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2 <h1 style="text-decoration: underline">Evergreen</h1>
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5 <h2>What is Evergreen?</h2>
8 Evergreen is a library automation software product. It assists libraries in day-to-day operations such as checking out materials, keeping track of patrons, and providing a web-based library catalog. The majority of the workings of Evergreen are behind the scenes, and users (or patrons) rarely see anything behind the web catalog. The library staff, on the other hand, spend much of their day utilizing the software in order to do their jobs efficiently and effectively.
11 Evergreen calculates due dates and loan periods. It determines how many renewals a user may have. It keeps track of where all the books, CD's, DVD's, and other materials a library may own is located and their condition. The Evergreen ILS has a user-friendly web catalog that allows patrons to find what they are looking for. It does all of that, and even more.
13 <p>Evergreen is Copyright © Georgia Public Library Service - A Unit of the University System of Georgia, and others. The Evergreen software is distributed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.</p>
17 <a href="http://evergreen-ils.org/">http://evergreen-ils.org</a>
19 <h2>The Evergreen Core Team:</h2>
21 <li><b>Shawn Boyette</b>, <a href="http://esilibrary.com">Equinox Software Inc.</a>, Developer<br/></li>
22 <li><b>Bill Erickson</b>, <a href="http://esilibrary.com">Equinox Software Inc.</a>, Systems Developer<br/> </li>
23 <li><b>Jason Etheridge</b>, <a href="http://esilibrary.com">Equinox Software Inc.</a>, Interface Developer<br/></li>
24 <li><b>Brad LaJeunesse</b>, <a href="http://esilibrary.com">Equinox Software Inc.</a>, System Administrator<br/></li>
25 <li><b>Scott McKellar</b>, <a href="http://esilibrary.com">Equinox Software Inc.</a>, Developer<br/></li>
26 <li><b>Mike Rylander</b>, <a href="http://esilibrary.com">Equinox Software Inc.</a>, Database Developer<br/></li>
27 <li><b>Dan Scott</b>, <a href="http://laurentian.ca">Laurentian University</a>, Developer<br/></li>
29 <h2>The Translation Team:</h2>
31 <li><b>Vaclav Jansa, Linda Skolkova, and Anna Stocklova</b>, <a href="http://uisk.ff.cuni.cz/">Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague</a>, cs-CZ</br/></li>
32 <li><b>John Fink</b> (<a href="http://mcmaster.ca">McMaster University</a>) and <b><a href="http://thebookpile.wordpress.com/">Warren Layton</a></b>, en-CA<br/></li>
33 <li><b><a href="http://nrcan.gc.ca/">Natural Resources Canada</a></b>, fr-CA<br/></li>
34 <li><b>Tigran Zargaryan</b>, <a href="http://www.flib.sci.am">Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia</a>, hy-AM<br/></li>
36 <p>The French (fr-CA) version of the contextual help for fields and subfields in the MARC editor was harvested from the MARC 21 Formats documentation hosted on the <a href="http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html">Library and Archives Canada</a> Web site with the permission of Library and Archives Canada. This material is protected by copyright owned by Library and Archives Canada. This material is not an official version of the MARC 21 standard.</p>
37 <h2>The Community:</h2>
39 Our deepest thanks to everyone in the Evergreen community who contributes documentation, patches, bug reports, ideas, and lends their voice to the project. You help make Evergreen a far stronger library system than it could ever be without you.
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