Columbia, MO - April 3, 2024. MOBIUS announced that the North Carolina Community College Evergreen shared ILS group (NCCCE) successfully migrated 25 of its libraries to the Evergreen ILS and went live on its MOSS (MOBIUS Open Source Solutions) hosting service on December 15, 2023. Previously, these libraries were on SirsiDynix's Horizon and Symphony. MOBIUS worked with the group's steering team for over a year, performed data migration services, and also provides data hosting, server support, and system support to NCCCE. A second cohort of approximately 25 community college libraries will join NCCCE on Evergreen in December 2024.

"NCCCE is pleased to partner with MOBIUS to host and provide system support for our Evergreen platform," states Rich Garafolo, Chair of the NCCCE Governance Committee. "MOBIUS has proven to be a leader in the industry for managing cloud-hosted instances of Evergreen. The knowledge and experience they bring to the table, as well as their unmatched customer service, was an important factor in NCCCE choosing them as the vendor for our instance of Evergreen. MOIBUS has allowed us to acquire a robust and updated Library Management System within a cost-effective framework affordable to all Libraries within the North Carolina Community College System," according to Garafolo. "NCCCE is excited about this partnership and the ability of Evergreen and MOBIUS to provide our Libraries a sustainable platform for the foreseeable future."

Donna Bacon, Executive Director of MOBIUS, states "MOBIUS is proud to welcome the North Carolina Community College ILS Group as one of our newest partners. We are passionate about Evergreen and especially about adding more academic libraries to the Evergreen community."

About NCCCE

The North Carolina Community College Evergreen (NCCCE) shared ILS group is an independent association of North Carolina community college libraries that have agreed to a single shared catalog for expanding resource sharing and cooperative services among the participating Libraries.

The mission of this shared ILS group is to empower North Carolina Community College libraries to create a robust, helpful, and diverse knowledge environment by utilizing an integrated open-source library system that promotes excellence in teaching, learning, research, and innovation to meet the informational needs of faculty and students. As a cooperative entity, NCCCE adds value for all member libraries by sharing costs, collections, and technical expertise.

About MOBIUS

MOBIUS (mobiusconsortium.org) is a not-for-profit, 501 (C)(3) tax-exempt organization that is transforming library services with cost-effective help desk, training, technical resources, courier management, and procurement services. The organization has grown from 50 founding charter members in 1998 to 80 members which include 64 academic libraries,11 public libraries, 4 special libraries, and the Missouri State Library, serving more than 200 physical branches. Members benefit from shared services and technology expertise, and a resource-sharing network of over 30 million items. MOBIUS offers managed services for Sierra and INN-Reach, and MOSS, a complete cloud hosting and management service for open-source library software including the Evergreen Open Source ILS. Offices are located in Columbia, Missouri and its customers and members span the states of Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, and Kentucky.