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.

The Pennsylvania Integrated Library System (PaILS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing an integrated library system (ILS) for Pennsylvania libraries and library systems, known as the SPARK consortium.

Galen Charlton, Implementation and IT Manager for Equinox Open Library Initiative and longtime Evergreen community member, will be leading the panel. The panelists will share the experiences of several consortia that use Evergreen ILS as they went through changes large and small over the years. Specific changes and their challenges to be discussed include establishing new resource-sharing agreements, leveling up their cataloging standards, merging locations together, absorbing new members, and implementing shared policies around patron privacy and data security.

Other panelists will include Katie Greenleaf Martin, Executive Director of PaILS; Jennifer Weston, Product and Education Manager & Assistant Operations Manager at Equinox Open Library Initiative; and Jessica Woolford, Director of Member Services at Bibliomation Inc.

The panel will take place on Saturday, June 28 at 8:30 AM in the Philadelphia Marriott, Liberty C. More information is available via the ALA schedule: https://cdmcd.co/Wyxvzn.

About Evergreen

Evergreen is the leading open source ILS for consortia. Evergreen delivers local flexibility and policy granularity, as well as third-party interoperability via its truly open APIs. Evergreen is 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/.

About the Evergreen Community

The Evergreen community is made up of individuals, libraries, companies, and other organizations that support and use the Evergreen ILS. 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.