Library Technology Guides

Equinox welcomes Centralia Public Library to Evergreen ILS with the Missouri Evergreen Consortium. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, announced that Centralia Public Library has migrated to Evergreen ILS as a new member of the Missouri Evergreen Consortium. [Full Announcement].

Equinox Announces Major Features in Evergreen 3.17. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, announced the latest version of Evergreen ILS. Equinox's development team contributed 16 features and 54 bugfixes, some with sponsorship from the Evergreen Collaborative Development Initiative and the BC Libraries Cooperative. Highlights include the ability to create hold policies based on Library Groups/Lassos, the option to clone circulation policies, and improvements to the public catalog, such as limited autofocus for basic search keywords. [Full Announcement].

Equinox welcomes Old Colony Library Network to Evergreen ILS, Aspen Discovery, and Metabase. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to welcome the Old Colony Library Network to the Evergreen ILS, Aspen Discovery and Metabase communities with Equinox. [Full Announcement].

Equinox welcomes Bonne Terre Memorial Library to Evergreen ILS with the Missouri Evergreen Consortium. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, announced that the Bonne Terre Memorial Library has joined the Evergreen ILS community as part of its membership with the Missouri Evergreen Consortium. [Full Announcement].

Equinox announces 2025 Q4 project contributions to Evergreen ILS. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, announced Q4 development and community contributions for Evergreen ILS. Recent projects for Evergreen included a wishlist feature to create hold policies based on Library Groups. This project also added the ability to clone a Circulation Policy, a long-desired tool. Equinox staff performed additional work integrating the Quipu eRENEW product with Evergreen, building on work earlier in the year for Quipu eCARD. Partners for these projects included the Evergreen Collaborative Development Initiative (ECDI) as well as the Pennsylvania Integrated Library System. [Full Announcement].

Equinox welcomes Greenville Public Library to Aspen Discovery and Evergreen ILS with the Consortium of Ohio Libraries. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, announces that the Greenville Public Library has joined the Evergreen ILS and Aspen Discovery communities as part of their membership with the Consortium of Ohio Libraries. [Full Announcement].

Equinox announces major features in Evergreen 3.16. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to announce Evergreen 3.16, the latest release of the award-winning library software used by more than 1,800 libraries worldwide. Equinox's development team contributed 8 major features, 6 minor features, and 10 of 32 bugfixes. [Full Announcement].

Equinox welcomes the Grand Rapids Public Library to Sequoia Hosting for Evergreen ILS. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to welcome the Grand Rapids Public Library to Sequoia, Equinox's premiere cloud-based hosting and support service. Grand Rapids Public Library migrated from a self-hosted Evergreen ILS to Sequoia with Equinox. [Full Announcement].

Equinox Welcomes Ozark Regional Library to the Missouri Evergreen Consortium. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to welcome the Ozark Regional Library to the Missouri Evergreen Consortium. [Full Announcement].

Equinox at the 2025 Evergreen Hack-A-Way. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, will participate in the 2025 Evergreen Hack-A-Way, taking place in Columbia, Missouri from November 10, 2025 through November 12, 2025. The Evergreen Hack-A-Way is held annually to allow for collaboration on upcoming features, bug fixing, and brainstorming. [Full Announcement].

Equinox announces 2025 Q3 project contributions to Evergreen ILS. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to announce new development and other community contributions completed in Q3 of 2025 for Evergreen ILS. [Full Announcement].

Equinox announces Q2 project contributions to Evergreen ILS. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, announced new development work and other community contributions completed in Q2 of 2025 for Evergreen ILS. [Full Announcement].

Equinox welcomes Plymouth District Library to Evergreen ILS. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, welcomed Plymouth District Library to the Evergreen community with Equinox hosting and support. [Full Announcement].

Evergreen Community Presenting Breakfast Panel at ALA Annual Conference. The Evergreen Community will be presenting a panel, “Consortium Change Management Lessons from Evergreen ILS Consortia,” at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia. All ALA attendees are welcome to attend the panel, which will include coffee and light refreshments jointly sponsored by the Evergreen Project and the Pennsylvania Integrated Library System. [Full Announcement].

Equinox announces major features in Evergreen 3.15. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to announce the release of Evergreen 3.15, the latest update to the award-winning library software used by more than 1,800 libraries worldwide. The Equinox team contributed fifty percent of the features appearing in the Evergreen 3.15 release. [Full Announcement].

Equinox at the Evergreen International Conference 2025. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to announce Equinox's upcoming presentations at the Evergreen International Conference 2025 to be held online from May 12, 2025 through May 14, 2025. Equinox is sponsoring the conference at the Champion level. [Full Announcement].

Evergreen ILS Community announces Major Release 3.15.0. The Evergreen Community proudly announces major release 3.15.0, the first major release of 2025. Evergreen 3.15.0 includes support for PostgreSQL 17; a rework of item alerts, notes, tags, and templates in the holdings editor; OPAC link click tracking; a new, OpenAPI-compliant RESTful API suite; and much more. In addition to the new features, Evergreen 3.15.0 includes over 80 patches to fix bugs, improve accessibility, and more. [Full Announcement].

Equinox welcomes Lansdale Public Library to Evergreen ILS with the Pennsylvania Integrated Library System. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, welcomed Lansdale Public Library to Evergreen ILS with the Pennsylvania Integrated Library System. [Full Announcement].

Evergreen Community announces accessibility improvements, releases ACR. The Evergreen Community announces the latest Accessibility Conformance Report for the OPAC in Evergreen 3.14. The VPAT, completed in January 2025, is based on a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template commissioned by the Evergreen Project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and completed by Georgia Tech's Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation. The Evergreen Community has been focusing on major and minor accessibility improvements over the past few years, working with independent agencies like CIDI to assess interfaces and provide direction for fixes. A VPAT is a standardized set of tests that is used to grade interface accessibility across several dimensions defined by the Web Content Accessibility Group guidelines. [Full Announcement].

Equinox announces 2025 Q1 project contributions to Evergreen ILS and CORAL ERM. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, announced development projects completed in Q1 of 2025 for Evergreen ILS and CORAL ERM. [Full Announcement].