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+ | ===== About Evergreen ===== | ||
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+ | Evergreen is the integrated library system (ILS) originally developed by the Georgia Public Library | ||
+ | Service specifically for use by PINES. Evergreen is open source, which means that the source code, | ||
+ | the human-readable computer files written by programmers, | ||
+ | for nearly any purpose. This results in some practical advantages for PINES: | ||
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+ | * There are no licensing fees associated with downloading and installing the software | ||
+ | * There is an “Evergreen Community” of developers, documentation writers, and fellow end users | ||
+ | who, like PINES, contribute to the feature set of Evergreen to the benefit of all. PINES library staff | ||
+ | are encouraged to participate in the larger Evergreen Community as much as possible. | ||
+ | * Since Evergreen was originally written to accommodate PINES policies and procedures, there are | ||
+ | far fewer workarounds as there would be for an off-the-shelf proprietary ILS | ||
+ | * PINES/GPLS staff maintains an Evergreen development queue of feature requests made by PINES | ||
+ | librarians and directors, meaning PINES library staff still have a hand in the design of Evergreen. | ||
+ | * Proprietorship of the " | ||
+ | the GNU General Public License (GPL) ([[http:// | ||
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+ | Evergreen is built as a web-based client-server program. The PINES implementation of Evergreen is | ||
+ | hosted on a server cluster, a group of servers configured to act as one server. This cluster, and its server-level software programs, is managed by PINES/GPLS staff and USG IT staff. The administration for | ||
+ | which Local System Administrators are responsible exists in the Evergreen Staff Client. | ||
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+ | ===== The Evergreen Staff Client ===== | ||
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+ | The Evergreen Staff Client is web-based and designed to run within Firefox or Chrome. Local Admins do not need to install client software, but will be required to configure and troubleshoot issues. Configuration tasks may include registering workstations, | ||
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+ | ===== Copying ===== | ||
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+ | This documentation was created by the Georgia Public Library Service for the PINES Program. It is | ||
+ | licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (CC BY-SA 2.0). A | ||
+ | summary of the conditions of that license is here: http:// | ||
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