone else interested, up-to-date on the status of our project to develop the Evergreen software to meet our ILS needs.  We'll also be add interesting news and resources that ... http://kcls.oss4pl.org/2009/02/25/hello/