Users and supporters of the Evergreen open source library system have been busy of late working together to improve the software for all to use at no cost.

Seventy-four community members participated in the late October Hack-A-Way, held remotely this year. Attendees spent an average of almost 14 hours per person in the event, which included a discussion of future features and saw improvements to cataloging, reports, and documentation. Also included was an instructional session on the Git software repository.

In early November, 29 community members participated in the semi-annual Bug Squashing Week, in which users at their desks verify issues, provide input and software improvements, and test and approve the improvements. The week produced 14 new software improvements, covering accessibility, the circulation, course materials, online catalog and cataloging modules and the public catalog.

The Evergreen community is made up of individuals, libraries, companies, and other organizations that support the Evergreen Integrated Library System, working together on software by libraries for libraries.

Improvements made available via regular point releases, the most recent in early November, and are included in the major semi-annual release packages. Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later and is available to all for download at no cost from the Evergreen web site at https://evergreen-ils.org/

Evergreen continues to be the leading ILS for consortia and delivers local flexibility and granularity of policies that no other software can match and delivers the most interoperability for libraries via its truly open APIs.

Evergreen is highly-scalable software that helps patrons find library materials and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries. More than 2,000 libraries around the world use Evergreen.